@@HessianLikeTheFabric There's no national standards for that time, but it looks like northern items somehow heavier than Mediterranean. Although the name really means "two-handed" AFAIK.
That's right - too heavy or badly balanced sword is useless, but still I have not seen the blades such flexible and thin at North. My hypothesis is that the type of armor affects the type of the blade, most of the year the weather in Spain and southern Italy doesn't allow to use heavier protection all the time. Although I might be mistaken.
@@HessianLikeTheFabric to my knowledge there are more examples of oversized (most likely "parade") zweihanders from Germany. It's probably a result of the imperial glamour and putting up a good show. I agree with Matt Easton's take that they were probably a symbol of status, showing that you have the largest, strongest, meanest bodyguards around. Perhaps they were also used as training devices although that's just my speculation based on parallels - Chinese army of early Qing used oversized and stupidly heavy yanyuedao - heavily curved glaives - as tools for strength exams. That's probably partially where the myth of 50kg weapon carried by GuanYu and the general agreement in that time that the weapon is useless came from. Anyway the actual combat weapons weren't used primarily as anti-heavy armour devices but, again, in bodyguard types of situations and on the battlefield together with mixed (pike based) formations as a "shock" force supposed to kinda get in between the pikes and disrupt the line (it's fairly easy to push long polearms away with such a thing). Manuals focus mostly on fighting multiple opponents and holding ground while descriptions of use in battle confirm the "breaking enemy pike line" idea.
This is so good. I wish I had been there.
That throw at 21:00 minutes - that was right out of the manuscript, absolutely textbook
What a beautiful skill and play!
spain vs italy at the end was great :)
Kevin - Thanks for sharing. I am amazed with your skills and fast movements. Good luck !
Just fantastic
That was really awesome!! Well done!
Superb
That was awesome
Been funny if the germans had popped out at the end and challenged.
What's that sword at the beginning?
It looks like a Zweihander. But too light. I know it has a different name for that thin version
Italian montante. Lightweighted and flexible compared to German, Swiss and French devices.
@@HessianLikeTheFabric There's no national standards for that time, but it looks like northern items somehow heavier than Mediterranean. Although the name really means "two-handed" AFAIK.
That's right - too heavy or badly balanced sword is useless, but still I have not seen the blades such flexible and thin at North. My hypothesis is that the type of armor affects the type of the blade, most of the year the weather in Spain and southern Italy doesn't allow to use heavier protection all the time. Although I might be mistaken.
@@HessianLikeTheFabric to my knowledge there are more examples of oversized (most likely "parade") zweihanders from Germany. It's probably a result of the imperial glamour and putting up a good show. I agree with Matt Easton's take that they were probably a symbol of status, showing that you have the largest, strongest, meanest bodyguards around. Perhaps they were also used as training devices although that's just my speculation based on parallels - Chinese army of early Qing used oversized and stupidly heavy yanyuedao - heavily curved glaives - as tools for strength exams. That's probably partially where the myth of 50kg weapon carried by GuanYu and the general agreement in that time that the weapon is useless came from.
Anyway the actual combat weapons weren't used primarily as anti-heavy armour devices but, again, in bodyguard types of situations and on the battlefield together with mixed (pike based) formations as a "shock" force supposed to kinda get in between the pikes and disrupt the line (it's fairly easy to push long polearms away with such a thing). Manuals focus mostly on fighting multiple opponents and holding ground while descriptions of use in battle confirm the "breaking enemy pike line" idea.
Странные щиты на 4:20. Бойца с таким щитом даже я побью.