Are you the fool because you use the fool guard or am i the fool to attack you in your fool guard Nah Id win, I can understand that the others will get me a harsh time if they release their high guard expansion. *proceeds to get slashed and dies of blood loss* *he rises from the dead* What the? I was on the of death and used my reverse grip technique and finally i saw it! Interesting.. You are right..- YOURE SO RIGHT! Imaginery technique Hollow guard 🗡️🟣
I don’t know if you still check the comments, but I have a question. Is there a technique or some kind of actual historical fighting style where you deliberately open up to take a hit in a less vulnerable spot or with low force delivered by the opponent, which then opens the opponent up to a potentially more damaging counter hit?. Or is this a stupid idea and it’s just never worth to „trade“ hits?😅
Your entire body is important. Get in the legs and you have less manoeuverability; get hit in the arms and now you have less attacking power, no shield or no sword; get hit in the chest and you get a russian roulette of effects tl;dr there is no time you want to get hit. I guess you could look for suicide strikes? But even then those are unlikely to be effective. I think what you may be looking for is in one-handed where you redirect an attack to your shield.
If ever I go to HEMA, I will gladly use this stance, its against agressive fencers to make a foolish engagement also, to see the weak points of an offence.
I think doing an upwards cut transitioning into an overhead hammer/slash while taking a step forward would be very effective against an hesitating opponent
Actually, fools guard, upwards slash while taking a step back while opponent attacks, following with an overhead slash transitioning into a full charged stab would be a very beautiful combo
I've never had any interest in sword fight but recently my friends and I started a D&D campaign and my character wields a long sword so I wanted to draw my character in a cool pose and these videos are so great to understand how to properly hold a sword and get a reference for the correct proportions!
With the black background, you should wear a different color clothing to make it more visible with your legwork and footwork. But it was awesome! Thank you so much!
If you want to convince me, spar someone. They must know what they are doing and be uncooperative. Heck. I'd do it. When we are talking about it's weakness against faster weapons, that doesn't mean daggers, it means literally every other weapon. Yes, you can smack someone's toe if they don't see it coming. I hope you didn't miss. By comparison: True Two Handed Swords weigh five pounds. They're not as nimble as a longsword (about 2 lbs), but they can still use the same basic moveset. Both of these weapons kill in one hit. Imagine winding up for a Zornhau (a diagonal cut from shoulder to hip) with that thing. A regular greatsword would cut you in half so fast, you wouldn't even be able to throw your back out. Another question is: why? Killing someone with a blade is very easy. It gets easier the bigger the blade is, sure, but you've already passed 'dead simple'. Point of fact: nobody who has ever fought in a real battle against a two handed sword is still alive today.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7gCNwrIM9ss.htmlsi=6GtSd1gyOAnKnJ7h This and the version of superiorHEMA are most in line with my interpretation of the Schielhaw. A very vertical cut that wins the centerline by better angle and einschießen. I don't see the advantage in angle in your interpretation. I have nothing against the title btw. It's perfectly in line with the glosses. I always prefer in gear showcases of techniques and, if there, a sparring situation where this occured. But, as a content creator, I know this isn't always possible, because of time restrictions. Better to get something out then nothing at all.
Hello, i know this video is quite old but as someone who recently started HEMA and just found these videoes i just want to say how much I appreciate the guard videos. They offer in depth but easily understanable instruction which really clarified a lot of things for me. You are an excellent intructor!
Trying to analyse James style... He uses oberhaus to lure the opponent into Ox so that he krumps from fool's? Then counter attacks while the blades out of the way?
Can someone make a video showing a safer way of switching to the other side. As the masked bloke could easily swing back into your mid section at that point.
My Russian fencing coach taught me this down guard in sport saber, it works well. You may think it leaves your head open to a head cut, but no.The up parry is quickly there
These videos have been the SINGLE BEST rescource for learning German Longsword I have found! Thanks so much for making this knowlege more accessable! Absoubtly brilliant work!
Thanks for the lesson, I appreciate anyone taking the time to help the Hema community. A suggestion though, it would help if you would cut the background music, its distracting and makes it difficult to hear what you’re saying
What makes you think ochs is with horizontal edge alignment? Or more to the point... Always or inherently with horizontal edge alignment? With this version you show here any oberhau can blast right through it as they will have their edge on your flat. Static blocks from ochs... Are they described? I think they use the hilt, not so much the blade... As opposed to versetzen (displacements) which are not static blocks. Absetzen or winding into a regular diagonal edge alignment is much more efficient as well as widely depicted... In fact the horizontal edge alignment is hardly shown at all. And as already noted, you upper strikes are more a weird prellhau. The rotational point of the zwerch over your head gets hands hit, as there is no opposition in the zwerch, nor forward percussion onto any bind the zwerch might result in, making it a very risky strike to use, as opposed to the strong and line closing strike it can be
