I even found a technique here that I've incorporated (with a few adaptations) into my own longsword repertory, so much is the overlap

Your grandpa waited 30 years for the moment a guy tried to rob him lmao

@@xxxxxx5868 when most people would be scared, grandpa thought "finally! I was worried this moment would never come"

@@-smp-scientificmethodpersp838 I have a very similar attitude. 😂 But I'll be happy if I never have to use anything I learn. Violence is traumatic.

HA HA! I KNOW BOY I KNOW, from 1rst hand, it can knock out people too!

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Meyer actually recommends starting with the longsword. Then you can learn the quarterstaff and the dussack. From the quarterstaff you can move on to other pole weapons and from the dussack to other one-handed swords.

Most Chinese martial arts reccomend learning the staff as the first weapon because it teaches you to move both hand at the same time to generate power, and many people tend to naturaly favor one hand so the staff fosters generating power with the whole body.

@@chosenfrozen4006 The most famous Samurai defeated is greater rival with a staff.

You have to study HEMA, Fiore dei Liberi Italian system of Combat to begin to understand. You feel like Conan the Barbarian with this stuff as if it were few i am literally called berber BARBARIAN so when i do this shit, my blood BOILS haarrd. I have deep Nationalist egos in my heart mainly my vandal ancestors. Check out who are the vandals.

Solo forms, strikes on a heavy bag, and flourishes will help you memorize techniques and develop some vital attributes, but there really is no substitute for training with a partner. If you solo train in a public place you may just get some interested people who may want to join you. Good luck!

+MEMAG or the police just may show up, if you train with blunts.

no friends? Stop hitting people with sticks! haha

i have become a widdler

Come to Brazil, join our clan!

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+Michael Eversberg II pretty simple really: RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNN! :D

"Work" (arbeit) here means to attack, so the opponent will not attack you, but concentrates on remaining bound on your staff and parrying you so that you may come to no work.

MEMAG​​ Thanks for the explanation. It's always interesting to watch and read things like this, but writers of these old manuscripts tend to be vague with their words. Or perhaps their wording was suitable for their time, but not as much for ours.

Very much so! If you're unarmored/bloss, you can strike using the shaft. If you're armored, focus on beating away the weapon to get the thrust as in earlier plays

These are fantastic. Some of them are marvellously flamboyant and would make great stage fighting techniques. Note how the staff taking is exactly the same as one of the longsword ones

Bryan Keniry yes, historical documentation for turning your back on your opponent

Yes. Rather unusual

Mark Holgate Bryan Keniry Fiore also has a play for dagger against the longsword that begins with the back to the opponent.

Não tinham hipóteses os gajos ;)

Jogo do Pau definitely deserves much more attention in the HEMA community.

Yes! I would, too! The JDP experts are pretty formidable. I don’t know what staff style that would stand up to them. I’d pay to see it though!

Lacrimae Pavane

***** Muirland Willie.

Thanks!

i've been looking for the song but i can't find it eiter, lel

All what i have found with "Muirland Willie" is some kind of scottish dance

A staff of some form is a common peasant's weapon just about everywhere. It's one of the few weapons they could easily get hold of , and the principles of how to use one effectively depend on physics more than culture.

***** True. Plus, look at the farming tools they used as well. The pitch fork, the Scythe, The pickers they used that looked like spears. They had all sorts of nasty tools to fight with.