Historical Dagger Fighting
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2010
- These are the first dagger plays of the Arte Athletica of Paulus Hector Mair.
These back-and-forth plays show quite a few illuminating aspects of Medieval and Renaissance dagger fighting, and are based on a private translation from the Latin.
Enjoy and good training! 
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This looks like a fun form of medieval martial arts.
Always been a fan of the shortblades for some reason.
+draconic33 Mair's work describes a very dynamic, back-and-forth style of play to illustrate his points, and it is very fun and captivating to get into that flow.
A very good medieval dagger fighting video!!!! Perfect for study the techniques!
great video! it was really interesting, every movement was finely executed and the video editing allowed me to apreciate and understand every part :D
like it - mair seems tactically very different from most other medieval dagger fighting. Do you think this is indicative of a different fencing context for Mair's dagger? Certainly to me it looks like he is expecting a much more 'aware' opponent - as might be found in a duelling/fencing school context.
great work as always people.
This is so awesome. Im blown away. I really want to practice this stuff.
@ArmeAntica; Cheers. =)
It's not one someone would automatically think of; it comes from (yet again) that same sensei who taught me so much, with his remark that we're not likely to use archaic weapons training in the modern day, so there must be a practical use for any training that we do; nunchaku train hand-speed and dexterity, swords train courage and focus. Knives have obvious applications to modern day self-defence, but there are less obvious applications too.
Yeah, you can't win 'em all. :) It's a perhaps obscure anime reference. I'm glad you liked the video, though. I hope it helps in some way.
Another great video from Monty Chance! Sadly, there are no new videos...
beautiful dagger play guys! I am a reenactor, and I use a lot of the techniques you showcase here. Also, I do use Aikido-style locks and aiki timing where the dagger becomes an extension to the hand. It works remarkably well. Maybe something to experiment with?
love your stuff, keep it up.
I love this video! I am totally going to Italy to train with him!
Great Job! Keep the good work.
This is some real good stuff...
An interesting unarmed application to knife training; "weight" your attention in one hand (e.g. imagine you were holding a knife), and favour that hand in feints and attacks. Whenever you change hands, physically signal passing the imaginary knife to the attacking hand. The opponent will begin to follow your "weighted" hand with his eyes, and ignore the other one... until it hits him.
Very cool video! I do Filipino martial arts and alot of our techniques are heavily influenced by Spanish renaissance edged weapon fighting. It's easy to see the similarities in this video.
The song is The Light Before We land :D
Amazing!
wonderful
@ArmeAntica: I'm left-handed, so anything that espouses equal use of either hand is good by me; lefties tend to have partial ambidexterity anyway.
It's important to train both hands; many techniques simply won't work if the opponent is off-handed, and there are "options" available to the off-hand fighter that don't occur to someone who fights only with their right hand.
Also, given that it's easier to slash the wrist than parry the blade, ambidexterity is a big advantage in knife-fighting.
awesome music too :) Delgados are great
The fist 32 seconds looks like FMA, and Silat. Some of the later stuff almost looks like punyos. Also I have noticed they like reverse grip fighting a lot. Or maybe they just showed it a lot on this vid.
+METAL AND PROUD Well, it is known that the Filipinos assimilated the Western arts into their own martial arts after the Portuguese landed on their island. Like any clever and practiced warrior should, they saw things they liked, learned them, took them as their own and found the weaknesses in them to exploit against their enemies. When I was first doing this section of the book, I too was amazed at the similarities.
I know Spain occupied their land too. That should explain the Spanish influence in some of their dialect.
I love the gunslinger girl soundtrack
your videos always seems to be so easy to practice =)
any chance of a book or dvd coming out?
Holy shit is that Gunslinger Girl music
Very nice; especially like the switching of the grip, and the notation that dagger fighting is ambidextrous.
I've only ever worked with rubber training knives; while there's a lot you can do with them, one thing you can't do is parry, so partner-work tends to devolve into wrestling.
the right footwork is missing and why doesn't the attacker use his left hand as well?
very interesting
Good stuff as always :) You say it is based on a private translation from latin. Do you know of any readily available material (pref. english, but german coulde work as well) on Mairs dagger plays?
Shows what you know.
Reading the video description would have shown you the source, which is verifiable by anyone with access to the internet. But, of course, that would have gone beyond your impressive skills at making snap judgments, wouldn't it have?
If you ever finding yourself someone who is throwing his knife from hand to hand, charge in when he is about to throw it to his left hand. Odds are he is not a lefty and if you can force your opponent to fight with his offhand, your odds rize, also, he might panik and doesnt catch the knife or at a bad angle so cant use it as good as he like. Overall, throwing your dagger around is not worth the risk!!!
love to see new videos from u
I doubt you understand what a compliment that is. However this happens to look consistent with dolchfechetn and ringen, if you had an eye for it you would be able to tell right away. Also Paulus Hector Mair isn't obscure in this realm by any stretch. Good job sir.
sorey to say that but most of the shown situations would be also deadly for both of them. the "blocker" often blocks the first and second strike but would be absolutly killed from the third. he often works sloppy in defense cause he knows just the coreo and interacts nit instintively...
You do realize this is a sequence of attack/defense straight out of a historical manual, right? And shown in this video in sequence to illustrate this, right?
It worked for centuries, but sure, I'll just take anon on RUclips's word for it.
@ArmeAntica: Weapons are definitely fundamental to martial arts; it's sad that so many classes focus solely on unarmed training (to the detriment of learning effective skills, IMHO).
Nay thee
^Win
Imagine annabeth from Percy Jackson in this... lol she would be like 10000x faster IN COMBAT with those moves XD still good vid doh. XD
lol @totalbiscuit
This definitely looks like he's making it up as he goes. The ponytail and mutton chops don't help.
Then you do it more gently.
I like the video, but the music is awful.