maybe look out for Montante Niño

There's a video called Montante Public demonstration which is about as close as you'll get

The big swords are the ones you have to utilise a beautiful flowing style for; you have to use the momentum to keep going or you'll bee far too slow and get killed.

@@monsieurboks zweinhander isn't so slow and weight only 3 to 5 kg, a well trained warrior can be like a one-man-one-army. That weapon is more like a polearme

Truly a beautiful fighting style, the zwe hander has a mix of elegance and power like no other

It's more just area denial for trying to survive against multiple opponents

I mean with a great sword it’s not as big of a problem as with a shorter one, long sword they woudl just stab you with a great sword even if they did the sword then whirls around and gets them

*Very* effective. They left out key components in the arts of defense for demonstration and safety, but the big sword was developed to fight multiple opponents at once, using its range and power to cause devastating wounds and it was also an agile weapon when up close as well. Other people would have to get close enough to your legs first off, and attacking your lower body completely exposes them to deadly torso and head-neck attacks. Suicide. Plus there's no rule that says you can't drop the big sword in a surprise moment and kill them with your knife.

Feet should not be your target with a sword, especially a two-handed one. Fior dei Liberi says to never attack lower than the knee, and that low attacks leave you uncovered. Liecthenauer teaches us of the over-reaching in which your opponent strikes to a lower opening and one voids their lower body back while striking the head. The great sword has immense reach, and anyone with a shorter weapon (the type of opponents montante is primarily intended to com combat) will never be able to safely reach your lower openings.

The sword is so long, that unless your opponents have weapons of similar or greater length, your legs are almost totally safe. If they do have weapons of comparable or greater length, technique will be what protects you.

Every move has its strength and weakness. A great sword can be 1.8metres or taller so ducking towards the feet of somebody wielding one means you need to cover a lot of ground and youll get nailed in the back by your intended victim as a consequence.

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For when you can't run.

Yes, you're right, it's time for a new seminar. ;-)

According to pictures on the shoulder. Almost always without scabbard. They were not razor sharp either.

They aren't for carrying around, they are battlefield weapons.

The Regenyei Montante is 2430 g. You can also use heavier swords depending on how long you train with it. But for a training over 2 hours everything over 2.5 kg is sometimes too heavy and the execution becomes unclean.

That sword looks disgusting

Yes, with restrictions, a Montante is sharp on both sides.

The swords we use are partly simulators and slightly thinner (about 2-3kg) to train for hours. In addition, the museum exhibits are mostly ceremonial swords worn on the shoulder to impress. They often weigh 4-5kg. With this weight, while a "Clegane" can act fast and enduring but not all others.

never mind the fact it's extremely hard to actually find zweilanders to buy. Unless you pay a local craftsman to make it for you in my searching I've only found zwei trainers and the ritter steel one.

Why free style? this is HEMA, these techniques are from medieval fighting manuscripts.

Well, in W1 Geralt's steel sword looks more like two-handed sword.

Kamil Szadkowski longswords are two handed swords tho, with the exception of the hand and half sword (or bastard sword)

That's right. Since nobody knows how this weapon was used against pike formation, everything else remained just speculation. Nevertheless, we have tested in our association. At the latest after 3 seconds every Montantero was "dead".

You probably never will ;) If you go full contact with these the risk of lethal injury is too big. Gear won't help much. That's what I was told by some montante users.

Hallo Urazoe, danke für deinen Kommentar. Das Video ist ein Seminar-Bericht und keine Technik Demonstration. D.h. die Teilnehmer haben die Abläufe in 3-4 Stunden geübt und dann (so gut es ging) angewendet. Wie gut das bei geübter Fechter funktionieren "kann" ... nun das können wir so vor der Tastatur ohnehin nicht ausdiskutieren. Wenn du mal in Bielefeld bist.. besuche uns einfach beim Training oder komm am 18. November zur unsere Zweihänder-Seminar. Anmeldung: www.drey-wunder.de/component/vikevents/?view=event&itid=6&Itemid=565

ich sehe das ganze eher mehr wie ein form übung, wie zum beispile bei takekwondo oder karate. Wenn sich die möglichkeit bietet würde ich liebent gerne bei euch vor bei kommen. Denn nicht ist besser als es zu testen um sich eine begründete meineung zu bilden. Und natürlich bin ihc auch generell an hema interresiert. sohebe ich das viedoe immerhin auch gefunden

Wenn jemand wirklich geübt ist und richtig Schwung in die Bewegungen bringt, schnelle und wechselnde Regra führt, wird das ein Wirbel in den man sich nur ungern hineintraut wenn man eine Waffe von kürzerer Reichweite hat.Davon abgesehen gibt die Historie der Wirksamkeit dieser Waffe wohl Recht.

The internet is not the place to test (your) theories.

Old post, but the fencing master Diogo Gomes de Figueiredo composed the 16 rules of the Montante, and his 8th rule specifically covers fighting against a shielded opponent. It consists of a lot of low sweeps aimed to get under the shield and hit their legs.

would love to see your facial expression after blocking a strike with your shield from a 80kg man who attacks you with putting his whole bodyweight and momentum into a spinning attack with a 4kg and 2meters long sword. A spinning heel KICK reaches up to 750pounds of force. Now imagine it with a giant greatsword and better be prepared to enjoy the hand shock when holding your shield with one hand.