Sidesword at Queen's Gambit '23 - Just the Fighting
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Here's about half of my sidesword matches from Queen's Gambit 2023. Unfortunately, the other half went unrecorded. Even worse for me, those were the majority of my wins, so please enjoy this montage of me mostly losing. I have elected to provide this without commentary, but I might follow-up with some breakdowns if there's anything in here I want to analyze further.
I finished this tournament with 5 Wins, 5 Losses. I did not expect much from my performance in this tournament, as while I have an academic interest in sidesword-style fencing, it constitutes a minority of my own personal training. This goes doubly so for using it in conjunction with an off-hand implement. Despite this, I was still able to sort highly in the pools, but my final pool went poorly.
I had the distinct pleasure of fencing several subscribers over the course of the weekend, and meeting several more. I thoroughly enjoyed my matches with you all, and look forward to the next!
The tournament operated on a Swiss pool system. You'd have three fights, and then your position in the pools would be rearranged based on your current W/L ratio. Pools would be resorted three times. The advantage of this over a traditional elimination bracket is that you're guaranteed a tidy sum of fights, and they'll be fights at your skill level, so you're getting better bang for your buck if your objective for the tournament is self-enrichment.
Fencers could elect to carry a buckler, targe, dagger, or cloak in the off-hand. There was about a 30% chance that both fencers would be instructed to conduct their match without their off-hand implement.
Scoring worked like this:
2 Minute Matches, first to 4 points
3 Points = Hits to the head, and thrusts to the torso
1 Point = Any other valid hit
Points would only be awarded if the fencer could land the hit and withdraw, or control the opponent, without being struck in return.
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Despite me being a mere beginner, this really taught me a lot about sidesword fencing and swordfighting in general... Lovely content as per usual !
That looked a lot more difficult than the longsword fights (which makes sense, I guess: your opponent's movements have more degrees of freedom and are less telegraphed than the two-handed moves with the longsword).
Hey there. Cool to see. I'm the 3rd fight? The guy with the baskethilt spadroon and ale house dagger. It was a pleasure fencing you.
Nice, Robin. Thanks for uploading this. It's always fun seeing our favorite swordsman in action.
hay its me, i was in the next ring over
The ref in the orange dress is the real main character 😂
This is great
Great fight! Thanks for sharing!
Would love to hear the analysis on this!
What about the rest of them?
I was up to fight sooner than expected, so my cameraman wasn't on hand to record them.
@@robinswords makes sense!
@@robinswordscamerawoman 🤪
Im over here convinced that every time he moved his guard away from the torso, both at the beginning and some of the instances in the middle, that I am quick enough to hit with the thrust. And maybe I am…. But thats the whole point of him doing it 🤣 nothing really shows you those flaws in yourself until you see them doing obvious bait like that and you know they’re ready for you and you think you can still get them every time anyways. The guy in black would probably have my ass if I tried to get him even half the times I was thinking about trying.
All that to say…. I’m gonna go train some more hahaha
Did you win? I couldn't tell much from the video because the angle was not the best and there is no hit marker either.
Won some, lost some. I had a lot of footage to get through so I was light on the editing. I'll be coming back around to break down the highlights later though.
@@robinswords Good job, I'm curious to see the highlights and more sparring, maybe also featuring other weapons. Keep up the good work!
@dark_reaper6777 As the person filming, which angles would you like to see for next time? I had to give the judges a wide berth.
@@kmayo26 try to film them in a 2d perspective if you know what I mean.
Would love to see you analyze these!
You're lucky black didn't played queen's gambit declined..