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[Jimlock]

Here are some clips related to our talk...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsGU5KI1qJA&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Longsword Techniques‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoSedeqrHo]YouTube - ‪ARMA-Longsword technique practice at IronDoor Studio (Jan 2009)‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h3V_bM6nSs&feature=related]YouTube - ‪displacing diagonal cuts‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtNZQBc4RpE&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Longsword Techniques - Receiving Strikes on Flat‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KEaGuVTho&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Training with short knives 1‬‏[/ame]

 

[Water Bob]

In my games I envision the fight scenes to be dirty, gritty, and grimy, like this:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b6got4G4Ys]YouTube - ‪Fight scene from the film Centurion 2010.‬‏[/ame]

 

[Jimlock]

In my games I envision the fight scenes to be dirty, gritty, and grimy, like this:

Me too...in a battle that's how it works...

Difference with your video is that what I posted above is perhaps (I'm not sure) more duel oriented.

...Also Arma (the school) has managed to actually practice the art of the longsword while staying as true as they can to the texts and references from Medieval times...

 

[Jimlock]

...their references go back to 1200! And that's about the refs! ...As you can imagine, the actual techniques are much older than that.


At the end of the 4th video it says the following:

These are genuine historical techniques of the Longsword.

These are not inferior static edge-to-edge bashing blocks.

These are NOT choreographed actions of movie and TV swordplay, stunt fencing performance,

pretend fighting games, or modern saber's post-Baroque style deteriorated from the

parrying methods of more sophisticated Renaissance fighting systems.