Longsword Fighting - Awesome Exchanges!

Is there a group that does this in Colorado Springs?

having skills such as these in the uk will make u a god

Me and my homie when we see a stick

Anyone else wish this was in the Olympics?

Awesome sword play. And possibly the first time that Ive seen a bare foot swordsman.

Imagine practising your swordfighting skills and then dying in a 12 second long fight

those sport longswords are so gay. They are thin and light as fuck

That one hit to the nape looks like it hurt

u grab your blade circle parry then uppercut with handguard

Jesus the fights are decided in milliseconds.Before you know it your heads on the ground.

bare foot! ARGH my nerves :(

Now take HEMA right and apply the concept to all historical weapon martial arts from all countries with living martial systems and make this an Olympic sport. The "points" system HEMA currently uses is already good for larger use. Also even if culturally the country didnt use swords much most countries with a living or historically recorded martial system had spear techniques. And spears were everywhere. Could do divisions based on weapon.

so much easier to use a gun

Is swordsmanship harder and more exhausting than boxing?

Is thrusting not allowed or effective? I just stumbled into this.

And this isn’t in the olympics because..?

where do i sign up to do this holy hot diggity damn this looks fun

The slashes wouldn't count in full armor

Wow! The sound of ringing metal. The last sounds you hear before one perishes in combat.

Imagine all the noise from many hundreds swords in a battle back in the days

For the point system, they should also consider the impact force rather than just contact. You won't cut through full plate armour just by tapping it with a sword.

looks fun

I Googled this to get inspiration for a DnD fighter and I was not disappointed

Movie directors take note! Less is more in swordfighting, stop waving the swords around like crazy you damn action heroes!

GG!

If only the Witcher show looked like this

I was so engrossed I didn't notice one opponent changed to orange shirt

Badass. Love it.

This looks just like lightsaber fightings!

How much of the longsword fencing techniques are actually historically correct? What I mean by that is, how much of it is made up from reading older longsword manuals, and how much of it is actually historically correct...? I guess I could simplify the question...is this actually how people fought back in the 13th-14th century when longswords were popular?

Uhhh hope those were safe...

Good job guys. Great performance

i know the swords are dulled but fighting with your feet out had me worried lmao

just wondering, you wont get hurt with that right? looks heavy and sharp.

Good fight needs practice

I never expected it to be this quick.

Dont blades bite each other? Those are sliping around like a wet noodle

Where was this when I was growing up? lol

The one person rocking netherite boots

So in my local area they have SCA and I’m noticing that in my observation is that the SCA seems to approach things more in a hobbyist sense, whereas HEMA is more like what I am personally used to and much more like training in hand to hand martial arts in comparison where it seems…. More serious and less fan boy. I think I may start driving the hour and start going to some HEMA classes, especially since they teach small sword which is one of my all time favorites

The only time the red circle is actually helpful

Well, sportive longsword is a thing

Such a beautiful sound

I have to disagree that the long sword fighting and katana fighting are similar. Long sword fighting is based more on continuous strikes, thrusts, jabs and parries. A more aggressive fighting style. While Japanese sword fighting is based more on blocking and defensive strategy. Such as evasion and blocking and redirection. It's a more defensive style. That uses it's opponents strength against them.