Don't sell yourself short. I like your more academic and historical approach. While practical knowledge like the other 3 have, that can also tend to overshadow other information, as they show a lot of the moves etc.

I have alway watched your channel primarily for your sharing of Historical, Cultural, and Martial information you share. I like your style of presentation of the subject matter quite alot. I think that when you move from sport fencing to HEMA you will have fun and deepen your knowlege. Most people forget that much of the European martial arts had to be recreated from manuscripts where as the Asian arts have been kept alive. I enjoy HEMA saber and rapier but like you it is very difficult to find trained instructors. I will keep enjoying your channel.

Knyght Errant lead me here! I haven't seen any of your other clips, I scrolled a tad through your video list and saw this, as a practicing HEMAist I chose to watch this video first, now, I don't know if you've started training yet... But a few things right off the bat:. 1. Honesty is something that makes me happy, I've gone off on long rants about my local, horrendous reenactment groups that are very dishonest about their authenticity... To themselves as well as others, heh, so, yeah... Being honest about ones knowledge is awesome. 2. You underestimate yourself. Being able to read ancient Italian is extremely useful... You've read Fiore, all you need to do is to interpret the techniques and do it with a friend(or more) and then you're practicing HEMA, that's how our modern Art started, that's how most clubs started... That's how the most knowledgeable of us started. On top of that... Yeah, you can read that stuff, HEMA is understaffed when it comes to translators, methinks you could potentially be a great resource for HEMA... There's still Italian stuff that isn't translated! 3. Olympic fencing and kendo are great bases for HEMA, a lot of good HEMA fencers have their backgrounds from there. =) 4. I'll check your videos out a bit more in a while and I might very well recommend you on my HEMA blog! =)

"The Noble 700." I see what you did there :P Great video as always. We appreciate your honesty, knowledge, and preachy-teachy style! I do, anyway. Really holds my attention because it communicates (and passes on) your excitement about a topic better than the words themselves.

I always considered channels like yours to be essential to the continuation of HEMA. Many people attamt to learn historical swordsmanship off of KZfaq, but many channels lack information which provides a historical context. in short, channels like yours help maintain the H, in HEMA.

As someone who also watches scholagladiatoria, lindybeige, and skallagrim, I will point out that I haven't subscribed to any of their channels but I have subscribed to yours. Apart from your exquisite accent and magnificent diction, I find your videos thoughtful, informative, and well presented. You make a valuable contribution to the HEMA community by providing a unique perspective.

In another video, I thought your Japanese pronunciation was very good. With this video, now I understand. Good luck in finding a good HEMA club in the future.

Metatron greeting from Prague dont be so humble youre like one of the most wise clever and cool guys here on this crazy yt world :D keep it up! I listen to your videos while working on my art! Its great! Love from cz

beautiful video! hey, something unrelated, i ve seen that there is a very old jousting event taking place in italy called the joust of the saracen. if you have time id love to hear some of the hisrory behind this event and stuff. oh and dont be so humble, even without a school you can study fiore and practice with friends and on the pell while you search for a solution in your search for a school! i wish you all the best my friend

Hi Metatron. I'm in the same boat as you, living in a small town with the nearest HEMA club several hundred kilometers away. I've been following Swordcarolina's series on German longsword for some solo practice and I've found their instruction to be very clear and helpful within the limitations of videos as opposed to face to face teaching. They are well worth checking out if you haven't already, although it obviously may not be so helpful if you are specifically interested in Fiore.

I kinda have the same problem as you, I can't practice HEMA right now. There is a club in my town but it's not very economical for me at the moment. I already practice kendo, I'm going to buy a hakama and I'm going to build a PC, plus I'm going to college next year, so unfortunately it will have to wait :C

My only advice: Hit them before they hit you. Good luck mate :)

Comments I read range from 8 yrs old to 4 yrs old w/ 1 one month ago; I've seen a few of your logician arguments and recognize the Philosophic protocols you use (& "truth table" forms), Truth be told, I like your style. I like the videos re: sword fights as martial arts. If I were younger (I'm four-score yrs of age now) and even if I were neared some who practice these forms, I would attend to view any events, and practices (but OK has nothing remotely near) so no personal practices for me. A query; are you still doind this and am I simply cruising the wrong video lanes?

Don't feel alone, there's no clubs where I live either. Martial arts in general is popular, but not HEMA specifically :( However, the Viking/Asatru community does seem to include practitioners. Hurrah!

I have heard that you can only keep antique armory in England :/ Its a bit funny that a country that has spread this whole medieval culture stuff around the world has such laws. I also heard that in Japan you have to get some license to own a real sword or katana. And here in Brazil we have a severe laws against firearms, but none forbidding the ownership of swords, knives, axes of any size. Well you can't walk around holding a sword or knife but you can keep it and you don't even have to get a license or anything. Ok, this is not related to this video. It was just my thoughts about how strange the laws can be in different countries.

What are your thoughts on the SCA?

So, it sounds like I would much prefer the "jutsu" more than the "do" I'm the kind of person who prefers to keep his fighting and his meditating separate.

Hello Metatron have you tried reenactment. If you find a group with unscripted combat it'll be fun. Although not as skilled as hema. But my group it's pretty good.

I guess the first rule of HEMA is not to tell anyone what HEMA is :D :D :D I like your videos, I just thought I'd post a silly comment about having to go and google what you're talking about :)

"a certain way of speaking" haha yeah, you remind me a lot of my university professors, they all have this kind of "preaching" quality to their speech, i think that is the one thing they all have in common.

This is a little off topic but you insinuate that you know multiple languages. So i would like to know how many languages do you know fluent or otherwise?

I have had a tendency to think of Kendo as both a Martial Art and a Sport. Can't it be both?

Metatron if you move back to England, you could move to the Great city of Exeter were they practice HEMA in its great cathedral, you’d love it

isnt dante medieval writer?

A thought: you could start a club? You've got 51k subscribers, maybe there's one or two in or near you. Or hell, just start asking us all to ask our friends... someone's gotta know someone in western Sicily who's interested in learning to hit each other with steel.

HEMA guys ever do matches against actual sword practitioners such as Kendo, Kumdo, or Chinese styles? I know HEMA guys always have a vast store of trivia, but what skills do you possess? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npyAm6x309e0mqM.html

Why is Fencing not considered a form of HEMA?

A little late now perhaps, have you found a club now, I wonder?

I think you'll find Musashi killed with a quatterstaff at 13 not a bokuto :P

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currently, i'm praticing a few fundaments from kali and "papamachete"(aperently, an armed haitian martial art/fencing technique that uses a machete as main weapon). i decided to pratice staff, machete and dagger techniques, because they are cheap and easy to get, the machete, for exemple, is the most popular tool in Brasil and i can buy a big one for just 12-16 reais(brasilian coin). in my opinion "HEMA", is much wider in therms of concept, i mean, the fundamental stone for the techniques execution can be adapted for a bunch of weapons and for that, i see HEMA as a concept, not a martial art itself. once again, great video o/

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I feel as though you cannot not speak in a way that makes you sound like the most knowledgeable person in the room teaching your interests. For example as I am watching this video I feel as though you are teaching me that you don't know what your talking about in such a way that you could very well be the most knowledgeable person in regards to knowing nothing about HEMA. That's teaching at its finest

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