HOW TO SWORDFIGHT: Fighting with the Cutlass in Tight Quarters
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- When we think of the cutlass, we think of Pirates and Privateers fighting on the high seas. That means that they will have to fight in very tight quarters.
How do swing a sword that is meant for cutting and hacking when you have no room to move? In this video, we are going to be looking at using cuts 5 & 6 when in tight quarters like a ship.
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Nice video. There are people in our community worldwide you see on yt and think „Man, these are guys I would like to train, fight and have a beer with“. You are definitely some of these guys. Cheers from Germany 🤘🏼
Thank you so much. I hope that one day I will be able to get over to Germany do some teaching and we will have that beer together.
This was fascinating, thanks. Never thought about the issue with tight spaces being solved by keeping it tight and pushing 'out' (forwards) like that before until now but yeah, makes sense.
Thanks, glad you liked it. I have had a chance to fence in very tight situations, and if you don't keep everything in close to yourself you will Hit walls are things around you which will allow you to get hit before you can get your weapon back and play
Cutlasses are sharp, and will make significant cuts. They aren’t just heavy bars that break bones. A sharp cutlass would make a deep cut before it would break a bone.
Nice video.
Userfull to understand cutlass fighting basics
I'm glad you liked it. I look forward to having more videos out soon
I would imagine that these encounters would be over in 2 or 3 strokes. No time to play around. No protracted "ballets" of back-and-forth like movies and tv.
Every strike has to count to get it over with as quickly as possible and avoid getting cut or stabbed.
Movies and tv are so ingrained in our consciousness and we are so removed from the times before the prevalence of firearms and peaceful societies that most people have no idea what this sort of life-and-death combat is like or what it meant to live in a time when life was so fragile and could easily be lost.
@@BrothuhRabbit That's right, one of the things that is not represented in fights and TV and movies is the constant movement forward. You're not fencing on the field, you're trying to get to the other side. This is even more important if you are on a ship. You are on one of only a few solid footings in thousands of miles of water. You cannot go backwards and you cannot stand. Still. You have to move forward.
It's not for you to kill the opponent, it is for you. Take the fight out of them and move on. If there is going to be killing done, that will most likely be done by your crew members in the back that are coming up behind you.
I'd think I'd instinctual grab behind his sword weilding elbow instead of pushing into him. It's like a wrestling technique that would essentially disarm me while creating openings
There are many options available. A lot of what you choose to do depends on what is around you. If you grab your opponent behind the arm and pool, you are sending him in one direction. If you are pushing his arm into him you are sending him into a different direction.
Both options have their good and bad consequences
Nice video. Can you do a video of this brawling style vs a fencing style. Cutlass v sabre. And who would most likely win in which situation
I've been in that fight. I will tell you that the fencer has a better chance of winning. That doesn't mean that the fencer will win every time, but they have a better understanding of time and distance that they can use to defeat the brawler.
I'll see about having a fight like this and filming so that we can break down what happened between each bout.
Great video! Would you recommend a good ..reasonably priced cutlass? Been searching for one but not having much luck..
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@@swordfightingschool to fight with mostly..bullets don't last forever
I@mikebryant8082 cold steel has good cutlasses. As a lefty, they are the only option for me. But I do really like the 1917 cutlass. Even though it is really a 1941-style cutlass.
@@thesayerofthelaw I heard they discontinued the 1917s
Did marines and sailors use bucklers ? Thank you for the information, I have a M1917 Cutlass replica from Cold Steal.
I have never seen any reference to bucklers in the golden age of piracy, but I believe they did in the medieval period when in ship to ship combat. They did us off-hand weapons sometimes, but those were items that were on the ship
Belay pins come to mind, they even resemble a typical "training aid" of the "Indian club"
Are these applications taken from any manuals or are they your interpretation?
My Cutlass work is based primarily on the manuscript from John Taylor, 1802. It is saber but the same kind of actions. It is also based upon my experience. I have been fighting with European bladed weapons since 1989 in all sorts of locations, and some of them have been very tight.
@@swordfightingschool if I may ask, do the drills you’ve shown here come from the manuals or are they your own design?
@@Cornishbasty123 they are mine, based off of the manual
How long are those cutlasses you're using?
They average around 25-28 inches.
I like how every hit this guy does is a bone breaking umtimate crush lol cmon now be a little realistic
I get that it sounds very grandiose and anime-protagonisty, but seriously think about an 19th century sailor, muscular from years of rigging and hauling, swinging a length of sharpened steel at your delicate fingers with intent to kill you. He’s not talking about these strikes as half-hearted cuts, in theory each one should have killing intent behind it.
@HalFromTartary I also know they had power diets and was very unhealthy nowhere near as strong as we are today
@@JamesLytle-rc1bztheir weakness is a misconception. Their diets were poorer than ours, and sailors were more prone to getting sick, but the average sailor did far more intensive labour than the average person today. Lifting cargo aboard, hauling, pulling heavy ropes to raise massive sails; sailors simply had to develop strength and muscle or they just wouldn’t be good sailors. They had a reputation for being buff.
Not just that, but the burst of adrenaline you get in a life-or-death situation, such as from a sword fight, can force your muscles to give more strength than what you’re capable of normally. If you’re fighting to kill someone, it’s really not unreasonable to believe you could hit them hard enough to break bone.