Fight and Talk | Sword & Buckler I.33 vs. Bolognese Style

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We fight. Then we talk. After sparring we exchange our thoughts and have a conversation on the subject. In an interview with Herbert he mentioned his sword & buckler fight against Alex years ago, where he had to deal with a Bolognese fencer for the first time. We agreed on repeating that fight: A I.33 fighter against a Bolognese style fighter. Different eras, different weapons, different styles.
00:00 Intro & Premise
00:46 Herbert vs. Alex
04:40 Herbert vs. Elisabeth
07:47 Total Hits
07:56 Size Matters
08:16 Specialist vs. All-rounder
09:16 Openings & Binds in I.33
10:50 How to Beat Bolognese
11:17 Is I.33 Linear?
12:00 Binding? No, thx!
13:04 Bindings & Sword Mass
14:01 Evolution of the Sword
14:24 Mindset: Brutality vs. Elegance
16:44 Relevance of this Fight
17:30 Outro
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Our interview with Herbert Schmidt on his last book and on the role of the buckler in the 16th century:
• The Buckler in 16th Ce...
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@OrionNumya Жыл бұрын

Big thanks to Herbert for giving me the opportunity to spar with him, it was an honour! I really enjoyed it and to listen to the two of you exchanging your thoughts on the sources and the historical background. Looking forward to future collabs 😄

@drersatz9822 Жыл бұрын

Well that was a very interesting discussion and overall experiment. I participated to an I.33 workshop during a big HEMA event held in my city last week. When asked about differences with Bolognese sword and buckler, the instructor said pretty much exactly was came out of your debriefing. Bolognese swords being longer and having a more protective hand guard, covering the sword hand with the buckler is not that needed and you can afford to whip the sword around and focus less on bind.

@antonioskarasulas7604 Жыл бұрын

Nice chat, interesting observations. Thanks :)

@joco762 Жыл бұрын

Great fun!

@gunblade7610 3 ай бұрын

I love her targa, I would love if cold steel made a HDPE version ❤

@elgostine Жыл бұрын

you mention ~17:00 mark or so that 'comp[aring styles that never would have met' but... im inclined to disagree.. given in the renaissance, there were dussaks, hangers, katzbalgers, and other still much more 'choppy' broadswords i could see this man with a shorter choppier broadsword or a hanger going full I:33 i.e more binds etc, he'd want to close with this agile and thurst centric side sword, and use the pressure of the bind etc to help close the distance and push the point aside

@MarozzolostinVienna Жыл бұрын

It would be totally legit to assume that there were fencers in the 16th century that had a more bind-concentrated style and would have preferred to use a shorter weapon, I'm with you there, yes! :) If there were fencers around that time who knew about the I.33 manuscript or had learned from a master from that tradition is highly speculative, but not impossible, still it's more than 200 years... maybe they would have come from the Lignitzer-side though.

@elgostine Жыл бұрын

wait? bolognese buckler doesnt really do binds? at least not to the same extent that I:33 is famous for? huh, interesting

@MarozzolostinVienna Жыл бұрын

As Alex says at around 12:00 - working from the bind is in the sources, but the Bolognese masters have the tendency to avoid the bind as long a possible, to us it is more like an "if in doubt, don't do binds"-approach. And if you'd put techniques with bind and without side by side, the latter would be the vast majority. (Everything open to interpretation to a certain degree of course.)