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The Power of Spear Thrusts and Training With Them in HEMA

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An Advantage of Thrusts Over Cuts in Real Swordsmanship

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Matt gives a simplified version of the physics of impact. At the end, he also points out that cuts can have their advatntages as well depending on the circumstance.
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Re: An Advantage of Thrusts Over Cuts in Real Swordsmanship

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As a riposte :mrgreen: I offer this gruesome article:
The Dubious Quick Kill by maestro Frank Lurz.
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Re: An Advantage of Thrusts Over Cuts in Real Swordsmanship

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That's an excellent article.

Thank you.

A dying man can still kill you--no doubt about it. That's why many fighting forms/sets seem to "over do it" towards the end. They most likely put those moves in there for exactly this reason.
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Re: Spear and Shield - Overarm vs Underarm

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Thank you! Interesting topic.

We went over this in the Viking reenactment groups.

He's right, if you have folk in a shield-wall, your shields are side-by-side and you can only hold the spear high, above your line of shields. Otherwise you may create a gap in the wall, the enemy rushes in and you all die. :twisted:

Also, the openings in your opponents' line of shields appears (overlapping) in such a manner that you can best exploit by moving your hand to the left and angle your spear point to the right, into the gap in the enemies' shields, especially if your buddy on the right nudged the enemy's shield to create an opening.
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Damaging Sword Edges in Combat--Chainmail Armour

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A good discussion on the effects of real combat on sword edges:

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Western Martial Arts Youtube Sticky

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To keep things concise, I hereby dub this space the future home of all links to related videos.
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Good thinking!
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Sword vs arrow challenge - Can I beat the archer at least once?

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Loved that one. I've got to try that sometime.
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Hammer Time

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For some of our Rangers with a Dwarf-influenced fighting style, swap this carpenter's out for a light warhammer:




Weapon vs. weapon starts at 1:25 mins.
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If you haven't seen the informational videos from Gary Chynne, they are worth checking out, on a rainy afternoon. He has some of the most common sense archery tips, that I have seen. He has a ton of videos on you tube, here is a link to one...that will lead you to many more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl7-6oQW4Qc

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Good morning, I thought you might be interested to see this training device we started using a few years ago at the fencing guild. It's a Pendleziel and helps develop your distance and general weapon control for all weapon types.

Have a look, see what you think:

https://youtu.be/s5_nkr1_dc4

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Knucker wrote:Good morning, I thought you might be interested to see this training device we started using a few years ago at the fencing guild. It's a Pendleziel and helps develop your distance and general weapon control for all weapon types.

Have a look, see what you think:

https://youtu.be/s5_nkr1_dc4

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Looks like a good piece of training equipment.

Thanks for posting.
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