Montante are cool badass weapons. I was lucky enough to take a class with Steve Hicks back in 2007 or 8. The rules for fighting multiple opponents are interesting. Also, totally jealous of the beautiful training location. Here in Seattle, winter is just one rainy day followed by more rainy days.
i got the black fencer Montante V4 nylon sword and it works very well for getting into it, its very sturdy and behaves very similar to a steel montante. In case you wanna start i highly urge you to get the nylon training sword first. For any beginner i would highly give four distinct very important details to sword training: keep your hips bent and flexible (rather more squatting then less), keep your grip loose (like holding a bird without squeezing it to death) and keep your arms activated, never fully stretched, never half bent (tennis/golf arm issue) and keep your eyes always on the target you are trying to strike, not on the blade. Obey these, you can do proper cuts without touching the ground.
Wonderfull work and great setting :-) We have a lot of snow here in the hills as well, but had not chance to go up there for filming. Cheers from us scottish-german Broadsworders.
very interesting source, paired with your amazing training location. if i may ask, i'm curious about your gambeson and the (attack on titan?) patch you are wearing
thanks for sharing! aside from learning and practicing technique of a really cool weapon, this looks like a really good full body work out. I would like to see a football field full of kids doing these drills with safer trainers suited to their sizes, simlutaneously in a sort of giant choreography as their physical education class in some small northern Italian town. Make this happen.
All combat arts have the same principles. One of them is everything at once. Don’t let part of your body be ahead or behind the rest. “All at once” is the principle. The other is natural movement, natural occurrence. These and a few others transcend styles.
I’ll probably do a better version of this and I’ll complete it, maybe in a single video or in two videos. Now I have 10 kilos more of muscle mass compared to this video, so swinging the spadone would look better and feel more as it should be from the viewer’s perspective. Expect to see it this summer
@@FedericoMalagutti Looking forward to it, thank you. I've ordered a doppelhänder from Regenyei and wish to practice with it solo, your videos will be a great help for sure.
This was the master in arms sign of master weapon, at first glance its a simple weapon with basic moves, but require lost of strength endurance and equilibrium, and technique to proper wield it
hi federico, i have been following your channel for a while now and i'm a big fan of your content because of your calm and reasonable explanations and opinions. i have a question i would like to ask you: do you think it is ever viable to attempt an off-hand (left for the right-handed) sideways or upwards swing with a long sword from a frontal guard like "Eisenport", that is, without pulling back for momentum and impact? i have practiced several basic movements from both the main-hand and off-hand side and i used to think my off-hand strikes lacked intensity due to my insufficient physical strength, but over the weeks it is becoming clear to me that the speed i can accomplish with my off-hand swings is laughable compared to that of my main-hand swings when attempting to execute strikes in a quick manner, by accelerating the blade into an attack directly from a frontal guard. so i guess the question essentially is: does it ever make sense to attack with a large two-handed weapon from a position that does not allow a high degree of acceleration for the sake of quickness? related to this video, i have one more question: the following is curiosity, not criticism. in this video, it appeared to me like you were not keeping the blade aligned with the direction of the swing until the end of a sweep, but rather you rotated the blade (length-axis) while your movements merged out of the swing into the next attack. in my very short personal "training", i have been keeping an eye on preventing exactly this, as to be able to make a more effective cut. when using very large swords like this Montante, is it better to go for a movement that allows you to transition faster into following movements, the way you showed in this video, since the momentum and impact of such a large weapon is already such a big threat in itself, or is it actually important to keep the blade aligned with the sweep direction? i'm not expecting you to respond. if you decided to do so, though, i would feel very grateful. in any case, thank you for the great content. i wish you only the best with the future of this channel and otherwise!
Hi John! Answering your first question: in this case you have to evaluate how much speed you have to lose to compensate for this kind of action, if the trade is reasonable than go for it. Also if we are talking about “what it would happen if” in terms of damage, a blow like this may be aimed at the hands and hurt without any charging movement, as fingers are extremely delicate. For the second: The blade can be aligned ‘till the end of a strike only if the ending position of the cut is in front of the person who executes it. So the problem with montante is stopping the weapon. Which can be done anyway, with proper training. But! In this video I execute this reglas as flow drills (which seems the ideal use for them) and this means non stopping the action, so merging the movements is inevitable. Broadly speaking, anyway, the blade needs to be aligned for the entry wound and then as much as possible down to the exit. But this is only true for cutting actions intentionally meant to cut through a target, every other cutting movement (parry and beats) doesn’t needs too much precision, which can end up increasing the execution time of a complex action. Anyway, the best thing to do is to keep the blade alignment as much as possible in relation to the tool used, That’s what I did in the video ;-)
Great explanations. Please continue this series! Can you share any details on Black Fencer Montante? How long did you wait for the order, how is it made, how does it feel? There are not many details on their site.
Definitely. I just had to delay it indefinitely because I had other priorities in terms of training. But in a couple of months I bet I’ll find some time to get back to Montante, and after achieving a good enough form I’ll shoot the second video!
Do you know other recommended sources in English ? It seems to be a very interesting and serious paper but I don't speak spanish :s. Or perhaps will you translate the movement through videos.
That is a blessedly beautiful place.
Thank you!
Seeing how you struggle with this weapon in comparison to a longsword really helps me understand the skill required to use this weapon.
Montante are cool badass weapons. I was lucky enough to take a class with Steve Hicks back in 2007 or 8. The rules for fighting multiple opponents are interesting. Also, totally jealous of the beautiful training location. Here in Seattle, winter is just one rainy day followed by more rainy days.
That’s Spain bro . An ancient and beautiful place to go
i got the black fencer Montante V4 nylon sword and it works very well for getting into it, its very sturdy and behaves very similar to a steel montante. In case you wanna start i highly urge you to get the nylon training sword first. For any beginner i would highly give four distinct very important details to sword training: keep your hips bent and flexible (rather more squatting then less), keep your grip loose (like holding a bird without squeezing it to death) and keep your arms activated, never fully stretched, never half bent (tennis/golf arm issue) and keep your eyes always on the target you are trying to strike, not on the blade. Obey these, you can do proper cuts without touching the ground.
i absolutely love the actual idea of that weapon, the use and the place of it in socioty....its just beautiful
It was a very difficult sword to use, the Tercios soldiers who used it were paid twice as much as a Piquero
I'm impressed with you maintaining a stable stance in that snow.
Nice video :) I'm kinda jealous of the snow you got there :D
Eheh! :-D
Wonderfull work and great setting :-) We have a lot of snow here in the hills as well, but had not chance to go up there for filming. Cheers from us scottish-german Broadsworders.
Thank you very much! Cheers!
very cool
Good stuff Federico. Looking forward to the next one.
Revez long blade...Is that Marozzo?
very interesting source, paired with your amazing training location. if i may ask, i'm curious about your gambeson and the (attack on titan?) patch you are wearing
Oh yeah, it’s a simple Axel Pettersson SPES jacket with an AOT patch which I bought and stitched myself.
I kind of like the way of the Scout Legion
thanks for sharing! aside from learning and practicing technique of a really cool weapon, this looks like a really good full body work out. I would like to see a football field full of kids doing these drills with safer trainers suited to their sizes, simlutaneously in a sort of giant choreography as their physical education class in some small northern Italian town. Make this happen.
LoL! I’ll try! :-D
Muy bien ,muy bien
All combat arts have the same principles. One of them is everything at once. Don’t let part of your body be ahead or behind the rest. “All at once” is the principle. The other is natural movement, natural occurrence. These and a few others transcend styles.
Hello Mr. Malagutti, will you have more parts for the montante? Great video and presentation!
I’ll probably do a better version of this and I’ll complete it, maybe in a single video or in two videos. Now I have 10 kilos more of muscle mass compared to this video, so swinging the spadone would look better and feel more as it should be from the viewer’s perspective.
Expect to see it this summer
@@FedericoMalagutti Looking forward to it, thank you. I've ordered a doppelhänder from Regenyei and wish to practice with it solo, your videos will be a great help for sure.
This was the master in arms sign of master weapon, at first glance its a simple weapon with basic moves, but require lost of strength endurance and equilibrium, and technique to proper wield it
Absolutely
hi federico, i have been following your channel for a while now and i'm a big fan of your content because of your calm and reasonable explanations and opinions.
i have a question i would like to ask you: do you think it is ever viable to attempt an off-hand (left for the right-handed) sideways or upwards swing with a long sword from a frontal guard like "Eisenport", that is, without pulling back for momentum and impact? i have practiced several basic movements from both the main-hand and off-hand side and i used to think my off-hand strikes lacked intensity due to my insufficient physical strength, but over the weeks it is becoming clear to me that the speed i can accomplish with my off-hand swings is laughable compared to that of my main-hand swings when attempting to execute strikes in a quick manner, by accelerating the blade into an attack directly from a frontal guard. so i guess the question essentially is: does it ever make sense to attack with a large two-handed weapon from a position that does not allow a high degree of acceleration for the sake of quickness?
related to this video, i have one more question: the following is curiosity, not criticism. in this video, it appeared to me like you were not keeping the blade aligned with the direction of the swing until the end of a sweep, but rather you rotated the blade (length-axis) while your movements merged out of the swing into the next attack. in my very short personal "training", i have been keeping an eye on preventing exactly this, as to be able to make a more effective cut. when using very large swords like this Montante, is it better to go for a movement that allows you to transition faster into following movements, the way you showed in this video, since the momentum and impact of such a large weapon is already such a big threat in itself, or is it actually important to keep the blade aligned with the sweep direction?
i'm not expecting you to respond. if you decided to do so, though, i would feel very grateful.
in any case, thank you for the great content. i wish you only the best with the future of this channel and otherwise!
Hi John!
Answering your first question: in this case you have to evaluate how much speed you have to lose to compensate for this kind of action, if the trade is reasonable than go for it.
Also if we are talking about “what it would happen if” in terms of damage, a blow like this may be aimed at the hands and hurt without any charging movement, as fingers are extremely delicate.
For the second:
The blade can be aligned ‘till the end of a strike only if the ending position of the cut is in front of the person who executes it. So the problem with montante is stopping the weapon. Which can be done anyway, with proper training. But! In this video I execute this reglas as flow drills (which seems the ideal use for them) and this means non stopping the action, so merging the movements is inevitable.
Broadly speaking, anyway, the blade needs to be aligned for the entry wound and then as much as possible down to the exit. But this is only true for cutting actions intentionally meant to cut through a target, every other cutting movement (parry and beats) doesn’t needs too much precision, which can end up increasing the execution time of a complex action.
Anyway, the best thing to do is to keep the blade alignment as much as possible in relation to the tool used, That’s what I did in the video ;-)
@@FedericoMalagutti thank you so much.
Прекрасное оружие!
Happy New Year, Federico!
Thank you! You too!
Great explanations. Please continue this series! Can you share any details on Black Fencer Montante? How long did you wait for the order, how is it made, how does it feel? There are not many details on their site.
I’m going to review it, and for the waiting time, I can’t be reliable as I received one of the very first example for review/test purposes ^_^
Looking good!
What Jacket is that you're wearing?
Spes Axel Pettersson standard
Do you plan on doing a part 2?
Definitely. I just had to delay it indefinitely because I had other priorities in terms of training. But in a couple of months I bet I’ll find some time to get back to Montante, and after achieving a good enough form I’ll shoot the second video!
@@FedericoMalagutti awesome! I look forward to it :D
Do you know other recommended sources in English ? It seems to be a very interesting and serious paper but I don't speak spanish :s. Or perhaps will you translate the movement through videos.
I translate the Text in the video ;-) and I will do it also in the further one
your jacket has the survey corps logo lol
Yup
@@FedericoMalagutti swag
Bellissimo!
Regenyei Made?
Please more solo drills and flow!
Black Fencer ^^
I want to be able to move this smoothly with my 20 pound dragonslayer! Check me out brother!