Learn the Art of Combat - Halberd Fighting Techniques - Part Five
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2021
- Three (five if you count it including the counters) Halberd plays from Joachim Meyers book about the knightly art of swordsmanship - 1570 A.D. The plays can be found on page 36recto (XXXVI) to 38recto (XXXVIII) in the last chapter of the original book found here:
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PS: Obviously NOT exclusive for formation fighting. Meyers manuscript shows mostly techniques for a duel! But you can use many of the concepts also for formation battles like thrusting or striking in a tighter way. 
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That was brilliantly done. I love that you don't play at some "best move" display and go over how things can be countered.
A great study material, impeccable quality as always.
i like how you've shown the counter for every move.
BJORN!!!!! A new Meyer manuscript has been found! AAAHHHHH! Me and my guildmates are freaking out!
I know bro...what a great day :D
I would absolutely adore some sparring videos. Seeing these techniques be put into practice in a general training environment would be excellent. :)
@Weed420 69Sex have you ever sparred?
@@milesbrown2261 with that username not
As a fan South East Asian martial arts, it's awesome to see such a detailed description of European martial arts. I think I've found my new favourite channel. You've got a good radio voice as well, Bjorn!
They are not arts. They are suppression techniques, with the only aim to kill the opponent in the most efficient way.
@@elendilnix Damn, did HEMA became the new "edgy" ? Why are you so cringe ?
This is an art in many aspects of the word, and no, not all techniques are meant to "kill the opponent in the most effecient way".
I had never thought of how clever that upward-thrust trap play was for a Halberd. Any move that leaves your opponent with only the choice of withdrawing or losing is a keeper...
Great video bjorn :) do you plan to make videos about staff or dussack in the future?
Outstanding (the 2 best Halberd experts on planet Earth!)💯💯💯👍👍👍 10,000 such highly trained, vigorously disciplined & battle scarred German Halberdmen from the era 1400-1550 could definitely engage, defeat & disperse at least 20,000 supremely skilled, body armored & fanatically die hard Japanese Samurai warriors armed with Katana Swords & short spears (of any time period!).
For as you know the versatility & overall combat effectiveness of the Halberd was truly amazing, this game changing instrument of war, a weapon whose impact on many late Medieval-Renaissance Era battlefields was powerfully decisive & brutally devastating, & undoubtedly proved near impossible for sword & ax armed infantry to penetrate & overcome.
Also, the superiority of Halberd fighting was evidenced at the savage Battle of Flodden back in 1513, when the superbly trained English billmen, carrying a weapon that was virtually identical to the Halberd, managed to keep at arm's length & cut down thousands of ferocious, screaming, suicidally inspired Scottish soldiers, all armed with swords & axes, granted your ability to swing gracefully, strike hard & jab with unerring precision with that Halberd above surpassed the skill of the majority of those English billmen at Flodden.
Great Job!!
In some of your other videos were you are SOLO you should make haybales and wooden dummies because with long poles and halberd and pike its hard to see the range and the technique where shaft contacts compared to where tip does damage when showing a technique. That way we can see "oh he pulled back and it is still shaft parry" or " oh he pulled back and feinted and that was a tip stab"
Also have a long dagger on at all times and practice drawing it every time you bind your own pole-weapon with specific blocks or moves that close enemies swing options but you have to let go and draw your dagger for the cheap shot to win.
"Dirty Dagger Fighting with PoleArm Wrestlings & wooden dummies"
How similar are these techniques to those used with the poleaxe? It's been fantastic to see how such an iconic weapon is used, so of course it's lead to exploring others and growing further questions
Best very nice very good
Any tips or advice on where to find halberds or poleaxes in Europe?
You deserved to play in Vikings Valhalla movie
Cool video, as always.
Also, as w/ the previous video, I think the volume of the voice/spoken parts is too low.
Yeah its weard...i always decrease all Sounds by 30dB and increase my voice by 3dB...i think the reason is the mic
How would a halberd head do on a flexible chinse wood they use with their spears?
I've looked everywhere on the internet for these sparring halbert heads, could somebody please tell me where (and if) they are sold?
Tempus-fugitives
@ thank you!!!!
hey folks, help me out please!! where can i find the halberd heads or the full halberds?
Tempus-Fugitives from the UK
thanks bjorn!!keep it up!
Very useful study material！Can I forward it with Chinese video website？I will not use it for commercial purposes XD
Sure, no prob...can you post a link here to the comments to that site?
@ Of course！I will send the link after the upload is successful.
Gosh, she is brave to "fight" against you!
just in case there's zombie apocalypse, imma learn this shit
Bjorn, you have a great wife, i wish my girlfriend shared the same feeling your wife has for the Renaissance and the Medieval Period, with me. She kinda hates but i can't leave her, but slowly my love for her grows lower and lower.
How to use a halberd in combat?
In which context? Duel, Field or Mixed weapons? Basically just stick on the concepts shown here in the videos.
@ mixed weapons for combat
Show real sparing ..and how tehniques are implemented and how practical in real action
That is pollaxe. Halberd much longer like pike almost
The difference between a halberd and pollaxe is more in the design of the head of the weapon, not their length. Halberds can have shafts that make them have a comparable size to something like a Medieval pollaxe. The 16th century gentleman and fencing master George Silver says that halberds, "ought to be five or six foot long, & may not well be used much longer, because of their weights, and being weapons for the wars and battle, when men are joined close together, may thrust, & strike sound blows, with great force both strong and quick."
Not true, friend. I would like to see someone try to use a halberd that long. The weight at the head would be too much to handle. And you wouldn't be able to swing it.