New Episode of the Modern Medieval is out.

[Thorsteinn]

FYI.

Episode 8 of the Modern Medieval is out:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yimGZskzS7Y[/youtube]

for reference, Episode 7:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I3pOlKGkR4&feature=related[/youtube]

-Ivan

[Sir Edward]

These are fun little videos. Thanks for sharing.

[Thorsteinn]

He said something about a DVD coming out in June of just Sword & Shield techniques.

-Ivan

[Joshua Santana]

Episode 8 was not bad!  I am impressed that Sir Gemini does know what he is talking about.

(Not bad for a SCA Heavy Combat teacher!)

Although I cannot give a full critique of his teachings, but his measure and footwork theory does seem to resonate a bit with what I have been taught at the SIGMA Seminar last month.

And his other videos are well produced.

[Thorsteinn]

(Not bad for a SCA Heavy Combat teacher!)

You meant that facetiously yes?   

-Ivan

[Joshua Santana]

No I did not.  Not even.

[Sir William]

I don't know that being a SCA fighter automatically precludes one from having any interest or knowledge about the sword art.

[Sir Edward]

Well, sometimes we see arguments on forums that stem from an assumption that all SCA heavy fighters are just stick-jocks who know how to hit hard. But there are fighters who also have an interest in HEMA, or who have learned some good techniques through trial and error, etc. It's a pretty broad category of people.

So I would just say it's gratifying to see fighters who take it seriously and want to teach some martially-sound techniques they've learned.

[Joshua Santana]

Sirs Edward and William make excellent points.  This is what i kept in mind when I made the original post.

SCA Combat does look fun, but I seen too many people reduce it to a contest of the harder whack on the head with little to no technique at all.  But Sir Gemini has presented it in a manner that made me say, "hhmm, he knows what he is talking about and backs it up pretty well."

this my explanation for the intention of my original post.

[Sir William]

Thank you for the clarification, Sir Joshua.  It is easy to lump a set number into a single category for such purposes, but hardly satisfactory when dealing with facts that speak otherwise.

[Thorsteinn]

Sir Joshua, I do agree that there are many out there who play whack-a-mole, but there are also many who do not.

Trust me when I say that the most respected folks on the field are rarely them that simply flail about, even if it brings them, the flailers, victory.

Let me make a small and very incomplete list of those Western Knights of renown in my mind:

Count Gemini.
Duke Radnor.
Duke Rolf.
Viscountess Maythen.
Duke James.
Lady Trude.
Duke Paul. (http://www.bellatrix.org/school/default.htm)
Viscount Marc. (http://www.scabastardsword.com/)
Duke Jade.
Duke Uther.
Duke 'Flieg'.
Sir Mari.
etc.

If I were to include the unbelts & fencers then it would get bigger. If I were to make a complete list of Knights, unbelts, and fencers. Then the list would grow quite large indeed.

If I may ask, where was it that you saw what you saw? Cause the ones you saw seem to "have some 'splaining to do".

-Ivan

(typing with a mostly broken pinky is tougher than I thought.)