AHF Sabre Sparring Nick vs Wojciech
4:04
AHF Sabre Sparring Adam vs Wojciech
1:36
AHF Longsword James vs Tony
6:19
10 жыл бұрын
Trial of new sabres 1 Nick vs Artur
7:31
Trial of new sabres 2 Mike vs Nick
5:32
AHF Rapier and Dagger Nick vs Tom
8:59
AHF backsword vs sidesword
6:11
11 жыл бұрын
AHF Sword and Buckler Nick vs Artur
7:11
AHF Martial Arts Swordsmanship Advert
2:08
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@Talibnabiyevs-v9h
@Talibnabiyevs-v9h 15 күн бұрын
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@TimRHillard
@TimRHillard 2 ай бұрын
Here’s what: would you rather be poked, or slashed? Neither really, but unless the poke is to the head or heart, the poke is less likely to take you out than a slash. Especially if it’s a Longsword. Add some armor to the equation, and the rapier becomes so much less of a danger. Context matters. In sparring, you point every rapier stab. In actual combat, a stab is not equal a slash.
@detective_cooper
@detective_cooper 5 ай бұрын
Di you have a link for this stuff?
@BrownBessOwner
@BrownBessOwner 9 ай бұрын
What does AHF mean? I already tried google and cant seem to get an answer there
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing 9 ай бұрын
It is our club name. You are posting on one of our old channels, now the instructors share the club channel I am now posting from.
@malingehring165
@malingehring165 Жыл бұрын
Everybody wants to imagine they are Zorro.
@danielefabbro822
@danielefabbro822 Жыл бұрын
To win against the Rapier, the longsword should become a pike. 😤
@korybugburkett8184
@korybugburkett8184 Жыл бұрын
KORYBUG BURKETT: My goodness. That sword is very, very sharp
@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique
@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique Жыл бұрын
Ox Guard stance beats rapier ez
@marcelkblanckhema
@marcelkblanckhema Жыл бұрын
Fighting full intent without back of the head protection. Could hurt
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing Жыл бұрын
Indeed, and Back of the head protection is now standard across our clubs, but back when this video was published, 13 years ago, people were only just starting to make their own, as we did around that time. Now we just have a wealth of off the shelf options. Gear has coime on a long way since then.
@7679796967679679
@7679796967679679 Жыл бұрын
It's smaller than I expected.
@wertyuiopasd6281
@wertyuiopasd6281 Жыл бұрын
The shield is obviously too big. It should be smaller. 🤡
@archaicanarch5567
@archaicanarch5567 Жыл бұрын
As brilliant and masterful as Nick and Mike are, the star of this vid is the unrepentant 70s soundtrack. Bravo!
@codycarter7638
@codycarter7638 Жыл бұрын
Phenomenal soundtrack, by the way…saw C.O.C live quite a few years ago in a TINY venue down south…it remains one of the best shows I’ve seen.
@stivostenberg
@stivostenberg Жыл бұрын
Would be nice to know the rules of the bout. Would think the Longswords hands would be chopped up in a fight. Are the gloves considered proof against attack?
@wonderscall6486
@wonderscall6486 Жыл бұрын
This would be so much better without the music. Otherwise great video.
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing Жыл бұрын
Thanks. This was an old video which had the audio track muted due to a copyright infringement of background music and so has had a free music track placed over it to allow it to stay on YT. Come and check out the club channel I am now posting from where all new content is placed, all with original audio.
@docnightfall
@docnightfall Жыл бұрын
Putting up a hanging guard while retreating is a reliable way to stay alive.
@alhodge4051
@alhodge4051 Жыл бұрын
this is bullshit. hacking, lunging? learn how to fight the person, not the sword.
@famlrnamemssng
@famlrnamemssng Жыл бұрын
You have absolutely no fucking clue what you're talking about. They are attacking the person, hacks and lunges are being used because they're valid and are ways to get to the opponent. Those two gentlemen who are "fighting the sword" are some of the most skilled HEMA fencers. Stop trying to make yourself look smart
@timothybryan8260
@timothybryan8260 Жыл бұрын
Love the soundtrack
@Shiresgammai
@Shiresgammai Жыл бұрын
The biggest problem with regards to HEMA would be that a “historically oriented” fencer would have to search for all strands of discourse and evidence from the medieval period (law, literature, theology, medicine, historiography, art and cultural history, etc.) and create/collect a corpus of mutually complementary information on exercise methodology, weapon characteristics and application systematics in the various forms of combat, so that they would have the vague possibility of achieving what they want. However, the unfortunate truth is that most HEMA fencers are too lazy to even read about German stage fencing (the only existing descendant art of Liechtenauer’s fencing tradition).
@mwfmtnman
@mwfmtnman Жыл бұрын
Longshore should take a single handed fencing stance to cut down his profile. Only way to seal with the range and speed disadvantage
@emilybroderick2421
@emilybroderick2421 Жыл бұрын
Speaking as someone who knows very little about HEMA, it seems like the longsword user had the most success when he used one-handed strikes, letting his blade close that extra bit of distance. In a way, he had to use his longsword more like a rapier to beat a rapier. Or maybe I'm talking bs, I don't know
@lutzvonpeter9170
@lutzvonpeter9170 Жыл бұрын
Both absolutely reckless if a real fight is what they are trying to reenact. If they trained without padding, many strikes or thrusts would not even have been attempted because the pain in training would have shown that they are too risky. Same for some of the one-handed longsword cuts where control of the weapon was totally abandoned in the hope of hitting the opponent. Technically very good, but they visibly never fought with sharp blades against anybody who wants to hurt them ....
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing Жыл бұрын
Not true at all. There isn't padding there, these jackets merely give newton rated thrust protection in case of broken blades and also burrs. You absolutely feel pain through them, and they are about equivelent to the sort of clothing that was commonly worn by civilians during the times of these two weapons. Everything in a fight is a risk, and you must weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of them. For example, those one handed strikes you mention, those are very well documented in period medieval and renaissance sources. Yes they lose control at the end of the strike, but they gain massive reach and with training the recovery can become very quick. The strikes we are attempting are exactly as was taught with these weapons in their time and place, by actual swordsmen who were using these techniques for real.
@lutzvonpeter9170
@lutzvonpeter9170 Жыл бұрын
@@AcademyofHistoricalFencing I am not doubting that you and your colleagues teach and execute exactly according to the manuals and what was taught at the time, I do not doubt your skills neither your learnedness. Having fought several times with sharp blades, what I want to say is: it is a different attitude when every strike you make might be your last, or you might at least get severely hurt. Many moves you do you would not dare to, as they are very risky. Best example: the longsword one-handed thrust in the armpit. The opponent's tip is just centimeters from the mask. If the lunge was deflected, or slightly deviated, the longswordman would impale himself on the rapier, blade through the eye. It works here and today because he scores a point, back then you'd have to be very daring or very desperate to do it. I understand that fencing is about risk taking, and that is what you do. In real combat, it is also about weighing risks with a potentially catastrophic downside against other courses of action. That is what you don't do.
@WikkeSchrandt
@WikkeSchrandt 2 жыл бұрын
I can't begin to express how much I love spears. They're often incredibly overlooked by people today, with everybody solely fascinated with swords. A spear has reach, speed and is incredibly cheap to make. It's one of the oldest and most effective (close combat *and* ranged) weapons known to mankind. It really deserves more love from more than just the HEMA community.
@TrueMakaveli50
@TrueMakaveli50 2 жыл бұрын
git gud
@potter3050
@potter3050 2 жыл бұрын
Music spot on
@fahrrurrozi686
@fahrrurrozi686 2 жыл бұрын
Conclusion: spear is the supreme weapon.
@jeremytert4649
@jeremytert4649 2 жыл бұрын
Love the spear, also love the Sasquatch tune playing 🤘
@odysseus9504
@odysseus9504 2 жыл бұрын
It's so crazy how you chose this song. As a kid I always imagined myself with a rapier fighting a ton of Spanish guards dancing across the floor. I am pursuing HEMA now but you just dug up a long lost memory for me. Thanks!
@Plata-ori-plumbu
@Plata-ori-plumbu 2 жыл бұрын
I think I'd choose a bastard/longsword over the rapier. The rapier is longer and single-handed. I have both.
@BM-13_KATYUSHA
@BM-13_KATYUSHA 2 жыл бұрын
Those were some beautiful exchanges, especially the double parry !
@GabrielDipo
@GabrielDipo 2 жыл бұрын
Isabella vs Marie
@famlrnamemssng
@famlrnamemssng Жыл бұрын
Hellish Quart reference?
@orangeyellow9695
@orangeyellow9695 2 жыл бұрын
Give the guy with the buckler a bigger shield, like a Viking shield, perhaps.
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing 2 жыл бұрын
The object isn't to make an even or fair fight, it is merely an exhibition of the weapons described. Yes the buckler has a real hard time against a spear in two hands, and that is quite an eye opener for some when it is so effective against a range of swords. If you check out our club account where I (Nick) am now posting from you will find viking type shield vs spear in two hands, and it is a much easier fight foir thr swordsman.
@weareallbeingwatched4602
@weareallbeingwatched4602 2 жыл бұрын
The sword would not be much cop at 300m against an experienced archer, either. Stick these two in a confined corridor and it'd be a different story. As for a WW1 soldier with a bayonet and rifle...
@alishaanimations3058
@alishaanimations3058 2 жыл бұрын
3:00
@DragonBreathjrMC
@DragonBreathjrMC 2 жыл бұрын
It's all fun and games until you lose a thrust trade by taking a rapier to the throat.
@White_Nomad
@White_Nomad 2 жыл бұрын
Техника боя с холодным оружием имеет приоритет - скорость и точность, и потом сила. Сколько видео просмотрел - везде сумятица сплошная... Вроде метлы держат
@kurtbogle2973
@kurtbogle2973 2 жыл бұрын
That's why my sword is a 1911 colt
@shadespark3071
@shadespark3071 2 жыл бұрын
What is the music name ?
@-007-2
@-007-2 2 жыл бұрын
1:10. This is the problem with these matches. They are glorified tag and completely unrealistic. Here the long sword guy barely has a hold on his weapon as he has almost thrown it to make a very weak connection with his opponent. In real life this would done very little damage and he would never attempt it. He'd risk losing his sword and the encounter completely. Instead he scores a point?!? This unrealistic, point based sparing, also leads to bad technique. 5:27. Same BS from the long sword guy. It's just a game of tag to him. Hitting with the flat side of his sword while tossing it. 🤦‍♂️ They both move very well and I like the rapier guy. That longsword guy would get shredded to pieces in a real sword fight against a real long sword opponent trained for real combat.
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing
@AcademyofHistoricalFencing 2 жыл бұрын
Those one handed strikes are completely legitimate and well documented in period sources. I think the issue if you are assuming they are intended primarily as a cut, when they are not. They are cast out and look like a cut to begin with, but the idea is to land it as a thrust, of which they can then do immense damage at massive reach. This method was even used with very large two handed swords (montante/zweihander). The 5:27 time ended up as a cut but we scoured it as it was against the face, of which it would have given a significant cut. Lastly, you have to remember that a mixed weapon fight will almost always be quite strange looking compared to a matched weapons fight. There are things which are done, added or removed to adapt to the scenario. Neither the rapier or longsword user here is fighting the way they normally would against the same weapon, so you cannot judge how the longsworder would do in a longsword fight from this. But seeing as we have both travelled about the world and fought agaisnt a vast amount of people trained for sword combat, that has not been the case. We can also do even more realistic contests today due to hugely improved equipment, seeing as this video is 13 years old and things have come on a long way.
@Bb5y
@Bb5y 2 жыл бұрын
Pointless
@BrenGamerYT
@BrenGamerYT 2 жыл бұрын
It's almost like the spear dominated in history or something (cries is sword fan)
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
No floating foot pls lol
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIjXq4Zjaaitfq8
@向你祖母問好
@向你祖母問好 2 жыл бұрын
Pointy stick goes poke
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
Or how to win with the spear in open field combat lolol
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
Come down to Texas I'll show you swordsmenship
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
By shifting leg position striking before ur first foot alway strike would open ur world up but u need a camera man to see the real chaos lol
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
Notice there fighting like ppl on skateboards number one mistake you see 95 percent of so called gentlemen warriors do
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
If you don't change stance after each strike or block you leave your head stomach n lead leg at risk
@based_prophet
@based_prophet 2 жыл бұрын
I hate when they don't Ying yang step atleast