Best comment ever

It is the way...

That comment stings a little bit but I’m not hurt cause I gotta bee suit.

This is literally my favourite KZfaq comment of all time. Well done!

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Oh my god

Just a guess. When they practiced for the duels in prequel star war films, they used 'swords' made by attaching a long pole to the Lightsaber handle. I imagine this is why the fight moves look similar, because the 'sword' would have center of mass further from the handle, just like the montante.

Funnily enough, the final saber fight in Episode I between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Darth Maul actually had the footage slowed down in editing because it looked too fast and unrealistic.

y e s .

Lol ty XD

@@I_Give_No_Fux_ tbf, a lot of the move sets in dark souls are fairly different to how the weapon would actually be used. With some weapons it can be argued that the moveset was made for fighting large creatures, like the Asylum demon in DS1.

Anyone know of a skyrim mod that will make great sword fighting style animation like this?

​@@Lady_VivBeat Saber

@@O1OO1O1 a mod called beat Saber? Or did you miss understand somthing.

@@Lady_Viv try some mco animations like the chinese swordsman or (if lore-friendlyness isnt a problem) hollowslayer gs animations

If you really want a surprise, look up some heavy flail forms. No matter how big or heavy a weapon is, there is a skillful way and an unskillful way to use it.

Bem, aqui eles estão lutando por esporte, antigamente era para matar mesmo

Wouldn't it be because greatswords are heavy and that is building momemtum?

Kim Emmerich Pretty sure it’s for building momentum for a really good swing, but has the side effect of area denial. No one wants to get close to the long sharp thing

@@wutulike7861 Technique is used for all points above, but I never spin the great sword around when i'm using it. I'm just assuming they can't grapple, or close like way in, and half-sword stab for the body, cause that is what i'd be doing if someone was swinging there sword around like that. If you run at someone like that, with you're sword vertical, you can block any incoming strike if there sword is waving around in circles super high like that. Only spinning strike I ever do is waving the sword above, and behind my head briefly into a good 'ole leg chop. I don't have nearly the level of training at this particular practice tho, so I don't really have an understanding of why or why they don't do certain things.

Realistic and pretty cool looking. This is what hollywood needs to start doing instead of their ridiculous twirling like ballerinas shit.

@@ethanmcqueen3548 having used a montante/greatsword multiple times I can tell you with utmost certainty that using longsword techniques douse not work, you can halfsword it ofcorse but thats about it, you especially can't grapple as you'd have to drop the sword entirely as the balance/weight of a montante is completely different form a longsword (montante's basically have the opposite balance of a rapier and heavy enough that practically no one can keep it in a guard position one handed) even holding a normal guard stance for any length of time tires you out completely so its best to keep the blade moving, secondly trying to statically block a montante with a vertical block with a longsword or even a montante is as difficult as statically blocking a longsword with a one handed arming sword so deflectional parry's are the way to go (p.s. just adding my observations to the discussion, not trying to correct you directly)

16th century

Lalramdina Varte not even point downs

Well? What is it?

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Is that any way for a landsknecht to speak! Shame on you! ps. "Haha, the Zweihander is a _GREAT_ sword"

The Miao Dao is also underrated.

Could also be said that they should instead close to grapple, using the weapon as an assault shield.

I think they train like that because a big part of using the montante is momentum. Its incredibly easy to react to the montante if you were just striking from a longsword guard.

Rule number 6 or Battle of the montantes. Google it.

@Squuid Well, a person of considerable size and strength can still effectively use a montante like a longsword if need be. At 6'5 I have no trouble swinging my montante/spadone around like one would a longsword.

Devil I know I can't at 5'9" 135lbs, I tried steel montante once and man I could not swing it where I wanted without getting pulled a big

Spain and Portugal: :)

They didn't even block each other attacks xD. They just kinda hit the air

@@ingesrum2566 i think that was the joke

@@aloyaltemplar1379 fair point

ca p I think he meant 1:34

Mathematically speaking a direct perpendicular blow against most things doesn’t yield the best results but if you do want to you can pump up your chest and hold your arms out for the swagger points

i think its also made to be used against rapiers and daggers.

All the montante things I've seen have thrusts worked in very often. Same with the german sources. I'm guessing they didnt just because getting hit with a thrusts hurts a lot more than a swing. I figured that our for myself with something as soft as a foam sword. The synthetic swords hurt enough that even after one day of practicing it we decided to hold off until we could get some hard chest protection. These were with one handed swords mind you. I don't even want to consider how much it sucks getting stabbed with a plastic montante.

Yeah, if youre trying to murder someone quickly, not have a fancy sparring match thats entertaining for viewers

You can see the guy winding up a lot of stabs without using it

I mean hes pretty fancy with it

@@oh-not-the-bees7872 that's what I mean xD

Yeah but a swing a Zweihänder is the best option to get spears out of the way ...

I think they sell them on hemasupplies, but only steel versions. I want synthethic versions.

It likely is

These swords can easily exceed 6 feet

Twirling the weapon is essential to keeping the momentum. Also, this is still a practice spar, so they cannot go all-out.

why thou?

@@J-IFWBR because thats a important part in using a great sword for duelling

@@kermitpedo8009 but its no great sword i thought?

@@J-IFWBR no a montante is a type of greatsword, any sword that goes up to a adults shoulder or higher normally is a greatsword

Unless you want to kill someone

Quite safe, fake swords, protective armoring, and most importantly good technique. It's still possible to get hurt, but that's the case with anything. Nothing more than a few bruises at worse I'd say

@@cuddles9952 Uhm, are you familiar with hema? Somehow I seem to derive from your comment you aren't.

Old comment I know. But this is very risky tbh. I have the same montante trainer and that thing delivers blows like no other, I think a serious strike could knock a man down

@@alastor1052 With the helmet?

@@jamie_d0g978 yes, the leverage is quite hefty on this thing, with a well powered cut to the head I think this could be quite a blow

If he dies. He dies

Since the actual weight of the sword were 2.5-4 kg, and the spinning moves you see were actually for feinting and gaint torque and momentum, a single tap would give a major knockback

well, no. Range is OP.

As opposed to sharp poly? lmao

It's not even metal

Correct. These are synthetic swords, designed to allow practice and (careful) sparring.

Montantes got down to five pounds and stopped at seven. Especially considering the balance, these techniques are all viable.

Stop it with your fantasy ya heretic

the sword is too small for that girl? but you are dumb or what, the sword have the size of the girl, if were bigger she cant handle properly, the swords is not related with the weight of the fighter but with the height, and with the length of the arms, this girl clearly have troubles to handle this sword cos she is very short, with a bigger sword she practically cant lift and she will strike the ground in every movement

That shit still hurts when you get hit fam.

A proper strike can still do some damage to a person. Doesn't need an edge to hurt

^ exactly

But isn’t that a little overboard, they look like deep sea divers

@@shoobill4553 nah, it's just enough