History & Sabre | The HEMA Q&A

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

Yo i was mustache-baited 😂😂 great QnA man. Im fascinated by sabers of all kinds, so even tho i dont live in a place where i have acess to training something like that, its a great pleasure to watch high quality content from passionate swordsmen like you and the channels you mentioned. Keep up! 🫶🥸

[@historyandsabre]

Thanks a lot for watching, I appreciate the kind words!

[@Pandenhir]

Thanks for answering our questions. Didn't see it but my T9 must have exchanged transcription into translation. Sorry!

[@historyandsabre]

No worries at all, mate!

[@danc2700]

Thank you very much for answering my question! Great Q&A

[@historyandsabre]

Thanks, and you're welcome!

[@Rustbilly]

Thank you very much for the great video and your helpful answers! 👏👍😎 Also thank you in advance for doing an additional video regarding the moustache questions! 🙌🙇‍♂

[@thezieg]

Good format and well done answering questions.

[@historyandsabre]

Thanks for the lovely feedback! 🙏

[@tucznik3572]

Tactical comment. I'll watch it later big man.

[@mattfick5502]

This is enjoyable, and I'm sorry I missed the chance to pose some questions to you. One thing, I couldn't find the manual you mentioned in the description. Thanks! Looking forward to your next video

[@historyandsabre]

Thanks a lot. Also, I've added the manual!

[@VictorHarderHesel]

Another question free of charge; when will we see a dedicated sabre glove for HEMA? And what do you personally look for in a glove? Also, I love the content - keep it up!

[@historyandsabre]

Sure! I'm not positive we need a sabre-specific sparring glove to be honest - not that it wouldn't be nice. I think the current-gen medium finger gloves are quite good for sabre (Thokks and the SupFen version). I'm currently looking at getting the SupFens for myself. These days, I'd say I look for a much higher degree of protection than the old RDs provide that I've been rocking *way* past their lifetime now. For drills, the MOF gloves people at my club have recently started using are pretty neat. Cheers!

[@chrismorgan1336]

​@@historyandsabre Not sure about the SF glove, it is still too bulky for a kvetun sabre. In addition, having serious supply issues with SF...waiting 3 months now for a delivery and they are unresponsive. The HF armory clam, sabre-specific, Black Knight has potential, but haven't handled any yet. Best gloves for me have been the early HF Firestone. However, I had to extensively customize them by selectively removing &/or replacing many of the plates to reduce the bulk, also took 30mm off the length of the thumb. Customizing them is not difficult because of the way they are constructed. Leather, and at €55 they are good value if you are handy with needle and thread. Once modified, they give outstanding protection, durability and TOTAL freedom of movement.

[@D990990990]

When can we expect a tutorial on how to replicate that *magnificent* mustache style?

[@OliverJanseps]

Thanks for mentioning ... twice 🙃

[@anluisa9960]

I really appreciate you making a video like this. Super helpful

[@russmitchellmovement]

You probably deserve at least three, honestly. ;)

[@OliverJanseps]

@@russmitchellmovement 😄 let me say to be mentioned in a row with you Sir is more as I needed 😉

[@historyandsabre]

@OliverJanseps No worries, always! See you around again soon! :)

[@russmitchellmovement]

I have a gent working with me on Balassa atm, but I will *absolutely* purchase a few copies of said transcription, both because it sounds like it'll be BEAUTIFUL, and bc it's important to read these things in the original languages where possible and just to support your work in general. Also imo these manuals are repetitive in their language where the drills are concerned and thus a great gateway drug for improving one's reading skills. Please make sure you do an announcement video when that happens so I can plug it to all my sword-friends.

[@historyandsabre]

Hi Russ, thanks for the comment! Yeah sure, I'll happily announce it once it's done. True, the drills are always quite dry by naturr but I find Balassa is definitely more than a simple drill book. I like it! Shame that I missed SabreSlash this year, the pictures looked like some good sabre fun! Cheers!

[@cavtroop50]

Hi Peter, Great Video! I have been following your videos for sometime now. I am wondering if I could contact you about lessons? I live in Sweden but with 5 weeks of vacation in the summer it would be a nice time to travel to Austria and learn saber. Let's talk.

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

Random question just for fun: even though its not about historical fencing like hellish quart (amazing game by the way so impressive) do you enjoy playing stuff like dragons dogma, dark souls or the like? Or maybe some good old Mount & Blade for some rpg'ing 🤭

[@historyandsabre]

Oh for sure, I have been a PC gamer all my life. Hellish quart is a cool game, no doubt. I used to enjoy putting loads of hours into open world RPGs (e.g. The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, Kingdom Come: Deliverance). These days, however, I prefer more linear games whenever I find time just so I can get the satisfaction of actually finishing a game. I'm also a huge Star Wars fan so I played Jedi Survivor this year and I'm looking forward to Star Wars Outlaws. I still enjoy gaming but I don't play more than 2 bigger games per year anymore. It's a shame now that I think about it!

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

​@@historyandsabrehell yeeah, epic! Great titles. And i deal with the same thing 😮 i guess its part of becoming an adult huh. Not only we have less time for the virtual worlds, but we become more picky as well, the game has to value your time, just like a great book/article/documentary would, and i see you have this passion for history so i can imagine sometimes a good history rabbit hole can be even more entertaining than a gaming session 😂. So maybe its just a natural cycle, and when we become old and our backs arent the same as they used to be, we can go back to live in the virtual worlds for more hours again, maybe participating in a few large scale VR castle sieges 😌 that would be interesting.

[@mybase3592]

Hallo, da ich ja in dem Video erfahren habe, dass Sie Österreicher sind kann ich ja auch auf Deutsch schreiben. Ich wollte fragen wo man gute historische Säbel kaufen kann und welchen Sie empfehlen können die nicht so teuer sind?

[@historyandsabre]

Ich würde als ersten Schritt bei willhaben schauen (für Österreich) oder auf ähnlichen Seiten mit privaten Kleinanzeigen für Deutschland. Es gibt auch diverse Auktionsseiten. Häufig und günstig sind Säbel vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, für Österreich-Ungarn ist das vor allem der Infanterie-Offfizierssäbel M1861. Da bekommt man ohne große sammlerische Ansprüche ein schönes Exemplar um dir 200€. LG

[@tongwu2311]

Those European sabers, such as the 1796 Cavalry Saber, have scabbards that appear to be entirely made of metal. This seems to be a Western European saber habit? What I'm wondering is, are these scabbards made of wood on the inside? Or completely metal? Will a metal scabbard negatively affect the sharpness of the blade? It’s just rare to see anyone discussing scabbards on the internet.

[@historyandsabre]

Yep, these scabbards are lined with thin wooden slabs on the inside and doesn't really affect the edge. In that regard, the mouthpiece around the opening of the scabbard is more important as this is where you actually draw the blade out. Sometimes, this is made of softer metal as to not dull the edge, sometimes not. You can still draw out the sabre along its flat back edge in order to prevent dulling. Hope that helps!

[@sidakpalsingh1371]

Where can I get good quality sabres that are sharp online?

[@historyandsabre]

See if you can get your hands on the Windlass 1796.