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My vid on longsword stance.
Sir Brian:
--- Quote from: scott2978 on 2014-09-11, 06:14:51 ---I long for a HEMA chapter nearby... in the meantime I wish I could find more instructional videos like these. Nice.
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Try this HEMA Alliance sponsored Club Finder site. ;)
http://www.communitywalk.com/user/view/81443
Sir Nate:
--- Quote from: Sir Brian on 2014-09-15, 11:44:44 ---
--- Quote from: scott2978 on 2014-09-11, 06:14:51 ---I long for a HEMA chapter nearby... in the meantime I wish I could find more instructional videos like these. Nice.
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Try this HEMA Alliance sponsored Club Finder site. ;)
http://www.communitywalk.com/user/view/81443
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Great site, that is where I found the Hema longsword place in Philly.
(Though I still haven't gone)
Joshua Santana:
Interesting from a SCA perspective and you did good.
Guards you should were Plow, Italian variation is Posta di Breve (Short Point) and you also showed Vadi's Posta Longa con la Spada Curta (Short End Long Guard). Nebenhut or Posta Coda di Longa (Long Tail). Ochs, Posta di Finestra (Window Guard), Vadi's Posta di Finestra Vera (True Window Guard).
--- Quote ---The Italian system also seems to favor a thrust more which is fine but I don’t consider thrusts to have as much duel ending probabilities as a solid cut does except of course with harnischfechten where the thrust is king
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Which is true to a degree, there are many plays that Fiore will use a thrust to set for a technique ending in a cut and vice versa.
--- Quote ---Heh, I find that amusing, since to me, the German system comes off as rather simple in concept. It's also delightfully medieval, in the sense that if a bunch of things are mostly similar, they must be the same thing, so they're lumped together. ;)
One thing that's cool about the German manuscripts too, is that for the most part, they're not always written with the approach of "this is the way it must be done", but rather, "here's something that works, try this"
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I agree.
jason77:
Talhoffer (German tradition) favors the thrust and I agree as the thrust is a quick strike (shortest distance between two points) and a strike is more easily deflected as there is more time to react. I also see more internal damage occur from a puncture wound than a cut although there are exceptions to this. I have applied the thrust and I have seen others apply the thrust so quickly as to score in a match before the opponent knew what happened.
Thorsteinn:
--- Quote from: jason77 on 2016-08-03, 03:22:39 ---Talhoffer (German tradition) favors the thrust and I agree as the thrust is a quick strike (shortest distance between two points) and a strike is more easily deflected as there is more time to react. I also see more internal damage occur from a puncture wound than a cut although there are exceptions to this. I have applied the thrust and I have seen others apply the thrust so quickly as to score in a match before the opponent knew what happened.
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Also remember shorter is not necessarily faster. A lot of the issue of the thrust v the cut in perceived speed is about perception and taking advantage of a weakness in the design of the human eye & brain.
Have you read The Medical Reality Of Historic Wounds yet?
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