Honestly great warm up and practice as someone who doesn't get to work with partners this is great

okay three minutes in and i already learned more than on any other fencing video before... are you sure this video is 7 years old?

My teacher went to your seminar a couple weeks ago so i had to check you out! Getting blasted with Baby Huey from the start, heck yeah! This stuff is for me! 😎

Your rapier looks great, but I'm not sure if it protects your fingers well. Do you also use it for sparring or only for videos?

いつも勉強になります

英語ができない自分を恨みます。 勉強します……（笑）

I think that first guard may be useful in passata soto. I pierced my oponent twice today in a defensive movement.

I know it's not related to the video, but I would like to understand something, is the teacher of this channel from Slovakia or Italy? His name sounds like Italian.

Oh, fascinating comparison to arm wrestling! I use this technique as a push strong in the bind, relax but not fully cutting away, and then a strong push into kron to take the bind and wrestle.

I got it for Christmas, I'm barely past the foreword and already learnt a lot of useful stuff that I didn't know from a broadsword/sabre background.

I have learned a lot from the book ❤

I’ve had it about 2 weeks and it is the best book on longsword ever. Thank you so much Martin for all your hard work, blood, sweat and I’m sure, tears. It reads like a labor of love and we will appreciate for many years to come.

I'm no longer fencing but this may end my retirement

I’m currently reading it, and I am enjoying it immensely!

Love ya, producing a book is hard work and putting it out there is brave, but two things: The cover looks like a Pokemon battlefield -- perfect, no notes. Having done HEMA 10+ years or so I know that style of jacket and pants works for guys of a certain body type, but damn it only fits a narrower segment of ladies. Those high positions become so, so much worse in a jacket for people without the right proportions because of the cut. I really wish it wasn't portrayed as ubiquitously HEMA because it really narrows the scope of the art.

Amazing

Any digital copies for sale? I'd love to use Kindle if that's possible.

Congrats to your book!

Mmh...This is good news 😃

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Who else is watching in 2024?

Slovakia is a so small countrym but looks like it has a considerable number of fencers.

Hello Martin, im an old HEMA dinosaur living in New Zealand. In the spirit of friendly conversation and the search for longsword truths that i write this. The kurtzhau hits with the short edge while simultaneously parrying with the long as can be seen in meyers image B top left. Your intrpretation is on the right track but it is an adaptation to modern sport practices which seek to turn the usage of these old swords of war into a quasi modern olympic fencing style which wants to do everything as fast as it possibly can. The kurtzhau is done from above, not starting with the hands held low which is a vom tag Meyer never uses, and needs the full range of motion of the arms and joints to complete as meyer both shows and describes. What the germas were doing and what hema is currently doing bare no relation to each other and everything HEMA is therefore a interpretation and then a adaptation to conform to current misunderstandings. Please feel free to disagree with me.

this series is amazing. thank you so so much man🎉

it looks like he's also left handed!

SWORD DOG CAPE DOG man i love this video so far

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Very good sword fighting. High class.

My question... Why they use legs protectors if they not assault the legs?

Cus D'Amato invented nothing. Pick-a-boo was already a thing in the times of Fabris.

Now this, is how a master teaches. BRAVO! Brilliant! Thank you very much for these very informative videos. As a martial arts practitioner/aficionado for most of my life ( 12 to 58 yo ) , I absolutely love the "empathy" in your techniques. Always be "sincere" with all blocks and strikes. You have helped my understanding of Fiore and thanks to you, the German methods are now possible for me to practice knowing I am learning it the right way. Before your videos the longsword techniques were escaping me regardless of many hours of research. For some reason the way you explain things, they all just fall into place. Fiore now makes complete sense to me! Go figure. German Nomenclature and techniques no longer elude me. You sir, are an asset to HEMA world wide.

Hello. I would like to ask a question, I am currently practising with a 5 kg wooden sword, but my shoulder hurts, so what weight should I practise with?

Man I wish I had a club I could learn and practice in. Maybe one day I’ll be as skillful as you two are.

This is what it looks and sounds like if you make thrusts illegal haha 😂 tbh this is way more entertaining like movies 🍿

looks like 2 coked out chipmunks

I'm always lagging behind the nach so this seems perfect for me! -Slack