Dane Axe vs Spear Sparring [ Viking Martial Arts ] HEMA

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North West Historical Fencing- Full contact HEMA style sparring with Viking age two handed great axes as seen in examples such as the Bayeux Tapestry.
This time we pit the Dane axe against the spear, both single, and two handed, which one will come out on top?
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@aaronmitchell4053 2 месяца назад

Brilliant demonstration! While easy to see the benefits of shield and spear combo, watching someone use a Dane axe with speed makes of far easier to imagine how a strong and highly skilled user could strike a neck, arm or shoulder, or drag a shield out of place. And also how a strong user could potentially overwhelm an opponent with brutal thrusts and hacks. Well done, and thank you!

@WuzuquanSpain 7 месяцев назад

Interesting video. Thank you for sharing. Some tips, from a Chinese point of view, if you are interested: - When attacking, we thrust continuously and relentlessly at various targets until the opponent is dead, rather than launching single thrusts. - Thus, the gap between a feinting thrust and the real attack should be a fraction of a second, rather than two separate movements. - When thrusting, we slide the rear hand all the way to the lead hand to get maximum reach. - When the opponent's weapon is shorter, there is no need to lean in to get extra reach. - We keep the opponent at spear's length, rather than moving in to (in this case) axe length. By the way, my comments only apply to the first 65 seconds. I don't practise spear with a shield, so I cannot comment on that. Kind regards.

@jacobwooten977 9 дней назад

Modern European spear users forget foot, look at how they flow with swords sabers and rapiers but the second they touch a spear they become flat footed and lose all sense of rhythm and flow I love watching Chinese spear practitioners because they have preserved the living form of spear play

@drios8809 Год назад

after this many milennia of nerfs on the spear, it is still OP in meelee fight

@Anarchy2308 8 месяцев назад

It is nice to see the full potential of spear fight because at reeactment you are not allowed to thrust upwards. So very nice video. Keep up the uploads.

@luizuhtred3116 Год назад

You guys are my favorite channel by now, just cuz you guys fight good with The dane axe (my favorite weapon). keep up these videos 😁 and always with viking weaponry

@TheWelshRaider Год назад

Thank you pal, means a lot to us 😁

@danielatherton1631 10 дней назад

He kept pressing L1 and R1 together by accident

@MrCakedo Год назад

Great video, from my experience, the "safe" danes vs spear acts differently from their heavier metal counter parts. The metal danes have a slower recovery speed, but with the added weight they have a stronger parry. The safest way to fight metals is in armor, eastern style, but eastern fighting has it's own disadvantages too. Keep up the good work guys.

@warlord5295 Год назад

This is why if you wield an axe you need heavy armor

@hellomate639 Год назад

I'm also thinking more aggression and power with the axe.

@incitatusrecordings473 Год назад

Resuming: 2:30 If you are about to fight a person with a spear...just run screaming for the help of archers.

@kurage_medusa Год назад

Great videos. Does adding a shield actually help against the dane axe? To me it looks much more effective to just use two hands on the spear and make full use of the reach advantage. With only one hand on the spear, it seems too easy to get your point batted to the side, allowing the axeman to move in.

@TheWelshRaider Год назад

It may just be because we are relatively new to it, however the fella in green is much better than me to be fair 😄

@SpearEnjoyer Год назад

2 handed spear seems to be utterly overpowered against everything with all the testing we've done, this is probably helped by how intuitive it is to use and requires very little training to be effective with. We do however have to keep in mind the context in which these weapons would have been used as a spear held in 2 hands leaves you quite vulnerable against any projectiles shot or thrown at you so they do have their strengths and weaknesses.

@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 7 месяцев назад

Simulate what would happen if the axe man were properly armoured. Spear guy gets wrecked. If you're doing "unarmoured" its very apparent that the spear has a huge advantage. Its just boring to watch a damn spear doing the hokey pokey.

@SpearEnjoyer 7 месяцев назад

next on the to-do list I think. Working out where the axe excels is a process that needs to be tested in all circumstances before we can draw any conclusions. Even then, its impossible to simulate the moral shock of watching your mates hands being cleaved clean off which would play a vital role in any battle

@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 7 месяцев назад

@@SpearEnjoyer axe messes you up in armour, spears do not, unless you're striking with them like a staff, or a club.....it's kinda how that Welsh club came to be.

@SpearEnjoyer 7 месяцев назад

@@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 Kind of... people tend to overestimate how difficult it is to get a solid, clean, sledgehammer-like hit on a person who is actively resisting and isn't planted in the ground like a tree. mail is incredibly good at what it does which is why it was used for so long