Gripping the sword seems simple enough but there are often mistakes made. The sword is sometimes held too tightly or too loosely. The sword is sometimes held by the wrong fingers, or with the pressure of the wrong fingers. Each one of these elements can impact how the sword is used by the fencer. Of…
I’ve looked at antique cutlasses lots on my channel, but this is a sword with a difference. www.antique-swords.co.uk Extra videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scholagladiatoria
There is a connection between WW1 era British bayonets and Japanese samurai swords and knives that most people don’t know about. Here we look at the 1907 pattern British bayonet and its inspiration the Type 30 Arisaka. Extra videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scholagladiatoria
Historical Fencing products and equipment from Spain: mostly synthetic simulators. Website: https://blackfencer.com Facebook: Black Fencer
HEMA weapons and jackets Website: http://bloss.pl Facebook: Bloss – For Hemaists from Hemaist
To be effective at cutting we need the sword’s edge in alignment with its direction of motion. This means that the sword would trace a disk in space, rather than a cone like the umbrella zwerch. So how can we get a cutting plane for our zwerchau, while still hitting the target? Have the cut…
Thrand in collaboration with Chris Sizemore and Shawn Kreger test an English longsword technique called the Rownde or Round form the Ledall Roll a longsword fencing manual from 1535 and 1550 Tudor Period England. The Manual is assumed to be written by J Ledall,.The only fencer with the name J. Ledall currently known to be…
Did the Romans ever dual-wield their gladius swords, as seen in movies like Gladiator or TV shows like Spartacus? Looking at Roman weapons of war, as well as the equipment of the dimachaerus. Extra videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scholagladiatoria
There are only a couple dozen antique sparring longswords left in the world. This is one of the three that are in North America. Source (20:40):
