hmm, not familiar with Meyer's terms but isn't a 'gathering step' when you bring you rear foot to behind your lead foot before moving your lead foot foreward (or the inverse for a retreat). What you demonstrated looks like what I would have expected to termed advancing/retreating step. step
Yeah, your 'gather' step looks to me more like an advance/retreat. A gather as I've heard it has the steps reversed, so your feet move closer together (gathering) before moving apart again. Also, your stance seems suited more for saber than longsword, way too linear and with too much turning to the side, but that's actually something I'm looking through various videos to compare, so maybe it won't look as wrong once I check other examples.
You are putting out some of the best intro to longsword demos on RU-vid. They are simple and easy to follow. I do like to listen to them at half speed because it lets me pause look and restart with enough time to catch you at important points. At half speed you also sound drunk which is kind of funny
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!
Thank you for your clear and precise instructions. That's some good tutoring right there, good work! I hope there's more to come, I just recently found your channel but I already love it! Thank you for the videos!
Thank you soooooo much for this clear and useful video... I've been looking here on RU-vid for a while now and did not find any that really explained in detail. I've been doing stage Swordfighting for medieval events with my partner, but my footwork is still not good... This will help me a lot! Do you have any advice on how to move more fluent also? I'm too rigid sometimes... Thanks in advance. Greetings from Belgium 👍😊
Hello all, i have a question if i may. Take this situation, im advancing fast on the opponent from beyond measure and suddenly i want to stop in the least amount of space possible, how to do it and not eff up my joints in time from doing so repeatedly during practice ? I identified three possible ways to do so and would appreciate feedback on this: 1. Slow down with alot of very small steps on the balls of my feet, absorbing momentum with the calf muscles ? 2. Stop by collapsing into a very deep squat without offering too much resistance with the knees, similar to how you land after jumping, but here you absorb forward momentum. Its the most tiring variant becouse then you need to stand up again. Maybe combine 1 and 2 ? 3. Stop by locking the joints, on almost straight legs and hitting the ground with the heels of my feet, i found that it offers the fastest stopping, almost on a dime, but i worry about the joints in this variant, i'd assume its for emergencies only ?
This video was great, and very discriptive, but it lacked some of the names, such as Triangle Step, Simple Step, and Traverse Step. But what you did cover you taught very well!
NEVER cut low. He could have gotten you in the face as you had to learn forward and lowered you head into his natural arm reachable zone. That was stupid. AND you did it multiple times. Shame on you
