Mastering Basic Sword Fighting in 10 Hours | Vanity Fair 

I most likely will never need this skill in my life, and yet I'm watching this instead of writing my essay

She looked into it and learned pretty quickly. Hopefully she keeps going on her stage fight training.

**Video starts with them dragging off the body of the previous actor who wasn't quite ready for this level of training.**

this is rather "learning a sword fighting choreography in 10 hours". They're basically avoiding all the techniques that you would do in a real sword fight (e.g. keep the tip of the blade towards your opponent to always present a threat etc.)

how did they organize this shoot so fast after learning she had to go on stage?

You have to admit, The Princess Bride had some of the most entertaining sword fights

After learning how to use a sword for 10 hours, i dodge rolled on my enemies for 10 hours straight.

The final performance gave me chills

This was so cool to watch! Not exactly what I'm looking for, as I'd like to learn practical sword basics, but this was encapsulating and informational nonetheless. LOVED watching the development, and Tybalt's death acting!

IVE WORKED WITH HIM!!! He was our fight choreo for Macbeth.

I have trained Martial Arts and fencing for 20 years and i could never pull that of on a stage. Respect :)

Sword fighting seems so fun

Yeah sure might as well put a whole video shoot on top of learning how to sword fight and perform in one day 🤷🏼‍♀️

Wow! So cool to see her progress! Congratulations to all involved. Thank you! Rob is a really good teacher. Great performance

love this video, great job to Victoria and hats off to Robb Hunter! what an amazing instructor!

Excellent fencing teacher, bravo!

I’m watching this just to learn how to draw a sword fight with trashy sword drawings Also because A SKILL I WANT THAT ILL NEVER NEED

Loved it, i will undergo fencing being totally inspired. Many thanks.

That’s my dad ❤️

LEARNING! i love this video ! most youtube videos are nonsense. love this one

Using this to help me write a sword learning scene in my novel!

That final performance was amazing!

i thought they meant hema and stuff

Super informative 💗

Stage combat is kinda neat

Could have done without the whole fake 'we've got to put on a play tonight' conceit, but very interesting nevertheless!

I want Tybalt’s sword.

This is so cool to see, very interesting guys

Will be buying a pair of wooden blunts to try out at the gym studios. Go swordfighters.

This is really cool!😀

Now all I need is a pen that turns into a sword.

FIGHT ON!!!!!!!!

Great editing

I'm watching this for no particular reason other than it seems cool

Him: "this is one of the best sword fights in a film ever" Me: "you should watch the prequels"

1:08 that gotta hurt

Bill Hobbs would say Bob Anderson was the greatest swordmaster in film.

I came here to get some tips for sword fighting, and left with a better grip on how to write performative sword fights for a people I’m writing where having dance-like sword fights while wearing colourful swishy clothes is a tradition.

Will this lesson include knowledge on how to use a Katana

I thought a 7.5 Lol, Awesome job.

Am I the only one that’s interested in the gender swapped play?

Dis aktress da bomb yo

Epic!

Good Job

Go Victoria!!!!!!!!!

supaire inspirante

Tips for being a swordsman 1.take 1000 swings everyday 2.take a 10 km run 3.practice breathing under water

10 out of 10

IM THE KNIGHT OF THE WIND

Now why the heck would you wait until the day of the performance to learn how to do a stage sword fight and the choreography for this specific sword fight?

What CD would give a role so dependent on sword skills to someone with zero sword skills when there are so many excellent people that have spent years and thousands of pounds on learning the craft - unless of course she claimed she could? She seemed to learn well but as anyone who knows about this sort of thing will tell you, learning the choreo is one thing performing it under pressure with blocking and lines is quite another.

1:13

Thin sword vs brick on a stick

This is learning choreography, not fighting.

Learns 10hrs worth of Sword Fighting only to get smoked by the MC for 2 mins

It would have been nice to see the sequence from the actual play rather than this filmed version.

at 11:52 I thought someone joined my zoom meeting

My excuse is that I found a real sword in my cupboard

Watching this so I can beat the people in my class

Lets get matt Easton or skallagrim in it!

It's my pleasure and my job🤣😭

6:35 crap!

it's crazy how the audience got all those camera angles. technology is really something.

im here because i had a dream of winning a sword competition with 9 other people

Bess. video. EVER. But this was not the bess kaye scenario for Tybalt.

Oh, now I see why most movie fights look like crap! Thanks for explanation! :-))

This dude looks like my English teacher

Did I see Qui Gon Gin? (Dont know how to spell his name.)

Go play some bogger larp. Find a belegarth near you! There's some badass sword fights going on.

wow are you kidding me? that first fight the guy acts is bullsh*t, he takes a step forwards, and with a light sword, brings it back for a heavy strike while his opponent is in ready position for a jab, a few seconds in, and a "professional" would have already been killed. who makes these? real sword fight even look cooler, jeez

actors dont have to learn, they just gotta act like they know what theyre doing so it looks good

That vid was fun to watch. But gender-swap Shakespeare???

cool

You know what would make your movie and play fights better.............. Just use actual sword fighting techniques.

C A R P

This is stage fighting, not sword fighting. Join HEMA if you want to learn to fight with a rapier or sidesword.

That kick would be deadly if she was doing it to a boy.....One other reason why woman lives longer than men

Anime irl be like

number 1 why are you swinging a rapier ?

I could tell i am not gonna like this movie but great video nonetheless

Why would they be swinging with a rapier

Why what are you doing with your sword by the gods we are trying to take back the holy land

Who else is a writer and studying for a scene

This Is just choreography. You do this in a real sword fight against an average HEMA practitioner, and you're dead within 5 seconds or less. Don't get my wrong, it looks really cool and entertaining, but it is also misleading for a lot of people who actually think such clumsy techniques are effective or even historical. There are many ways in which you can make a sword fight look cool without making it extremely exaggerated and completely useless in a real fight, like the way used in The Knight of Hope: a short film produced by a small studio with knowledge on the subject. If they can do it properly, Hollywood could take it to the next level

Vanity fair...

still better than rey vs kilo-ren

i can see why they aren't actors themselves brrrrrr

Medieval bullying

That actress is so strange lol the other 2 are definitely professionals.

5mins show took more than an hours practice

The wrong type of sword for this kind of fight

Does not look like real sword fighting techniques to me.

Ugh, a gender swap of Romeo and Juliet.

Stage fighting is not the same. It so painful to watch after doing sparring in HEMA.

I was expecting real sword fighting not acting choreography

Is this some sort of LGBT theatre?

this is IMMENSELY FALSE. you CANNOT master even the BASICS in 10 hours. EVER. shame on vanity for this. it takes WEEKS to get JUST the basics down.

Typical actor. I studied something for one day and now I’m a master of it….🤡

Just drama don’t use it in real life, in real life, you shouldn’t attack with these big dramatic movements.

Smh. This isn't sword fighting