Deadliest Art: A documentary on Historical European Martial Arts

What about the Martial Arts, within the Roman Empire, led by glittering Constantinople, the longest running empire in world history? Why is this history so silent?

HEMA i think is the components of diffrrent styles during the medieval era but not the ancient (bronze era) style. Ancient is the best in close combat medieval era is the best in distance fighting(second to gun fighting). Bronze era swordsman were so good that they are believe to be god status being.

There should be movies about Historical European martial arts, no 18th century fencing, cliches.

No books writen by masters exists. They coundnt write and draw.

I personally have practised wrestling and now I do boxing but I didn't know there was such a thing. I always liked that type of combat, especially spears.

The Hema Alliance isn't all that hot. There are other large Hema groups which are as good and better. Marsden's Hema alliance tightly and aggressively controls and punishes free speech within its ranks, while aggressively pushing a revisionist history of Europe that suits wishful thinking on their part. For example, I received severe trouble from them for merely mentioning the Crusades. In my opinion, HEMA is great but that alliance does not represent it well!

Join ARMA or some other group aside from HemaA.

This is a great way to study martial arts in general. Why the hell do all other martial art schools (mainly USA here) not follow something like this, especially for something like mma (would be a great goal wouldn’t it)? I mean the concepts of studying the styles and techniques not using the weapons.

Great video, horribly over dramatic narration.

For those saying eastern martial arts cant be used in ufc. Remember, almost all mma/ufc fighters have trained in the eastern martial arts (fedor, silva, gsp, mcgreggor, machida, and many others.) Bjj came from judo which is eastern, kickboxing came from muay thai which is eastern, according to historians the mongolians (east) were the first who founded complex wrestling arts, not the greeks (west). And theres mma competitions in the east as well, the martial arts world does not revolve around ufc, the asians fighters they invite to ufc mostly has to fight someone younger than him which is not fair. If u say asian cant fight westerner i have two words for u, MANNY PACQUIAO

Why does the name Joachim sound so epic when an English speaking person says it?

NB: A book on Historical European Martial Arts is a HEMA tome.

Does HEMA have a branch in England?

The burping potato in the opening screen really is something.

ps ch is not pronounced k

I'm so pleased one of the students said there are similarities.

its so obvious that there are similarities because people are the same basic structure and there are only so many ways to move.

a sword is a sword and a straight,double edged sword of 3 1/2 ' long is gonna be used the same way no matter the culture it came from

Look at German Larping for example Epic Empires

Fechtbook means Fencing Book and the ch is pronounced soft

well i'm black so as for connecting with my ancestory.....

need to find some good DVDs for long sword broad sword shield and sword and unarmed skills

want to study Hema only the few that teach it in my area never meet in the same place or at the same time or day they are not reliable teachers for the art

Come for the cheesy growling bear animation … stay for the self-important narrator; surprised I made it all the way through actually - I guess, despite some pretty bad production choices, the topic is interesting enough, that the less than stellar vid isn't enough to wreck it, but boy, it's trying.

I'm an eastern martial arts learner and there are a lot of similarities between the karate and aikido that I know, but I am also planning on learning some HEMA because it's interesting to learn my own countries past and it looks effective, a lot of Asian martial arts are slow progression and not fully about fighting, but more discipline and self respect, this looks in some ways more effective.

Huh, I thought white people only used common sense back in those medieval ages and those who got their own techniques kept their techniques.

a misconception is this is the deadliest art. it's not

They give LARP a bit of shit lol

dat cgi bear tho, can't get more realistic than that

Excellent effort ! i congratulations for you will of open the ancient European combat techniques teachings to the modern world ! All my respect from me Reikihapkido aka nanda suta !

I'm surprised that they are surprised that europe actually had sofisticated Marshall arts.

Very nice introduction to Western martial arts. It's a myth that Europe did not have sophisticated martial arts but w/ the advent of guns, many traditional fencing or martial art schools died out in Europe. We still have boxing, wrestling & fencing in the West but they are taught as sports rather than combat. Many of the techniquest demonstrated in this short video remind me of Filipino martial arts (FMA), especially the disarms. I am studying FMA now & one difference I notice between FMA & other popular martial arts (taekwondo, karate, kung fu) is that FMA places more emphasis on strikes to the limbs rather than traditional blocks or parries. This is known as "defanging the snake" or destructions in FMA.

why isn't catch wrestling mentioned.... Catch wrestling and boxing are quintessential European/western martal arts imo

what is gregorian chant in the beginning?

LOL They all claim "It's not larping".

Where can i get those leather like practice swords? They look very interesting for training

PARADOXES OF DEFENCE
There are four special marks to know the Italian fight is imperfect, & that the Italian teachers and setters forth of books of defence, never had the perfection of the true fight.
by George Silver, Gentleman.
London,
Printed for Edward Blount.
1599

lol a jedi would destroy them

In my opinion people should drop their advance weapon (guns, nuke, bomb,etc) and use the sword again. Why? welp you dont have 100% control when you are using a gun, nuke, bomb, etc even if you are an expert. With a sword you can with lots of training. This way we wouldn't "accidently" get civilian casualties as much and others stuft.

HEMA needs uniformity and a official set of protective equipment- most people who I've seen are just all over the place and look like kids swinging sticks....

It makes me wonder how many European martial arts have been lost to times. What we have now is mostly only German and Italian manuscripts, yet I doubt we will find out how, for example, Old Norse fought.

of course ,there are similarities. human body is same everywhere and eventually ,you will come to similar conclusions because of biomechanics.

Great little documentary, even with the budget I can tell you guys put a lot of effort in!

longswords are very impractical in close-quarters combat...yes it has a quite decent reach and is very difficult to block but is also heavy and unbalanced making slow and easier to disarm

"HOW TO ROB A PEASANT"? I think the government in USA has already mastered that chapter of the book, buddy.

its funny. as a child everyone told me a sword was extremely heavy and I always thought to myself that it must be complete bullshit.

I mostly see longsword (ok a little of rondel and messer) why? HEMA is much more than this....and not only German ;)

I would like to know about Viking fight tech !

Can someone tell me which Master wrote about robbing a peasant? Was it Talhoffer? Meyer? Ringeck?