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Here is a real fun sword video, something rather different YouTube - Spin Around

Those are fantastic examples, I'll definitely add them to the permanent list. The truth is there are really thousands and thousands of amazing warriors like that in the historical record, but I never get tired of learning about new ones (and I hadn't heard of either of these men). G.

Some harnischefechten techniques, to give you an idea how they actually used to fight in armored duels 500 years ago YouTube - Some techniques from Hans Czynners treatise

Yeah, Eastern Europe, what are you gonna do.... but it does make a point. You'll notice they are using not just swords, but also axes, even halberds and pole-axes. Sure the weapons are blunt but not very, there are plenty of sharp edges. And I don't think anybody died in that even though I'm...

Flails are even harder to do, even padded ones are dangerous. On the other hand... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLCLljsihzk G.

SCA heavy combat, as I understand it (it's been a while since I talked to any SCA people about this) is based on the premise of a 10th or 11th Century warrior wearing a mail hauberk with an open-faced helmet and possibly some shin-splints. They have a theory that you should hit hard enough to do...

Yes that's true, the 'grappling from a distance' factor is major, I also think the pointy parts of axes (the top and bottom of the blade) are significant. Axes used for combat seem to have either very small axe-heads (good for concentrating force) or very wide with long pointy ends which I...

Also I don't think an axe will cut through mail any more than a sword will, unless it has a back-spike specifically made for armor-piercing. G.

I think if swords could stop your heart from impacts you would be seeing a lot of deaths in HEMA right now, there are something like 10 or 12 major tournaments per year currently and most people wear little more protection on the chest than maybe a bit of plastic and the gambeson traditionally...

Just wanted to share this, regarding HEMA-istas not fighting hard, here is a video of a buddy from my fencing club Henry Rhodes, fighting in the steel longsword tournament at "Swordfish" in Sweden last week YouTube - Swordfish 2010 - Steel Robert vs Henry 2nd bout This also gives you an idea...

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Well, I guess it wasn't Swiss after all... Ancient Roman Multitool Trims, Cleans and Kills

Speaking of tournaments and fechtshules, this is an excellent promo video just put out by Fechtschule Gdansk, a modern Renaissance fencing club from Poland (in Gdansk, formerly Danzig, which you can see a nice drawing of what it looked like in the 15th Century in the opening shot of the clip)...

The Fencing Fraternities This is an interesting and amusing first hand account of a sort of 'peoples fencing tournament' in the 16th Century of the type put on by the fechtschules or fencing fraternities of Central Europe. Just goes to show you, right when you think you won and are ready to go...

On another forum, someone asked: So Who Were the Franks The late Frankish kingdom was a complex society, not really feudal in the 10th Century so much as still mostly tribal. Due to the relative paucity of surviving records we actually know far less about them than we do about the Romans or...

He wouldn't make the list for a few reasons (mainly because he is too famous, he's a household name) but not many people know Washington was a remarkable soldier on a personal level in that he was considered amazingly lucky in battle not to be killed. He apparently survived having several...

Imagine this as a scenario for a fantasy film. In a Medieval Kindgom, a bandit has been captured and convicted of a felony. The laws of this Kingdom are harsh, his sentence is death. But he is offered a deal: fight his former accomplices on behalf of the Crown, and sentence will be commuted...

a really interesting look at how Europeans were percieved by Japanese and Chinese artists in the time of first- contact Res Obscura ☽ ▩ ☼: Europeans as 'Other' Res Obscura ☽ ▩ ☼: Europeans as 'Other,' Redux

Yeah I agree... I think part of that is because we have been (as a community) studying "German" longsword pretty intensively for about 12 years now, and the fundamentals are pretty well understood at this point. When it comes to more advanced techniques we are still sanding off the rough edges...

found a really cool new HEMA video from Gladiatoria, demonstrating Lichtenauer tradition (15th Century Holy Roman Empire) for dagger, messer and buckler, messer, pollaxe, and longsword YouTube - Fencing with five different medieval weapons