HOW TO SWORDFIGHT: Fighting with the Cutlass in Tight Quarters 

Thank you so much. I hope that one day I will be able to get over to Germany do some teaching and we will have that beer together.

Thanks, glad you liked it. I have had a chance to fence in very tight situations, and if you don't keep everything in close to yourself you will Hit walls are things around you which will allow you to get hit before you can get your weapon back and play

I'm glad you liked it. I look forward to having more videos out soon

There are many options available. A lot of what you choose to do depends on what is around you. If you grab your opponent behind the arm and pool, you are sending him in one direction. If you are pushing his arm into him you are sending him into a different direction. Both options have their good and bad consequences

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@@swordfightingschool to fight with mostly..bullets don't last forever

I​@mikebryant8082 cold steel has good cutlasses. As a lefty, they are the only option for me. But I do really like the 1917 cutlass. Even though it is really a 1941-style cutlass.

@@thesayerofthelaw I heard they discontinued the 1917s

I've been in that fight. I will tell you that the fencer has a better chance of winning. That doesn't mean that the fencer will win every time, but they have a better understanding of time and distance that they can use to defeat the brawler. I'll see about having a fight like this and filming so that we can break down what happened between each bout.

I have never seen any reference to bucklers in the golden age of piracy, but I believe they did in the medieval period when in ship to ship combat. They did us off-hand weapons sometimes, but those were items that were on the ship

Belay pins come to mind, they even resemble a typical "training aid" of the "Indian club"

They average around 25-28 inches.

My Cutlass work is based primarily on the manuscript from John Taylor, 1802. It is saber but the same kind of actions. It is also based upon my experience. I have been fighting with European bladed weapons since 1989 in all sorts of locations, and some of them have been very tight.

@@swordfightingschool if I may ask, do the drills you’ve shown here come from the manuals or are they your own design?

@@Cornishbasty123 they are mine, based off of the manual

I get that it sounds very grandiose and anime-protagonisty, but seriously think about an 19th century sailor, muscular from years of rigging and hauling, swinging a length of sharpened steel at your delicate fingers with intent to kill you. He’s not talking about these strikes as half-hearted cuts, in theory each one should have killing intent behind it.

@HalFromTartary I also know they had power diets and was very unhealthy nowhere near as strong as we are today

@@JamesLytle-rc1bztheir weakness is a misconception. Their diets were poorer than ours, and sailors were more prone to getting sick, but the average sailor did far more intensive labour than the average person today. Lifting cargo aboard, hauling, pulling heavy ropes to raise massive sails; sailors simply had to develop strength and muscle or they just wouldn’t be good sailors. They had a reputation for being buff. Not just that, but the burst of adrenaline you get in a life-or-death situation, such as from a sword fight, can force your muscles to give more strength than what you’re capable of normally. If you’re fighting to kill someone, it’s really not unreasonable to believe you could hit them hard enough to break bone.