I was thinking it would've been cool to see the Saber vs Kendo. Now Im thinking how cool it is that the lightsabers can bridge that gap of nonlethal duels between styles. Now if only we can get more solidly made lightsabers
The problem with this kind of fencing is that usually is attack over defence, or who hits first: in real life, you'd always put defence over attack as there is no benefit if you can hit your opponent and get hit in return. This completely changes the dynamic of the fight. Great example of sabre sword fighting can be seen in "Potop-The deluge" (1974) and in "The Duellists" (1977)
I think Saber matches are the most beautiful to watch because they have a back-and-forth to them, like a sort of flowing momentum. With longswords, katana, etc the round is over in two seconds and you can't really tell what happened without slowmo.
It's very weird because while the katana got hyped up to cloud nine yet the sabre, another classy curved sword that served in war way longer than katana didn't get much attention
The thing about polish sabers is that they are actually cavalry weapons, they're a little long and heavy slightly hindering close in fighting, but great for reaching out and lopping off heads and limbs as you gallop by on horseback. I advise looking up "the deluge sword fight". It's a saber duel from an old polish movie and regarded as the closest to a real duel ever caught on film. It's carried out at full speed and at one point during filming an actor nearly died missing his parry.
@@56Seeker Samurai could be anything their daimyo needed them to be. Swordsmen, bowmen, spearmen, cavalry, It all varied on the needs and preference of their lord. The only commonality being they where a caste of professional soldiers you had to be born into.
@@56Seeker that's the thing though, they mostly fought from afar with ranged weapons(both bows and matchlocks/flintlocks) or acted as commanding officers in the back. When they did charge into battle on horseback, they used polearms most of the time as their sword was treated more as a sidearm and a weapon of last resort, like how a modern soldier carries a pistol. Swords weren't the main weapon of choice for the samurai so they never sought a need for a cavalry sword. The use of swords in feudal Japan were heavily romanticized by media as the weapon of the samurai when in reality, although used when needed, it was mostly just a badge of honor.
@@56SeekerTachi weigh the same as heavy cavalry sabers, about a kilo. Heavy for a one-handed sword on foot, but on horseback you want that extra reach and power. If you have to dismount and fight, using it 2-handed is much faster than 1 handed. Scholagladiatoria also recently made a video about using 2 handed weapons on horseback. As the japanese already knew how to use two handed weapons on horseback (bows, naginata, nodachi, spears) it's also totally possible for them in a cavalry vs cavalry situation to fight two handed with the sword, but you lose reach with this approach so it's not great for fighting infantrymen unless you have a really long weapon like a polearm or greatsword.
the most common things that carries over regardless of your sword technique(or martial arts) background is 1) distance management 2) timing 3) reading opponents movements. all those three are learned separately from stance and actual striking techniques and those three are learned through experience and sparring. that's why if you give an experienced fighter a different weapon, or a different ruleset (unarmed combat), it's really easy for them to make adjustments and adapt to their new context.
I want to learn HEMA saber, but the only close HEMA center I could find didn't have any. My other pick was longsword which was flooded with demand, followed by kenjutsu or kendo, which never responded when we asked them when we could come for a trial. And fencing was my past hobby, which my timetable doesn't let me excercise anymore. In one word : Great.
Roworth has plenty of demonstration from the academy of historical fencing, and is reasonably simple. Hit that with solo study to begin with. Maybe some friends will also get interested. Branch out to more complex systems after.
There are probably hemaists at your local hema center who might be interested in learning with you, even if they do not know any or have any instructors.
The reason saber isn’t as popular is because there aren’t as much historical manuals on it. In fact, most of them come from the 19th to 20th century when the saber was mostly a cavalry weapon and was being phased out in favor of firearms. If you really want to do saber, I suggest studying Meyer’s dussack manual, which is similar enough to saber.
@@gamer7916 Absolutely not true. Unless are you referring specifically to early sabre sources such as polish sabre, it is the most well documented and arguably comprehensive style of swordsmanship to learn. The real reason it is not as popular is because the medieval period is more romanticized than the early modern era, so people tend to gravitate to longsword or even rapier but that's more renaissance than medieval. There are some of course more minor reasons as to why saber is also less popular but that's certainly the main one.
The saber is by far my favorite type of sword and really enjoyed the video. It was very interesting seeing how well someone trained in another system entirely could adapt and rather quickly as well.
It looked like your instincts from practicing Kendo where hampering your ability with the sabre somewhat. Did much better in the dual at the end when it was kendo vs sabre fencing.
For the people that are in comments learning about sword combat there are sword groups called sca and hema that I know of and for lightsaber combat there is light speed saber league, the saber league, and ludo in France I think. There are many more, Singapore has a league I think and many places in Facebook has training groups for sparring. I got into the rabbit hole of sword fighting so there are a lot just difficult to find
There are popular accounts of Montenegrin Aleksandar Lekso Saicic deuling a samurai in the Russo Japanese War, but the details provided are almost certainly fabricated.
Замечательный ролик! Очень здоров видеть, что европейские стили фехтования популярны также и там, где есть своя древняя традиция владения оружием. Польская сабля - очень серьезная вещь, против нее сложно работать )
But why i don't see gloves/gountlets etc on hands??? PPL protect yours hands. And this sabre (szabla) good looking but i feel like it's medium quality (or average)
No. But a Kendoka can Longsword. It's all about learning two handed martial arts for the most part. one handed martial arts can be done in kendo but its not as common.
Before watching: Yes, he/she would be very comfortable with the blade weight and geometry, and would use it effectively without any additional instructions. However this will be more or less true depending on how often they've trained with one hand solo. Understanding how to use a particular blade and having the muscle memory to be effective are totally separate. The best sabre wielders would be less than impressive if you made them use a Tachi instead.
My understanding is that this style of sword came from Central Asia, and then spread to South Asia, the Slavic world, the caliphate and then to European officers by Napoleon who got it from Egypt (the kilij, shamsir, saber, Mameluke etc). And separately, it spread to the US Marines thru a gift from the ottomans to a Marine officer that made it the official sword. My question is, what is the big deal about this style sword that it was adopted by so many militaries, and why is it that other curved swords didn't spread like this? (Like the cutlass and messer).
There's a lot of reasons as to why it became so popular but from what I know the main ones are: -it's a one-handed sword so it can be carried with no problems -despite this it can generate a lot of power in the swing - has a greater range than many other swords But most importantly: -the basics are very easy to teach which is incredibly valuable when you need to train up a guy for war, so let's take a guy for example and call him Mr. Expendable. So mr. Expendable has never seen a sword in his life but the country needs him on the frontlines yesterday. You can teach mr. Expendable the basics of sabre fighting in less than a week and ship him out, and if he survives he can pick up some more skill. When time and effort is key for the functioning of the military, having a super simple, cheap and effective system that trains a soldier just enough to survive but still produces top-tier duellists with time is insanely valuable. That's why so many armies settled on using it -
No hand protection on the weapon hand? That is a bold choice. p.s. not having protection on the rear hand is also bold, especially with such lack discipline.
