I took the Vor during Christmas Holidays (which sadly ended yesterday) and made this compilation, originally a byproduct of Longsword! Gear Special. Some nice exchanges that show the variability of HEMA with my favorite weapons - Longsword, Rapier, Arming sword, Rapier and Dagger, Sabre, Rapier and Cape and Sword and Buckler. Fellow fencers: Martin Fabry and Tomas Sucha. Enjoy!
Finally this is a good and well made video I can show to people who never heard of HEMA. You can see variety. You can see cool stuff. A lot of things are happening. Not 50% double hits or techniques you can only understand when you know things about HEMA. This needs at least 10 to 100 times more views than it has right now! Keep up the good work! More vids like this appreciated.
Some of the nicknames were a bit funny, but this was an awesome video. The camera is really good, framing and resolution and everything, and the music being a bit more jazzy and laid back rather than cliche epic battle music is a nice touch.
Waw the fighters are really experienced I had a lot of fun watching them fight thank you for this video. It was nice to see this wide variety of weapons
My favored style is the Streetfighter, but you guys could have used those cloaks better (and they could have been a bit bigger). Either way great video!
I'm seeing a lot of forward/backward foot movement but not a lot of side to side movement. A little boxing training on footwork, angles, and circling to the outside would probably go a long way for a HEMA practitioner. Unless of course there are reasons to avoid those maneuvers with swordfighting that I'm unaware of due to my ignorance.
Fencing is not boxing but I am still unsure of what you mean. There is a small subset of techniques which utilize side movement but not many. These are edited exchanges, so if you'd like to see some circling and preparation I would advise watching uncut tournament footage. Still, it also depends what your definition of "side" movement would be. In majority of the cases, frontal attack is the most useful and safe way of engaging your opponent and that goes for boxing as well.
I'm by no means an expert, but cloaks would've been relatively common as they would provide full body coverage from rain, wind, cold, etc. The thicker fabric of a cloak would be more than capable of being used to deflect a rapier and push an opening. From my understanding many manuals included their use.
None tbh, just improvisation. All one handed swords are very similar in their use. Naturally if you have rings or a nagel you can do some extra stuff, but in most actions it's the same.
Hello Andrew, just a mix of sources. I'm a proponent of the idea that fighting with one handers is more or less the same no matter what you wield (with some stylistic differences) so Lechuckner works just fine (except some of the nagel techniques).
@@vincentliu809 Unfortunately, Tokyo is not easily accessible. I just hope that HEMA clubs can be established in rural areas in Japan. Ah How beautiful medieval European martial arts is!
are you not allowed to circle? I always see a lot of just forward and back movement with the occasional few side steps but no circling where opponents end up on opposite sides from which they started
I'm young (-18) and want to join a HEMA club, do you have any advice on this? Do you know if every club covers all these martial arts? Thanks for any answers... Btw nice vid! :D
Hi, usually clubs let people 15+ enter. Some clubs even have junior courses for people who are even younger. I'd suggest looking up HEMA clubs around you and asking them directly :)
depends where you're from, but there are hundreds or maybe thousands of clubs all around the world. I'd suggest looking for a HEMA club in your city or somewhere close by :)
@@sleepless9957 Too dangerous for full intensity sparring with medium kit but from experience they're fine, especially if you don't bash someone like a caveman. A good strike in the strike will shake you up but the Regenyei montante for example don't strike hard enough to really hurt with good protection.
Hello Leonel, my fencing is mostly influenced by Fabris (see my Fabris inspired Learn Rapier video series) and Giganti but I went through most of the notable rapier sources.
it's a thing you typically had on you/with you in cities during the renaissance and later. if a situation arose that required you to fight for your life or honour, you could easily wrap it around your arm to help cover vulnerable parts (like with a shield), parry or deflect thrusts or cut or rarely throw it against your opponent to confuse them. Many rapier manuals include it in their teachings.
As opposed to rapier? Or sword and buckler? None of the main weapons used in HEMA are meant to be primary weapons of war, they are all sidearms and nearly all of the manuscripts revolve around civilian contexts.
Hello! Thank you very much! Daggers and some sidearms were often illegal to carry. A cape is a piece of thick cloth you have with you which creates a simple shield/additional defense for you during a fight. If you watch modern machete fights, some thugs still use their jacket as an extra layer just by wrapping it around their arm. Take a look at my other video ruclips.net/video/oQ88cuzsyqE/видео.html for more hints :)
I took the Vor during Christmas Holidays (which sadly ended yesterday) and made this compilation, originally a byproduct of Longsword! Gear Special. Some nice exchanges that show the variability of HEMA with my favorite weapons - Longsword, Rapier, Arming sword, Rapier and Dagger, Sabre, Rapier and Cape and Sword and Buckler. Fellow fencers: Martin Fabry and Tomas Sucha. Enjoy!
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Messer-"The Thug"
Montante-"The Guardian"
Polearm-"The Nope"
Cutlass- The Corsair
Spadroon-
Bastard sword- The Ranger
Smallsword- The Trickster
Backsword- The Warder
@@levifontaine8186 spadroon - The Idealist
Grappling-"Sexy Time"
Sawyer Ramsey Katana : The Weeb.
Kitana Blade No the Gun - The Indy
The guys in the club you specifically bring extra protective gear for LOL
Finally this is a good and well made video I can show to people who never heard of HEMA.
You can see variety. You can see cool stuff. A lot of things are happening.
Not 50% double hits or techniques you can only understand when you know things about HEMA.
This needs at least 10 to 100 times more views than it has right now!
Keep up the good work!
More vids like this appreciated.
thank you for your kind words :)
That saber bout was especially fun to watch
Some of the nicknames were a bit funny, but this was an awesome video. The camera is really good, framing and resolution and everything, and the music being a bit more jazzy and laid back rather than cliche epic battle music is a nice touch.
Thank you, you're very kind 🙂
Hail to "The King"!
1:26 was really nice "Hey watch your blade I might grab it!" - BOOM :D
This should be in the Olympics!
That looks like a very post soviet gym :D
There is a dungeon in the basement.
they're all good to practice, but saber is the most exciting to watch
When you want to duel with your longsword gym but everyone is afraid of going outside :(
Waw the fighters are really experienced I had a lot of fun watching them fight thank you for this video. It was nice to see this wide variety of weapons
Dagger: "The Assassin"
2:01 There are sparks flying
Amazing skills and a badass edit 😎
The rusty trombone. The Cincinnati bow tie. The purple nurple.
What a cool compilation
Krásná práce a dobrá muzika! ať se daří fechtování :)
Прекрасные спарринг-демонстрации, спасибо за видео :)
Looks like the gym from the school map that was big on gmod
Nice video, that music is a blast from the past! I used to listen to this song while partying in the 90s!
I've got great ideas for my tRPG characters design. Thank you.
3:08 I’m totally being a child but the guy on the right made me laugh for some reason
Awesome sparring!
Great music. The sparing was cool too.
Plisss make more of this kind of video i love it!!!!
Very cool! As an SCA rapier fencer, i hate to see the rapier bent like that though
Love the background music by Saint Etienne.
This is awesome! Perhaps there is a place for spears polearms and quarter staff? Would love to see it!
The video : two guys trying to brutally murder each other with defrant historical arms
The music : vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvdddddddd
When I’m older I wanna do this and I would like to choose the rapier because I like the one-handed style it has like Count dooku from Star Wars
If rapier is your thing, you can start by doing olympic fencing. It will give you a strong base to practice rapier
How old are you? There are clubs that allow you to join by age 7 out there. I think most allow you to join by age 10
I want to try HEMA and BJJ. Too bad there's nothing like it near me.
The longsword being the king and not the spear as well as not even mentioning the spear is utter blasphemy!! Lol but good video great fighting.
Damn you two are fast af boiiii
Where can you learn how to use Arming Swords?
There's no treaty for the arming sword but basically you can do with it most of the stuff from langmessers and sideswords.
Halberd: "The Gaurd"
Sooo much fun.
Спасибо! Хороший контент.
hema is beastt
good work!
I love this!!!
My favored style is the Streetfighter, but you guys could have used those cloaks better (and they could have been a bit bigger). Either way great video!
Bonne année à tous....
I love the variety of weapons as much as the actual heavy sparring. Might I ask what protection do you use for your torsos and forarms?
Thanks! This video answers all: ruclips.net/video/h8UcFhmQCJ0/видео.htmlsi=3A3MUca48dso8OhY
I'm seeing a lot of forward/backward foot movement but not a lot of side to side movement. A little boxing training on footwork, angles, and circling to the outside would probably go a long way for a HEMA practitioner. Unless of course there are reasons to avoid those maneuvers with swordfighting that I'm unaware of due to my ignorance.
Fencing is not boxing but I am still unsure of what you mean. There is a small subset of techniques which utilize side movement but not many. These are edited exchanges, so if you'd like to see some circling and preparation I would advise watching uncut tournament footage. Still, it also depends what your definition of "side" movement would be. In majority of the cases, frontal attack is the most useful and safe way of engaging your opponent and that goes for boxing as well.
I'm relatively new to HEMA, whats the historical context to the rapier and cape? (I understand the rest)
The sparring looked great
I'm by no means an expert, but cloaks would've been relatively common as they would provide full body coverage from rain, wind, cold, etc. The thicker fabric of a cloak would be more than capable of being used to deflect a rapier and push an opening. From my understanding many manuals included their use.
I like the sabre !!
I know the video is a bit old, but what system are you using for arming sword? Everything I've seen for it uses a buckler too.
None tbh, just improvisation. All one handed swords are very similar in their use. Naturally if you have rings or a nagel you can do some extra stuff, but in most actions it's the same.
@@MartinFabian Thank you!
@@MartinFabian I guess an arming sword allows to use a mix of sidesword, sabre and messer techniques
Очень быстро и смертоносно!
Lovely
What source do you used for Arming Sword? I'm debating with people that much of Leckuchner Messer with angle changes would work for AS just fine.
Hello Andrew, just a mix of sources. I'm a proponent of the idea that fighting with one handers is more or less the same no matter what you wield (with some stylistic differences) so Lechuckner works just fine (except some of the nagel techniques).
So Cool!
I am so enviable of you.
There are almost not HEMA club in Japan.
There is Castle Tintagel if you live near Tokyo!
@@vincentliu809
Unfortunately, Tokyo is not easily accessible.
I just hope that HEMA clubs can be established in rural areas in Japan.
Ah How beautiful medieval European martial arts is!
Love you
Can you please make sabre tutorial videos like with the rapier pleaseeee...
reliable websites for gear? anyone who actively trains know?
What about the dagger
Is the grappling at 2:13 apart of HEMA?
No messer?
Jesus you guys are fast. You practically get two tempos for my one. What kind of physical conditioning do you do?
Just fencing often :)
question from an NPC: in the old days when people dualed with rapiers - would a 'glove bock' be valid or would your forearm have been diced up?
Depends, if it was to wear gloves, the two of them would have to wear them to be fair.
are you not allowed to circle? I always see a lot of just forward and back movement with the occasional few side steps but no circling where opponents end up on opposite sides from which they started
You can do anything you'd like but circling doesn't make a lot of sense and gives you barely any advantage.
I'm young (-18) and want to join a HEMA club, do you have any advice on this? Do you know if every club covers all these martial arts? Thanks for any answers...
Btw nice vid! :D
Hi, usually clubs let people 15+ enter. Some clubs even have junior courses for people who are even younger. I'd suggest looking up HEMA clubs around you and asking them directly :)
@@MartinFabian Here in Belgium I found a club 16+, good enough... thank you for the fast response! Not like me ;)
Good luck with your fencing career!:)
@@cottard7698 Thx! :)
@@randomguy9515 Hows your HEMA classes?
Me here as a ranked foil fencer
man I wish I could fence rn
What kind of masks do y'all use?
in this video the Allstar AMI-FM
I guess I thought "HEMA" meant full-armor melees and battleaxes, but this looks way more fun. How do I sign up?
depends where you're from, but there are hundreds or maybe thousands of clubs all around the world. I'd suggest looking for a HEMA club in your city or somewhere close by :)
Serious question: are concussions common in hema?
Hi, they occasionally occur but they are not super common. Risk is high but the occurence low.
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where does one buy the weapons?
From smiths or swordmaking companies.
Check sigiforge.com, regenyei.com, kvetun-armoury.com etc
Montante where ?
From what I know theyre too dangerous too spar with
@@sleepless9957 Too dangerous for full intensity sparring with medium kit but from experience they're fine, especially if you don't bash someone like a caveman.
A good strike in the strike will shake you up but the Regenyei montante for example don't strike hard enough to really hurt with good protection.
What source do you study for rapier?
Hello Leonel, my fencing is mostly influenced by Fabris (see my Fabris inspired Learn Rapier video series) and Giganti but I went through most of the notable rapier sources.
I've been meaning to, need to get me a rapier first. Thanks for the quick answer man.
what is the cape for?
it's a thing you typically had on you/with you in cities during the renaissance and later. if a situation arose that required you to fight for your life or honour, you could easily wrap it around your arm to help cover vulnerable parts (like with a shield), parry or deflect thrusts or cut or rarely throw it against your opponent to confuse them. Many rapier manuals include it in their teachings.
Reminds me of wing chun keeping their central line guarded.
The music was dire.
I hate how in Hema the fight stops as soon as someone gets touched by the blade.
There is "Continuous Fencing"
Why?
End him rightly!
now kiss
no music next time pls
"The king" being a Feder meaning the sports toy of burgers with little to no war application :)
As opposed to rapier? Or sword and buckler? None of the main weapons used in HEMA are meant to be primary weapons of war, they are all sidearms and nearly all of the manuscripts revolve around civilian contexts.
I don't get your point. Longswords were used in wars and the feder is a longsword trainer.
@@penttikoivuniemi2146 Did i call a sidearm the king then? So basically its just wrong?
@@yawningangel8181 Yeah a sidearm
@@Sfourtytwo killing someone in armour with any kind of longsword isnt straightforward; they were worn as sidearms often
Could really do without the music, unnecessary.
I'm relatively new to HEMA, whats the historical context to the rapier and cape? (I understand the rest)
The sparring looked great
Hello! Thank you very much! Daggers and some sidearms were often illegal to carry. A cape is a piece of thick cloth you have with you which creates a simple shield/additional defense for you during a fight. If you watch modern machete fights, some thugs still use their jacket as an extra layer just by wrapping it around their arm. Take a look at my other video ruclips.net/video/oQ88cuzsyqE/видео.html for more hints :)