Stance and Balance - Understanding HEMA
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Hosts Sean Franklin and Nicole smith give a little more insight on stance and balance in Historical European Martial Arts. While many masters were thin on the details in this subject, what we have come up with is a combination of our own studies, other martial arts, and in competition against other schools.
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Quite possibly the most important thing to learn in martial arts. Everything else is just gravy. If you don't learn that fancy strike or counter you still have a chance to beat your opponent with basic movements. However, if you do not have a good basic stance, you are doomed to failure from the beginning. More match ups are won with the basics then anything else, it doesn't matter if you are talking about street survival or competition. Great video!
Much informations, such skills, wow
I like you guys. Something important to think about while I train and puts a grin on my face besides.
I absolutely love your channel. I'm amateur (by that I mean pretty much complete beginner) HEMA practicer, and there videos really help me have better understanding of the core concepts and the more advanced techniques.
This is another foundational video. The quality of these videos is outstanding and I would join if I lived lose enough!!! Excellent contribution to our total knowledge of the arts. What is important for me is the use of theory and practice together... Understanding the old masters is not as easy as just buying the texts!!! It is important to learn from those with experience and knowledge.
Keep uploading those, very well done!
Footwork is something I've been trying to prioritize in my training, since I keep noticing flaws that I need to fix. Thanks for the tips.
Hi Guys, I appreciate the disclaimer you put in this video about stylistic differences in posture and movement.
This video however is directly contributing IMO to the assumption that HEMA is a style rather than an umbrella term for hundreds of styles.
Perhaps you could mention the master or at least the tradition you study in your vids so as to dispel this misconception?
Please keep making vids :)
Excellent video, thank you!
Entertaining and informative. Thanks for posting these videos!
These are so great! Please make more!
Excelente video
So, the most 'basic' position to stand in, (when not doing anything in particular yet) is again, a lot like modern-say sports fencing, éxcept, that the left foot (when the person in question is right-handed), is more to the side of your body, rather than underneath it...
Stepping forwards/backwards however, I suppose, depends on whatever attack/parry/general action you're about to perform, rather than having a standard way of stepping forwards/backwards? (As far as I've seen thus far at least.)
It's a bit of a pain that there are barely any HEMA schools around here. I'm being teased here....
same here. try find an alternative like kalis ...
themonkeywarrior111 I have searched for alternatives. But sadly, sportsfencing is literally the only thing anywhere near...
(And since I have already done that, I'm a bit buggered.)
Master of the Sea bummer. well you can always wiggle a stick and do solo drills :)
Definitely do solo drills if you can-and there's a bunch of great youtube channels that showcase stuff to practice.
And you can try starting up your own club or study group or get at least one partner and do something with them.
And sport fencing may be less fun at times but can be a great asset-great footwork & tempo & general athleticism advise to be learned there.
And there's really looots of things online(these two links are primarily mostly lists of what you can do+some general advice historicalfightingguide.tumblr.com/beginnerresource
historicalfightingguide.tumblr.com/longsword )
Also go to facebook groups and ask for advice-The HEMA Alliance and HEMA International Discussion are great for that.
HEMA Hacks too,especially if you're trying to do something with low amounts of money.
Mental note!
I like that drill. It's applicable across all martial arts, I think!
Good way to approach this topic. :)
If you also look at the way samurais in armour footwork look like versus kendo practicioner, they really sit on their knees with their hips more lowered.
Hello i have a question if i may.
Take this situation, im advancing fast on the opponent from beyond measure and suddenly i want to stop in the least amount of space possible, how to do it and not eff up my joints in time from doing so repeatedly during practice ? I identified three possible ways to do so and would appreciate feedback on this:
1. Slow down with alot of very small steps on the balls of my feet, absorbing momentum with the calf muscles ?
2. Stop by collapsing into a very deep squat without offering too much resistance with the knees, similar to how you land after jumping, but here you absorb forward momentum. Its the most tiring variant becouse then you need to stand up again.
3. Stop by locking the joints, on almost straight legs and hitting the ground with the heels of my feet, i found that it offers the fastest stopping, almost on a dime, but i worry about the joints in this variant, i'd assume its for emergencies only ?
#3 is the worst option. It offers the least traction (highest slip potential) and is most likely to result in stress or injury on the joints.
As for 1 and 2, try both and see what works for you. I tend towards #1, but "many" is about two steps before I'm back in a neutral stance.
Hi, cool video, very informative, I would like to know, do you ever experiment with stuff that isn't written in historical sources to try and expand on the old teachings or do you strictly learn techniques that would be taught back in the day?
+Max Kaspersson I've always wondered about that too. Surely the techniques were discovered at some point in history by experimenting, right? So maybe one more way of reconstructing Historical martial arts could be attempts at discovering something that works well that isn't in any historical source that's been found yet?
+Max Kaspersson To an extent, that's what they said they did here
There are a few different ways of thinking on this and it depends on what your purpose is.
* Some people think that learning the old masters techniques is the best because they were doing this to live and not for fun so the cost of a bad form was at a much higher cost.
* Some believe in as you said extending the old masters to meet current needs. For example in many major competitions different things that are mixtures of styles to make something newish.
* Some study for historical purposes only and don't really which is about authentic which means extending it doesn't serve them a purpose. It was about understanding more than skill.
I am sure there are more I have not even considered but ones above are what I see most often.
One thing that is important to understand is the old manuals are not all that clear so a lot of things are people's interpretations of the manuals. This means in some ways they are messing with what the manual says and adapting it to fit best for themselves. This can then turn into a tradition within schools so that the main trainers interpretation because the way he/she trains it and then the practitioners start to do it that way too which might be a different interpretation from someone else.
Honestly I want to do hema but it’s 18+ sport and I can’t do it
spasibo.
Dumb question, how important is size in armored combat?
So... judo? Judo is valid stance training?
Fucking hell I want to learn HEMA so badly but no schools
You can try and start something yourself-get a study partner or group or start up a club.
You can do a lot simply doing solo drills.
And there's lots of things online(these two links are primarily mostly lists of what you can do+some general advice historicalfightingguide.tumblr.com/beginnerresource
historicalfightingguide.tumblr.com/longsword )
Also go to facebook groups and ask for advice-The HEMA Alliance and HEMA International Discussion are great for that.
HEMA Hacks too,especially if you're trying to do something with low amounts of money.
are you guys a couple? ;)
Nicole is beautiful
1:40 For Skallagrim's sake what's the sword used there?
Michelle Dhyana it's called a dussack
*Angry dancing*
barefeet... ugh cringe
What's wrong with bare feet? At my HEMA club we aren't aloud to wear street shoes because it is bad for the late and gets dirt everywhere. I don't have any gym shoes, and I don't want to train in socks because they slip, so I go bare foot.