This makes me more sad that we never see these weapons in movies.
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
True. I can't remember any film with poleaxes! It's the perfect badass villain weapon!
@fredfry510010 ай бұрын
Actually we see them quite often. They just happened to me in the hands of nameless mooks, town guards, and other non important characters.
@DedMorez9 ай бұрын
@@fredfry5100 what annoys me the most, is the fact, that "Helebarden" where only used after the typical medieval period, and only in southern germany and swiss, but still are seen as the typical guardsmen weapon
@fredfry51008 ай бұрын
@@DedMorez Well, keep up in mind, such weapons were used by the Swiss, i.e. the personal guard of the Pope. Because of that, it features prominently in artwork.
@DedMorez8 ай бұрын
@@fredfry5100 the swiss guard, yes... In german they are called the "Schweizer Garde" but your wrong, the spear is the much more often shown in art, in varying forms, the helbard is simply more iconic, more interesting then a "boring" spear. i would like a helbard more then a spear, its more versatile... even more important: there where really many forms of polearms, dividing not only the helebardes themself, but also other longshafted axes or hammers, glaive ore naginata ore whatever, into a big group of weapons well i still like to see them to be shown to often, as if the other option is an sword just cleaving through a steel plate... or leather armor, pure plot armor or what else XD
@HolyReality8917 ай бұрын
I actually laughed out loud at the end with the pistol 😂
@mailmikekang9 ай бұрын
Oh.... I see. Ringen is the German equivalent to wrestling in armor for old German knights.... This poleaxe is a wonderful weapon. Very practical.
@THX-1138.9 ай бұрын
The snow scene, absolutely amazing visual piece. Props to your location scout.
@bleachedink10 ай бұрын
Great video as always! The pistol at the end got me 😂
@strikingglintproduction68179 ай бұрын
This was a fantastic video. As a poleaxe fencer, this is giving me a lot of food for thought of what to try this week :>
@Josukegaming4 ай бұрын
Its unbelievable how incredibly deadly and practical these weapons are. Additionally, your video editing and educational demonstrations are wonderful. Thank you for making this, and I really hope we see more polarms used in media going forward.
@WheatKnight10 ай бұрын
Beautiful and highly useful work. You are such a credit to the community!
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Thanks. I hope it will help you if you try some rubber poleaxes.
@KBDwarf9 ай бұрын
The last scene with the pistol is great xD
@QuibilusDrachenn10 ай бұрын
I've never thought about hooking the leg with a poleaxe, it looks to be a terrifyingly effective attack. What do you even do if someone manages to land that hit? Seems like it would put you out of commission pretty fast.
@amarmunaev79399 ай бұрын
I swear people like you should choreograph Hollywood fight scenes
@bugsysboy219 ай бұрын
This shit is some of the most mind bogglingly larptastic videography I have ever laid my eyes on. How you somehow play in the same way kids do when they dress up like Link and then pawn it off as high art like you're doing us some kind of favor is immaculate, keep it up John Snow!
@wilky11898 ай бұрын
I can't tell if this is a compliment or an insult
@LiShuBen7 ай бұрын
@@wilky1189backhanded compliment. An insult made to sound like a compliment
@unocoltrane28042 ай бұрын
He isn't pawning it off as anything. It's a basic introduction to pollax techniques.
@solomon7967 ай бұрын
Man, I'm so happy I stumbled over your channel. So incredibly interesting! Thank you so much for sharing
@BanksOwnUs7 ай бұрын
offtopic: 2:25 just shows how incredibly important a helmet is. Anytime I watch a movie and the knights are charging in without a helmet it just completely destroys my suspension of disbelief. ontopic :) Turned spear grip FTW
@ProspektorCZ10 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for another awesome video! You are doing it great! 👍
@hanshanszoon9 ай бұрын
OK, the ending was funny. Interesting to see the techniques you focus on.
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
These techniques are interesting for beginners and advanced poleaxe lovers! I want that everyone can learn something from it!
@alainkhoanguyen30989 ай бұрын
Totally love it! Powerful and versatile, this explains why the poleaxe were pretty popular in the Late MA, in both pitched battles and skirmishes. In a parallel evolution, in East Asian, particularly China and Vietnam, a lot of elite and/or bodyguard units were equipped with axes and poleaxes, at least since 1500BC. and for good reason, too! I supposed it has something to do with the amount of armour that you ought to have to protect yourself as both hands were occupied. In your opinion, what is the best bet as weapon/tactic for a common footman to counter an armored opponent handling poleaxe? Thankyou for your awesome work!
@darthjack286010 ай бұрын
Vielen lieben Dank für das tolle Video.
@Oleksander_de_rat10 ай бұрын
Great video. Thanks a lot
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
You are welcome!
@jungoder108510 ай бұрын
Great video will be using this for reference when drawing lol
@crystalbirthdays9 ай бұрын
I love seeing the poleaxe used in other techniques than "big axe"
@lordxandar48010 ай бұрын
Very Nice and informational video! also loved 11.55 :D
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Slow motion draw 😅
@robertthebruce-geniusofban6474 ай бұрын
Excellent video and brilliantly explained!
@Csarci8 ай бұрын
Extremely educational, well done!
@magnuslauglo53564 ай бұрын
All these moves really show how medieval fighting was a complex martial art. So different from the relentless sheild bashing we see too often in the movies.
@alecausderbeek59189 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. Super interesting!
@pablotesticules9 ай бұрын
I love your channel. I'm a buhurtsman and I'm very interested in harness fencing. I hope we can fight someday.
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
Hope too.
@dudlicsek199310 ай бұрын
Cool video Leonard! Pls make more of such!
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
It was a week of work. Don't have time for this all day long 😅🙄
@dudlicsek199310 ай бұрын
@@dequitem I can imagine! It is visible that you put effort in it.
@LlamaSweater19287 ай бұрын
This makes me appreciative of the poleaxe.
@sethpurifoy60257 ай бұрын
12:04 made me guffaw. Great vid!
@DedMorez9 ай бұрын
Hi Dequitem, its very nice to see some fencing with poleaxes :D i want to get a smith myself, but its so hard finding an actual smithingworkshop wich does still do smithingthings and not only the "normal modern metalwork" like stairs, fences and stuff like that. I came around in the past few months in half germany doing internships, but sadly i only got negative answers for my applications... anyways, i want to smith my own armor and stuff like that as well, when the time has come... i some of my friends do "buhurt" (me freaking out cuz i cant right now) greetings from the black forest
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
Greetings back. First advice for smiting your own armor from Karsten (Decima) and me is: "Do it! Yust do it!" You can find some forging videos on my channel as well. Buy a anglecutter, hammers a small anvil (25 kg), a "propangasbrenner" and Steel, than messur the stuff you already have and try to replicate it. That's the easiest way to learn making armor!
@DedMorez9 ай бұрын
@@dequitem right now i got some hammers, but no real good ones, a "feldesse" and a krupp railttrack as anvil XD and well a anglecutter is somewhere in my fathers garage i think... but a friend of my father has his onw little hobby smithingworkshop, i think i can go there... i will take a look for your amazonelinks anyway :D i have already (some) practice, but no armor or stuff like that nearby, the friends i metioned live in northern germany 😕 thanks for your advise and the response
@brotherandythesage9 ай бұрын
Wow this is very informative thanks!
@Lord89762 ай бұрын
Love your videos, such a great work and beautiful fights ! You didn't mention the hability of strong parry with the queue of the poleaxe (the bottom part). It s a very common and often use technic in the XVth century, it can be seen in the testimony of Olivier de la Marche. This burgondian man describ a lot of poleaxe duel in his memories. This is a strong and quick blow given in the moving and attacking weapon of the opponent, if it is donne well it could result a disarmement like Hervé de Meriadec succesfully does in scotland in a 3vs3 fight mid XVth.
@dequitem2 ай бұрын
Thanks to remind me.
@gotbaka39 ай бұрын
Superb video! Instantly subscribed.
@OliverJanseps10 ай бұрын
Sehr sehr cool 😎 Der alte Stangenwaffennarr ist verliebt! Ich war immer versucht den Stücken zu Stange, Hellebarde und Axt von Mair, die ich seit über einer Dekade als Gedankenstütze auf eine Festplatte habe mal einen neuen Anstrich zu geben, aber mit deiner bildlichen Umsetzung möchte ich garnicht erst versuchen mitzuhalten, also genieße ich deine tolle Arbeit 😊👏
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Danke danke. Ich hoffe die zusatzinfos zur zugrichtung oder dem Zweck von Beinhacken waren auch informativ, obwohl Mair dazu wenig sagt.
@OliverJanseps10 ай бұрын
@@dequitem das sind Erfahrungen, die man natürlich auch weitergeben muss! Deine decken sich in diesem Fall auch mit meinen, wie ich sie jüngst in einem "good old times" Einsteigerseminar zur Axt bei Tremonia fechten Anfang des Jahres wieder gezeigt habe. Schön fand ich im übrigen deine Lobesrede für die Axt zum Ende; zusammenfassend als Schweizer Taschenmesser an der Stange 😉
@gabrielchcosta9 ай бұрын
I need more of this. Definitely subscribing.
@tomsmolinski98336 ай бұрын
Good work!
@sh364 ай бұрын
Drives me nuts that the buhurt guys in my area seem to only use the poleaxe like it's a massive baseball bat. So many potential tecniques
@jamesduda60178 ай бұрын
Incredibly interesting video!
@SirWhorshoeMcGee9 ай бұрын
Man, watching your videos makes me sad that I can't afford a harness myself. I want to get into harnischfechten so badly, but I'm stuck in standard hema
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
I forged my own myself!
@thegoofygoblin20819 ай бұрын
Love this weapon
@OBXDewey9 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@Andrew-gz1fo10 ай бұрын
Where are you from? your videos always have the most amazing scenery.
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Germany 😉
@lipp199210 ай бұрын
Amazing video! Excuse my absence, I had to take the kids to school.
@user-zy8bv7tl2r9 ай бұрын
We want the skills of Arabs in fencing with swords.Your teaching of swordsmanship is excellent👍
@darionietlispach247010 ай бұрын
what an amazing guide and beautiful filming😮 whats your opinion on the blunt damage, could a strike like the one at 9.05 injure your oponent if a steel head was used?
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Injure - yes. Killing - not so sure. The strike to the head even hurts with the hard rubber hammer, the strikes to the shoulder wouldn't hurt even with a steel hammer!
@darionietlispach247010 ай бұрын
@@dequitem would you say its even possibel to injure someone in full armor by striking another bodypart than the head or an unprotected area?
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
@@darionietlispach2470 of course it is possible. For example a strike to the rips can break a rip under the brigandine. Strikes to the gauntlets can break fingers...
@darionietlispach247010 ай бұрын
@@dequitem i own some steel ones myself and did some strikes in empty air they carry a punch for sure but i cant really judge the protectivness of plate ^^ you dont plan on armor testing videos in the future by any chance?😉 would be interesting to see the effect of a poleaxe on armor by someone who is used to wield them
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
@@darionietlispach2470 I am planing it. But it will take a while. Mayby next year. I have to build a poleaxe and a sharp sword first. That will need some time.
@Floofian10 ай бұрын
Hahaha the pistol at the end 😂
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
It was to good to not use it!
@tuerkefechi9 ай бұрын
Very cool
@02Shay209 ай бұрын
nice work! :)
@haffoc28 күн бұрын
impressive
@Keln029 ай бұрын
Fascinating and beautiful
@charlesw59195 ай бұрын
I know you guys are experienced. Still, please be extremely careful when you practice without helmets. Even an accidental hit can be very serious with weapons like these.
@spookyboivilla53869 ай бұрын
YES YES YYYEEESSSS
@solortusАй бұрын
Hi can you make a duel with a bill hook? It'd be cool to know how effective it would be in full armor combat
@hotpanky69368 ай бұрын
I've been watching a lot of your combat, and I'm curious to know whether any of the head attacks actually cause nausea or stunning through the armour?
@dequitem8 ай бұрын
Not realy.
@schwertschwinger9 ай бұрын
Wirklich gut! Jetzt nur noch eine Rüstung ;)
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
Hast du die poleaxe schon?
@markkneebone96695 ай бұрын
❤
@user-gw3dv1kl4z2 ай бұрын
The shaft is a problem, but why not make the shaft completely steel and hollow, as was done with some one-handed maces and hammers? Will it be strong and relatively light if you make it hollow?
@dequitem2 ай бұрын
It would be to heavy. Langets are the only way to protect the shaft.
@torreyjones44216 ай бұрын
My wife has an interest in learning poleaxe for harness fighting (when money finally allows to acquire it). How do you feel a trained and fit female fighter would fair in armored fighting? Would poleaxe be the recommendation or another weapon?
@dequitem6 ай бұрын
Weapons are equalizer, but of course it's harder to fight bigger and stronger fighters. A poleaxe will be always a great choice but the best weapon for smaller and weaker fighter are fast thrust weapons, like spear, longsword and dagger!
@danielvega91859 ай бұрын
Sir. Dequitem, did the knight had hand combat training? If yes, what style did they use?
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
Ringen... Watch the video "knights with judo black belts".
@balaclava84649 ай бұрын
What is the process of making the weapons non-lethal? these knightly fights looks pretty damn fun!
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
Making them from hard rubber 😉 Black armory and other shops sell them for hema. I have two steel ones from arma Bohemia but this isn't safe!
@balaclava84649 ай бұрын
@@dequitem ty very much for replying!
@fallencrusader297510 ай бұрын
I wish armored fencing was more popular, as I am not a big fan of buhurt. The lack of thrusts, and the extra heavy armor/weapons are huge turn offs.
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
I like Buhurt. But duels with thrusts are way cooler!
@bruhlordofthemoment9 ай бұрын
What are the axe heads made out of for your pole axes? I imagine it would be pretty brutal to be hit by a steel head even in armor.
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
I have a steel one and we tryed it, it hurts. The once in the videos are hard rubber too protect us from injuries. When we record we are most of the time hours away from medical help. You don't wanna risk dying for a video.
@bruhlordofthemoment9 ай бұрын
@@dequitem Ah I see! It makes sense since I've seen the spike bend, so I was wondering what the material was. Safety is of course number one priority!
@michaellaviola654010 ай бұрын
I still don't understand how you two are not actually getting hurt sparring, are the weapons lighter or something? I'm really struggling to understand just how the balance of damage and protection with these kinds of weapons and armours works
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Hard rubber poleaxes 😉. But I already try to forge real steel ones with safe tips.
@michaellaviola654010 ай бұрын
@@dequitem do you think that if you were using steel parts that were sharpened you'd kill each other?
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
@@michaellaviola6540 we would kill each other with a pointy spike, a sharp axe or a steel hammer would not kill, but they can permanently injure you. Cutting of muscles or fingers. The hammer is the smallest problem. It will only knock you out in worst case!
@REAPERthePRUSKIE6 ай бұрын
Dude where are you from?! Your country is gorgeous
@QAZWSXEDCRFV45799 ай бұрын
did the guy just pull out a flintlock after his shaft broke?
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
That's me. After the shaft break we needed a good ending and so we used that as a funny ending. It was scripted after the poleaxe break and we can continue the recording of the sparring.
@alpharius826410 ай бұрын
So harnichfencing ist still mostly about thrusting, even, with a Poleaxe
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Exactly
@Deliverygrot9 ай бұрын
Any books that go more in depth ?
@dequitem9 ай бұрын
Nop, there isn't much audience for this. The views also suck on this.
@TJSnej016 ай бұрын
Ich denke nicht, dass die Holzstangen bei diesen Waffen oft gebrochen sind. Wenn ihr öfters miteinander kämpft, solltet ihr doch die entsprechende Erfahrung gemacht haben.,
@dequitem6 ай бұрын
Ist ein Unterschied ob man mit voller Kraft und scharfen Axtköpfen kämpft oder mit Hardgummi auf einem Eschenschaft.
@darthjack286010 ай бұрын
Wo kauft ihr eure Rüstungen ?
@dequitem10 ай бұрын
Meine ist selbst geschmiedet aber die rote von meinem Teammate ist von Pavel Burkalov (armors.pro).