Armored Dane Axe - Sparring in Full War Gear | Viking Martial Arts | Early Medieval HEMA

Today we are fully dressed to kill, wearing full kit for war that would have been seen during the late 10th to 11th Century.
We are North West Historical Fencing: a small HEMA club based in the North West of England and Wales.
If you would like to train with us feel free to join our Facebook group at:
/ northwesthistoricalfen...
We can also be found at many reenactment events up and down the country!

[@osborne9255]

Shockingly fast weapons! Great stuff!

[@Themrsnappyify]

yay

[@Argonautlighting41]

W vid

[@GrizzTheShaman]

this might seem strange but can i use this same terminology with Axemanship? i was watching a video from sellswordarts describing "Snap Cuts" and "Pulling Cuts" the snap cuts being light fast strikes and pulling cuts being powerful cuts usually setup after a parry can i apply to same logic to dane axe techniques? cuz hear that idea of a "snap cut" and visualizing it in my head with a dane axe just MADE sense i might be crazy lol

[@SpearEnjoyer]

There used to be a lot of snobbery in HEMA regarding terminology and which is and isn't classed as "proper HEMA" but that's very much not the case anymore.
When we first put the group together and went public, I was expecting way more pushback since our main focus is on early medieval weaponry which we have no existing fight manuals for, but very few people seem have a problem with it.
Use whatever terminology you like, so long as you and the people your are training with understand the meaning then that's all that matters ;)

[@GrizzTheShaman]

@@SpearEnjoyer this made me feel so good and validated THANK you

[@Beatts_Media]

Still waiting for naked Maul guy to run in :)

[@SpearEnjoyer]

iM iN TrOuBLe!!

[@gygrefuggel6464]

Amazing sparring lesson, im eager to try a synthetic dane axe myself, can i please have some stats of your Dane axe (like length and weight) for me to compare and adjust ?
Thank you for reading and if you reply, again, thank you

[@TheWelshRaider]

So the heads we use are from Fait'darmes and I don't remember the shaft weights sadly

[@szy123mek]

very nice. Now try with steel ones