Thanks!

Thanks we had a great time ! Look forward to seeing you guys again it was alot of fun !

Thanks !

Agreed ! When rapier training pays off haha

Lol I've never successfully pulled one off.

@@jspr1272 cutting into them or switching to your left foot helps steal range

@@novacombatarts I usually switch to my left foot, but I must telegraph it too much because I'm usually parried/offset when I try it.

@jspr1272 get them to move their sword first. So like when you cut to it they will move thier sword to one side then do it. One of my favorite ways is cut from the right and have them parry it. Then throw the cut again but pull your sword under thier parry then thrust. I do it a couple times in this vid. If you watch most the times I do it I fient a little first with the body or something like that

Right the under the arm one I love. !

Ya no problem I was gunna fo a big video on gear I use and recommend along with certain product reviews. I have a couple being edited currently

It's a specific style we have her working on. Def has its pros and cons haha. I'll be making a style tutorial video for it before to long :)

Ya the bridge part seems super fun. It was really funny when a old lady in a car needed to use the bridge and they all had to break up and stop. I realize a old lady in a car could destroy a ton of knights haha

Destreza talks about angled fencing which I do talk about that destreza does talk about that. Issue with destreza is it doesn go in depth enough about going to the angles of strengths and weakneses baised on your opponent. Almost all martial arts talked about angled fighting which is nothing new. This just combines angled fighting baised on body position plus limiting thier options through corning while at the same time hitting them in tempo. All of these concepts are not new I'm sure. I have yet to find a source that combines them all into one complete goal though so I used my own term for it. I'm sure it prob exists some where though as I doubt I'm coming up with any thing new. Just teaching some good ways to counter the enemy. Issue also is the other systems usually have one stance which if you only use one stance it's alot harder to capilize on enemy's weaknesses.

I choose baised on my enemy and goals or the style I'm running. As for the dagger it goes super deep why it is the way it is. I've customized every part of it for specific reasons. Down to the numbs on my quilion. One is like a triangle one Is a 3 sided clover with a 4th clover on the back. The back quillion up gives me better locks and stops cut mutations. The front quillion is the length of my bicep to cover my arm fully on cross parries. The dagger is the length that in stanxe it covers my whole leg downward and from my elbow up to my head when I cross parry. The sail is a little over the width of my hand for full coverage. The custom blade is thicker at the bottom to help feed into my locks. Also I have the front quullon straight so I can still do twin serpents guard.

This style is actually countered very well by its own style. Reason is for this style you want to fient thier dagger so it works best against people whose main defense is the dagger.this styles main defense is dagger so it's suseptible to its self. Expecially cuz you don't parry much with the sword at all in this style. So 2 people using this same style who ever has better measure will win

Just a term I use my self kinda from chess because I made a board and grid that shows all the positions on ways to control the board. I have 3 versions of it but this is one. Red is panic zone. Orange is decision zone and Grey is control zone. Debating wether my opponent uses his sword or dagger more is what tells me which corner I put them in.

@@novacombatarts I have heard very similar terms about range, like A range, B range, C range. Your color coding seems more useful. Thanks for posting!

​@@SCATallyya np !

​@SCATally the range terms we use in the system is out of range. Max range, mid range, critical range and grappling range. Then we also have the grid color coded for how much control you have baised on where in the board you are.

Thank you so much that means alot. Took me a long time to make this video !

Appreciate the comment !

I'll be making video like this for every moment in fencing. Foot Work. Grips. You Name it !

@@novacombatarts COOL l!!!

I do for the most part yes bit there are some differences. Like the 2nd Hand making you stronger on the palm down out side thrusts. I find positioning in long sword to be super important as well sense you don't have the offhand to use. I fight long sword and rapier personally pretty much the exact same. I just use the segments differently becuase the back hand can change angles of the blade mid movements.

One of the key things to is when you attack the out side palm up in long sword, you want to make that mutation as they push agaiant your sword. This way thier momentum is going to the outside. This is important so that you don't double.

Some thing to look for and think about is wether they parry more with thier sword or dagger. And wether they try and take your weapon offensivly with thier sword or dagger. Most people do one more then the other. Once you see that then if your sword is low and they fight in mid guard, they will always bring thier sword or dagger low to capture. If they have sword in low are you are in mid or high then they will raise up to capture. Pretty much put your sword above or below thier weapon depending on which way you want them to move it. Most people who fight squared up main dagger. Meaning Most thier defense and takes are with the dagger so they can keep thier sword free. Hope that answers your question.

I might make a video talking about which style does what more. That I think would be useful. Easy rule of thumb though. Bladed fencers use sword more and squared fencers use dagger more.

@@novacombatarts Sure, so after a few passes it might be clear if they are more active with one hand or the other. Makes sense. Thanks!

@@novacombatarts Nice rule of thumb. Thanks .

@SCATally yep and normally if you fient them it will show what thier panic parry is or thier natural parry. Usually by thier stance though will tell you which as well as it will tell you the master they study. If thier sword is more refused most will parry with dagger.

Yes muhahah

It's the logo of my sword school Blades Of Attrition. The meaning behind everything in the logo goes pretty deep though.

@@novacombatarts Thanks for the reply! 😊 What are the little symbols all around? They kinda look like magical glyphs. And is it a sun in the middle?

@Elzimbabwe. the symbol in the middle is for the demon of attrition Elim. The tree on the bottom is for the shadow tree. Some of the symbols are from various places around the world. Like the top one being ohm for power. Each symbol on the opposite side of it is to balance it out. All meaning different things and specific reasons for picking those symbols.

​@@novacombatarts your school is impossible to find on Google... :/ .

So far I've yet to find a enemy the style doesn work on I've won 3 tournaments in a row now with it and beaten all the best fighters in my area with it. Once I travel more to some more tournaments around the world I'll get to try it out on even more . Thier are things to counter it but I have tried to make a answer for each one of those counters. I have a video on the full style that you might enjoy watching .

@@novacombatarts I actually ended up discovering your video breakdown on the stance shortly after posting my initial message. You brought it up in that video, but arm fatigue feels like it definitely would play into factor if you had to keep in that stance for prolonged periods of time, but does seem to take advantage of your taller stature and arm length. ----------- Whilst I'm not super knowledgeable in rapier stances, it was an interesting watch. Look forward to seeing how other people from different tournaments handle it.

@@OwlskiTV thanks. I think in the end it will be best utilized switching to it every now and then to throw the opponent off. This way in long tournaments people don't get tired

There are a couple you don't see to often but Definitely under utilized imo.

@@novacombatarts I tried a thumb grip. I thought it was going to feel super unwieldy but it was actually pretty comfortable. I normally use two fingers above the ricasso like Rob. I might play with the thumb grip at my next practice.

@Azadum one of my favorite ways to use it is to counter upper left dagger parries. Or people who mainly parry with thier dagger. Fient that upper left above there dagger and drop your wrist down for the disnegage and sneak right under. Works supper well agaisnt profiled fencers. It can be more risky sword vs Sword Side or right eye alignemnt as we call it

@@novacombatarts Sweet. We have practice tomorrow if it doesn't rain. I'll try it out.

@@Azadum perfect let me know how it goes. Also watch the scorpion tutorial video cuz its another good way to use it

What Is incel?

Thanks haha thats one of the most important partd imo. Getting geared out

Thanks it's a style I created! There is a tutorial video of it on my page ! And thanks the fur makes it dope hahha

@@novacombatarts it's the lime green lacing for me

@@sinistersharkfish I was stoked when I found that color !

@@novacombatarts You didn't happen to have created this with Spear and shield?

@gehlesen559 na it started for rapier with me because you can do thumb grip in rapier. Thinking about it though it would be a really effective way to do spear. I never really tried thumb grip with spear in high guard. I don't do alot of spear and shield but when I have I just hammer gripped it. I just tried it with a spear though and seems good maybe that's how they did spear and shield back in the day ! Before when I tried spear in high guard it didn't feel good in hammer grip. Now I want to research more spear and shield and see if they menchin doin it in thumb grip. Idk why I didn't think to draw that link before. Normally I don't do alot of shield and only did it in this tournament because it was a dice roll tourny. I used to do alot of bolonesse style buckler but not as much shield.

So I look at weight distrubution as well this usually tells you which masters they study so you know what concepts they will follow. I'm almost done making a full tutorial video on everything stance includes and the pros and cons of each to easily know what they will do. There will also be one for grips and guards. I look at how they are standing wether its low or upright as well. Alot of times I throw what's called assements attacks which tell me alot about them as well, like wether they step with parries. What thier favorite parry is, how far they parried and wether they get strong to week on parries. So usually between studying out of range and the first attack you know what they are likely to do. I think I have a lesson talking about assements uploaded but I'll have to double check. Example most people who fight rear weight low guard don't retreat much but like to try and parry and attack in tempo. Most of them parry out to the upper left with thier dagger and thrust under with thier sword. Alot of bigger heavier fencers do this.

@@novacombatarts This is great stuff, and this video was very useful for me. I will keep an eye out for your videos on stance and guards.

I have a video called how to know where the enemy will go and that has some useful stuff in it as well.

@SCATally thanks I appreciate it !

Yes muhahah

Thanks!

Yes that 100 percent is a factor. Attacking palm down on the inside is still risky either way. If they parry it will take you more time to defend or mutate still. Also wether your parrying with your arm or your body and which tempo you want to spend has a good effect as well. Thanks for commenting that is a good addition to consider.

Thanks!

Most martial arts people waste a ton of movement. Even in boxing I try to only move for purpose. It's ok to move alot but only if you moved for a good reason. Its not ok to move alot for no reason how ever. Like when I fight I still move a good amount I just try and make sure every movement is to gain a advantage.

@@novacombatartsAgreed

Did u catch the switch to thumb grip on desha and ben

Fox did real good with his angles and covering 2 lines at onc3

At least in this format taking a loss aloud me to use a defensive off hand so I got to try out my duck cane haha

Super cool!

Thanks :)

Lmao

My son does soccer and also does that as well. Thats awesome to hear others are doin it in other sports as well

Thank you so much !

Thanks so much i really appreciate that ! Haha i got tired of explaining it to people to so i made a video lol. Im also horrible with grammar i should prob have my wife double check before i post hahah good looking out ! And thanks for the comment on the dosage to cuz your right !

Hahah

That one felt good for sure

Every team had spears and several of the other teams had more then we did.. You got to check those eyes your getting old lol. Some one didnt watch the whole video lol

Thank you

A false attack is a actual attack your throwing with the plan on retreating as soon as you land. You are wanting them to parry your attack and repost. A fient is usually a redirect from a misdirection, usually done in one or a half tempos. A false attack tends to be 3 tempos. Attack, retreat and parry, then counter attack. Vs a fient would be attack, redirect continue attack. Like a thrust disengage. Both are forms of deciet though.

@@novacombatarts Thanks!

@@Azadum anytime:)

Any where from 32 to 45 depending by which of my swords im using and whose measurementd you go by. Do u measure from guard to tip or cross guard to tip ?

@@novacombatarts I measure from the crossguard, I think. That's how Castille measures theirs, correct?

@@Azadum yep thats how castille does thiers. Tora does his from the bell up thats why i asked cuz ur a tiger. From cross guard its a 45 if its the bell way or killing reach ive heard it called 42.

Its epic indeed

Thanks ! I put alot of thought into my foot work and try to not make any movements if its not for a specfic reason. And mostly my reasons for certain foot work is range deceiet :)