AHF Military Sabre fencing Mike vs Nick.mov 

This is the second video appearing when you search "sabre" on youtube. The other one is the duel for the gold in men's olympics in London. So, you can watch the same double hit happening 40 times in a row for 58 minutes, or this video. I, for one, prefer this video.

God, i wish Historical Fencing comes to Brazil...

Yep. This was shot in our Newport club in South Wales which is based in the University there. During Uni months we share the hall with them, though its a lovely large space anyway. We get three badminton courts to train on. When the students are away we get the whole hall.

Really glad to hear that. I've loved all of your videos. I've learned a lot about rapier fencing from your instructional vids and just by studying your fights.

i think it's a testament to your skill and showmanship that i managed to watch the whole thing before clicking on "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2013 Teaser" in the sidebar

We are indeed back. The training has been constant but I simply haven't had the time to make videos. I've setup video editing software on my laptop at home now so I can edit and upload after training sessions. I fully intend to get back to regular videos on this channel of all sorts relating to historical swordsmanship.

After all a new video, thank you very much sir.

Finally, a new video after almost an entire year. Glad to see you're still alive.

Amazing, guys. Don't ever stop.

Really impressive stuff. Thanks for posting!

Great inspiration! I just started practicing military sabre fencing. Great stuff!

that Mozart though...

I love the fighter with the red stripes. He has a really fancy poise. Also, Mozart just makes this video that much better.

Wow incredible. Watching this is like watching an echo of older times when men still fought with swords. Respect too you both.

absolutely fantastic, and he music was excellent choice.

Excellent! :)

They are outstanding. We haven't been able to do sabre work (besides KS synthetic basket hilt) for a couple of years due to the last of our Austrian blade supplies drying up. We have twelve more of these sabres due to be delivered any week now. We surely will do some tournaments with them yes.

Beautiful

such gentleman

You swordsmen-ship is so useful in the arts of Saber Fencing I really like, I guess im saying it right, the Combined Parry 5 with a Point in Line, It virtually closes off a lot of lines in which im usually weak at!

Fencing looks so cool. Wish there was something like that here.

Thanks. The sabres are made by Peter Regenyei, details in the description.

This is pretty cool.

Yep we are doing more videos hence the several in the last few weeks. I will do what I can with rapier. Rapier is used less than it used to be in the club due to the huge increase in cost of the weapons. But it's still around, will get some done.

make more videos please. I love these :)

Yep, back up and running with the videos. A lot more to come.

You guys seem pretty damn good.

The entire purpose in the basket hilt is that it guards the hand from otherwise being completely open. For this type of weapon, I fail to see how having a cruciform hilt would do it a service.

Quite. I'd resigned myself to this being one of my "dead" subscriptions.

Do you have a link to the sabres on a website? Its not possible for me to go to my nearest HEMA club, but I would like to start doing it with my friends and purchase the equipment online.

I would love to do that but there are no HEMA clubs in north east Ohio.I've looked and was very disappointed. Learning alone would not be nearly as fun. :(

We used to use Hutton, but I far prefer Rowarth. His favourite outside guard is very strong. Also his grip, Hutton is adamant about having the thumb on the backstrap wheres Rowarth says that is more spadroon grip and is fine with hammer grip which for many sabres I prefer.

THIS is exactly what i'd love to do

Everytime good to see sabers/broadswords in aciton. Maybe you already recognized the International Saber Symposium in Hamburg this year? Would be great to see you joining it. Only one tip, no offense: fencer with red-white stripes should try to not lean his upper body and head foreward, sometimes seem to have the tendency to do that and present an opening with that. He should try to keep his upper body straight up even when lunging and shifting. Kind regards from Broadsword Academy Germany.

This looks like a lot of fun, and I will grand more of a martial art than sport fencing. However, I am always a little disappointed when people deny olympic style fencing any credit or value. Olympic fencers, and I might say sabre fencers in particular are amazing athletes who demonstrate incredible strength, speed and reflexes as well as a fine tuned sense of distance and tactics, even if the specific style of tactics would not be applicable in a real sword fight. Sport fencing doesn't resemble a life and death sword fight for the same reason chess doesn't resemble a field battle, namely because it was never supposed to in the first place. it has its origins in a long history of non-lethal sporting duels which were often carried to first blood and has since developed as a competitive sport; As such, the methods, rules, and equipment of sport fencing have adapted so that the victor of a bout could repeatably be determined by a third party with relative ease and without causing damage to the participants. While this has given rise to abstractions which in the context of a martial art are plainly ridiculous, even many which could be overcome by modern technology, I don't think that sport fencing fails at its goal, while at the same time providing a solid grounding in the fundamentals of fencing for those who wish to pursue it as a martial art.

Tha soundtrack is immaculate

Peter's stuff is just amazing. These look as good as his Feders. Really happy to see this style coming back into fashion with the HEMA crowd. Will you be doing tournaments like the one at Swordfish 2012?

I want to study this style of fencing.

Absolutely stunning fencing video. A side question: This is the best record of the "confutatis" from mozart requiem, i've ever heard. Who are the performers?

Skallagrim is pretty cool, but i wish youtube would autoplay more HEMA exhibitions instead lol

I love that you guys use British infantry swords.

You missed your chance there at the end to stab him when he wasn't looking lol ;) great video.

Can you tell me what kind of body / torso armor you are wearing in this video?

Any tips to help speed up training? Of course there is practice practice practice, using your time/ effort and showing up to classes. Is there anything else you can say? What to focus more on? Addressing and fixing problems quickly? Any specific exercises to strengthen motor cognition and muscle memory faster?

Good, but I think Sir Richard Francis Burton would show you a thing or two.

Tennis players: Back Hand, forth Hand! *Other the other side* Nick: En Garde!

Was someone playing badminton behind the curtains? :D I kept watching the white thingy everytime it popped up.

Yeh like the other comment I am not entirely sure what you are getting at. The sabre guard is what dictates much of the style of the weapon, having less protection would be far from ideal. Did you mean grip length like a longsword maybe?

Check our website equipment guide as per your other post.

what's the music called?

If I don't knew that you guys are legit, I would say that this is a little "Errol Flynn" dramatic fencing. 😄

That was really cool! Where did this take place?

This is the most awesome thing I've seen...I do martial arts, the most letal thing we use is a simply knife and stick...but this is in another level!!...it's a shame in my country they know nothing but olympic fencing, wich is really awful and unrealistic

Wow. Compared to the charge, ballestra & lunge heavy sabre I'm used to this is almost a different sport entirely. Is there a reason you keep your hand so far behind your back like that? I used to do the same thing when I started fencing but was told not to as it would throw off my balance in a lunge.

Muay Thai and Krabi Krabong is the best, but a lot of people never herd about it, even some Thai people don’t know about it.

what is your website address?

Ruthless Gents

Where a good place to get the equipment including the swords in america to do this

Where can you get one of those practice sabres?

I was wondering why the off hand is always placed at the side in these fights. I assume it's because there is no real reason to use that hand for anything?

Gentlemen type of sword fight I see

Are those Easton sabers?

how sharpe is it

HEMA Instructor Michael Thomas Are you the one in red?

I wonder if these two are relate because of they last name? I'm curious :P

I feel like the guy in the red pants was not aggressive enough. Let the fight be taken over in the last half.

But an open hilt like a karabela doesn't give anymore freedom of movement. The sabre guard is designed for moulinet with absolute freedom of movement. ems0428 can you give us some more info?

anything as "la verdadera destreza"

historicalfencing .co.uk, or just search for Academy of Historical Fencing.

use the point....use the point...

Add Lightsaber effects please 😊

Fiora wins!

Dark Souls as fuck. Subbed

Black trousers wins

The music destroys the whole video.

Ahh some classic European combat along with some traditional European music. Life is good. Proud to be European. Or should I say proud to be white?

both are holding your hands/guard soooo high. start with that