Yeah, that's exactly how translations work; one exact and exclusive meaning.

@@TurulHEMA Ok,i don't know if you are sarcastic or not,but my first language its the italian....sono italiano a dispetto di quello che può far sembrare il mio nome. Posa di Donna significa esattamente woman stance..traduco..Posa di donna mean Exactly woman stance

@@ivancoviello2690 I am not being sarcastic. Allow me to clarify. My understanding is that you dislike my use of the translation "Guard of the Lady" for "Posta di Donna" as you state it "exactly" translates to "Woman's Stance". Your evidence for your argument is that you speak Italian, therefore, you must be correct. You also ironically present this evidence in incomplete sentences, poor English, and many spelling mistakes. My argument is translating is not as simple as replacing one word for the "exactly" equivalent word in another language. Translating a phrase is done best when you take that phrase and convert it to the closest equivalent meaning. I n this example "Posta di Donna" sounds perfectly acceptable in Italian. "Woman's Guard" sounds clunky, awkward, and doesn't flow well in a sentence. In terms of meaning (the purpose of a translation) there is no difference. There is quite literally nothing lost in translation. So I reject your statement that your translation is automatically better than mine on the basis of "I speak Italian". I say "Woman's Guard" sounds clunky as hell, as evidenced by the fact that I speak English!

@@TurulHEMA Basically i agree with you. But I just want be precise: Lady mean noble women, and woman mean woman. Guard of the lady si traduce in Guardia della signora (noble women). Remember that this techniques its a medieval-rinascimento time tecnique. And in this time period woman have a meaning and lady have another. Woman stance conceptually and letteraly its better.

@@ivancoviello2690 Actually, his translation is more right than both you and he know: "woman stance", as you say, is philologically, conceptually and literally wrong, as it ignores the strong social undertones the word "donna" had in medieval Italian. Donna means woman in today's Italian but not in the Middle Ages, as it derives from the latin "domina", i.e. lady or mistress, and up to the XVIth century at the very least it still retained its original meaning. The word "fem(m)ina" was used instead: try to read the Decameron and you'll immediately notice the strong difference in the use of these words. Source: I'm Italian too, but I also got a Ph.D. in mediaeval history...

My experience: was using a blunt steel longsword with a somewhat unconventional rhombus pommel, with my pinky finger resting right on its corner. Got a strike right on that pinky with a feder - straight through SPES heavies - and had to stop the fight immediately.

Not really, I haven't given the game much more thought. I would be happy to answer any questions you have though. What would you like to know?

@@TurulHEMA one thing i dont understand is why the close game techniques do nothing yet you still have to choose

@@Jack-izzy Wide game and close game techniques have the same effect/ability to kill your opponent. It plays out the same. Pick a technique, roll the dice, check the table to see the effect.

@@TurulHEMA no i understand that, my question is that there are six techniques to choose from in the close game but they dont affect the outcome of the roll, do they?

@@Jack-izzy It's been years since I last checked, but I don't believe so. From what I recall all of the close game techniques are the same. The only difference is essentially imagining 1 technique being attempted instead of another.

I am unsure if you are trolling or just unfamiliar with HEMA. Your use of the words "monkeys" "stupidity" and "psychopaths" tells me there is little point in this reply as you seem argumentative at best. Regardless, I will attempt to clarify. Grappling is uncommon as most exchanges end with a cut or a thrust. The feders, or training swords are obviously not sharp, nor should they be. I fail to see how a lack of a sharp edge means they need to be thrown away. Often, the opposite is true in grappling as you can use the handle to hook your opponents forearms or threaten your opponent with the pommel. So best not to throw it away. Regarding "the bigger and stronger will always win" this is simply untrue. I have won many grapples with people much stronger than myself through the use or surprise, speed, and techniques. I have safely and clearly won grapples against people nearly twice my size. HEMA does not use, nor do I think requires weight divisions. It's a martial art. Sometimes fights aren't fair. Learn to adapt. I have no idea what you mean by "the law" but I am guessing you talking about safety? While there are risks with grappling, there is a wide range of different safety rules which vary from club to club which aim at minimizing these risks. For example, only allowing standing grapples, allowing only 3 seconds, or only allowing on grass or padded surfaces. While there will always be risks, these risks does not mean an entire aspect of historical fencing should go ignored.

@@TurulHEMA ,let's clarify : first of all I am practicing HEMA , also I practiced Judo, Kyokushin karate, Kali-Escrima, Wushu-Chinna and even Taiji. Why they have to "handle" swords if they are committed to take you down just with grappling? They usually are throwing an Zornhau or something flashy to distract your attention and after that they are charging like a bulldozer to put you down and this because they know that your blade is not harming them at all. They need just to inflict pain and damage to disable you quickly for the rest of the match. Because they have blunt blades and over protections, they know that the biggest damage they can inflict to the other one is achieved by throwing de adversary hard on the floor or attacking his joints. You can see even in this video the uncontrolled throws direct on the unpadded floor. Imagine just what is happening if they fall on the cross guard of the sword pinned accidentally in the floor. For this I am asking why is necessary to have swords if they need to do grappling instead of fencing. If they need to do wrestling, they can compete in Ringen competition Many practitioners are real psychopaths with the will of harming, not of practicing fencing ART. They don't have any elegance required by the term of ART (H.E.Martial ARTS). If you are harming somebody with bad intention, YES is about violation of the law. Don't tell me that if somebody stronger and heavier is coming to you, with intention to flat you on the ground, you will win, even if you can't protect yourself with the hands because they are occupied with handling the sword. Of course, I can be the greatest master on the planet, or Yoda, but not everybody is. What are you doing with them? Hospitalize all of them because HEMA "regulation" admits this? Or because of historical accuracy? What's next? Beheading? "Not mean an entire aspect of historical fencing should go ignored"? Not, but have to be establish clear limits. Yes, you can do demonstrations with the "accurate" historical applications, but just like demonstrations of staged fighting done in jiu-jitsu, judo fighting katas or Wushu-Duilian . But in a fighting sport competition have to be forbidden. If you need to have safe competitions. So, in conclusion, yes, we have a lot of stupidity in the regulations and also in this "sport" we see a lot of "psychos". In HEMA we don't have clear experience grades, age or weight categories and this mean that is necessary to have regulations about proper usage of the weapons and techniques. Is the same as to don't be required the 800N resistance of the equipment for the competitors. On your logic everybody have to compete as in middle age with no protections. This is the reason why HEMA is not accepted in all counties as legal sport with legal federation. In my country isn't.

@@dorneanudoru If you hit the bigger and stronger idiot rushing in with your blade before he gan initiate the grapple YOU get the point and the ref stops the fight/exchange. Without any grappling and without any body contact fights in very close distance just become weird.

No matter the weapon, no matter the glove, fractures come for us all, lol.

Pinky with steel sabre while wearing red dragon gloves. I got two temporary pins put in.

@@TurulHEMA Are you going to change gloves? Are there even any better alternatives that fit in a sabre hilt?

@@calvinosaurus4514 THOKKs seem like a great alternative.

@@umartdagnir For saber maybe, but quite an expensive one, no?

@@petritzky Our sport is expensive, and will remain expensive since our equipment is not mass-produced.

Could work with well trained judges. It would be tough to fully communicate to participants how the double scoring is determined so people wouldn't feel cheated. Strong potential though.

Depends on the sabre; some are quite light. In the end it all comes down to practice. I am trash at sabre and doubly so with my left hand. One of the fencers in this video can almost fence as well left handed as he can with his more dominant right hand.

hmmm I've never fought Martin Fabian so I can only speculate, but I've fought a lot of fencers who thrust explosively and I'm a more a cut orientated fencer myself. Maybe I'm just not good, but countering the explosive thrusts is really not that easy stylistically, it is probably the hardest thing to defend against off the top of my head. If you move laterally and cut (such as the meyer rose) it helps but you also create timings were you are vunerable, often the cuts don't really threaten the other fencer, also the other fencer can easily feint the thrust and wait for a point to catch you as he gets the distance just right. Targeting his legs is also very risky even with a one handed cast, as it leaves you very open to a thrust counter, you might get the leg but its no good if it costs your head, if he primes his thrust from fool/alber the legs not even an option. Side steping and displacing the point works great if done perfectly in indes, but tends to be a low ratio as you need to have read your opponent perfectly thus you know exactly when he's going to lunge, the opponent has the initiative here if he faints and you move even a fraction your dead, he can also turn his displaced thrust into a zwerch easily. In my experience to pull off countering the explosive thrust (without doubling) there is no easy solution but rather a combiation of things. Very on point distance managment and awareness, you want the opponent to commit to his thrust when he's not quite in range so he falls short as you retreat and move to the side. But you need to provide enough threats so that he cannot walk up very close and lunge a thrust such that you cannot react. You don't want him to control the fight with his potential to lunge into the explosive thrust. Sticking your point out and fighting for the centreline while moving so he has to worry about running into your sword will buy you a little time, but your unloaded so you have to be very careful you don't just give him your sword. I prefer ochs for this because your still loaded and the short edge can displace the thrust but you have to retreat diagonally so he doesn't get you in the armpit with the thrust. Generally I would not recommend dancing with someone who has an explosive thrust just out of cutting range as is typical, he can control the fight best here as he starts locking on for the thrust, and you find yourself becoming a puppet with him pulling your strings. You want to close in out of that distance fast when you are trying to gain the initiative or be too far out to thrust when your not ready, leaving the indes counters to thrusts as a last line of defence. If you can threaten his hands or take the centre with your point and get closer where all your cuts can reach him, and force him out of his primed thrusting guard to parry you. You can bring the fight to a place were he is too close to use that thrust and thus rob him of it. Although someone like Martin is very good in that distance as well you can see this in his sparring video against Dustin reagen, where Martin hardly thrusts, Martin is very good at chasing into a opening and exploting his opponents weaknesses.

I know. I thought about including it in the video. I just don't like that mode as much. I tried putting 3 pound weights on my arm and doing single sabre mode once. It was, interesting.

@@TurulHEMA I actually made and played a fencing level, parrying and stabbing and stuff

We need more of it! Like all strikes in HEMA, it should be done with some restraint; but we shouldn't ban all punches and kicks IMO. This is a martial art, and these strikes are martially valid.

@@TurulHEMA I liked the kick specially cuz it fulfilled the purpose it has, which is to get yourself and your opponent off from the halfswording distance. Personally I'm very weak at grappling, so I'm going to start integrating pommel strikes and pushing kicks.

@@fabricio-agrippa-zarate Awesome, let me know how it goes! Best advice I can give for grappling and pommel strikes is not to focus too much on strength and pushing your opponent around; especially if you are not that strong. Make a cover (thrust or cut that makes your opponent parry) to enter the close game. If your opponent pushes to the right, push them to the right by shoving their arm or elbow. If they push left, push them to the left. If they go high, step behind them. Good luck!

Thank you!

Guilty! I am secretly a part of Adorea Olomouc and a master of staged fencing.

@@TurulHEMA :D

I am curious what your interpretation of stabile and instabile are. To clarify, I am trying not to wait in Fenestra. Sometimes I get stuck in fenestra as changing posta while in measure can be risky depending on your opponent. If your opponent is aggressive, they can attack in between posta as these transitions generally present less threat. Now, if your opponent is defensive changing from fenestra to corona, or any other instabile posta is fine as you can confuse them and make them create an opening you can exploit. The manuscript states “She moves quickly from this guard to other guards to confuse her opponents”. So my interpretation is that Fenestra is something that shouldn’t be waited in as a general rule of thumb, however, you should also be cautious about changing posta while in measure. Tactical flexibility is greater than adherence to the manuscript. Considering Posta Longa is also instabile, does that mean no one should wait in longa? How long is too long to sit in longa? Are the Stabile, Instabile, and Pulsativa categorizations of posta integral to Armizare, or are they footnotes made by someone else who, perhaps, never knew Fiore or his art?

@@TurulHEMA u have a point. How I said. It is effective and everything that works is valid! So keep doing. Don't caught yourself in strict rules of a manuscript. But standing to long in Posta di fenestra looks ugly to me unless it works ;) :D

Well @1:06 I committed to the thrust because I thought he had moved into a hanging parry and I could land the thrust in between his arms. As I moved in his point came up and I didn't attempt any kind of displacement so we double out. My thrusts are super weak =(

Thank you for the great video thumbnail! No worries on the waffle, it's almost totally healed up. I need an arming cap of some kind. I bought one but it makes the mask too tight. I need something in the middle between the padded cap I have and nothing.

You all kept getting me with a covered thrust. I need to practice more! You scared me @3:45 =(