This video is not a demonstration. It is raw footage from our training capturing it in 2018. This buddy training is a way how to teach your opponent to react to various stimuli without explicitly giving him commands or bits of advice.
Because this is also fencing, just different weapons. Sport fencing draws on a different historical context, but the basics of drills for any martial arts is to have he ability to respond to different cues. At this level, it establishes the fundamental responses without distraction from the other aspects of fencing, like moving, changing levels, or changing distance.
This should be a much more common style of practice than it is in HEMA. It's similar to sport fencing training with a coach in a lot of ways. I wish more HEMA clubs had the requisite skill and coaching experience to do this.
You're right! I spoke to Anton Kohutovic and he implied that he and the other fencers of the "Gesellschaft Lichtenawers" use elements from sports fencing for HEMA (which makes perfect sense).
The movements, turns, and parries of this type of fencing, in your hands, make it look so much more beautiful and promising than the fencing displayed at the Olympics - that gives the impression that fencing is just diving and poking.
You have no idea what your talking about, this is a coached drill, modern fencing has that too and it looks just as good (Video: Gu Bongil elite sabre lesson). Both stop looking "pretty" as soon as things get uncooperative. Talking one down isnt required to enjoy this one, takes a while to realize that.
Thank you for a great video! I hope you will have time to answer my question. If you had a straight stick, say 46 inches in length, how much of HEMA Longsword techniques could be applicable to a straight stick? Thank you!
well, there are HEMA sources to polearms and long sticks Basically no longsword techniques work here as for most of them you are i8n need to deflect the enemies weapon first Thrusting and whacking your opponent will still work, but what kind of technique is that?
what do you mean? It's free exercise it's a master-pupil exercise. The pupil has no idea what the master does next time. He only realises mistakes if it did not work or if the master punished him with e.g. counter-attack or what's suitable.
