Why the BEST MARTIAL ART is HEMA!

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[@Sceadusawol]

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[@ailediablo79]

I found HEMA very simple. That is good, but just more than should be. There is no best MA. HEMA is mostly with wepones and it is not versatile enough. It depends on the thinking psychological processe to see which is good for whom, as it has alot of european thinking way , hence there is no best MA. The hand to hand part of HEMA is poor. It is probably the easiest weapone system to learn. In my opinion from experience even weapon based Chinese and Persian MA are better. Especially Chinese. But to be honest Chinese wepones systems are the most complicated and complex in the world. The thing is they are the richest. Although, it is ultra hard to learn and manytimes requires high physicality and control. Everybody knows the Chinese are the best with a staff weapon like type. Their sword system though is simpler than European and Japanese. The China sword system leaves many part for the masters to do their own thing. The nice thing about Chinas MA wepone system for example swords is very similar and based on hand to hand combat systems for most part for most weapons. That is very effective, simply and makes things easier to learn and ads more room for progress, creativity and flexibility and adaption. There is many ways ,the best thing is when you know all of them or multiple of them. In hand to hand combat Jeetkondo is the best MA. Because is a mixed marital art. The strength of it is in the fact after learn it we can go out learn others techniques or full discipline and easily integrated into the flexible fabric of the system in Jeetkondo. It also teaches fighting philosophy and bulids your psychology. It also teaches MAs basics and fundamentals concepts and principles ect... Sword system in Europe are better overall than others, but regarding other general wepone classification there is many whom are equal. Mixing hand to hand with weapons techniques and everything else is overall better which HEMA doesn't have that much of. The grappling and reselling in Europe is not much. Infact ancient Europe grappling and hand to hand MAs are better than Medieval Europe ones. I didn't mention Samurai MAs cause they are similar in many ways, it is too personal preference. Their hand to hand combat of course better. Most of HEMA and the fighting purpose in book to read is for nobles knights with armor, that is what is optimal for. Which actually limits the fighting system permits. HEMA is not systematically and philosophically instructed and bulid properly. There is many gaps and it is far from even good enough. It is although the one we have most info about and resources. If something works it doesn't mean it is good or good enough or the best per say. European customs, MAs fighting style, believes, legends and stories psychology and cultural thinking of the choice of how to do things first is based on few things different from other areas especially about western Europe where objects holds more meaning than a human being. A bit similar to Japan but far more extreme. That is why insted of the knight traine more and finds more ways to be more efficient with training and improve physicality and psychology as well as find other combat methods more effective they weant with more effective weapons and armor. Things become wepone and armor focused. Why the best of the Templers where are the best in Europe? Because the mixed Middle-east with Europe fighting systems and trained anything and everything they could with many different methods. You know that knights are not the best in Europe really. Due to the facts nobles has things to do responsibilities about the land ect... Templers knighs has nothing of that , just training man armes are generally better than knights in their experience and skill. Also we know we don't know even close to everything about how they did fight from the resources available to us. Unfortunately. Me personally prefer Chinas and Japanese MAs.

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

@@ailediablo79 stop spamming

[@emanueljohansson5956]

It's important to note, that even if hema is historically accurate, doesn't mean it's the best martial art, shad from shadiverity has talked about it alot in hes hema videos. Now don't get me wrong, hema is good matrial arts, but there are still better out there, and shad talks about how you can ad different technices from other martial arts to improve your own martial arts, cause even if hema works for most people doesn't mean it works for everyone.

[@ailediablo79]

@@emanueljohansson5956 exactly.... but still i prefer the eastern MA. Japan and China. Look i am an arab but prefer Chinas MA.

[@Thesandchief]

I used to be heart broken that Arabian martial arts have gone extinct. learning that HEMA exists inspired me to see if we have any surviving manuscripts left. it turns out we actually have a lot. If it wasn't for HEMA and this channel I might have never began the long process of reconstructing historical arabian martial arts.

[@shawnwolf5961]

Okay THIS is awesome, I didn't even know there was an Arab martial arts. I mean obviously they would have to have something, but I just presumed whatever they used was similar to neighboring regions or something, rather than their own thing.

[@Thesandchief]

@@shawnwolf5961 the arabs had a unique way of fighting but they also absorbed as much as possible from the people they fought against and they're allies

[@shawnwolf5961]

@@Thesandchief That is actually really neat! If you haven't already, you should get into traditional HEMA and bring the arab martial arts into it!

[@_tonypacheco]

Have you shared any of your findings anywhere?? I'd love to see what Arab MA would look like

[@r.h5550]

You should check Razmafzar on YT. Its persian martial arts not arab but i bet its the most complete middle eastern system you can find right now.

[@KlausBeckEwerhardy]

You forgot to mention that we also are the most humble martial artists ever.

[@scholagladiatoria]

That's true actually, we achieve the most but brag the least. True fact.

[@andrewsock6203]

@@scholagladiatoria are you bragging about not bragging 🤣😂😉

[@ailediablo79]

@@scholagladiatoria I found HEMA very simple. That is good, but just more than should be. There is no best MA. HEMA is mostly with wepones and it is not versatile enough. It depends on the thinking psychological processe to see which is good for whom, as it has alot of european thinking way , hence there is no best MA. The hand to hand part of HEMA is poor. It is probably the easiest weapone system to learn. In my opinion from experience even weapon based Chinese and Persian MA are better. Especially Chinese. But to be honest Chinese wepones systems are the most complicated and complex in the world. The thing is they are the richest. Although, it is ultra hard to learn and manytimes requires high physicality and control. Everybody knows the Chinese are the best with a staff weapon like type. Their sword system though is simpler than European and Japanese. The China sword system leaves many part for the masters to do their own thing. The nice thing about Chinas MA wepone system for example swords is very similar and based on hand to hand combat systems for most part for most weapons. That is very effective, simply and makes things easier to learn and ads more room for progress, creativity and flexibility and adaption. There is many ways ,the best thing is when you know all of them or multiple of them. In hand to hand combat Jeetkondo is the best MA. Because is a mixed marital art. The strength of it is in the fact after learn it we can go out learn others techniques or full discipline and easily integrated into the flexible fabric of the system in Jeetkondo. It also teaches fighting philosophy and bulids your psychology. It also teaches MAs basics and fundamentals concepts and principles ect... Sword system in Europe are better overall than others, but regarding other general wepone classification there is many whom are equal. Mixing hand to hand with weapons techniques and everything else is overall better which HEMA doesn't have that much of. The grappling and reselling in Europe is not much. Infact ancient Europe grappling and hand to hand MAs are better than Medieval Europe ones. I didn't mention Samurai MAs cause they are similar in many ways, it is too personal preference. Their hand to hand combat of course better. Most of HEMA and the fighting purpose in book to read is for nobles knights with armor, that is what is optimal for. Which actually limits the fighting system permits. HEMA is not systematically and philosophically instructed and bulid properly. There is many gaps and it is far from even good enough. It is although the one we have most info about and resources. If something works it doesn't mean it is good or good enough or the best per say. European customs, MAs fighting style, believes, legends and stories psychology and cultural thinking of the choice of how to do things first is based on few things different from other areas especially about western Europe where objects holds more meaning than a human being. A bit similar to Japan but far more extreme. That is why insted of the knight traine more and finds more ways to be more efficient with training and improve physicality and psychology as well as find other combat methods more effective they weant with more effective weapons and armor. Things become wepone and armor focused. Why the best of the Templers where are the best in Europe? Because the mixed Middle-east with Europe fighting systems and trained anything and everything they could with many different methods. You know that knights are not the best in Europe really. Due to the facts nobles has things to do responsibilities about the land ect... Templers knighs has nothing of that , just training man armes are generally better than knights in their experience and skill. Also we know we don't know even close to everything about how they did fight from the resources available to us. Unfortunately. Me personally prefer Chinas and Japanese MAs.

[@akashahuja2346]

Humble Ever so Martial Arts

[@benjaminstevens4468]

Hahaha 🤣

[@Subutai_Khan]

Even if you do not watch the whole video it is pretty damn obvious this is tongue in cheek lol. It never ceases to amaze me how quick people are to get offended or dislike.

[@scholagladiatoria]

I am not surprised, but I am amused :-)

[@Subutai_Khan]

Haha indeed.

[@Adam_okaay]

@@scholagladiatoria yeahh the fact that you had need to put a disclaimer at the end is pretty lame. It's pretty obvious you're tongue in cheek, some people just can't put things into their proper context and get offended it's pretty sad.

[@henryko4994]

@@scholagladiatoria I like that your advice about not just looking at the gotcha title from the last video directly applies here rofl, but you went even further by making more than half the video unapologetic. Much like the professor that is amused at how many people are really paying attention in class ROFL. The scary part is the points were valid and depending on your passion/current objectives, true for the most part in the current state of the armed martial arts world. Even if you were using it more tongue in cheek, the point about Mixed Martial Arts being a bit of a misnomer the way it is used today is by definition accurate (Martial but ignoring all force multipliers? odd). Cheers.

[@ailediablo79]

@@scholagladiatoria I found HEMA very simple. That is good, but just more than should be. There is no best MA. HEMA is mostly with wepones and it is not versatile enough. It depends on the thinking psychological processe to see which is good for whom, as it has alot of european thinking way , hence there is no best MA. The hand to hand part of HEMA is poor. It is probably the easiest weapone system to learn. In my opinion from experience even weapon based Chinese and Persian MA are better. Especially Chinese. But to be honest Chinese wepones systems are the most complicated and complex in the world. The thing is they are the richest. Although, it is ultra hard to learn and manytimes requires high physicality and control. Everybody knows the Chinese are the best with a staff weapon like type. Their sword system though is simpler than European and Japanese. The China sword system leaves many part for the masters to do their own thing. The nice thing about Chinas MA wepone system for example swords is very similar and based on hand to hand combat systems for most part for most weapons. That is very effective, simply and makes things easier to learn and ads more room for progress, creativity and flexibility and adaption. There is many ways ,the best thing is when you know all of them or multiple of them. In hand to hand combat Jeetkondo is the best MA. Because is a mixed marital art. The strength of it is in the fact after learn it we can go out learn others techniques or full discipline and easily integrated into the flexible fabric of the system in Jeetkondo. It also teaches fighting philosophy and bulids your psychology. It also teaches MAs basics and fundamentals concepts and principles ect... Sword system in Europe are better overall than others, but regarding other general wepone classification there is many whom are equal. Mixing hand to hand with weapons techniques and everything else is overall better which HEMA doesn't have that much of. The grappling and reselling in Europe is not much. Infact ancient Europe grappling and hand to hand MAs are better than Medieval Europe ones. I didn't mention Samurai MAs cause they are similar in many ways, it is too personal preference. Their hand to hand combat of course better. Most of HEMA and the fighting purpose in book to read is for nobles knights with armor, that is what is optimal for. Which actually limits the fighting system permits. HEMA is not systematically and philosophically instructed and bulid properly. There is many gaps and it is far from even good enough. It is although the one we have most info about and resources. If something works it doesn't mean it is good or good enough or the best per say. European customs, MAs fighting style, believes, legends and stories psychology and cultural thinking of the choice of how to do things first is based on few things different from other areas especially about western Europe where objects holds more meaning than a human being. A bit similar to Japan but far more extreme. That is why insted of the knight traine more and finds more ways to be more efficient with training and improve physicality and psychology as well as find other combat methods more effective they weant with more effective weapons and armor. Things become wepone and armor focused. Why the best of the Templers where are the best in Europe? Because the mixed Middle-east with Europe fighting systems and trained anything and everything they could with many different methods. You know that knights are not the best in Europe really. Due to the facts nobles has things to do responsibilities about the land ect... Templers knighs has nothing of that , just training man armes are generally better than knights in their experience and skill. Also we know we don't know even close to everything about how they did fight from the resources available to us. Unfortunately. Me personally prefer Chinas and Japanese MAs.

[@purplepothos5794]

Sorry Matt, you're wrong, and you basically refuted yourself pretty early in the video because I'm now quite convinced Mech Arena is, in actual fact, the best martial art.

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

First funny comment.

[@user-ii5im7zm2t]

I'm a master practitioner of the ChaCha Slide, and feel that the Mecharena is inferior.

[@pmk198908]

The old ways are the best ways which is why raid shadow legends is the superior way

[@ailediablo79]

I found HEMA very simple. That is good, but just more than should be. There is no best MA. HEMA is mostly with wepones and it is not versatile enough ( keep reading to the end , it is versatile but just not enough lol). It depends on the thinking psychological processe to see which is good for whom, as it has alot of european thinking way , hence there is no best MA. The hand to hand part of HEMA is poor. It is probably the easiest weapone system to learn. In my opinion from experience even weapon based Chinese and Persian MA are better. Especially Chinese. But to be honest Chinese wepones systems are the most complicated and complex in the world. The thing is they are the richest. Although, it is ultra hard to learn and manytimes requires high physicality and control. Everybody knows the Chinese are the best with a staff weapon like type. Their sword system though is simpler than European and Japanese. The China sword system leaves many part for the masters to do their own thing. The nice thing about Chinas MA wepone system for example swords is very similar and based on hand to hand combat systems for most part for most weapons. That is very effective, simply and makes things easier to learn and ads more room for progress, creativity and flexibility and adaption. There is many ways ,the best thing is when you know all of them or multiple of them. In hand to hand combat Jeetkondo is the best MA. Because is a mixed marital art. The strength of it is in the fact after learn it we can go out learn others techniques or full discipline and easily integrated into the flexible fabric of the system in Jeetkondo. It also teaches fighting philosophy and bulids your psychology. It also teaches MAs basics and fundamentals concepts and principles ect... Sword system in Europe are better overall than others, but regarding other general wepone classification there is many whom are equal. Mixing hand to hand with weapons techniques and everything else is overall better which HEMA doesn't have that much of. The grappling and reselling in Europe is not much. Infact ancient Europe grappling and hand to hand MAs are better than Medieval Europe ones. I didn't mention Samurai MAs cause they are similar in many ways, it is too personal preference. Their hand to hand combat of course better. Most of HEMA and the fighting purpose in book to read is for nobles knights with armor, that is what is optimal for. Which actually limits the fighting system permits. HEMA is not systematically and philosophically instructed and bulid properly. There is many gaps and it is far from even good enough. It is although the one we have most info about and resources. If something works it doesn't mean it is good or good enough or the best per say. European customs, MAs fighting style, believes, legends and stories psychology and cultural thinking of the choice of how to do things first is based on few things different from other areas especially about western Europe where objects holds more meaning than a human being. A bit similar to Japan but far more extreme. That is why insted of the knight traine more and finds more ways to be more efficient with training and improve physicality and psychology as well as find other combat methods more effective they weant with more effective weapons and armor. Things become wepone and armor focused. Why the best of the Templers where are the best in Europe? Because the mixed Middle-east with Europe fighting systems and trained anything and everything they could with many different methods. You know that knights are not the best in Europe really. Due to the facts nobles has things to do responsibilities about the land ect... Templers knighs has nothing of that , just training man armes are generally better than knights in their experience and skill. Also we know we don't know even close to everything about how they did fight from the resources available to us. Unfortunately. Me personally prefer Chinas and Japanese MAs.

[@ailediablo79]

@@al-imranadore1182 lack of pressure testing is late thing not really part of marital art. Also, their hand to hand combat too is even better than weapon system. The wepone system in China for example is based on the hand to hand combat systems as a base of reference. You mixing toooo many things together. There is actual high level skill techniques but of course it is not like meda stuff. You just confused.

[@NicoSavio2395]

"can't you do something about your superiority complex?" hema: "but I am superior"

[@ianwinter514]

I am just stating the fugging obvious

[@samehedi]

@@ianwinter514 +1 for the quote, +2 for acknowledging the recent renaming of fucking to fugging

[@mattmattmatt131313]

hema: "...and other martial arts are cool as well" done.

[@kronos1794]

HEMA is awesome in that most clubs allow sparring. Other styles either have minimal sparring or sparring only with weapons from their tradition. With HEMA I've seen tons of different weapon match ups. People even have fun trying to do something like 2 daggers vs a longsword. It's fun, but it also trains versatility. Not everyone will come at you (theoretically) with a weapon you're familiar with. You have to be adaptable and HEMA fosters that well!

[@joshuawalker301]

There should be like a Venn diagram for people who like HEMA, lol, is the crossover for people with a wide variety of interest that converge into HEMA, you like antique arms, then learning Hema is a good option, you like martial arts, then hema is a good options, you are a history geek, then you might be into HEMA, etc etc.

[@scholagladiatoria]

Of course I agree, and after once spending over 30 hours analysing this, I concluded (correctly) that everyone should study HEMA.

[@aaronthedragonslayer1279]

Basically HEMA is the best

[@danielkeding3071]

Kudos to you - I love when people use humor and satire to make a point -great response to all the folks who are looking for the "best martial art." I once heard someone say that the best martial art is the one that you enjoy and want to devote your time and energy to learning. Keep up the good work and keep those videos coming - I learn so much from each one.

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

I can understand not getting the joke if it is a comment without a face behind it but COME ON. Matt is struggling to hold back laughter and so many of you are already disliking and posting offended comments before watching the end. To be fair, you shouldn’t even have to watch to the end to get the joke! If only they taught satire in school, if only…

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

WHERE? WHERE are the people who didnt get the joke. There are already dozens of pretencious comments of smartasses who are so much superior to the lowely peasent who didnt get the joke, yet there are no peasentwho didnt get the joke. The only thing more annoying than ignorance is self righteousness

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

@@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522 idk man. Maybe get here before they delete their comments out of embarrassment 🤷‍♂️

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

@@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699 that may be the case

[@MizanQistina]

Oh...it is a joke? But it is true though, Europe is powerful than anyone in the world, proven historically. So it means HEMA surely the best because it is proven historically and made by superior people. other martial arts are coming from losers, peoples who lost in western colonialism, lost in WW2...why bother learning martial arts developed by losers?

[@TonberryV]

The sad part is that we know the humor of this is going right over a lot of heads. As an aside, I've also heard some of these arguments used against trying to learn HEMA by a bunch of McDojo folks.

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

It’s hilarious because in his recent reply to Skallagrim, Matt said he hates it when people just see the title and instantly comment based off of it. Ironically, that’s exactly what has happened here and he’s drawn out both people who are sensitive about their martial art’s efficacy along with people who genuinely think HEMA is the best. Truly, one of the greatest trolls in the community of the sword imo.

[@charlietipton8502]

I really disliked the video. Because, it went completely over my head. Thank you for explaining the tone.

[@tasatort9778]

The problem with HEMA is the lack of training gyms.

[@MichaelScheele]

In college, our pistol team jokingly challenged the fencing team to a duel.

[@ulissegianinazzi2108]

You know that the challenged party can pick the weapon?😉

[@HistoricalWeapons]

you just pissed off all the katana weebs lol

[@ummonk]

They don't really exist on the internet anymore. It's just longsword memers ridiculing nonexistant katana weebs at this point.

[@kennantjessavi7648]

@@ummonk I'm starting a cult of tachi weebs

[@xluca1701]

@@ummonk They're still out there. Just not as much and not on HEMA channels

[@umartdagnir]

@@ummonk You just have not spoken to 14-year olds for too long.

[@jaketheasianguy3307]

It's very funny seeing people comments on a video they haven't watch and just talk based on the title. Never gets old

[@scholagladiatoria]

I know right ;-)

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

WHERE??? I wanna laugh toooo. But there are none. The comment section is filled with people talking about people who didnt get the joke but NO actual people who didnt get the joke.

[@jaketheasianguy3307]

@@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522 I saw a few after 4 5 minutes the videos got released. They must have deleted their comments

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

@@jaketheasianguy3307 that may be the case. All i see is an ocean of "people didnt get the joke" "didnt watch the wideo" "popcorn".

[@londiniumarmoury7037]

Interesting fact, Sakuraba one of the greatest MMA fighters from Japan actually was a catch wrestling practitioner, he trained with some of the best catch wrestlers from England. Catch wrestling is HEMA.

[@grailknight6794]

And josh barnett

[@londiniumarmoury7037]

@@grailknight6794 There's quite a bit of catch influence spread all over the world.

[@adamdean5881]

You didn't mention 3- gun or even CAS ( Cowboy Action Shooting). That might be an extension of HEMA if you think about it

[@karllambert2350]

When I'm out of ammo , my m4 becomes a pole arm when my bayonet is attached. I'm not sure if they even train bayonet work anymore in the usa , sadly .

[@adamdean5881]

@@karllambert2350 why would you let yourself run out of ammo? Poor preparation will get anyone killed

[@alexh4436]

Do you have any idea where I can get some eye of newt? I am practicing Historic European Medical Arts and so far the results are not as salubrious as the treatises promise.

[@grsshppr7659]

I like this method of selling HEMA. It comes across as "elite + welcome". My interpretation of this video is "we've got the good stuff... wanna learn?". Other videos felt more like, "we've got the good stuff... and that isn't it". It's just a small shift in frame, but the resulting feel is substantial. It's the difference between a club and a clique. Cliques are okay, but they just aren't as joinable for most people as a good old club.

[@LangstonDev]

I tend to agree with this, "communities" can turn me off of hobbies faster than anything, especially when a substantial amount of time is dedicated to explaining how people who enjoy said hobbies are doing it wrong...

[@effigytormented]

"We are elite, you could be too! Doesn't matter who ye be, come join us!"

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

@@LangstonDev I couldn’t have said it better. It’s almost never the hobby, artist, game etc. but rather the community that surrounds it

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

Damn, some people just can’t finish the video before commenting lmao

[@scholagladiatoria]

I'm actually finding it funny :-)

[@nenadmladjenovic7953]

@@scholagladiatoria You trying to stifle laughter gives it away. :D Great work.

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

@@scholagladiatoria WHERE??? I wanna laugh toooo. But there are none. The comment section is filled with people talking about people who didnt get the joke but NO actual people who didnt get the joke. Some people commenting about the comment section... before reading the comment section

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

@@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522 perhaps they deleted their comments after they understood the joke or maybe they were just drowned out by people like us. Either way it’d be great if you got here earlier to see them. Maybe then we could’ve laughed together…

[@ailediablo79]

@@scholagladiatoria I found HEMA very simple. That is good, but just more than should be. There is no best MA. HEMA is mostly with wepones and it is not versatile enough. It depends on the thinking psychological processe to see which is good for whom, as it has alot of european thinking way , hence there is no best MA. The hand to hand part of HEMA is poor. It is probably the easiest weapone system to learn. In my opinion from experience even weapon based Chinese and Persian MA are better. Especially Chinese. But to be honest Chinese wepones systems are the most complicated and complex in the world. The thing is they are the richest. Although, it is ultra hard to learn and manytimes requires high physicality and control. Everybody knows the Chinese are the best with a staff weapon like type. Their sword system though is simpler than European and Japanese. The China sword system leaves many part for the masters to do their own thing. The nice thing about Chinas MA wepone system for example swords is very similar and based on hand to hand combat systems for most part for most weapons. That is very effective, simply and makes things easier to learn and ads more room for progress, creativity and flexibility and adaption. There is many ways ,the best thing is when you know all of them or multiple of them. In hand to hand combat Jeetkondo is the best MA. Because is a mixed marital art. The strength of it is in the fact after learn it we can go out learn others techniques or full discipline and easily integrated into the flexible fabric of the system in Jeetkondo. It also teaches fighting philosophy and bulids your psychology. It also teaches MAs basics and fundamentals concepts and principles ect... Sword system in Europe are better overall than others, but regarding other general wepone classification there is many whom are equal. Mixing hand to hand with weapons techniques and everything else is overall better which HEMA doesn't have that much of. The grappling and reselling in Europe is not much. Infact ancient Europe grappling and hand to hand MAs are better than Medieval Europe ones. I didn't mention Samurai MAs cause they are similar in many ways, it is too personal preference. Their hand to hand combat of course better. Most of HEMA and the fighting purpose in book to read is for nobles knights with armor, that is what is optimal for. Which actually limits the fighting system permits. HEMA is not systematically and philosophically instructed and bulid properly. There is many gaps and it is far from even good enough. It is although the one we have most info about and resources. If something works it doesn't mean it is good or good enough or the best per say. European customs, MAs fighting style, believes, legends and stories psychology and cultural thinking of the choice of how to do things first is based on few things different from other areas especially about western Europe where objects holds more meaning than a human being. A bit similar to Japan but far more extreme. That is why insted of the knight traine more and finds more ways to be more efficient with training and improve physicality and psychology as well as find other combat methods more effective they weant with more effective weapons and armor. Things become wepone and armor focused. Why the best of the Templers where are the best in Europe? Because the mixed Middle-east with Europe fighting systems and trained anything and everything they could with many different methods. You know that knights are not the best in Europe really. Due to the facts nobles has things to do responsibilities about the land ect... Templers knighs has nothing of that , just training man armes are generally better than knights in their experience and skill. Also we know we don't know even close to everything about how they did fight from the resources available to us. Unfortunately. Me personally prefer Chinas and Japanese MAs.

[@artemisdarkslayer]

Great video haha definitely gave me a chuckle at work

[@pmk198908]

Rest of the world:Do you believe your own hype that much? HEMA peeps: I AM THE HYPE!

[@addictedtochocolate920]

Wasn't expecting the TFS reference

[@Yeknodathon]

Spadroon.

[@bretalvarez3097]

The only weapon to surpass the Metal Gear

[@akashahuja2346]

Is that some sort of tourette thing?

[@Yeknodathon]

@@akashahuja2346 No. Spadroon

[@akashahuja2346]

@@Yeknodathon that's good, I would hate to think that you were wandering the streets randomly yelling 'spadroon!' at people and cars...

[@Yeknodathon]

Spadroon.

[@M.M.83-U]

The trolling is strong in this one.

[@thormusique]

Wonderful video, Matt, thanks! I'm just getting started learning about HEMA. I do have a background in Chinese martial arts but quite frankly I've never been as excited about diving into a martial art as I am right now. And just yesterday I was feeling a bit sorry for myself because, although I live in a beautiful place, it's really quite remote. So I'd convinced myself there couldn't possibly be a HEMA group anywhere near me. Well, I was quite wrong! Turns out there is a group less than an hour's drive from here. The short of it is, I can't wait to start. Love all your videos, cheers!

[@MarcRitzMD]

Now, you need to make the video why HEMA is the worst martial art: - Doesn't teach effective self-defense - High cost of entry - Limited regional accessibility - No instructional quality control - Low focus on athleticism

[@stevenscott2136]

To be fair, almost NO martial art teaches effective self-defense. Plenty of them THINK they do...

[@MarcRitzMD]

@@stevenscott2136 yeah, for sure. Better to think of it all as on a spectrum. And probably better to think of self-defense as its individual components and to look at those in detail, rather than thinking of it as one thing. In a way, it is a bit disappointing that it didn't receive the same theoretical study as you would have in major sports.

[@mrshankly213]

@@stevenscott2136 I'd argue that running teaches the best self defence

[@michaelw7867]

He says at the end that this is a tongue in cheek video, but this is still a very informative video. Of course, many martial arts contain all these elements. The documentation in other martial arts, for example, exists just as much, but....in the language of the countries they come from. Some martial traditions, such as in Japan, divide aspects of fighting into separate "martial arts." The Samurai traditionally trained in a complete curriculum of martial arts. In China, by contrast, they were combined in each style. But the end result was traditionally the same.

[@johnstuartkeller5244]

Excellent argument, sir, and a most enjoyable entry! Now, whatever you do, don't look those who took you too seriously in the eye; they take it as a challenge.

[@tuerkefechi]

Holding a Longsword Makes your Argument obsolete 😂😜

[@erikjarandson5458]

So, HEMA must be from historical sources, i.e. written manuals, because 'H' is for 'History', unless it's non-European, in which case anything goes (ref. video _What is HISTORY? (and what is NOT HEMA?);_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4rNd6iYj699mdU )._ That's "E is for Europe" out the window, then, and "H is for History" doesn't escape without potentially mortal wounds, either. The treatises are mainly on dueling. 'Martial' means "related to war". Dueling isn't war. That's 'M' is for 'Martial' out the window. "A is for Arts" might seem to remain standing. However, just "Arts" would be more than a bit misleading, as it includes things like the works of Rembrandt, Mozart, and Shakespeare. Putting the wounded "History" in front doesn't improve things much. We're then left with "Sort of Historical Sort of Arts". Seriously, you can't exclude archeology, but include kendo and wushu! It's a choice of one, the other, or be ridiculous. P.S.: I guess spear and shield in formation is saved, in part because of Socrates. He concluded emphatically that spear and shield in formation is the ultimate martial art, and that swords are for vain, short-lived braggarts. Of course, his main point was a moral and political one; good citizens stand together. Regardless, with Socrates separating out spear and shield as distinct from other martial arts, it'll take quite the authority to join them together again. Failing that, it'll take quite the authority to contradict Socrates on what is the ultimate martial art. P.P.S.: Yes, Socrates was a trained fighter, and took part in battle. He had a bit of a reputation for becoming distracted mid-battle, and instead falling into deep trains of thought, but he did participate, and survive, without being considered unskilled or cowardly.

[@BallisticPlate]

Shout out to all HEMA practitioners who get in and mix it up with FMA guys.

[@Fabianwew]

French martial arts

[@BallisticPlate]

Lol

[@zappodude7591]

The cooperative/inclusive angle is the most important part; most Asian (especially Chinese) martial arts come from competing schools always at each other's throats. Competition is often healthy, but these schools were mostly competing to be Cool Martial Arts (tm) rather than to be effective in an actual fight. The fact that HEMA is based on historical methods from actual warfare helps with this. There's an appreciation that comes with knowing the preferred styles of your partners were the most effective thing in their time, even if they aren't your personal favorite. A lot of Chinese stuff never had this in mind and essentially became a slightly more dangerous form of dancing.

[@scdallav]

Matt's channeling Master Ken

[@scholagladiatoria]

And in fact I do always re-stomp the groin.

[@karllambert2350]

@@scholagladiatoria most underrated comment on this post

[@chrissymcgee5930]

Excellent video Matt, your expression at the beginning was timeless....... you knew it was popcorn time!😂

[@bensul9979]

I thought exactly that, like the face when he says the innuendos hahahahsjs

[@JosephKerr27]

I do enjoy the tongue-in-cheek but thorough analysis. I'd note that there's a difference between competition and martial training. Competition is all about the win, but sparring with an analytical training mindset is more conducive to both partners learning and growing. Whether it's drills and fundamentals or pure free-sparring, I would encourage that mindset in the pursuit of martial knowledge. Tournaments are fine; I just think there's that notable difference between martial arts in sports scenarios and martial arts as its own pursuit. Either way, students can still get what they want out of the experience as long as they develop themselves.

[@andrewsock6203]

This is the best channel on KZbin regardless of hema’s rating.👍👍

[@johnalbert2102]

Most importantly, HEMA people are the most humble of all martial artists.

[@chilloutloops9916]

I’m assuming this is a joke, given the title and context of this video lol

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

No surprise teachers with businesses say that their own business is the best.

[@talostheking8529]

No you

[@andytopley314]

I was impressed you kept a straight face through the intro! Keeping that up for the whole vid was awesome.

[@anthonyhernandez4266]

So where are all the people who apparently didn't get the joke? Everyone seems to know that the video is "tongue in cheek" since everyone keeps saying that but I don't see all of the butthurt people taking things too seriously or commenting before actually watching the video.

[@shawnwolf5961]

You obviously didn't scroll down--or missed the blatant idiocy a couple posts above this one LOL

[@anthonyhernandez4266]

@@shawnwolf5961 I did manage to find a few that were kinda bad I guess but when it became obvious that there were way more people complaining about the comments than actual hate comments I just stopped. You guys are overreacting.

[@braneri]

I've seen that AileDiablo dude spamming his massively messy wall of text under multiple comments here at least 6 times (and his other non-copy/paste comments aren't much better tbh), but not much else aside from that.

[@anthonyhernandez4266]

@@braneri yeah there's a few bad eggs if you really look but that's every comment section.

[@ultrapaladin]

Right now, I’d argue gunfighting takes the cake. Still evolving to this day, well documented throughout history (with video as well), and the most practical in the modern world (for us New Worlders). It’s also a martial art the has a huge focus on situational awareness that occurs not only during the fight but before and after. There’s the actual shooting portion of the art, and there’s also the tactics portion regarding room/building clearing and things like long range combat and maneuvering to the enemy. Medical (TCCC) is also a significant part of the art and is taught in many schools. (Somewhat akin to Chinese kung fu and their pain relief/medical portions).

[@roberttomanski5710]

Hi all, and with great respect to everyone regarding HEMA and the teachings, I've come across HEMA 2 hours ago and are both intigued and confused with this system, intrigued because its new to me and a style of combat that has beem used for over 2000 plus years regarding what I would call real combat life and death combat (and I served in the British Infantry) and its transfer to street scenario's as we can not carry swords now in the modern world, are there any clubs that anyone knows of in the Hull area UK so I can learn more? Thanks in advance.

[@JosephKerr27]

Good stuff, Matt! I always recommend cross-training to broaden horizons. As I've mentioned before, my background is in Okinawan karate and kobudo. These arts are native to the Ryukyu Islands, of course, but I've branched out to Japanese and Chinese martial arts due to the regional exchange of concepts. It's afforded better understanding of that area of combat as a whole and certainly helped improve my practice. So naturally I started checking out other schools like Filipino kali and BJJ, which then led to capoeira. And now I have a nylon waster and a copy of Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword. Studying multiple martial arts benefits us in the same manner as studying multiple languages.

[@Charlie-nj9ne]

Matt Easton vs Master Ken coming soon

[@the_guitarcade]

I shall henceforth refer to HEMA as Euro-do-te, and Matt Easton shall forevermore be Mattster Ken.

[@edi9892]

I'd like to point out that HEMA is all about pictures of combat, but those pictures rarely have a good description of how we got there... Thus, whatever works will be used to reconstruct it. It may not be historical, but history plausible.

[@elijahgp1998]

Is it just me or did Matt Easton began using the mainstream KZbin formula

[@TheDutchGame]

That was a great HEMA commercial! ;)

[@ungainlytitan1460]

Can one then draw from the Western tradition and bring Air and Artillery support to the sword fight?

[@jamesbrown-pk2do]

nice to speak earlier Matt, look forward to seeing you next tuesday.

[@stevenkobb156]

Great sales pitch, Matt. I was a bit surprised to hear you refer to HEMA as A single martial art. To me, that would be a bit like referring to all Japanese martial arts like karate, kendo, bushido, judo, jujitsu, etc etc collectively as THE Japanese martial art. I used to foil fence millenia ago in college, and now your videos are inspiring me to consider taking up something like HEMA saber fencing as a fun way to get and stay fit. I'll let you know how it goes, if I live through it 😏.

[@shubbagin49]

I remember about the 1980s, there was a bunch of guys Clan Wallace I think who were reenactors as Highland Clansmen, they were mad, but definitely knew how to handle hand weapons. Lovely mad guys.

[@calvinthefly]

As pointet out by lots of people in hema, NUANCE is important. a Thaiboxer (or any hand to hand combat technique practitioner for that matter) will be superior to a "normal" hema practitioner in a fistfight. he wont be when fighting with ANY weapon, but still, when fighting under those exact circumstances, wich his fighting technique is layed out for, he will. and that's the point. do whatever martial art you desire, and you will be a better fighter in general. Dont act like your martial art is the best. Personaly, i was in a lot more fistfights, than in fights with sharp weapons... Respect the fighting style of your opponent, if you dont want to loose. anyways, keep up the good work. i really like you and your work!

[@SamuraiShawn-oe9nm]

Musashi said learn the timing in all things this too is the way \m/

[@nikojinko4608]

God: What’s the most complete martial art I created? HEMA: yes

[@titanscerw]

Indeed, it is!

[@damasek219]

Omg, reading the comments I'm about to pass out, the way people can misunderstand humor is unbelievable.

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

WHERE??? I wanna laugh toooo. But there are none. The comment section is filled with people talking about people who didnt get the joke but NO actual people who didnt get the joke

[@damasek219]

@@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522 you need to read the comments

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

@@damasek219 i am and have found none that are funny people not getting the joke. Can you recall anything specific? Or are you perhaps imagining things

[@damasek219]

@@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522do you know the context of this video or not?

[@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522]

@@damasek219 yes.

[@virgilknightley2668]

I live in Asia and I want to learn HEMA. What would you guys suggest? Especially scholagladatoria.

[@matvampir0_]

Yes, but where is "Context"?

[@DontKeeptheFaith]

Yeah, HEMA is good, but I prefer Mexican Judo.

[@absoluteaficionado515]

uh, well I was interested in starting HEMA, but my city only offers training with sabres and both the monthly payment and the protective gear was too expensive to me - so I went with boxing. Unless one learns specifically unarmed or knife-armed combat in HEMA, boxing is definitely superior for self-defence because you always carry your fists. Boxing also builds fitness quite well, though I don't know how good HEMA is at that in comparison.

[@Adam_okaay]

Uh Matt love you for making this argument but your reasoning is wrong, you never mentioned spadroons once. And the answer is: "spadroons" the sharpest, deadliest sword that discovered nuclear fission.

[@jimmyw7530]

Good lord, you’re right. Not one mention of the mighty Spadroon… This is an outrage!

[@bushcraftninja5098]

Brilliant, I'd love to have a go at it.

[@abdulghanysolara4676]

@scholagladiatoria you mentioned mamluk egypt? do you know who practises these arts?

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

I would agree, if you wore armor. Full period armor and compete w blunted swords.

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

As it is, it is not truly historical. Unless those fancy mesh outfits are historical?

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

What other martial arts does that: the Koryu systems of Japan, armed to unarmed, duel wielding and single, plus a variety of weapons to boot, bo, naginata, jo, hanbo, among others. The biggest problem with HEMA is that there is no authority overseeing the art and seeing whether the "teachers" of the art have the requisite skills to pretend that they are a martial artists and what their skill level actually is. In the koryu systems you can tell pretty quickly who is the most skilled in a class of people and how skilled the teacher is. And what about the spear/polearm/naginata they are the best weapons for warfare (besides a P90), but, it's not really that skillful to wield effectively, so, are the teachers spending enough time on it or not teaching it at all. Then there are all the swords that you could use and you need the historically accurate sword to use, how many should you work on during a class, what about the wrestling components surely you need some way of telling whether they have the skills for that otherwise the would get destroyed by any student of Judo or even old Irish wrestling (Coiléar agus Uille). In the Japanese systems you can use a Jojutsu or cheap bokken to get your skills up but you can't really get a wooden replica of a claidheamh-mòr and have it respond the same. The more I think about it I can't really call HEMA a martial art, it's just a bunch a guy getting together for a LARP.

[@akashahuja2346]

As a great scholar said 'you must die! I alone am best!'

[@Mtonazzi]

We put our martial art under pressure, pushing down on me, Pressing down on you, No man ask for

[@adriac1291]

New petition to make HEMA a part of MMA.

[@UlissesSampaio]

Is there a good list of good hema "dojos" around the world?

[@itsapittie]

My black belt in Japanese Jiu Jitsu tied itself into a knot listening to this.

[@cs4870]

You made me laugh aloud so many times throughout this video. Fantastic video Matt, love from Ohio USA

[@bobrobinson1576]

Also tongue in cheek. History begins yesterday so you can include anything.

[@paulpolito2001]

Ringen is a “style” of historical European grappling. Study and train everything you can, it helps more often than not.

[@jamesreese208]

I agree completely if we change the title and every other reference frome HEMA to Chinese Shao Lin Kung Fu

[@mountaindog1929]

The biggest argument I would make for HEMA is that human beings are biologically inclined toward tool-usage. We do not have natural "weapons" like a lion or bear, so we are most advantageous when equipped with a tool we are well trained with. HEMA obliges that natural inclination. Now having said that, I think we would be remiss as honest martial artists if we didn't acknowledge that there is still a difference between someone who trains boxing or grappling to complement their swordsmanship vs someone who is actually highly skilled in those specializations. I know there's no rule saying you can't be a great hand-to-hand fighter and still do HEMA, it's just important to be honest with oneself in that regard.

[@josephusromanhistory]

I'm moving to Verona soon, anyone know how the hema club there is?

[@breezyx976]

I prefer gun-fu, or nuclear football, but I guess HEMA's up there when you get into a fight

[@JustGrowingUp84]

Nuclear soccer? Stephen Chow approves!

[@jm9371]

Traditional MA: "I know Judo!" HEMA: *shows up with Kite shield and Longsword*

[@geraltofrivia8529]

If there are no rules, show up with a tactical shotgun tbh.

[@treevetales170]

Hey Mech-arena!

[@user-ul6bm8pt2y]

The most annoying thing about HEMA is that you can't just come and compete. It will cost like 1500$ to get gear for a tournament :/

[@0612rex]

You can get the basics for around £100-150. All you really need is a jacket, gloves and fencing mask. Sure you may get a few more bruises with entry level equipment, but you can get a good taste of what it's like for less.

[@scholagladiatoria]

So, firstly that's incorrect for lots of branches of HEMA, and secondly, it's only comparable in this regard with every other martial art.

[@stephena1196]

I'm not convinced you need to compete to do HEMA. Competition isn't a nesessity to train in some other martial arts, why should it be so with HEMA? Many people who practise other martial arts have no intention of ever competing themselves, it doesn't mean they aren't training. The difficulty with HEMA is being able to get to a class or finding someone else who is interested in practising with you if there isn't. Money isn't really a limiting factor, one could "go hard in the back yard" (I imagine that's how many who practise HEMA started). The limiting factor is having someone to practise with, not the cost. I think the best martial art is any one that has classes you can get to.

[@turbografx16]

Wait until you see what Kendo Do costs...

[@EfficientJudo]

Are there HEMA clubs that focus on grappling specifically, outside of the context of armed combat? As someone that trains in multiple grappling styles, I'd be interested in a HEMA perspective on wrestling.

[@koingzellkylar3175]

Mine does 1/3 of pure grappling (generaly french or swiss grappling, there has been a bit of Glima), and I know that we have contact with a club that have a section that specilize in grappling.

[@EfficientJudo]

@@koingzellkylar3175 That's interesting, I didn't think pure grappling factored into HEMA so much. Do you study / cross reference folk styles of wrestling like Kurash? Its interesting because all of these generally focus clothing based takedowns, unlike most of the modern sportive wrestling styles.

[@koingzellkylar3175]

@@EfficientJudo It doesn't, we don't usually see that in other clubs that I have meet. Not really (but I am not the instructor and I have followed from quite far because I found french wrestling not very martial), we mainly focused on late source (1800-1900) where we doesn't use the outfit much. But our group is quite small and it's more or less, bring what you want to study.

[@hailhydreigon2700]

There's an entire Ringen organization run by Jessica Finley that focuses on Medieval German Wrestling. Which is extremely similar to Judo. But that might be because Jessica Finley comes from a Judo background.

[@haidner]

@@hailhydreigon2700 I think it is, as I've worked with her and much of what she does seems far too judo-like. But I've been doing Western Martial Arts for over 40 years, so can see things that many others may not. Just an opinion, please don't take it in any sense of criticism of Jess.

[@joelanajao571]

Technically and historically correct, that is why they became the major imperialist nations in world history, but the contemporary society needs contemporary technologies and paradigm

[@bretalvarez3097]

Technically HEMA isn't a martial art, it's a collection of dozens of different European martial arts/systems.

[@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight]

Isn’t MMA also a collection of multiple fighting systems, by definition of “mixed” in the name?

[@bretalvarez3097]

@@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight Yea, MMA is just every kind of unarmed martial art in a collective. MMA is not a martial art like karate or BJJ but people who practice multiple martial arts can say they practice MMA.

[@TrungNguyen-du9cn]

I trained under Metatron with the plumbata. Next, how to juggle pizzas.

[@philjohnson1744]

Sure, sure, but is there a "combat spitting" treatise?

[@toddellner5283]

I had a teacher with an extremely ... pragmatic ... approach who had us do spit drills with each other to train out the flinch. It worked, but I would not inflict it on a student.

[@varanid9]

BUT..............can HEMA store my vinyl albums??

[@vengence1156]

A question here. If I was to compete in a hema competition would I be able to use a weapon like say tonfa or sai against a guy who use a long sword or spear? I'm not a martial artist of any kind just genuinely curious about hema.

[@leviethen]

so if hema is the best martial art, then hema practicioners are therefore the best martial artists in the world, that must mean left handed hema practicioners are the best of the best

[@scholagladiatoria]

Makes sense.

[@ezrajonathan]

Wouldn't that be ambidexterous people?

[@leviethen]

@@ezrajonathan I think they’re just myths 😂

[@ezrajonathan]

@@leviethen exactly! That's how good they are! 🤣

[@ailediablo79]

@@scholagladiatoria I found HEMA very simple. That is good, but just more than should be. There is no best MA. HEMA is mostly with wepones and it is not versatile enough. It depends on the thinking psychological processe to see which is good for whom, as it has alot of european thinking way , hence there is no best MA. The hand to hand part of HEMA is poor. It is probably the easiest weapone system to learn. In my opinion from experience even weapon based Chinese and Persian MA are better. Especially Chinese. But to be honest Chinese wepones systems are the most complicated and complex in the world. The thing is they are the richest. Although, it is ultra hard to learn and manytimes requires high physicality and control. Everybody knows the Chinese are the best with a staff weapon like type. Their sword system though is simpler than European and Japanese. The China sword system leaves many part for the masters to do their own thing. The nice thing about Chinas MA wepone system for example swords is very similar and based on hand to hand combat systems for most part for most weapons. That is very effective, simply and makes things easier to learn and ads more room for progress, creativity and flexibility and adaption. There is many ways ,the best thing is when you know all of them or multiple of them. In hand to hand combat Jeetkondo is the best MA. Because is a mixed marital art. The strength of it is in the fact after learn it we can go out learn others techniques or full discipline and easily integrated into the flexible fabric of the system in Jeetkondo. It also teaches fighting philosophy and bulids your psychology. It also teaches MAs basics and fundamentals concepts and principles ect... Sword system in Europe are better overall than others, but regarding other general wepone classification there is many whom are equal. Mixing hand to hand with weapons techniques and everything else is overall better which HEMA doesn't have that much of. The grappling and reselling in Europe is not much. Infact ancient Europe grappling and hand to hand MAs are better than Medieval Europe ones. I didn't mention Samurai MAs cause they are similar in many ways, it is too personal preference. Their hand to hand combat of course better. Most of HEMA and the fighting purpose in book to read is for nobles knights with armor, that is what is optimal for. Which actually limits the fighting system permits. HEMA is not systematically and philosophically instructed and bulid properly. There is many gaps and it is far from even good enough. It is although the one we have most info about and resources. If something works it doesn't mean it is good or good enough or the best per say. European customs, MAs fighting style, believes, legends and stories psychology and cultural thinking of the choice of how to do things first is based on few things different from other areas especially about western Europe where objects holds more meaning than a human being. A bit similar to Japan but far more extreme. That is why insted of the knight traine more and finds more ways to be more efficient with training and improve physicality and psychology as well as find other combat methods more effective they weant with more effective weapons and armor. Things become wepone and armor focused. Why the best of the Templers where are the best in Europe? Because the mixed Middle-east with Europe fighting systems and trained anything and everything they could with many different methods. You know that knights are not the best in Europe really. Due to the facts nobles has things to do responsibilities about the land ect... Templers knighs has nothing of that , just training man armes are generally better than knights in their experience and skill. Also we know we don't know even close to everything about how they did fight from the resources available to us. Unfortunately. Me personally prefer Chinas and Japanese MAs.

[@lfrebelo1]

Check out the Portuguese “ jogo do pau” and you’ll find some of the Portuguese technique for fighting with the montante. It’s pretty amazing how both technics mix with each other. Some say it came directly for there.

[@8triagrammer]

Chinese martial arts have everything Hema has and more. Where HEMA falls short is the lack of "internal" power generation that is emphasized in the Chinese Internal martial arts. While there is some crossover, even in western boxing, it wasn't refined to the higher levels in the west, compared to what the Chinese Taoists had cultivated.

[@raphlvlogs271]

competitive cultural practices leads to more innovations.

[@WendingWind]

I'd love to try it but I don't think I can afford it tbh. Even £20 or whatever for an hour and a half session is a bit much, assuming they provide gear for you to use. So we're talking up to £100 a week? It's a bit pricier than a gym membership to put it mildly. Then you have to factor in having to travel quite far just to find a HEMA club to train with. There doesn't seem to be a clear path to get into it without spending a ton of money. Also, if I bought the gear I have nobody to practice with, as it's not a popular martial art. I don't think using a longsword really has any practical applications in the real world either. Nobody should be carrying around bladed weapons.

[@dreamok732]

In Mandy Rice-Davie's immortal words: "He would say that wouldn't he"

[@strydyrhellzrydyr1345]

I think that will always be the problem... What is historical.. what is actually WRITTEN DOWN over the centuries. That's not history... The majority..BY FAR... Was not written down... The majority of history isnt gonna be found... ANYWHERE.. If you are able to think of it from that point of view... Maybe it would make a bit of sense

[@raphlvlogs271]

is HEMA a martial art or a group of them?

[@scholagladiatoria]

It's a murder

[@andrewsock6203]

@@scholagladiatoria so like a bunch of crows or historical crows like the ones at the Tower of London.

[@bakters]

When he finally decided to preach the truth, he even wore a proper clerical collar. Very classy!

[@BlueDemon77]

Ooooh the comments, I feel like crying, maybe with laughter or maybe with sadness or even frustration, I'm not sure.

[@jimmyw7530]

I full endorse this video and all of it’s content! Everyone should come and give HEMA a go, it’s brilliant! Also, swords are cool!

[@Xileph410]

Sadly here in Puerto Rico I have no access to any HEMA school.

[@_tonypacheco]

There are few really good online hema courses that can get you started! Check duellotv or blood and iron on KZbin and pick up a stick.

[@Xileph410]

@@_tonypacheco Thanks for the info.