Hey everyone! We figured we'd give out another small sample for the extended content from our Patreon, since sparring videos will be a little different. Julian, our editor, will be going over 3 exchanges and giving out play-by-plays. You can check that out here! - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8dlfdKTzLG7pIE.html That's not to say that we won't be doing any regular videos with commentary, no those will still happen.

More sparring videos! These are great!

As for me real sparring of HEMA looks much more exciting than holywood stage sword fighting. Stage sword fighting in 99% cases looks as totall stupidness. HEMA should be used in movies.

Great editing, and fitting choice of music! I like it! =D

I'm happy to see the red circles on the contact points, I suggested it on another video and now you do it :). Don't know if you actually listened to me or took it from another source but it's good to see you try to improve. Keep the good work up! Thanks for creating such amazing videos :)

Thanks for posting this kind of videos .

Love this channel! Gives me a really good insight on my future studies :)

Can you do a mortal kombat introduction next time for a meme? maybe even a finisher if you feel cringy

these sparring videos are super useful. Thanks for uploading them!

Now I want to see them both vs. Arbitrary-Rivalry-Editor.

I love the constant Guard changes. It's nice to see the blade in expert hands. How quickly you can cut someone using these techniques.

More!

Great video guys! May I recommend a high-speed camera so that we can see the lightning-speed attacks properly?

The end was clever and funny!

0.0 i just realized where iv heard this combat music!!! haha

Power and precision

Kevin is nimble and has great positioning, but he never strikes with enough strength so his blows are easily deflected. I love his style though. He's got a shitton of potential to become a great master.

That intro though.

You guys need to make a hit detection system for your swords similar to that of olympic fencing, its so hard to tell whos hitting who and when.

Nice guys very very good beautiful attacts nice swordmanship

This isn't meant as a criticism or anything but why are tip cuts considered to be insufficient contact in scoring? Judging by other HEMA content creators' tests it seems to be the most effective means of defeating 'light' armour such as gambeson which would be in line with a cut centric approach, to me it seems as though the most effective strike earns no points... or did I misunderstand something?...

can you do the slow downs after you show the original contact? Its a little disappointing to have it slow down right when something is going to happen. I get including it for a sake of clarity but you can always do that afterwards. Its a small nitpick but it is a little annoying. Great video otherwise, I always love to see sparring showcases.

It was a pleasure fencing Kevin at Nordschlag, even if he did beat me.

HEMAAAAA!!!!

Seems like a flawed s oring system for it to end in a tie.

none of you use actually good looking gear, smh. seriously, blood and iron still uses oldschool hema gear (aside from the feders maybe) and it all looks to clunky and padded and all that awkward early longsword armour stuff. you guys still go with the old thing hema fencers used to do a few years earlier, which is "as much protection as humanly possible." you dont need the skirts, the fencing trousers are fine. that much leg armour? do you really get hit on the leg that hard that commonly? still using the spes heavy gloves? those things are MASSIVE and so fricking heavy, and the cuffs on them make your target area so much bigger. almost all your jackets are these old versions, which i dont blame you for not changing, buying a jacket every year certainly isnt all that economical. but a lot of you do use the destroy modz gorget as far as i remember, so theres that, the only modern piece of kit you use is the one we dont see. quick tip for aesthetics: when buying for example shin guards, go for things that really look anatomical, you know that fencer look, go for it man. especially with the baggy hema trousers and anatomical shin guards/socks combined, it looks so good. look like a swordsman, not a teddy bear with plastic limbs.