Spear Fighting Basics 3 - The Parry Riposte

[@klappspatenkamikaze]

Love it! Have you ever heard of turning the palms while parrying in or outside? It's kind of a big thing in chinese spear-techniques. The goal is to give the parry more authority while making the movement precise and not to telegraphing.

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Yes I did something similar in some martial arts which I practiced in the past. Honestly I would say that in the majority of the cases while spear fighting the parry is relatively easy, namely that every thrust which tries to express just a tiny bit of the spear rich is unstable and easy to displace with minimal effort. Instead, if the thrust is landed by walking forward with the weapon held form in the hands, expressing a very short measure compared to the possibilities of the tool, then parrying may need more effort, but at the same time it would be easier to strike from the distance on the approach avoiding further problems ;-)

[@joelcameron2466]

Hey there! Just wondering how you constructed the spears in the video and how they hold up?

[@FedericoMalagutti]

It’s a bricolage rake shaft with a rubber spear tip. Using it since a couple of years, works well.

[@joelcameron2466]

Is the spear tip from Arcem?

[@AdelaideSwordAcademy]

youre using the arcem lugged spear heads? how are you enjoying them?

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Definitely. It’s safe enough for our practice:-)

[@Davlavi]

very cool.

[@MartinGreywolf]

Once you start to work with other people as spearman, the choice of which hand forward is often taken away from you. If you want to put a spearpoint past the sword and shield guy in front of you, you can only get it on his right if your left hand is forward and vice versa. If you don't, you will have to stand behind and to the side of sword and shield guy, as opposed to directly behind, and that makes it much easier to get to you by people with ranged weapons or opposing spearmen. You could just go stand behind the next guy in the shield wall - the problem is that you don't get to shuffle around the shield wall, because you're not alone in it: if you need to switch sides, you need to switch hands. If you want to flank, you'd also be better off with switching grips - for flanking from your formations' right flank, have left hand forward and vice versa, which will make the "dart from the cover of your shield wall and stab someone in the kidney" technique work a lot better - you are angling that trust at people standing sideways to you on your left, the angles work out better with left hand forward. It will also let you to easily parry incoming spear attacks (as well as javelin attacks), not just those against yourself, but also those against the guy in front of you - and you need to keep that guy alive, because that's the one you're hiding behind. One additional tip to spear vs spear parries I'd give is that spear parries often have to be done with more force than you might think. Against pool-cue thrust, you are doing what is more or less a longsword parry against longsword thrust, but if your opponent does a thrust without shortening his grip on the spear, or if he does a one-handed spear thrust and braces the spear against his side like a lance, you end up with shockingly immovable thrusts. You don't have to put your entire weight behind parries to defeat those, but I've managed to land a few hits on people that way, before they managed to adapt. The couched lance thrust is especially nasty in this way - your opponent sees a one handed thrust that will be redirected if you give it a stren look, and will instead receive a thrust that refuses to move unless it gets a good whack.

[@frankheninja1]

Eh. Hema doesn’t really deal with formation or battlefield fighting. Most of the fight books we have deal with a duel context. Meaning one on one.

[@corrugatedcavalier5266]

This ^

[@mwardp201]

Tutorial When?

[@corrugatedcavalier5266]

Great video! I never thought of an outside parry like that being like romper but I can see it! And when you're doing the inside parry it can very easily turn into scambiar di Punta. The two plays that he says are used for the spear section as a whole...hmmmm :D Not that this video is specifically about his spear section, of course.

[@FedericoMalagutti]

Yes absolutely, it’s the same action basically.

[@Putrefrye]

What about the sekiro parry

[@Vindrows]

👍