Yeeaaahh I've had to explain that to a lot of people over the years lol

Yeah, weirdly a lot of these kinds of weapons were employed as crowd control in confined spaces like narrow alleyways or in VIP protection so it relied a lot on sweeping maneuvers to cover from multiple directions presenting as much of a 360 degree threat space as possible. This video is hardly a good demonstration of those codified plays though and is more akin to just freeform flow drills loosely based on them.

It's a synthetic Montante training sword from Black Fencer. If you're in the US you can get them from SoCal Swords. Outside the US I believe Black Fencer ships most other places.

Yes they would be useless, the first person with a pointy stick and a shield is going to walk up and stab your through your liver while you spin around like a five year old girl with ballet slippers.

As nice as this looks, I do have to wonder how well this could be incorporated into a duel or battle- your legs, core, head and limbs are frequently exposed by these grandiose manuveurs, you keep turning your back to the front and you don't seem to be focusing on maintaining edge alignment during the follow through of your strikes. Its an elegant routine all the same.

@@bodaciouschad Yeah this is far from what would be considered duel appropriate. It'd be more akin to flow drills and exercise. The closest application you could probably find would be fending off multiple enemies, likely in confined quarters like a long alleyway or something like that.

Not exactly, no. It's loosely based in a European tradition of Iberian and Italian greatsword (called a montante) which is dance-like in some of its motions but the point isn't dance, no. It's mainly meant to be continuous flow of motion and protecting different angles of attack, often for simulating being accosted in an alleyway or something like that. What I'm doing in this video is a lot of freeform flow drills loosely based on that. :)

Kinda touches on HEMA i'd say. Movement combination might be freestyle, but then again, in practice you probably wouldn't follow scripture/literature 1:1 anyway, right? But sword flourishes def were a thing. There is ofc use of polearms and greatswords on the battlefields, but they also were utilized often by guards. In that context flourish like techniques make a lot of sense - not just for protecting different angles, but also cuz the continued motion is about as energy efficient as it gets. Don't get me wrong, def NOT an easy feat swinging around a heavy, large object like this over a longer time, but a lot less taxing than to stop and initiate motions and trying to abruptly changing traction of a swing. It also works as a great area denial tool when holding a position. Imagine guards doing this on a bridge or gate to keep an angry mob at bay - as long as they don't have projectiles launched at them or the opponent also got polearms, spears or other long wepaons I can def see this being efficient. Yes, you *might* be able to close the gap and murderstab the sucker if you are quick enough. You ALSO might make contact with 2-4 kg of moving, pretty sharp steel if you mess up. Doesn't take much imagination that is kinda detrimental to health and life expectation. Moves might not always look super impactful, but there is a reason 2 handers are an issue when it comes to HEMA sparring. Because even practice swords are seriously dangerous due to sheer mass. Sparring with them at realistic speed is neigh impossible cuz it is seriously risky.

@@vaisravana2092 lol I raise you armor and a shield. Kind of pointless to dance around if your opponent doesn't care.

@@grizzlyblackpowder1960 I mean even in armour I would not want to take a full force blow by a montante due to the sheer concussive force. But yes, ofc this is not something you would normally use against people in heavy armour or when embedded in military (pike)formations. It was not intended for that either? Like I do not understand your point. You had various weapons/ tools and techniques for different situations. That is common sense honestly. Take half-swording, developed specifically for close combat situations and armoured opponents, pretty useless at full distance against a halberd or pike. Does that make half-swording a bad technique? No. It makes it a bad situation to apply half-swording unless you get in. To pick and examine a *specific* scenario and to then assume that the result can be applied in a generalized context is honestly pretty silly. edit: typo

Except you get stabbed in the back a bunch of times with a simple dagger because you keep doing stupid spin moves.

@@grizzlyblackpowder1960 Finally someone understands that these do not work at all in any real life scenario , I am going through the comments and a lot of people think that it would work . These are only for the show and fun , nothing besides that .

They are cooler if you actually train and spar with them instead of dancing around a tennis court like some kind of inspired activist.

Yeah there are alot of spins here. More a form of sword ballet than any kind of serious training.

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jogo do pau share roots with the montante iberica

@@pixelversepixel4511 you would be a good jogo do pau fighter moving with that fluidity. You should try it if you can😉