How to ACTUALLY fight with a Dagger | Masterclass II

[@TheKatyTV]

Thanks so much for posting this! I love seeing how other Fiore instructors approach the material.

[@ms4720]

This system and your presentation is always so delightfully practical and useful.

[@melaniepaul4235]

Really enjoyed that class, Marky. Brilliant!

[@eduardloomans6859]

Great video, please keep posting lessons like this!

[@shineonsunbeam]

Brilliant class

[@brisbaneswords8563]

Mate can you please do a bad video so I can make some snarky internet comments?! Great stuff, love how you are making it so contextual. Im stealing some of your teaching ideas. Still not enough swearing for Australian audiences :D James (from Australia)

[@theexiles7919]

lol

[@catocall7323]

Thanks for the content! A note on the terminology. In Spanish at least, a grappling hold or lock is called a 'llave' which means key. I suppose that it's the same in Fiore's Italian. Basically, the translation should be lock or hold. Although, I understand using key in order to reference the position's Fiore roots.

[@theexiles7919]

Greetings! Thanks. Fiore specifically uses “key” in reference to some of the techniques. We know this, for example, since there is an image with someone actually holding a key and so on this front at least, it’s a fairly straightforward translation.

[@simonfairfax800]

Ah brilliant. This proved the basis for my final fight scene for the latest novel, which was all about daggers not swords. Sadly, I couldn't use the " sewing machine" analogy which I really like, but they didn't exist in 1414!! 🤣

[@theexiles7919]

Hi Simon! (Marky here) How are you? Glad this was useful. When is the latest publication due out?

[@simonfairfax800]

@@theexiles7919 Ah back now, my computer malfunctioned. Yes, very well and just finished the final run throughs with my editor. Now on to proof reader and then plan to be published by the 6th June. If you'd like a pdf/ebpub for kindle as before let me know as aw ay of saying thank you. also featured, ( though really hard to to put into words...) the video of where you grab and wrap taking the quillion guard and trapping it. great video section. Do let me know when next you are in Chelt and I will come down and say hello. Best, Simon

[@theexiles7919]

@@simonfairfax800 Hi Simon, coincidentally we have one of our members events due in Cheltenham towards the end of the year. If you wouldn’t mind sharing a space with anywhere between 50-100 odd of the Exiles family, I would be honoured to extend an invitation to you as my guest for some (or indeed all) of the weekend as an observer should you wish. Our instructors will be running a series of classes for some of our members, typically covering all aspects of our art and there will be, I’m sure, content that you’d enjoy seeing. And content not normally shared via our media outlets. If you ship an email to [e-mail] I can give you more details. Thanks

[@simonfairfax800]

@@theexiles7919 Perfect, that would be fab. I will ping you and email. it will be under my 'real name' of Glenn Salter. Best, Simon/Glenn.

[@mikek8857]

hello, is it possile that a full empty had combat system could be derived from the fiore dei liberi system, a combiation of grappling plays, with potential empty hand applications of the weapons plays, such as the locks, holds, disarms and submissions, maybe in the same way filipino martial arts derive some of their striking technique's from their sticks and machete work the same could be used for fiore to form some striking methods

[@heresjonny666]

You could probably mangle Fiore's system into a purely unarmed art, but it would have a number of failings, and there are far better modern answers to self defense and unarmed fighting in the modern day. Fiore's system was developed in a context of a heavily armed society where weapons were almost always to hand whenever violence would erupt. When weapons are in play, there's far less you can do with unarmed martial arts, and so there's less need for a deep, focused understanding of them.

[@olafjagel5134]

Never works in Real. What is about the second hand?

[@heresjonny666]

Would you look at a boxing coach having their student hitting focus mitts and say 'WhY dOeSnT tHe CoAcH hIt HiM bAcK'? Would you look at a BJJ coach teaching someone how to do a single leg take down and ask 'WhY dId ThE sTuDeNt LeT hIm GeT cLoSe EnOuGh To GrAb HiS lEg'? I presume not, because you can recognise they're being taught something, and not trying to fight. But for some reason, as soon as it's a dagger suddenly every single teaching moment has to be an attempt to represent the full life and death struggle between a victim and an attacker from start to finish!

[@olafjagel5134]

@@heresjonny666 in you tube it looks like a selfdefence training....., in former times I try alot of knife sparring, best way ist to run or you have also a weapon. Second you get always a step in ... and in real you survive it with less injuries as the opponent. my two cents.. and peace, have fun

[@jaketheasianguy3307]

The what if game is stupid because you can only come up with those questions in a demonstration, not live sparring. The answer is simple, do something so he cannot switch the knife to the other hand. Fight moves we move, we improvise, not standing still like a statue. You will get cut if you engage a blade, but who cares if those cuts are not vital, also medieval rondel dagger have no edge or the edge is blunt af unlike modern knives I highly recommend this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKCvqJaghrOqkKs Because this instructor also applied the same concept in his defense tactics