@@youremybiggestfan I'm an Indian and I completely agree and understand what you mean😂 but honestly south Indian movies are nothing compared to Bollywood 😂😂
The truth is usually scarier than reality. It really didn't matter how good of a swordsman you were if your reflexes weren't constantly adjusting. Duel's might take a few second's or moment's depending on skill or venue. A flick of the wrist with a proper blade can kill most people lest unless their covered in armor.
No need for apostrophes on "duels, seconds or moments." They don't make words plural. They're for possessive use only. Also, it's "...they're** covered in armor."
An absolute hallmark of journalism and information sharing this. Academia Szermierzy puts a ton of effort into a fantastic series of videos for some company to come along and repost it with their own watermark in the corner as of they created it.
On this iPad, the new RU-vid update made things like the top right button people use for polls during a video, and the bottom right logos disappear. So I can see the watermark thing. It is there indeed.
This reinforces what I have come to learn even in modern times. “Don’t get into a knife fight expecting not to get cut” a majority of these looked like both would be wounded....however after viewing this I think the real determination is “first guy to die loses”
@@gavinallison3635 You don´t say... i mean Klam Slammer said that in the majority of these it looked like both of them would be wounded/dead and i asked where not as "what! none of them got their head or arm cut of" i mean which techniques did it LOOK like they would both be hurt or dead.
Klam Slammer I’ve studied Foote and have to disagree with some of these comments. You are correct Klam. Fiore specifically says he would rather fight 5 duels in armor than 1 without. Double hits are a chronic problem in HEMA tournaments.
This are techniques used mainly in 1 v 1 long sword duels with un-armored opponents. In the battlefield it's a lot different. A sword would not even be the main weapon.
Most of the time duels between 1 on 1 opponents were with swords. In real battle you would have a heavy weapon to cleave through an opponents armour, such as a mace or battle axe. Cold Steel has a lot of videos showcasing the huge amount of damage a war hammer can do to chain mail, or even plate armour.
Check out HEMA - historical European martial arts - for more like this, and with most weapons you may know. I can kill zorro... Matt Easton is a good place to look.
@@YskarAlbumLuna eh, swordfights could have the same tension buildup like in those movie wild west quickdraw duels imo. Plenty of old samurai films with quick swordfights that operate on that premise.
Eeeyup. And clearly no Hollywood swordsman would fare well against a real one. Or even a partially trained novice such as myself. Well, they might farewell, to be fair... ;P
@@gerloke914 the sword has changed its shape MANY times through history wtf Also in terms of battle field use, spears and polearms were more effective through almost all of human history, swords were usually sidearms
Many techniques (particularly stabbing attacks) come from a binding position, so sometimes the swordsman may adopt a defensive stance waiting for a bind to lever his sword and stab while presenting the crossguard. It's probably one of the most ubiquitous things in longsword sparring.
Just like I’ve always imagined the length of a real sword fight would have been. 1 or 2 moves and someone or both of them are dead or severely wounded and if a fight lasted 5+ moves then holy crap those guys are good
@@iiangmariiomega2639 With armor yes, most battles were very long and arduous, and most people didn't die until somebody was routed. Thats when true massacre began.
@@uncolorr thats such a false statement for so many reasons ? what armor what other weapon what spear and above all what period . if you talk about late full plate armor a spear isnt going to do much you will trust it will glance and you lose your range advantage ...if you talking about lower class armor then yes spears was a favorite
@@jarodbibeau6193 sword fighting comes alive in 3000BC with the first arsenic bronze sword. Fiore is the earliest Longsword (2 hand) manual we have currently. There's an earlier 1 hand + buckler (small shield) manual. And the Byzantinian manuals.
Me, an Italian, being able to read all the original names 😍 Many people think that the westerners didn't develope martial arts like Kung Fu and Karate (these are just the first examples, but I know that there are many all over the word), but this is false, it's enough enough just look back at out history to understand it. Of course, I don't mean to belittle the ones from the rest of the world, I just wanted to remind that the West has its own martial arts too.
Fighting back then would get the adrenaline going fast and it would be really terrifying if some guy or knight tried to rob you and you have no choice but to fight them.
This sort of reminds me of when I was a kid, me and my friends would spar each other full contact with wooden swords😂 They would sometimes break skin and I sprained my arm and a couple fingers, but it was so much fun. When i say wooden swords I mean they really looked like proper swords, just wood. Not just a long and short plank nailed together
Imagine this your in the battle field facing the enemy he form his stance when you see the stance you try to remember what is the good counter for the stance, so I think when your in those era being strong and brave isn't enough you need to know the best counter to it. now that just brutal dying because you failed to remember ur assignment
Now I can see why even single-shot muskets with poor quality were still considered as valuable battle equipment. One movement directly leads to death. Any form of weapon that could give effectively strong attack from a distance would have been LOVED. A well trained knight in armor would have killed dozens of peasant spear men very easily. Sword fight is much more horrifying than in the movie I learned.
Well to be honest most of sword fighting techniques is used only for self defense or duel by those who wanted to learn it. It was even considered "not a real fighting" And just like we call these types of things: "Cringe". The funnier thing is that these techniques started to be used a lot near the time when muskets started to be used lol. Mostly in wars and etc people fighted like you imagine/seen in media. Basically just swing aimlessly untill you hit and try to block every hit.
actually in most cases a lesser skilled spearman could kill an extremely skilled swordsman these fighting technqiues were most likely used to combat specifically spearmen
The creators of this video are are Akademia Szermierzy, young Polish fencers who study Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA). Here they recreate the techniques of the Italian master Fiore dei Liberi (1410). Go to their site to see the original video with MUCH, MUCH better music.
This would be legit to see in a movie. With the right editing, you could have one guy using these techniques literally wipe out a horse of guys that use the basic movie techniques and it would be an epic action scene
These techniques are exquisite in their form and use. Mr. Welsby thank you for your information. Crediting Akademia Szermierzy was the proper thing to do. Many of us who like the Martial arts appreciate the information regarding the origins of the art of fighting with swords
Music: "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God") by German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther, is played here (as adapted by Johann Sebastian Bach) as a version for organ, "Chorale Prelude BWV 720".
@@CENASUCK32 Unarmored combat was also prevalent. Armor is very expensive and not everyone could afford it, and at times the unarmored combat was desired, maybe for a duel where the winner draws first blood.
Sword Fighting is epic, but seeing it in real life is epic-er, but what the most epic-est is, being able to travel back into the middle ages to see the wars that have been fought.
I agree! As obscure as it might sound, I actually specialize in organ/keyboard music that is from the exact same period as the fencing treatises they are using in this. I was going to say that I would be happy to record some early 15th century organ music for them!😃 Of course, I adore Bach, but his music is more appropriate for the smallsword's period. I suppose various later broadswords and backswords also would've been been common during Bach's lifetime (1685-1750).
Reminds me of Christmas as a 5 year old and, me and my brothers beating the crap out of each other with the card board tubes from the wrapping paper. It seemed natural guarding, thrusting, and avoiding strikes. Then the tubes broke and the fun was over
Very impressive, these 2 are really good it seems. I dont know what I'm really watching, but it seems they are pretty experienced. Wouldnt wanna tango with them in a sword fight lol
Why does this not have more views? Pretty well everything is on point... The aggression in their strikes and different styles makes this really similar to the real thing. I can't stand watching people try and reenact fights or tournaments because they honestly have no idea what its like to stand off with an unknown enemy, or that feeling of kill or be killed. There's something that happens to a human when they are faced with death, they turn into a beast. They're training turns into life or death lessons as they fight to the last breath. No youtube video can show you what that's truly like, and no person can truly know what exactly goes through a mans head in those moments.
Yeah, that one seems to very popular to have someone strike in a fight scene. Looks distinctly “martial artsy”, is good for getting a badass closeup on the actor’s face with the sword in the same frame, and people have probably seen it in samurai movies enough to recognize it as a sign of a character who’s been trained in some kind of sword art.
Kinda crazy that a lot of real life swordsmanship techniques and fighting styles actually look equally as overdramatic and stylized as most of their choreographed counterparts.
you wanna know why they don't do this in movies? Because it takes years of practice and doing it wrong can kill somebody. I understand why it isn't done in normal movies where fencing or fighting in general is common, but it is such a tragedy to not have fights this amazing on set in a movie.
@@Jamplays592 Even conversations in movies are not realistic and not how people speak with each other in real life. But if you have a link to a realistic fight scene I'll be happy to watch.
