Ah yes. EU West HEMA finally starts to use olympic fencing methtodology same as EU East. The circle is almost complete 😉

Wonderful to see the step-by-step!

Thanks for a good video! I have a very similiar view and will send it to people for learning.

What is this shingo?

La mia spada medievale preferita, anche se preferisco la Carolingia/Vichinga, con un pomolo più grande e triangolare o a "conchiglia".

My HEMA school has what we call BashFit.

I thought the sword feeling heavy in the hand due to age was a myth, an exaggeration to emphasise the idea of getting old and frail. But after it took me a month to recover fully from a bad bug a while back, I picked up my sword, and I could not believe how heavy it felt. That was the moment I started to appreciate fully the idea of conditioning one's body.

A lot of us including myself are working off some extra "padding" from COVID years, but even before that i noticed the North American HEMA community has a high% of folks in the unhealthily overweight category. Many are also tough as nails, but let's be real - can we consider ourselves practical martial artists if we get extremely winded after a few 3 min light sparring rounds? Again, including myself here, let's get real and get in better shape.💪

Wait, I need to exercise in addition to training? But I just want to be good with a sword now! 😫

Loving this!

Do you think it's a good idea to do weight training on the same day of HEMA practice?

I hope to start physical fitness very soon. This video dropped just at the right time!

I love how in Kingdom Come Deliverance I, you are bad at fighting until you actually learn to fight. And you actually get better with practice. The bad part... the act of training was so convincing during a weekend long gaming experience that I thought my own fencing got better after playing this game (as in timing, not actual moves)... a mistake easily corrected 10 seconds after picking up a sword in real life again. 🤣 Can't wait for the second game! 🥳 I love Czechia (yes, Prague in particular), and it's unfair to ask a Czech studio doing a game emersed in Czech history this, but can you do the same centred on the Italian Wars? I want to fight in Florence and Bologna and more. And none of Assassin's Creed nonsense. I want the KCD combat system for sidesword and spadone while I'm crossing Ponte Vecchio in Florence or storming Palazzo d'Accursio to oust the Bentivogli family from Bologna. I can only dream 😮‍💨, but I really do wish this combat and game style got more popular in gaming. Winters are cold, dark and gloomy, and a perfect time to play these type of games, so give us more.

My problem is motivation ...

I started lifting in parallel with HEMA some 6 months ago. Can lift only two times a week, and fence another two times a week. It is hard to manage timings, cause after lifting I'm so sore it impairs my HEMA training. Done a full-body power-building style (3 by 6) heavy basic lifts program and now switched to a higher volume one. Cannot emphasize how important is the diet, especially hitting the protein amount per day (1g per 1kg of body weight).

Qualified Fitness expert, and HEMA practitioner here. It is not necessary to gain much weight to develop strength, use isometrics. I have intentionally began decreasing muscle mass compared to my profile picture. Core training, and flexibility is key.

I feel that high intensity training is the best, time wise. With just 3 hours a week (tops), you will have good results and will keep having them for quite long

Ive needed this video!

I've paid a lot the underextimation of legs condition and elastic bands... hope lot of other people don't make my own mistake! :P Thanks for the vid!

Это в первый раз когда вы в руки копья взяли? Для новичков не плохо

I have always thought that HEMA is lacking in it's approach to physical fitness. The manuals never really touch on what kinds of exercises were standard for training in the past, I think this kind of content will only make HEMA a more well rounded martial art.

I managed to write Dumbbell wrong every single time, after all, I cross checked the images only a couple thousand times. Well, anyway, I hope you will find this thingy useful.

I don't know how long hema will continue, but I think it will probably branch out into something like kendo, kenjutsu, and iaido. All of these are martial arts that focus on katana used fighting, but each specializes in certain situations and elements. I also think that the various ranking systems, norms, etiquette, and other mental aspects of hema will gradually become more uniform.

Feders were meant to be safe, lightened, training tools from the beginning, I'm not sure where the controversy comes from. Yes, this will be lighter than your average longsword of this length, but so will most other feders? It's simply people being up in arms over slightly different lines in the sand.

The false edge cut with the Katana should not be ignored. You can hit someone with a bamboo stick hard enough that they'll drop whatever they're holding! A Katana has a LOT more mass at the tip than pretty much any European sword. It doesn't matter if it's blunt. PS: I've been hit with a Shinai so bad that I couldn't write for days!

I look forward to seeing how they do over time.

A point that I don't hear explored enough: I think our gear already allows us to use more force than is appropriate anyway, and something that makes it "safer" to do so may just end up feeding a problem. We're used to incredibly durable swords and a significant level of protection, but that wasn't the case when they were being actively used. I expect that going full force, "tournament intensity" in period would be heavily frowned on, if not personally dangerous. In a tournament with blunted weapons, you'd probably face some kind of social consequences. In "earnest" with sharp weapons, you'd probably end up breaking your own weapon sooner than later, very likely at a less-than-convenient time for you. Granted, it probably wouldn't be entirely off the board, but you would use full force sparingly, tactically; not as the default we seem to be getting to.

I had a chance to try Sigi lights out. They are good product but they feel like one handed swords. You can do light safety gearless sparring with them (Blossfechten) and they dont hit hard even without gear. They are quick , nimble, they are wak in the bind. They are nice but they dont really simulat longswords at all. It is a to a longsword what a modrn sport fencing saber is to a 19th century dualling or military saber

If anything, I think Longsword fencing needs to chill out and be slower/more methodical. People already just act without thinking and without regard for their opponent's actions which is why Longsword is a "doubles" joke in the community. This tool will make that problem worse, not better.

@19:15 Sigi has brought the "flick shot" from Olympic style foil fencing into HEMA! :P

wow it looks really fast ！

Hey, now I can bring my old "flick and stick" to HEMA!

La cosa piu importante negli sport da combattimento e nelle arti marziali in genere è proprio il footwork, spesso non contemplato! Ottima disanima. Bellissimo video!

The grass is growing tall on the video set. Time to switch to sharps, so you train while gardening.

We put the military saber technique starting with the sports one. This sports equipment looks similar for a longsword. It's a pity not to buy from Russia. Apparently we need to talk to Falcon Armoury or Kwetun.

LOL, are you guys serious in these comments? Light feders are for those who want to avoid injuries and actually focus on skill. Also, let's be real, points in competitions are about effectiveness, not how historical you look. If you think you're losing a competitive advantage, maybe it's not the feder that's the problem. 😆 If you think this is bad for HEMA, buy one yourself and spare your clubmates the trouble of getting one for you.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, even before your final opinions are formed. Much appreciated 😊

Yeah, no thanks. I can see this as a teaching tool, but nothing more... I will boycott any tournament where this is allowed. Maybe a shorter version IF the weight distribution makes sense, might be used for fiore fencing. But if the weight distribution was right, it would not be as safe.

I can imagine an historical smallsworder and a saberist giving very similar feedback to MoF "weapons".

it is interesting that even though FMA incorporates some Spanish fencing the style is still very different. I really thought i would seem more similarities. good video.

Second thought here! SIGI just launched their Montante (at €550). So they launched the Light (only €330) to annoy a good portion of the community, which they know will buy a Montante as an overreaction. This way they get €220 more from customers. That's genius, and I'm sure that's what's happening! 😅

I don't know how I really feel about light feders either. In addition to weight, it may be that it will allow a separation of longsword between a spadone like class (100-110cm blade) and longsword class redefined as 90-100cm blade (so more inline with historical longswords actually), maybe also add or remove grappling and half-swording depending on the class to make a greater separation between the two systems. Or the Olympic route feared by some will become true, I don't know. What I do find interesting is that I look at the schilt and blade and I don't like it. So my gut reaction is not to like the SIGI Light, even though I never touched one and never got to know how it feels in the hand. While I've heard from other HEMA practitioners on KZbin that they like it, and that they just see it as another tool in their training repertoire, I think SIGI will have an uphill battle with this one. The good news is that SIGI also makes regular feders. 🙂 P.S. I have the video pause while writing this, and I'm seeing the blade being half the size of the grip. I really don't like that. It's such a superficial reason, but I really don't like that. It's just not right! 😤

“i can only tell you what I think for now and what I think for now is that I have mixed feelings about this” 😂

I guess I will start looking for buhurt clubs o lightsaber club if those ever become the standard longsword feder

I'm for all fencing, but at some point if we keep going this way, ppl are going to re-invente rapier, then side sword, then foil... 2 hands dont make much sense if you ignore the context, i'm training for competition very intensively and I must admite one hand long range hit are going to be an important meta in 2h competitive fencing, so this sword make sense But is it good for 2h fencing on the long run ? Well, it will generate a meta what may make the practice senseless i fear... All of this to say, all combat sport have meta issue, rules can fix it (like MMA right now with floor play) But if all federation dont talk together to fix official rules, it wont work

Based on your impression, it seems to me like the Sigi light may be optimal for more low gear sparring. My group often practices low gear longsword sparring following a fetchshule ruleset. We have found that lighter fenders such as the Bloss paratschwert are preferable over standard fenders for this type of sparring. Even the standard Sigi feder is better than many other swords we’ve tried in this regard. I would be curious to get a few of these Sigi lights and see how they compare

Is sword is definitely an ick in what it represents. Have lighter options to allow people who are many less physical able to get into HEMA is great, but I've yet to see that. It seems to be able bodied people who are pushing for this as a means to have a competitive advantage.

Looking forward to your review after a couple more months, especially in regards to the cascade effect you mentioned and how this will effect changes not just on a technical but tactical level.

Light feders are for oly princesses who are afraid of bruises.