Great video. We are all human. Who can say about himself that he never talk shit, even when he should know it better!

The video is so entertaining! 'Chuvalry'; a great swipe at Hema nonsense. Boris, pls post your tourney videos soon...

Generally agree. One minor point: An appeal to authority is only a fallacy when it's misused. For example if you brought in an Olympic fencing instructor to support a point about a HEMA interpretation. He's a fencing expert sure, but not in the relevant field. Another way it can become a fallacy is if the expert is intentionally skewing facts to support their hypothesis. Someone can certainly have a good track record as an expert, but then they have a bias when it comes to certain things. George Silver and his disdain for the rapier come to mind. But in general you want to use experts armed with facts and logic to support your arguments as much as possible. Otherwise you might seem like you made it all up.

Nice job addressing philosophical fallacies, the flaw in the articles statistical analysis, and thank you for citing YOUR sources. High Respect.

Okay, just a two remarks; First of all, it´s hardly a scientific article that demands links, sources and substantiation for every statement. It´s a longish post on his patreon were he is trying to get people hyped for his upcoming online class on I.33. He just made a (apparently controversial) statement to raise peoples interests, let us not blow things out of proportions here. Secondly, you have generously provided a link to the article in question. In Mr. Warzechas post you will find two further links. The first one leads to a post about the time he went to a museum and got to examine four swords from their collection. Said swords happened to be quite long. He then goes on to explain that such sword are underrepresented in modern HEMA. Nowhere in either the original or the secondary post does he make the claim that his idea about sword-length is based on these four swords specifically. It´s just an example for long arming-swords. The second link will take you to one of his videos. Not event two minutes in he makes it very clear that his view on sword-length is based on several swords which he has examined over the years, not just four swords as you claim. The way it is, you are misrepresenting his position. My question would be; have you clicked the second link and watched his video? If not, that´s a great example for what you could do in therms of "better research" before criticizing someone, expert or not. If you are curious about how and why is findings apparently differ from Oakeshotts, I´m sure he is willing to share that information.

Why this has to be taught nowadays is beyond me,its well done sir

Hey Boris, Chrys/Renos here, good job on the channel, you just got a new subscriber ;-) 'Standard' and 'Average' length of swords, oh what a mess we have to deal with here. Speaking of standards, according to whom and in what kind of environment? Who forced the standards? Did a military general pushed a standard on blade length for 'tactical/technical' reasons in a specific battlefield environment? Was it the State forcing the Citizen carry a blade of very specific standards? Was it the rules of dueling in a city, state or certain culture, that were demanding people face each other with same type and length blades to make it fair? Or the needs of mass production because you cant have every damn soldier 'ordering' a custom sword? They would get whatever was given to them when they joined the army or the expedition. People tend to prefer sword length according to their height. Personally, I am 186cm and I feel more comfortable with a 130cm+ overall length longsword and a 100cm+ overall length side-sword and especially for the longsword, it's not for me the length of the blade, but mostly the length of the grip that would make me prefer an overall longer sword over another. But this just my personal preferences. Then come the modern needs of HEMA competition. Competition is duel and there is a need to diminish advantages and disadvantages in weapon length, so you force people to compete as close as possible to the 'standard' and the 'average'. This whatever standard, by default, will lead people that tend towards the extremes (very short or very tall people) feel uncomfortable using a blade a bit far from their 'personal standards'. But hey, their problem, fair play is never fair :-) And then comes the bigger question. In a HEMA competition environment full of mixed tournaments, whenever men's and women's categories cannot be filled properly, is any kind of 'standard' for both genders fair or even logical, since average heights are different? Are museum sword studies really helpful for us today, since the standards of the 'average sword' and the 'average male soldier' of the medieval and renaissance times, always depending on the city, the needs, the culture, the ethnic differences in body size are so much different from the 'standards' of today? Just throwing sh it I have on my mind now, hoping that you get back with another vid on the matter and to break your balls as always :-P

The problem with HEMA is that "experts" can't exist, because no modern self-declard "swordsman" will ever have any practical experience. It's like a swimmer who trains his entire life with dry methods how to swim but who will never ever set foot into an actual body of water.

I use a longsword 86cm of blade, very fun tu use but it is so hard to fight the 95-100 cm standard that I can't recommend it but to do Fiore short play it's awesome

An expert not only can cite sources, but cite so many of them that it can become overwhelming to make a single conclusion lol

I was like "Oh youre going afte Roland W., thats gonna be interesting how you would tackle his bulletpr....oh okay, its about that armingswordlength thing... yeah. no. thats bs. true." :D

I give thumb just for title, didn't seen video yet

Everything I have read or watched of Roland Warzecha's was dubious at best. From his claim that medieval people pranced about on their toes to using I.33 to recreate Viking Era sword and shield fighting . . .

"Sword in the Age of Chuvalry"

The real problem is people calling themselves instructors when they the dont even know how to cut properly, picking on longsword, they dont understand the postures, footwork or anything else relying on dodgy interpretations which have been pulled directly out of their ass. Lets be clear people, anyone calling themselves a HEMA instructor is trying to teach you something they dont know. This unpopular opinion comes from my years in HEMA and the years i spent in a real 1000 year old historical eastern european martial art and research into all the living traditions i could find. The result is i know how the primary cuts of german longsword are actually done, then the 5 master strikes were easy to discover. They work beautifully against HEMA though i usually just hit them in the head with a opening vertical strike because their bad counterstrikes can't protect them. I enjoy watching their hands get higher and higher in cutting trying not to get hit, maybe one day they'll abandon cutting from the shoulder with their hands low in front of their body's and flicking the point forward in the cut making it as fast as they possibly can since they dont understand thats not actually where they are supposed to be cutting from or how the primary cuts are performed, but really is just a place you can start from to develop power in the cut moving to the hands over the head into vom tag posture and learn that these are not elbow but rather shoulder strikes and that the elbow is not pulled down in cutting but rather is pushed up and out keeping the arms high. Knowing how to hold the sword and the proper longpoint position of the hands is necessary as well, but untill then I'll just keep whacking them on their heads. I make no claims to being an instructor

Wait... None of this has anything to do with saying... Hema Experts are SHIT... ALSO.. the guy said... 80 to 90... That is not bullshit... That is correct... The average is that... It isn't a BULLSHIT, claim as you say

Yeah Jesus "Warzecha" Christ has a really bizarre following. His amazing new stepping technique, his insistance that the common guards used "even when ignorant in the art of fencing, make use of these seven guards" must be performed in extremely specific ways, his "I33 uses two perspectives in the illustrations above and below the waist" so incidentally its all just rapier and generations of new hemaists religiously following his commandments.