Farfalle di Ferro - HEMA Flow Drill (Used by Matt Galas, Scott Brown and Guy Windsor)

[@FedericoMalagutti]

After searching around a bit, and after getting in touch with various HEMA Instructors involved in the last 30 years of HEMA, here you may find a brief history of the drill: The History of the Drill: The drill was invented most probably in the early 2000, and It was used by the famous HEMA instructors Matt Galas and Scott Brown during their seminars. HEMA Instructor Guy Windsor gave it the name Farfalle di Ferro around 2013 and shot the original video of it in 2013, which is now offline on KZbin and can still be found on VIMEO vimeo.com/348204559 or on his Swordschool WIKI - swordschool.com/wiki/index.php/Farfalle_di_Ferro The form I show is otherwise slightly different from the one used by Guy Windsor in the original video. I toke inspiration from Guy's one during my early teaching days, and I made my own versions of it.

[@417hemaspringfieldmo]

Do we know who invented? was it Galas and Brown?

[@lelionnoir4523]

I saw Farfalle and thought "this time, he's doing pasta."

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Ahahahahahah

[@lucasnguyen4801]

IRON PASTA FOR THE IRON CHEF

[@BlazingSteel]

Well, if it's executed well, it'll make pasta out of your opponent.

[@MartinGreywolf]

My experience when teaching this to new people is that they don't really have that much trouble with it, but they are intimidated by it when you show them how the complete drill looks like. To be fair, if this is your first drill, it does mash quite a few things together - stances, cuts, true and false edge, turns. Once you start going through the two parts and then show them how to connect them, everyone realizes they have done all of this before and get the drill down in about 15 minutes. Then and again, it depends what you compare it to - stationary Zwerchcopter drill is far easier, something like even simplified 24-step Tai Chi sword (in reality, there are about three times that many steps in it) is much more complex, basic Aikido short staff drills are about the same, as is the Dobringer flourish.

[@esgrimaxativa5175]

Great work! Thanks for sharing. Next video, an army of a thousand kids doing this in a school playground somewhere in Northern Italy.

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Ahahahahahah! It would be cool to watch!!!

[@TheNapkuchen]

Thank you! These kind of videos are super usefull :D

[@FedericoMalagutti]

You are welcome!

[@m.kalujniy]

Amazing! Thank you for your work) With big respect from Kazakhstan

[@elmaxidelsur]

Beautiful, THANKS

[@ikermusitu4955]

Hi Fede!! We use this flow drill in class too. And the part of the punta + sgualembro in combat has good results to break the defense of the opponent.

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Very good!

[@pavel7568]

This was so well explained!! I appreciated the slow down and step by step! ❤😊

[@jimmynicolas4602]

Toujours un plaisir 😁 Les débutants vont apprécié....

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Grazie mille!!! :-)

[@clementfleury1913]

Oui ces Farfalle sont aldente

[@geeemm909]

An excellent drill, extremely well demonstrated and explained. Since lockdown I have learned pretty much everything I know about Fiore Longsword from your videos. The beginners guide was invaluable. Many thanks, keep up the good work. I hope one day I can train with you in person.

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Thank you very much for your kind words! Yeah of course! Every year I have some student who travels here from far away to train with me, eheh!

[@tarsischwald]

Amazing video. Thanks

[@controllerfreak3596]

EISENSCHMETTERLING this has been my favorite flow drill for a long time, I do the first part as a Sturtzhau instead of a thrust. but its otherwise virtually identical.

[@georgepapadopoulos3734]

Thank you for another useful video,Federico!Keep up the good work,which is so desperately needed in these difficult times,with the whole virus-quarantine situation.Cheers from Greece.Forza Juve...:-)

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Thank you George! I’ll do. Good choice of team btw, eheheh!

[@jasonjames9836]

I use this flow drill as well with different transition from the sottani back to the fendenti. I’ll have to play with this one a little as well. It definitely took me a while to figure out from reading The Medieval Longsword and watching videos of Swordschool.

[@0709cop]

excellent! very usefull! thank you Feder(ico) ;-) !!!

[@casadoscavaleiros8877]

Good tips! 👍🏻

[@S.A.M.S.2017]

Nice, I may have to give Italian long sword a try.

[@narusawa74]

Grazzie Maestro

[@emarsk77]

"one of the oldest HEMA solo drill ever" 🤣 I was expecting it to be described in some treatise from a bit earlier than 2000! It is a nice drill, though, very satisfying when it flows smoothly.

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Eheheh!!! It’s basically the 66% of the HEMA existence!!!! So it’s relatively old let’s say, ahahah

[@emarsk77]

@@FedericoMalagutti I supposed they were just EMA before that.

[@Maciliachris]

Beautiful video as always. Was it invented by Guy Windsor or has the Farfalle di Ferro an older history?

[@FedericoMalagutti]

As far as I know, it was invented by Matt Galas, which I consider the “Father” of modern HEMA in many ways. Then it was used by other instructors too such Guy, Cardozo etc. I'm quite sure Guy Invented this fancy cool name and gave it to his own version of the drill.

[@Maciliachris]

@@FedericoMalagutti Interesting, thank you very much!

[@nattinatti8825]

In my area the HEMA clubs are all German (Liechtnauer) tradition. So I learn German longsword. But I'm totally in love with Fiore and the Bolognese Spada da lato. I try to learn it a bit on my own with the books of Guy Windsor (Fiore) and Bolognese Sidesword with the videos of Ilkka Hartikainen. When I found them I knew this is the way I want to learn and practice fencing. But for now I have a question. The most striking difference for me right now is the absence of the so called "master-strikes/cuts" in Fiore. Is there something comparable to the German tradition's master strikes like "twerhau" et al. in Italian longsword? Do they come later in "Advanced Longsword" or are they just seen as variants from the basic strikes?

[@GrimRedeemer]

The basic framework of Liechtenauer's art of fencing is different from Fiore's. Nothing directly comparable exists. It is a bad idea to go looking. Instead learn Fiore's system of fencing on its own. There's no evidence of strikes like the schielhauw or twerhauw in Fiore's works. Some might argue that applications of the rompere di punta are similar to applications of the krumphauw, but it's clearly not the same thing. Depending on what you think the zornhauw and scheitelhauw are, some applications of the basic fendente may be similar.

[@FedericoMalagutti]

As stated in the commetn above, the concept of "Master strike" is not present in Fiore. Every blow is "Simple and straightforward" meaning that it would be considered basic. Otherwise the tactical application of some blows can be used to achieve the goals of some master cuts. Like Zornhau and Krumphau (with Fendenti) and Schielhau (Basically thrusting on tempo). Fiore otherwise puts more emphasis on different aspects of the fight compared to the Liechtenauer Tradition. At the same time, the so called "German Common Fencing" is more in line with youre. Long story short. Fiore tends to use slightly simpler stuff, lesser specialized blows movement or descriptions and he has lesser emphasis over binding stuff. There is far more to say but it's too much for a comment eheh :-)

[@vtmuseum]

Shouldn't it be 4 downward and 4 upward? As far as i can see, you have only 2 down.

[@417hemaspringfieldmo]

So who originally came up with the Farfalla de Ferro drill/flourish ?

[@FedericoMalagutti]

I don’t know! For sur Guy Windsor invented the name.

[@Vindrows]

👍

[@swordschool]

It's a lovely drill- but it is not old. Guy Windsor invented it about 8 years ago. Please correct the video and give credit!

[@FedericoMalagutti]

I'll write in the video description. There are comments below who seems to attest that Matt Galas taught it in a 2004 seminar. I'll search around for more info and then I'll write in the caption below the video, in the title and in the comment section what is known about the drill. Thanks for pointing this out anyway! Cheers!

[@LiskowicStudios]

Catch my sub. Great channel