Hello! I came here from your Let's Ask Seki Sensei (English channel) videos on this same subject, and I just wanted to comment that as a practitioner of HEMA for over a decade now, I am humbled and amazed by the respect and humility you bring to this subject. Thank you for treating our weapons and practice with reverence and deference. It brought a smile to my face to see the longsword on your wall after the previous videos!
Hello, 外国人です During the medieval ages, knights wore metal armor and rode on horses. A knight's primary weapon was the lance (ランス). A charging knight on horseback wielding a lance could defeat anyone, even if they were wearing armor. This is why jousting was popular among knights in the medieval ages. Lances could hit so hard that they would break, and the knight would have to leave the battlefield to get a new one. If it was impossible to leave the battlefield or the knight fell off of his horse, they would use their swords. Swords could not cut through metal armor at all. However, there were weak points in metal armor. These weak points could be exploited to injure an armored opponent with a sword. During the Crusades, knights wore chainmail armor and wielded swords and lances. As armor became more advanced, swords and shields started to become obsolete. Chainmail could be penetrated with a powerful stabbing attack, and maces and hammers could harm a person wearing chainmail, but plate armor was practically impenetrable. The best way to defeat a knight in plate armor was to hit him in the head with a hammer, or wrestle him to the ground and stab his eyes with a dagger. Knights still carried swords as sidearms, but if they were not riding a horse they would use a poleaxe as their primary weapon. Rapiers started being used during the renaissance (ルネサンス). Rapiers were dueling weapons and were carried for self defense. However, they were ineffective against plate armor, and were not used as primary weapons on the battlefield. Broadswords (ブロードソード) still existed, but mostly in the form of two handed swords that were used by elite front-line soldiers.
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Thank you for your sound advice. I have heard that knights were the first to learn the sword, but that it was rarely used in practice. I have seen in some source that the Crusader knights used flails, warhammers and axes as their main weapons.Toward the end of the Middle Ages. I have heard that dismounted knights fought with halberds. It seems that metal armor was still a threat. In one TRPG, I was searching for a tactic to defeat a knight in metal armor, I once found that the best tactic was to hit him in the head with a blunt instrument or pierce him in the eye with a spear. It seems the same was true in the real world.
Thanks to the power to of google translator so I can understand you, as a Destreza practitioner (Spanish school centre on the rapier), I have to say that this is one of the most acurate comments of the section, with some tiny things to correct, but very close to reality to aprove it.