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damn all your videos are really well done. Preparing a bolognese introduction for my class and it helped a lot :)

fantastic serie of videos, thank you

Hi there. A bit late to the party. Good video ! I'm an instructor in scottish fencing, currently working on bolognese. I'm curious about one thing. As you said it yourself, the lunge is not really part of the master's manuals. I'm currently learning from St Louis School of Arms and they don't use lunge at all. They only step a bit more widely but i would hardly call it a lunge. Still, you decided to explain the lunge in a basics video , that's an interesting choice. Is that because most of you feels like the lunge is necessary to be efficient and the steps are not enough ? Is it because some of you compete and not using lunge in HEMA tournaments would put you in a bad spot? Thank you

And I still want to do the Assalto d'asino furibundi!

I'm watching you from France and I really like what I see. Your explanations and illustrations are very clear, and I'll certainly present your exercises to my club this year.

I see you are at the ravages of time 😄 if such an event bringst you back in front of the camera - let the world burn 😁 Very good and important video btw. 😉

That certainly is *an* interpretation of intrare.

Grazie ottimo per un novizio come me

Ciao ti chiedo che spada usi e come potrei procurarmene una

Les exercices ont l'air cool. Merci pour le partage !❤

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I've only read dall'Agocchie, so to me that one guard is guardia d'alicorno. :)

Cool! I see a sunny forecast; I'll give it a try tomorrow. 👍 P.S. I really like your side-sword configuration. The more I look at it, the more I think that Regenyei should offer that as a standard.

Great video! I want to learn more. 😁

Have you ever used the ronca/roncone all'italiana?

1:37 Saluti dall'Italia😂🤌⚔️

I have an bigger version of one of their open top rollbags that they no longer sell unfortionately. Still works like a charm after at least 5 years of frequent abuse, has a strong bottom- and backplate and is sturdy enough to pull the whole arsenal (from dagger to montante) to and from the event

I use the same for year 👍

The Tempus-Fugitives store (before is closed) offered a shorter bag aimed at people only interest in sidesword (or shorter weapons). It's the only one targeted at sidesword people from what I know, and I kinda regretted not getting one. But now I'm waiting for a rapier with a 114cm bade, and I got a Regenyei Italian feder on the longer side (35cm grip and 104cm blade) for that spadone feel (I love it!) so for me, shorter bags are out as a viable option. P.S. You used your old bag to prop up the target, thinking it will be enough to stop an arrow, didn't you? 😏

I like that it looks like you took a chainsaw to Matt Easton's barn door and put a portion of it behind you in some of these shots I think you are the first person I have seen actually explaining the fundamental terminology in a video, rather than just demonstrating plays

Follow up, this has been super useful for learning each term and stance. Thank you so much!

Definitely going to try this out this week!

I get how people would want to apply their modern knowledge and how so many of us have cross trained in other systems. It really misses the point. Facing an armed attacker without a weapon yourself is always a bad day, and I cannot see an informed position claiming otherwise...So the importance here, to my perspective, is the one of historic context and it is pretty amazing. First, Marozzo goes there, when so many fencing systems avoid grappling or the unarmed condition. He was looking at the widest angle of martial training for his audience, and this gives us to look for the consistencies between these few unarmed techniques and the larger body of his martial advice. In other words, we can look at grappling as a fencer would, measure, tempo, technique, and perception. We can see the stepping in as using the body as a ward against the line of attack. We can also appreciate overlooking strikes and kicks as "goes without saying" to instead respond against lethal attack with only a similar level of lethality. This was a very useful video, and I am glad that you put this out. Thank you.

Great)) it would be interesting to see different styles, for example fencing with a Japanese master

Amazing!

Just to avoid confusion: Using the terms used by Marozzo 1536, the pole arm simulator we used is a "spiedo" - it has that very long blade and the hocks, and you can use it for slicing and hacking. We had to avoid that out of safety reasons, and count thrusts and drawn/ pushed cuts only, so we applied the rules of a "partesana", which is also what you see on the card. In modern terms it would be called a spear I guess. We had partesana-simulators last year in the tournament. They were made of bamboo and rubber --> super safe but too wobbly. Often neither attacker nor the person hit would feel any impact at all and the referees hardly saw the hits too. So this year it was wood with plastic tips. Seems to work much better while being a good compromise on safety.

I didn't expect to see a Pole Arms section. For safety reasons, I assumed a bill or a partisan would be too dangerous to use in free sparring or in tournament conditions. I see you guys showed restraint at times and used synthetics, so not bad as a compromise. I saw that Jay Maxwell was looking at the partisan more and more, and I didn't get why. I remember Tempus Fugitives shop in the UK (now defunct) selling a beautiful sharp partisan, and man that thing looked incredible. I assume that a steel trainer to be used in a prized tournament (i.e. incentive to hit hard) is still out of the question. But this is the first time I see a partisan fight, and I can only imagine an in-period fight with the real deal (those long blades looks frighteningly awesome). I wanted to stick to learning side-sword (and a bit of rapier). I decided to get an Italian style feder to also study some Bolognese longsword, some spadone, but stop at that. Now I think I need to add the partisan to the list of weapons to study. 😏

some of those have been said about other martial arts too. quite often by the combat sports athletes or martial artists of other styles lol

Yeah, i get some of these all the time lol. "You do swordfighting? So is it fencing then?" "The actual answer to that question is yes... but to answer the question you think you're asking, no, it's not [Olympic] fencing." Which of course doesn't help them understand at all.

Tbh, I'd be more surprised someone hasn't heard of HEMA but they heard of stuff like Mensur. I'm pretty sure that hasn't been practiced in a while.

in America we get very similar replies if the martial art is anything outside of Boxing or Ju-Jitsu, especially arts like Eskrima or Wing Chun

The second I touched grass and realized that normal people think swords are cool too and not neckbeardy I had to make sparring swords for us all

i'm very happy to have found your channel. thank you for posting

Everybody is dubious about hema until you hand them a sword. At this exact moment, they get it.

People who believe in 50-70kg plate armour, 5-20kg swords and picture a "boombox on a broomstick"-like object when they hear "war hammer" seem to either greatly overestimate human physical prowess, underestimate the impact that a dense 1kg object moving at nearly 100km/h can have on human body/how much 1mm think steel plate can endure, forget that force is mass multiplied for acceleration *square,* hence the speed of an object is more important than it's mass(to a certain point), or all the three combined

krass wie wenig akzent du für eine östereicherin hast grüße aus heidelberg De

Some people are just dense and have a hard time absorbing new information.

I have had to deal with people insisting that longswords were heavy and the combat was unsophisticated compared to japanese fencing because ANIME

😂

9/10

I had someone swear up and down to me that medieval swords weighed at least 20 lbs (9.1 kg). Nothing I said could convince her otherwise.

Swords. 😀

This is a very interesting format for tournaments, but even more for friendly sparring and training, I think. It can train so much, beginning with fairness and not ending with how the body works. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Ho wow 😂😂😂 ❤

Is mensur a far-right thing?

This skit was hilarious! "...WTF, no!" 🤣 I actually met people on the shores of the Atlantic that told me they did that. No scars, I didn't probe too much into it, and I didn't ask them about their inclusivity policy on women. But funny enough, they did mention using antique Austrian sabres (because they're cheap to get good ones 😏). Just saying... since you brought it up, there might be some truth to that one. 😄 Btw, showing my collection of sharps and antiques to friends that don't care about swords... meh, it's fine, I don't care what you think 😢. Showing my collection to a person with an excited gleam in their eyes... crap, they like swords... they are going to hurt themselves or worse, damage my swords, I need to stop them! 😅

Only "dumb" comment I got so far was: "Oh cool, so then I'll see you on the next 'Ritterfest' as a fighter, right?"

rock solid memorization! well done!