FASTER Strikes & Thrusts from Below! Sword Fighting Basics

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FASTER Strikes & Thrusts from Below! Sword Fighting Basics

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Күн бұрын

If you do martial arts for a long time you'll find yourself going back to fundamentals over and over again. Here I talk about sword fighting basics and how to get from a low to an extended position in the fastest way possible. This is to make our strikes, cuts & thrusts faster by using our body most efficient. This of course applies to any weapon, but I decided to present it with a longsword and a single handed sword.
This is mainly based on body mechanics. The advice of MS 3227a "if someone intends to strike or
thrust, it goes just as if a string were attached to the sword
and the tip or edge were pulled to an opening of the
adversary-who should be the target for the strike or thrust-
resulting in taking the shortest way possible to the nearest
target." helps of course, but in reality we have a body that moves in circles around joints, not in straight lines. ;)
#swordfighting #fencing #martialarts
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@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

A quick summary of the motions presented: Aim: We want to get to the opponent as quick as possible while having enough final velocity to deliver an effective attack. Taking huge preparatory motions: This makes the motion to big overall. You get a good velocity, but present your opponent with an opportunity to react. (This still might be of use if you feint or want a specific parry etc.) The pizza slice (engaging just the shoulder with a straight arm): This results in the maximum lever for your shoulder to lift the sword. It's harder so it will take longer. The straight line: Since elbow and shoulder have a different radius in relation to the hand, this motion is actually quite complicated and needs you to bend & extend your elbow at different rates during the motion. The fastest motion: Looks something like a little wave above the straight line. Your shoulder primary lifts your elbow in this context. While the elbow lifts, you have time. In that time your upper arm could lift and extend the hand, reducing the lever on your shoulder with a single bend & extent. Therefore there is a lower load on your shoulder allowing it to get the elbow (& hand) to the final destination faster.

@swaymi2271 Жыл бұрын

The mechanics here are amazing -great share

@SchildwachePotsdam Жыл бұрын

Thank you! :) though I have to say, for most people, trying to move the hand in a straight line towards the end position does the trick sufficiently well, while presenting an easy external cue - which is quite valuable and probably why some sources phrased it like this.

@jimmynicolas4602 2 жыл бұрын

Merci, pour ces vidéos...😁

@ianhathaway602 2 жыл бұрын

Really excellent video! Thank you!

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Ian 😊

@flashingsword 2 жыл бұрын

Very helpful. Thank you!

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome 😊

@corrugatedcavalier5266 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff! I fight from low guards quite a bit so this gets me thinking of how to improve my actions.

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, low positions are super important for Italian swordplay :)

@laufert7100 6 ай бұрын

I'm seeing some Giacomo di Grassi in here! Especially talking about thrusts, he mentions how you need different circular motions to give a nice attack

@christianmunch9627 2 жыл бұрын

Sehr gut erklärt! Ich habe jedes Mal Probleme damit das in Worte zu fassen... Danke für das Video

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Dankesehr! ❤️

@JS-yt5le 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely explained. Good to see how principles of unarmed martial arts apply to weapons as well. Some Karate styles also recommend the "direct line" as the fastest and thus strongest. However it doesn't take anatomy into account and ends up weaker than a curved trajectory.

@NoeLPZC 2 жыл бұрын

Like in boxing too. I think it was Frazier (or someone of that era) that threw his crosses like baseball pitches instead of straight extensions. Made them very powerful.

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, yeah :) We are still using the same body to move like in other martial arts. We got to keep in mind that almost every common move there might be of use to us as well at the right time.

@googleuser2016 6 ай бұрын

In the Move book about CLA, they quote research that shows that goalkeepers who can jump faster in the corner of a goal, have more time to observe the ball and have consistently better results. I believe it's the same for swordfighting, more athleticism (plyo etc) helps with fighting more relaxed and with having more time to observe incoming attacks.

@SchildwachePotsdam 6 ай бұрын

Yup, agreed.

@porta_di_ferro 2 жыл бұрын

Really helpfull video. For trusts, the final structure of the body also matters. It turned out that not only speed but power is important for the trust, i.e. the ability to transfer kinetic energy to the opponent's body. A god structure gives god energy transfer.

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, that's basically the 'mass' component for energy :)

@yaroslavderevianko9549 2 жыл бұрын

Cool! I'll practice it with feder.

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Very good, it's a great exercise for any kind of bladed weopon 😊

@Ulf_Ulfurson 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Martin, schön erklärt. Das Prinzip gibt es auch in der waffenlosen Kunst. Fechterische Grüße.

@WelcomeToHelljosun 2 жыл бұрын

I've learned Longsword for several months, Ur content of video is very helpful to me . and I want to keep watching ur u-tube channel. from SouthKorea. sincerely Thanks

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

That's great to hear, thanks! Greetings to South Korea! :)

@jaytech4082 2 жыл бұрын

Super😊 endlich fasst mal jemand in Worte, was ich schön länger iwie fühle, aber nicht erklären kann. Geil weiter so🥳 ihr macht super videos👌

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank, so viel Lob ist schon ein riesen Ansporn 😊

@Arcuzool 2 жыл бұрын

This is just great, thanks for all the effort and the material you put out. It's highly appreciated! Now, I am gonna to practice some low strikes :D

@jaytech4082 2 жыл бұрын

Was mir da grad noch hochkommt als Bild: der Surfer muss nicht so schnell wie die welle sein wenn er sie erwischen will, sondern nur etwas Geschwindigkeit haben. Mein Schlag beginnt wie im Boxen in der Hüfte oder dem Fuß und geht dann wie eine Welle durch mich durch und schießt meine Hand nach vorne, wie den Surfer. Vorteil: die Hand und der Ellenbogen bleiben entspannter(deload) und geben mir länger die Möglichkeit auf mein gegenüber zu reagieren und den Winkel oder Hau entsprechend zu wechseln/verändern und präziser zu treffen. Das Konzept Zielgeschwindigkeit finde ich super, dass bedeutet ja nicht so schnell wie möglich und dabei alles anspannen, sondern die Spitze mit der richtigen Geschwindigkeit ins Ziel zu schleudern. Die Hüfte sorgt mit der Schulter für die Energie/Welle und Ellenbogen/Hand führen das Schwert und schleudern den Ort, wie das Ende einer Peitsche, mit der nötigen Geschwindigkeit ins Ziel. Die Hand surft praktisch auf der Rotationskraft des Körpers sozusagen. Natürlich eventuell nicht die beste Technik um Rüstung mit Gewalt zu durchschlagen, aber wer sich durch Rüstung hacken will ist beim Fechten eh verloren🤟🤓

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Die Bewegungsreihenfolge ist ja auf jeden Fall auch für andere Kampfsportarten typisch. In dem Moment, wo man sie aber zu sequenziell hintereinander aufbaut, wird die Gesamtbewegung allerdings wieder relativ groß - muss man also immer schauen, dass man wortwörtlich nicht zu früh durchschaut wird. 😊 Allerdings kann man solche Dinge auf wieder ganz bewusst nutzen, um eine Parade zu locken und dann weiter zu arbeiten... gibt eben kein schwarz und weiß, am besten man kann alles und dann auch noch zur rechten Zeit ^^

@RobertChildsRapier 2 жыл бұрын

Nice explanation, and directly applicable to the use of the rapier as well.

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert, I very much appreciate your videos as well 😊

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to thank Robert from Tremonia again for his inspiring presentation, that helped me quite a bit to formulate these ideas in a better way. You can check out their website here: tremonia-fechten.de/

@freifechterbasel6115 2 жыл бұрын

Another lovely vid! The turning of the body is done from the hip and back, right? It seems like in punching that you always also have a pulling motion while extending a single arm (quasi rotating around the spine). Quite a few of my students initially lack the back strength to stay in good posture while cutting/thrusting. Damn desk jobs!

@SchildwachePotsdam 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, the rotation around the vertical axis is mainly done by the feet, hip, core muscles and back :) I agree on the desk job problem. Unfortunately due to having the arms mainly extended in front of our body fencing isn't the best activity to correct those posture issues either... so fitness training for the back should be highly encouraged.