The most important exercise for swordsmen

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I'm a 27 years old HEMA instructor and sword performer from Poland. I've been fencing since I was 12, evolving through sport fencing, polish saber, kenjutsu, to finally settle on renaissance german longsword (go Team Meyer!).
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Now go throw some cuts!

[@jayr8271]

Would you ever consider writing your own training manual?

[@AmazingMrMe123]

Let me just mention it doesn't matter what kind of melee weapon you like (Axe, pullarm, staff etc) this wrist strength is incredibly important.

[@gamerstheater1187]

really?

[@beheadthatskeleton9083]

@@gamerstheater1187 yes

[@mitchellcollins4215]

Required: thing steel beam/hammer, medicine ball Exercises > 0:52 & 2:00 & 3:25

[@ParaEquinox]

the first one is exactly my exercise for guitar warm up

[@defjulz]

@Minecraft Brothers i don’t think that was intended to be funny

[@edi9892]

I do moulinettes with a Katana (which handles like a crowbar in one hand). I have to say wrists and gripstrength are seriously overlooked by most.

[@yogawarriorgirl]

Now THIS is what I was looking for- wrist work! When your wrists are the size of bloody twigs, you understand how important these exercises are. Thank you!

[@valeriugherasimov2434]

Thank for video.

[@adamradon8202]

Moulinette, Hutton style, with an Indian club or a light clubbell! I find them super beneficial for my wrist strength, endurance and flexibility. Insert wanking joke. Clubbells in general are possibly the best bang for your buck, swinging them, depending on chosen exercise, train everything involved in sword swinging: forearms, shoulders, upper back, core stabilization and rotation, coordination, dexterity... I'm not trying to sell anything here.

[@TheSwordsPathChannel]

Moulinettes are great (and backed with historical evidence!), but I'd recommend a progression from lighter exercises before an untrained person starts swinging anything heavier than a stick. :)

[@adamradon8202]

The Sword's Path obviously, always start light and slowly progress. I remember switching from montante to single handed swords and noticing, how much more challenging they were. Especially rapiers!

[@sanctumsomega]

sell away..they work :) drop an affiliate link :)

[@joeyjoejoejr.shabadu8857]

Wow thanks! I like your videos, and just found this channel again after it was buried at the bottom of my subscription page for a while.

[@gavatron1980]

Indian clubs and gada mace are another way to strengthen, stretch and condition your hands and wrists for sword fighting. Check em out

[@CheeHoewCheng]

These exercises appear to address all my achy joints from HEMA.Thanks!

[@LifestyleLabUK]

Yet another great video from Alan! Many thanks! One thing I found helpful to me was NSD Powerball. I've injured my wrist with excessive weighted dips and also ran into tennis elbow (all in the left arm), and used Powerball for slow rehab. Very useful, still using it 2-3 times per week.

[@pandabanana2593]

The KZbin auto captions are epic on this.

[@sortofcephalopod8972]

Cool vid, maybe look into getting a lavaliere mic so you dont sound so echo-y. theyre cheap and pretty effective

[@KlausBeckEwerhardy]

Well, the last exercise is a nice addition to my taiji ball routine.

[@sonyasever7625]

thank you ❤️ hope you'll continue those series of exercises👀

[@Jeffari1]

Awesome, thank you very much. This is very insightful. I will be sure to add this to my warm up stretching routine every time before I start a training session.

[@chaoswolff1035]

I absolutely love these tips, I will most definitely apply them to my training regime!

[@checkmate93670]

I tried those exercises, they seem very valuable. Thanks for sharing.

[@MsMi321]

Id Also recommend some gymnastics style excercises, pull ups included, the back muscles and especially the ones that retract the arm and scapula are woefully forgotten and its brutally evident in the elderly. All highly fit and combat ready elderly have been doing some gymnastics their whole life. You dont need to go heave is the point as well, I was blessed enough to be a competetive swimmer gone calisthenics practitioner before I started chopping wood at my families farm, and I found a Brecha, so basically a rather long piece of rebar, thick so that it fits in your entire hand, and weighing some kilos. I would swing it around slowly like a sword, and when i moved to my replica, which had the weight and almost the balance of a proper longsword, it became effortless. However @TheSword's Path I wonder if you could start some lessons maybe travelling around, i live in the pomorze area and needless to say traveling to krokow is quite a feat (Mostly since im a student in gdansk and am usually year round stuck because of school related requirments). Or do you possibly now if there is a HEMA team in the tricities? I havent had luck finding any, online or otherwise, mostly just typical fencing rather than proper combat saber fencing. Honestly you've got some really good stuff, and I would love to see you working on movies, and IMO had you, yes you as a single individual person, been on the set of Korona Krolow series that died a fiery death albeit great potential, then it would have taken off.

[@TheSwordsPathChannel]

Jan Chodkiewicz, a proper HEMA legend, teaches at Fechtschule Gdańsk, look them up. :)

[@MsMi321]

Priester Johannes Mostly because there is few, and very few bodybuilders in any fightig sport. The reason is on MindMash's chanell, where he explains the kinetic chain. A bodybuilder also tires very quickly because of his sheer mass. Bodybuilding =/= the right kind of strength basically. A fighter needs to be nimble, to some degree, and needs to be loose and fluid. An excellent example is polish saber, and their demonstrations. Few of those fighters are massively built however they have strength that is kinetic and flows. Body building gradually stiffens you up, makes your body work in isolated ways and in the end produces greate aesthetic results, but not so much results that give themselves to fighting. (Hence why a jiujitsu practitioner cna easily beat someone who has body builder strength). The closest to a fighter bodybuilder I can come to, is jujumafu, who is himself a goof but can fight. He doesnt only train bodybuilding but rather powerlifting, plympic lifts etc. He actually shows off his skills in fighting on fighttips' chanell. But you can see that he is stiff, and often he gets tired very very quickly. The Sword's Path Also thank you so much for replying :D Its rare nowadays that youtubers take the time to even bother with their audience! And I looked into them and its interesting, i only have an issue with pricing for sparring gear, I guess I know what to save up for now so hopefully I can represent my uni in competition some day.

[@saint_gales]

thank you for this video! i've just started bolognese sword in my club and my wrists get really stiff because i dont really exercise them, but now, knowing this, i can practice more safely

[@mathewsmith3304]

Love that cane, want one!

[@Sol_Invictus777]

The second exercise is somthing that I already do, but instead with two dumbbells one in each hand, and that really does work your forearms out good by the end I can't grip anything because the muscles are so tense and well worked out

[@TrinketofAporos]

Indian clubs/Steel clubs are fantastic as well.

[@LostOnceLefthanded]

I came to video ready to hate on it but surprisingly it was very smart, quick video. Earned a like from me

[@retarded4527]

NOICE, are we getting frequent videos from now on?

[@Luy22]

A lot of forearm stuff. I mainly do deadhangs for those but def incorporating these just because.

[@ExDragonMaster]

Oh hey. I saw variants of the first two stretches in my training. I see a general variant of the interlocking finger/wrist streching in the Kendo and JSA lessons I take. I see a general variant of the slow twisting of the wrists while holding something like a crowbar (in my case, it's a steel arming sword trainer) in the sword and buckler workshop I go to. Good to see that others do those kinds of things elsewhere, too.

[@LadyAbigore]

That goat head cane is sick af, I wants one 😢

[@DHTHORNE]

I personally take a Bo, or any 6 foot staff with 1.25" diameter, and see how well I can wield it like an oversized sword, or with one hand. I purposely see how far down to the tip I can hold it and maintain enough comfortable control to swing it around. You also find an awkward position that is hard to hold and hold it as long as you can. For example, hold it level with the ground with one hand all the way at one end so all the wieght of the staff is fighting against you. See how long you can hold it. If you can't hold it, move your hand up on the shaft till you can hold it, even if just a few seconds. When I'm "in practice" I can hold it right at the end, and swing it like a one-handed sword or two-handed sword. Albeit slowly and with difficulty. This builds up the wrists and forearms. You don't do techniques, you just try and challenge your hands and arms. A few minutes a day. Do NOT overdo it! Tennis Elbow takes a long time to heal and can actually hurt enough to stop you from using the arm, ask me how I know LOL

[@nurmi90]

"Spider Man" pushups should help, they did make my grip way stronger than I expected being possible, and I suspect that out there is some alpha who can literally grip bark off from trees :D

[@YevhenRawrs]

There are no alphas, truly, but depending on the tree I'm sure what you propose is possible. :P

[@garybryant7274]

I do the second motion you did with a sledge hammer (No. I'm not choked all the way down!) Grip, wrist and forearm strength snf flexibility ore the most important attributes to any martial system. In my opinion. Also, Musashi made the statement that you can't swing a katana properly with 2 hands...Something to think about, the next time you train with a "Crowbar".

[@maxs6484]

For a begginer whit out máster XD, What cuts shoud i practice? I saw and practice some Stance and movés from Zsernierzy, but i fellow i shoud practice the como cuts that become first for hema, whit a bastar sword, its 1.9kg and 110cm, another que sino its what exercise shoud i do whit the sword to get more streght

[@EruWan_Ernest]

As a office arsecrumple I salute you. And ask for more such exercises. I mean I do some quasi powerlifting at a gym, but still my flexibility and athletic performance is comparable to 80 years old fart. Dzięki i pozdrówki.

[@Druid_Ignacy]

Do you recommend these exercises one after the other? All of them? Or you advice to pick one of them per training?

[@vailjesse]

Could you make a video on some workouts that you recommend?

[@drmanhattan5014]

When you count one two.. is it polska language? Sounds exactly the same like russian раз два три)

[@TheSwordsPathChannel]

It's basically the same in all slavic languages, with minor variations (for example: there's "jedna" instead of "raz" in Czech).

[@teymurg.r8860]

The most unusual is second, which is druga in Polish, doesn't resemble второй in Russian, don't know about the other slavic languages.

[@TheSwordsPathChannel]

ah tak to ma smysl :D

[@robkphoto5530]

I'd say Russian is the unusual here, because it's almost the same word in all west slavic languages.

[@leylarustamova]

he doesn't look russian at all

[@dezimal9143]

Wax on. Wax off.

[@mohammeddhillshaardthd2122]

Wow

[@iwishhaveram9086]

minus za podawanie wagi w funtach

[@zakakondrashov4020]

Был приятно удивлен, услышав родные слова)

[@hbsong9964]

it's a medicine ball

[@midgrave]

Yay

[@whenwollf]

I live in the Pacific Northwest and want to learn HEMA. What do you recommend I do to start?

[@martialbrother5790]

How do you recover from tennis elbow and elbow pain, and ways to prevent them?

[@Tolmalion]

yeah, thats a good question, tennis elbow is bothering me for last 2 years, I can't even work out and do excercises anymore, which sucks a lot. Been treated by doctors for over a year but they know nothing, just like Jon Snow.

[@edi9892]

Mr. Slim N I'm not an expert but I think ellbow pain often originates from the shoulders or upper spine, like knee pain often stems either from your feet or hips.

[@edi9892]

If you don't have any direct medical problem, I would recommend to find someone that is a therapist and knows a lot about mobility and calisthenics. Most people today have a horrible posture, even if they do sport. Many aren't even aware of their deficits but expect all their joints to perform even when they are not ready.

[@eddard9442]

I had tennis elbow from fencing, It lasted for about 6 months, I had to use a tourniquet on my forearm to be able to use a sword without pain but I avoided doing so as I didn’t want to slow healing too much, only time heals it, took me 6 months with just slowing down my intensity in training, if you literally stopped using the affected arm it would be a much faster healing rate I think.

[@MsMi321]

Tennis elbow, like most tendinitis response well to antiinflammatories etc. but here is the issue, it reduces swelling and gives the illusion of proper healing, supplument with some vit C and E (not much is needed here) and do very light excercises, such as elbow circles, arm circles, stretches! And when under the shower, take the shower head and use hot hotter, and even hotter water to help apply heat to the area, since this is happening only once a day or twice it wont be an issue of swelling but rather upping the blood flow. (Do not burn yourself!). As Edi mentioned, you were simply not ready for the volue of work you were doing, most likely you were ready for the weight but at low volume. you need to work on push ups, and pull ups to have strong arms and elbows, but do this after you heal. Never do an excercise that causes pain, and dont push through pain. Preventing it will take some conditioning and some really basic excercises that calisthenics provides and are free, or at least cheap (the cost is usually a short walk to the nearest thing that can be a pull up bar).

[@ehkesoyo]

On this vein, I was looking for a decent workout routine that is based around HEMA now that it looks like i'll have some free time again (yei!) and my health seems to be in a place where I can retake excercise of some kind. Any of y'all kind people can point me to a nice place on the interwebs that miight be of assistance?

[@coolguy7461]

whats a good alternative for the exercise ball?

[@DinoNut88]

I have twisted my wrist at work. Would the exercises be OK for it

[@alexrynk8831]

2:55 was that you counting in polish???

[@Odyn666]

zawsze rozwalali mnie ludzie którzy od razu chcieli odpierdalać dzikie akcje młynki piruety choćby nie miały sensu w realnej walce XD

[@hanniballecter7514]

I know the power of wrist pain ;(

[@mohammeddhillshaardthd2122]

Can i adk a question..that is how to Inscrease wrist size..I want to increase my wrist size ...plz sudjest some exercise other that push ups and pull ups...plz

[@spinakker14]

Thanks! I have/had ganglions in my wrists and I just looked up wrist strengthening exercises the other day Ps, you should pay more attention to the audio quality, it has a lot of echoes

[@svekatune1333]

why do you say russian one, two, three - раз, два, три ?))

[@williamgollatz1911]

"with resistance" do you mean "isometric?"

[@Rodrigo-ty2if]

How many times/how long each exercise?

[@user-ye6hd1ce7g]

Раз, два, три)

[@yerbadeldiablo6751]

Raz, dwa trzy

[@chongli8409]

I have a question, how do you say 4?

[@ocet-winny5867]

cztery (read 'cz' as 'ch')

[@ocet-winny5867]

Chong Li or чтеры, i thought you are chinese by your nick :p

[@chongli8409]

haha, cool, thanks :D

[@zerobuddha]

but why do you count in russian? :)

[@user-zw1qg8vn9c]

Is it Russian I hear?))

[@elejnblackheart3913]

Szkoda, że tylko liczysz po polsku :D

[@amer1811]

On jest normalnie polakiem ;) Normalnie rozmawia, na YT posługuję się językiem angielskim, większe zasięgi.

[@Wuregon]

Mu nerozumíš v ajině nebo co? že to je škoda. Z jeho 80k odběrů by poláků bylo tak 20k max.