Baskethilt Broadsword/Backsword Guard Design & Use - With Jay Maas. Broadsword Academy Manitoba channel: / @wolvesdenhistoricalfe... Cateran Society on Facebook: / 157470254342600
Matt, thanks for introducing us to Jay. This discussion is in depth, and save me, I am starting to get interested in broadsword because of this and other videos!
Thanks guys. Great stuff. I look forward to part 2. Nice to see more Canadians in the HEMA world. Too bad Jay's club is halfway across the country from me.
Thank you sirs for this one. Keep the broadsword stuff coming, cant get enough. Two of my favorite channels colaborating. Realy made my morning. Setting the record strait and disposing myths. Gotta love it.
Great job. One of the "folk" ways of telling an Austrian from a Hungarian blade (if you're not a collector who simply knows them all off the top of your head), is that the Austrians often used brass guards and the Hungarians almost never did, for precisely the susceptibility to be cleaved through on a solid cut. One of the famous Hungarian duellists (Damjanich, I think, is said to have killed both an Austrian officer and his (also military) son in horseback duels this way. So the danger that this basket design guards against is quite real, and kudos for bringing that out.
It's always worth mentioning that evolution of sword design has always been conservative. This leaves later swords with vestigial features that may have no use, or have a different use than formerly.
Lol do people seriously think it was for breaking swords? I agree with Jay, it's the part of the basket which takes the biggest beating and it's a vey useful bit of protection.
Another copy of Lonnergan's book just sold. Thanks for the details on the sword I'm most interested in. I can't think of a better Medieval self-defense weapon, a topic near and dear to my heart.
Thank you for this collaboration! My main focus is a broadsword & heavy sabre (1796 style and polish ones). And in my HEMA sparring I'm using Angelo/Roworth style, often being a winner of a duel :) Broadsword really need a better recognition!
Im not saying the utility of the strength of the bars isnt for combat, but it looks to me like you could hang your gloves on it while carrying the sword at a party. (The one Matt Eastern shows)
Can anyone recommend a good, sharp basket hilt? I have the cold steel mortuary sword which is surprisingly good in terms of construction but the basket and the poor distal taper make it sluggish in the cut. Does anyone know where I can get a livelier one?
outside of written sources describing that a blow could be taken on that part of the guard...there must also be antique examples of broadswords with significant wear in that that area which could corroborate this idea?
Don't I recall that Lucy teaches Silver? As someone who studies Silver I think of him as a reporter of the "root system" for British broadsword and later sabre. [He specifically states that he is describing the traditional British fight.] I would be interested in her take as a teacher and practitioner I somehow imagine she might have heard something about the later sabre systems [somewhere \/0\/] and might be able to comment on what remains constant from the early 17th century through later British systems and what falls out or is added.. Perhaps she might be persuaded to comment on the father of all the basket hilted cut and thrust systems?
Why do you not have a link to the books and copy's of the documents you reference? Or is it not a thing people like to buy and you do not like to sell?
Good stuff! Looking forward to part 2. Is that the Black Fencer broadsword by the way? Looks very like the picture on their website, but with the forward rings not folded out yet, though they do appear to be present.
@@Wolvesdenhistoricalfencing Ah, thanks, I wondered if that was the case (having to bend them down yourself). That would be a bit disconcerting for me, I have to say, especially as my experience with Black Fencer was of the swords arriving in a plain box without any info or guidance whatsoever (not that they needed any). But if I had to show initiative in deducing that I was expected to bend the guard myself, I'd have found that a bit stressful. (No criticism of Black Fencer here in relation to my own experience with them - I got the synthetics I wanted on time and am very happy with them).
Master Easton. I was wondering if you could enlighten me on how men were able to stand and fight in formation, for example the Anglo Saxon shield walls that faces William the Bastard in 1066, all day. You have made the point before that men of the past were not supermen. I saw a video of some men pushing against each other for a mere minute and they were spent. Would they alternate ranks like the Romans supposedly did? For that matter how would such a thing even be possible without breaking contact with the enemy? Anything you could share about formation fighting behind shields would be appreciated regardless of period.
I think it would be funny if it turned out that the bars were used for some totally mundane purpose such as removing the cork from a bottle of wine, thus being the equivalent of a bottle opener. Yes, I have a weird sense of humor!
Why is it, in the book that Jay Maas show on the video, Why is it the text reads "wrift" and "infide" and "bafket" and "muft" ???? Is this how our ancestors wrote English before Merriam Webster?
There is no correct way to hang sword it personal preference hope that help in less it Japanese swords then there is a correct way just look it up if interest
nobbynoris I might be wrong, but I think it *is* a historical example. A nineteenth century basket hilted broadsword, as used by officers in the highland regiments.
Totally off topic, but today I bought my first Superdry t-shirt ( super lucky find: on sale at Macy's for about $10 ) and it is an AMAZINGLY high quality garment.
