Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago
This is a short interview with Roland Warzecha from Dimicator at the viking-age settlement of Hedeby (Haithabu) in the North of Germany, one of the most influential trading center and cultural melting pot of the “Viking-age”, for this year’s 2021s Hedeby Bouts organized by him.
A special thanks to the Ute Dreves former director of the “Wikinger Museum Haithabu" of the Landesmuseen Schleswig Holstein (haithabu.de/)” for letting Roland create this fantastic recuring event here and also the current Direktor Matthias Toplack allowing us to stay and live in the Viking houses for this weekend. And again, special thanks to Roland for the organization, invitation to come here and also having this interview with me.
You can find more informations on the Hedeby Bouts on Rolands Patreon page: (patreon.com/posts/general-info-on-25893524
Timetable:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Rolands background
01:42 What are the hedeby bouts?
03:06 What kind of weapons?
04:01 What kind of (modern) protection?
05:02 Fencing without protective gear.
06:02 What about period correct protection?
06:33 Why in the viking museum of Hedeby (Haithabu)?
08:00 What are your 2-3 advices on becoming a better fencer?
09:50 Acknowledgement
10:18 Outro
10:43 Chicken!!!
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This is a short interview with Roland Warzecha from Dimicator at the viking-age settlement of Hedeby (Haithabu) in the North of Germany, one of the most influential trading center and cultural melting pot of the “Viking-age”, for this year’s 2021s Hedeby Bouts organized by him.
A special thanks to the Ute Dreves former director of the “Wikinger Museum Haithabu" of the Landesmuseen Schleswig Holstein (haithabu.de/)” for letting Roland create this fantastic recuring event here and also the current Direktor Matthias Toplack allowing us to stay and live in the Viking houses for this weekend. And again, special thanks to Roland for the organization, invitation to come here and also having this interview with me.
You can find more informations on the Hedeby Bouts on Rolands Patreon page: (patreon.com/posts/general-info-on-25893524
Timetable:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Rolands background
01:42 What are the hedeby bouts?
03:06 What kind of weapons?
04:01 What kind of (modern) protection?
05:02 Fencing without protective gear.
06:02 What about period correct protection?
06:33 Why in the viking museum of Hedeby (Haithabu)?
08:00 What are your 2-3 advices on becoming a better fencer?
09:50 Acknowledgement
10:18 Outro
10:43 Chicken!!!
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If you would like to support us, visit our patreon:
patreon.com/SchildwachePotsdam
Follow us on instagram:
instagram.com/schildwachepotsdam
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♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪
Music Provided: Mediacharger - youtube.com/user/MediaCharger
Music Created By: Random Mind
Song Title: The Old Tower Inn
Credit link: goo.gl/cN3oi3
Creative Commons: Attribution
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 Provided: Mediacharger - https://www.youtube.com/user/MediaCharger
Music Created By: Random Mind
Song Title: The Old Tower Inn
Credit link: https://goo.gl/cN3oi3
Creative Commons: Attribution
Music: The Witcher 3 - OST
Music Created By: Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski and Percival ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪")
