Something I think I can gather from watching many greatsword fighting videos is to never let your opponent get to close, as the greatsword may lose most of it's power.
Yeah, it is a weapon designed to control space. This could be defending a strategic position by occupying multiple opponents with only one fighter. If an opponent gets close you need to resort to grappling and you are usually at a disadvantage against shorter weapons. - Dan
You can kinda use it as a staff, but more like you would place both hands against the edge facing you like you would bunt a ball and use the length of blade in a slicing motion not swing or impact but using blade in a very close deep cutting slice and can be applied in various different angles and positions as long as you are wearing chainmail gauntlets of course otherwise you will lose your hands
A good example is someone trying to grapple you so you drop the tip of blade facing the ground in a sheathing position you place your right hand along the blade closest to handle on edge facing you,place left hand just below tip almost in middle you kinda pivot slide towards him in perfect timing holding blade in front of you on that sheathing angle once blade is firmly in place below left armpit pectoral region quickly drag blade upwards pushing in as it slices upwards you will end up in one fluid motion facing your back to him with blade arching over your shoulder with tip facing up and both hands still in same position like a cartwheel kinda
It's more that it gets bound up if someone is too close and you can't maneuver. Close in, you might be able to use the lower part of the blade, two-handed swords can generate a surprising amount of force over a small distance
Greatswords are often thought as a brute weapon but you can clearly see its a very tactical "control" weapon. Just watch a few matches and you can see how when properly used it has excellent area denial, and the wielder is able to dictate the range and pace of the battle. It's a brain weapons just as much as it is a brawn weapon.
I think "area denial" is very much the name of the game here. Hard to hit the wielder if they can slash you and your friends with a single stroke before you get close lol
well, you need to now... is heavy and large as your body xd you need to keep it on the air or it will hit the ground, and you will need a lot of training.
1v1, I guess long short doesn't stand much a chance against greatsword... So the last round was good... He quickly pressed in to disable one, making it practically 1v1 two times instead of 2v1.
Yeah that's it the reach is very difficult to overcome, and when facing multiple opponents, want to position yourself so that they are both in front and basically getting in eachother's way. - Dan
why on earth is the guy using the greatsword not wearing a jacket obviusly his opponents realising his lack of protection hesitate to hit him which is why he kept on winning please spar with protection since sparring with just a tshirt WITH STEEL SWORDS can get you seriusly injured
Hi, The main place I would have gotten injured from the light contact we were fencing with would be on the elbows because of the bone being close to the skin, which is why I was wearing the elbow pads. It's safe to fence with a shirt if you aren't doing full/heavy-contact sparring. - Dan
@@westernwolves-ballaratmedi7843 I don't think this really is good practice then. It forces your opponents to be way too cautious, and really not compete at all. It seemed like they mostly just stood outside their range and didn't want to hit you.
@@jackricono With a sword you have a greater plurality of options to attack with. You can thrust, chop, slam the guard into their face, half sword, murder blow, etc.
Against 1 opponent, that's how you would typically use a greatsword wth halfswording, but you need to threaten a wider area with multiple opponents. - Dan
i know you cant just do this is person to person sparring but i have Never seen someone use a Zweihander to Absolutely Obliterate someone's neck and just use a super powerful diagonal strike and force thier way through, you would Hurt your opponent a lot i know but i wonder if you could parry or even block that when someone does that in an opening with full force
You Absolutely could, you would need to defend with the section of the blade closest to the crossguard and provide a strong resistance. I have blocked poleaxes in full-contact fights with a single handed falchion this way but it did hurt my hand quite a lot. Best idea is to close distance as much as possible to reduce the velocity of the blade at the bind. -Dan
I'm in Ballarat,wondering if I could join I was in a HEMA group in Townsville at the showgrounds so I I know my defense stances hand positions feet positions and the like
Hi, Absolutely you can join! In the description of the video you will find a link to our linktree where you can find our facebook page, and we also have our email address there to get in contact with us! Our standard training times are 6-8pm Tuesday and Thursday nights :) Hope to see you come along!
Hi, Regenyei armoury is an affordable option for high-quality swords. I got my longsword from them and it turned out perfect. Check out this page for his two-hander selection :) -Dan www.regenyei.com/en_twohanded.php
The longsworders were terrible. Staying in longpoint is essential worthless against a greatsword and they pretty much used nothing else. Nothing used to try and slow down the greatsword to grapple. No attempt to bat it aside. You know which way the greatsword is going...bat it along the way it moves to over extend the cut and make an opening for your partner. I don't care about the t-shirts much as the jackets are there more for catastrophic failures...but elbows and knees man. I don't care how good you think you are...the protective gear isn't for what you plan, it's for what you don't expect. And honestly...you all are not even remotely good enough to skimp on protective gear for even the we plan not to hit certain areas.
Josh and I were wearing full protective hema gear on our top halfs, and below the belt hits were off the table due to the gear we were training in. We are well experienced enough at sparring to not touch an unprotected sparring partner with anything but a light tap, and have played with the Daniel enough for us all to have confidence in our training partners. We are quite fond of Daniel you know, and value safety highly. This was just a light, fun, academic spar to let Daniel have a play with my Montante and nothing close to a full intensity bout. There's nothing dangerous about it.
