@@blakejohnson6362 All our gear is from Superior Fencing! 😁 www.supfen.com/home.html

I'm using my Sidesword here and Erant is using a Regenyei arming sword 😁

@@itamaz5761 It's called HEMA 😁

Historical European Martial Arts.

@@TBoneHEMA I love my HF Sidesword but the end roll isn't very tight on it, so if I want to enter a Sidesword tournament I'd have to get myself a kventun type 1 or something 🤔

@CafeUlg the rolled tip would disqualify it? That sucks, sorry to hear that. I try to avoid rolled tips anyways. Spatulated tips are generally safer, from what I've been told.

@@TBoneHEMA The rolled tip is safe usually but the one I've got from HF the roll isn't very tight so it could easily get snagged on things because of the gap between the roll and the blade 🤔

@@CafeUlg ah that sucks.

@@TBoneHEMA It was £275 for a steel Sidesword (and £100 of that was tax!) I wasn't expecting the world, but it has convinced me that I really enjoy Sidesword sparring ❤️ Maybe I'll invest in a Kventun or even a Malleus next?? 🤔🤔🤔

@@ScottGrow117 The forearms are MAC yes but the elbows are HF Black Knights 👍

Thanks 😁 My style doesn't feel smooth to me though 😆

@CafeUlg dunno mate, from the outside looks very fluid I guess? hahaha anyway quite aesthetic, all the fancy guards def add to it

@manueltoloza6007 All I've learnt about fancy Vadi guards I learned from @sinestra 😁

@@manueltoloza6007 Nah it wasn't too bad with the mask on and Rich was pulling his hits 👍 The thrust he got me with earlier in the fight hurt much more 😆

@@TBoneHEMA We allow striking as long as it's martially valid and controlled 👍

@CafeUlg interesting! I don't usually see that allowed in any club setting I've been to. Too much potential for things getting out of hand.

​@@TBoneHEMA Speaking as the man doing the punching and elbowing here, I am being controlled with the strikes and pulling weight out of the shots in question. I'm only aiming to make contact with the front of the mask, not try to bash through the mesh with the strikes, which would lead to many more injuries

@@Rabalyan it's good to know you guys are being safe. Thanks for answering my questions!

Me too, I'd love to see a video on the kit. He told me before the breast plate is from Mac Armor. I think they are out of Ukraine.

@@tomislavobrovac3257 Yeah I landed probably two solid hits? The rest of the time I was just cut down 🤣

I was thinking the same thing.

@@problypanikd Haha, thanks (I think). Everyone's done it but barely anyone uploads video of themselves doing it 🤣

@@ScottGrow117 I wear a MAC chest protector, I definitely recommend it 😁 www.mac-armour.cz/p/chest-protector

It's the Mac Armor chest protection.

@TBoneHEMA awesome, thanks

@@TBoneHEMA Good, I was worried. I don't know a damn thing about German fencing (I barely know anything about Italian fencing either 🤣)

@@CafeUlg oh yeah no worries you got it :D

@@TBoneHEMA I'm pretty new to the whole Sidesword thing and Wes is coming from Sabre so is really good at commanding the centre line. I need to look into Altoni and try and get the groove for Italian Sidesword 😆

@CafeUlg I study Meyer Rapier myself as a KDF guy and it's a pretty nice system for sidesword. Look forward to seeing you do more with it! Imo it's like the coolest weapon.

That'd be me! :) I love it when people land a superb blow on me, and so I laugh and praise them when they do. I like to encourage them to try new things against me, and the praise helps force me to do better when I spar them. :D

@@Aronprovz No not really. The big guy on the left has only recently got back to training after a long time being injured and can only fight for a short time at the moment 👍

One day I hope to be able to keep up with you ⚔️

Those swords or yours certainly pack a punch!

Awesome 😁 Last tournament I went to I didn't make it out of the pools either, you did better than me 😁Fighting Rich is very intimidating because he's 6ft10! You can see how much taller than me he is when we go in for the hug at the end 😆

@@CafeUlg Thanks! Ok I didn't know he was THAT tall, that is crazy! I bet it was an interesting spar.

I always wanted to see how they doing in hema

@@joshpearson3606 We're just sparring for fun and we tap every time we're hit and then keep going. So we don't need a ref, we keep going until we both get too tired 😆 Yeah I'm the one on the right, though I felt like the fencer on the left gave me so much trouble. His attacks seemed to come out of nowhere 🤣

@CafeUlg well take this with a gallon of salt but maybe don't be so aggressive. The other is more comfortable being passive so you being less aggressive might get them out of that comfort zone a bit. Also rushing right after each point might make it easier to lose focus. Take your time and play around with timing and keep your opponent guessing. MOST IMPORTANTLY THOUGH keep having fun

Haha I'm usually quite a defensive fighter but I'd fought five different people before this fight and I clocked he was a defensive fighter too and it's no fun if we're both defensive 🤣 Being able to switch between being aggressive and being defensive mid fight is something I do need to work on though 🤔

@CafeUlg both being defensive is definitely not fun but maybe fake some more switch things up, I'm assuming you can use the whole square in German style but use the whole square. You can't walk into a castle, you have to find a weakness. I'm talking as an epee fencer with not that much experience and based on watching this type of fencing I am sure epee is easier so again... gallon of salt. I had a student who was way better than me since I was kind of a fill in and I had to try different angles and different strategies. He loved to flick so I ended up finding a weakness by putting the tip of my epee right under his guard so that every time he flicked I would get his hand before the flick came through. I know that's not a thing in saber but my point is use everything to your advantage, switch up your feet and position with every point and I think you'll have more luck against the defensive players

It's dependent on the club if you pause or not, mine prefer not to and just keep a mental count of how many points we got left. (typically 4 points total, 1 for limbs, 2 for torso, 3 for head and 4 for neck)

I'm really bad at fighting against good German style Fencers, their attacks always seem to come out of nowhere 😆

@@CafeUlgok, I understand. I would be dead in 2 seconds😅

Every sport that there is a kid's league for there is an amateur adult's league. I mean there is an abundance of organized adults sports that dont require you to be a pro. or on the way to it. Most people just dont care to be into sports like that.

@@n1rvana_ I agree. But those leagues are small and oftentimes require a lot of travel to and from locations that could be mitigated by more teams, more members,... That's why I commented in the first place. Everyone joining amateur sports is very welcome. It's the job of those already established to make them feel welcome