Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Fighting with Sword & Buckler is a pleasure!
It's the weapon combination that brought me to the Bolognese sources, so it holds a special place in my heart. Here we use a historically inspired ruleset, that Manciolino would hopefully approve of. I edited the footage and added commentary - how do you like it?
00:00 Marius vs. Martin (Semifinal)
02:16 Alex vs. Lorenzo (Semifinal)
04:30 3rd Place Match
06:34 1st Place Match
In historical fencing or HEMA (for Historical European Martial Arts) we reconstruct sword fighting systems from historical sources. Our club focuses on Italian medieval and renaissance sources, fencing with the Spadone (Two-Handed Sword), Spear, Sidesword (One-Handed Sword) together with Shield, Cape, Dagger, you name it!
#hema #sidesword #swordfighting
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Fighting with Sword & Buckler is a pleasure!
It's the weapon combination that brought me to the Bolognese sources, so it holds a special place in my heart. Here we use a historically inspired ruleset, that Manciolino would hopefully approve of. I edited the footage and added commentary - how do you like it?
00:00 Marius vs. Martin (Semifinal)
02:16 Alex vs. Lorenzo (Semifinal)
04:30 3rd Place Match
06:34 1st Place Match
In historical fencing or HEMA (for Historical European Martial Arts) we reconstruct sword fighting systems from historical sources. Our club focuses on Italian medieval and renaissance sources, fencing with the Spadone (Two-Handed Sword), Spear, Sidesword (One-Handed Sword) together with Shield, Cape, Dagger, you name it!
#hema #sidesword #swordfighting
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Music: The Witcher 3 - OST
Music Created By: Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski and Percival ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪
![Learn Sidesword - #4 Defenses & Counters vs. Cuts [Full Lesson]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PmqDnESDxD0/mqdefault.jpg "Learn Sidesword - #4 Defenses & Counters vs. Cuts [Full Lesson]
In this series we learn how to fight with a sword - or a sidesword to be precise. The modern term Sidesword is usually referring to transitional weapons between the medieval arming sword and the renaissance rapier - in their time, they were most often called spada (= sword), which is a one handed sword that could take any shape depending on its context. This is our current interpretation of Giovanni dallAgocchies defenses & counters for the single sword. Its based on the current translation of Jherek Swanger (an older one can be found on Wiktenauer, see down below).
This a part out of fifth principal heading (out of six in total), Giovanni dallAgocchie used to teach fighting with a sword.
Free Lesson Plan #1 (pdf):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cmje5yt3r6xn91v/Sidesword_Lessons.pdf?dl=0
Future lessons (videos) will be:
- Defenses & Counters (vs. Thrusts)
- Voids vs. Parries
- Different starting guards
- Historical defense & counters drill
- Provocations (multiple lessons)
- Strette (close play, multiple lessons)
- Tempi, moments to attack (Already did that! :D https://youtu.be/QhnEJ025Duo)
We used a Malleus Martialis, a Regenyei and a Kvetun Sidesword to film these.
Image & Media sources:
https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Achille_Marozzo (images)
https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Giovanni_dall%27Agocchie (you find the old translation here)
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:57 How to form coda lunga
03:13 Against a mandritto to the head
05:29 Advice on drilling
06:36 FOOTWORK!
10:28 Varying the attacks
11:33 Against a riverso to the head
12:54 MORE FOOTWORK!
14:25 Decision Drills
16:50 Against strikes to the front leg
18:45 Transitioning to sparring
20:24 Final words
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Music Created By: Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski and Percival ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪")
