Trying out providing running commentary with the sparring footage on this one. Please let me know if you prefer this over having just the footage to watch!
We are both using longswords from SIGI. Mine is a Shorty Feder, and my sparring partner's is a Shorty King. sigiforge.com/
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As a noob trying to learn HEMA things, the voiceover was a HUGE help in comprehending every little thing that happened so fast. Big ups for this one
Also I love how gracefully you support your opponent's plays as well as yours. If he did something well you point it out so we can learn from your wrongs and his rights. That thrust at 3:05 was nice :D
Same here, much appreciate this kind of content
The VO is a big help :)
Seriously without it it's all just cool sword swinging for me
Narration is so helpful!!! Now I can put terms to what all skills we'd been working on. So cool.
As someone who loves watching your videos but I don't know much about sparring, the narration is really valuable and really helps me watch the whole thing without becoming disengaged. Thanks Robin!
Love this format and great fencing!
The voiceover definitely adds value, it helps keep track of the action and lets us know what you were intending to do, rather than just seeing the end result once the plan has made contact with the enemy, as it were. Great video as always!
Dig the voiceover. Also love the distance management, no wild collisions. Very clean fencing!
I keep coming back to this, your flow is fantastic. Constantly moving from one action to the next without stopping or pausing in between is something I've been trying to practice, so I keep stealing bits of your footwork and follow-on actions to try out in sparring.
the narration is super useful for people who don’t know a lot about the technique behind it (me) awesome job!
More of this
The narration is great and really helps to visualice what we’ve seen in static training situtions Also hearing the “i miss a beat and i run in to the point” made the video for me, so unexpectesdly funny
This is so cool! It makes much more sense with the voice over explanation. Good learning tool
I think the voice over is great. I really enjoy the added perspective, and I think the insight is instructive.
I started off coming here just to say your style in your other videos is impeccable, now I'm just sitting here enjoying some HEMA exchanges.
It works
Like many others, I had no idea how complex this practice was. With your videos like this I get a chance to see respectfully created historically accurate sword combat
The narration really helps my understanding of how to use different techniques, please keeo it up
Haha this is sick. The narration is cool so we can see the techniques. Sparring and sword combat is interesting.
I love this format! My group hasn't been training so I've been training by myself sometimes. The narration helps understanding what is happening and just watching these allows me to learn a few things myself! Please bring more of these!
That was very interesting. I have to rewind often to really see everything you bring up, your explanations make the footage all the more insightful.
Loved to hear your voice, it adds a lot to the fencing you look amazing. keep it up!
Thank you for the narration. It really adds educational value and clarity to the video.
Really liked the voiceover!
Would love more of this. Can quite happily watch this all day.
Definitely a fan of the voiceover - noting the plans you had for the night and seeing the intentions behind each exchange are a cool new layer. I’m also appreciative that you show your sparring partner’s good hits, too. And great fencing from both you and your sparring partner, keep it up!
Very helpful to hear the commentary. Thanks !
Voice over was peak thanks!!!
i'd like to imagine someone walking home late at night and then seeing two guys fighting with swords lol
Some lovely exchanges and the voice over was great.
You both are very great to watch when you guys spar, both of you guys are skilled and yet both of you get better as you progressed, I hope you guys get into one of those renaissance fair battle contests. You both would make a great team, and tbh you'd probably win too.
This is the most interesting!! It’s awesome.. it all interesting but this is gold!
Excellent video, I can't wait to get into this sport
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As someone who does foam, this was great! thanks!
Narration helps a ton. Thank you.
Voice over is great!
Love the Voice over, love the video !
Definitely appreciate the voice over
Cool to see you in action.
Awesome video!
love the inclusion of the voice over!
your fencing is very clean, congrats
Good stuff, love the VO
I very much enjoyed the voiceover! Definitely learned a lot. (When you said "got my second wind" my brain immediately went to DnD and said "oh so he'd be a Fighter" 😂)
Really nice exchanges !
The voice over is nice.
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Yes! Do more voice overs, please!
Maan these sword clashes make bad ass noises
The voice over is great! Please continue. 😅
Awesome. Good outro jazz.
The VO was very useful, made me really think about doing this as a training/review tool. I liked the way you had added the hits with Xs, is there a simple to use tool for doing this?
I add them in with my video editing software. They're easy enough to do.
I wanted to just point out a difference I noticed. I saw that when you stepped, your feet got closer together while at my club, I learned to step so they got further. I thought it was interesting seeing how interpretations differ.
Love the voiceover. It's my first time seeing any kind of sword sparring so I would have lost interest within the first minute without the commentary. One more note, I didn't know which person was you until I inferred it after four bouts. Would be helpful to new viewers if you briefly indicated which one you are.
3:37 is my favorite
where is your stab when it is wide open? just a 56 old Dutch HEMA fan that came arcoss this video! I am out there since 2019 so still learning!
Great vid! Random question, is there a weapon equivalent to a beer keg? My friend's and I used to play Brush v Keg and we are split on which should win consistently with trained fighters. I'm a brush man myself. (sweeping brush)
I like the voice over. İt's more educational
I’m interested in learning do you have any recommendations on where to start for example some sort of classes or something
Hey, I am interested in swordfighting, but i did not understand the difference between hema and fencing and signed up for fencing classes. If i were to switch to hema after my 9 week class is up, how well would any skills transfer. Very insightful and entertaining video, by the way.
Sport fencers making the jump usually do really well, though with only 9 weeks, it won't make a huge difference either way
thank god for armor, fights would be over in a second
How does one get into sword sparring I did fencing as a kid and it was really fun
Have you done a video on the most realistic sword fighting game, Hellish Quart?
do you have any material on using footwork to simultaneously deceive a cut and deliver your own cut?
You should check out For Honor’s New Warden Animations!! (Hilt strikes)
Voice over good.
Can you explain how you do your flurry without eating a zornhau or zornort as you press? Are you reading that they'll respect it? Or is there something I'm missing.
Column A, Column B? Sometimes the flurries don't work out, but I can generally read when launching one full tilt will draw the passive response I'm looking for. It's this balancing act of knowing you can push them, but push them too long and they'll find the gap and exploit it.
Do the x’s mean hits or blocks?
I tried longsword with soft swords recently, but didn't like it. Still this looks very interesting
Soft like for larping or polypropylene? Cause polypropylene allows to work with thrusts, while larping swords are like sausages
@@janedanchinova7072 in Russia it's called Modern Sword Battle and it's definitely not the larp swords. I was told only the sabre allows for thrusts because it bends
@@akdele5 oh, I get it. SMB is fun but too unrealistic. While we have larp community in Russia most fencing is on swords with fiberglass blades. I actually have one longsword made out of fiberglass. It has weight behind every blow, it acts almost like real thing. Yet thrust are forbidden since blade doesn't bend and fencer is risking fatally stabbing their partner. Fiberglass swords are more common for field role-playing games. We also have HEMA or reconstruction clubs in most of regions. I recommend you to try them out - those are good
@@janedanchinova7072 I'm going to try out HEMA, but I've still yet to get equipment and get good with the techniques. I still don't understand why you'd do a windup attack with a sabre though, isn't it more effective when you just extend your arm from the guard? It makes the attack twice as fast
@@akdele5 it might look like that. The purpose of winding up is to set chain of blows, mostly 3 or 4 in a row. It almost impossible to hit experienced fencer with one blow since their reaction time is on par with one of a cat. Knowing that you try to manipulate opponents blade in place where it can't block your next strike
How is this not equivalent to playing laser tag with a 9mm auto loaded with hydra-shock JHP? Because getting tagged with one of those would be about the same.
Which swords were both of you using? Is one of them a sigi king?
I have a SIGI Shorty Feder and they have a SIGI Shorty King
Make video more about polearms
I have no idea, but I really dislike going for people's hands, it just seems...boring. Though, Im curious if it's realistic or we just assume its realistic. I'd like to get into HEMA, but I dont have any facilities near me.
Enough sparring, you should join a real battle, i believe you are ready
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Hi Robin, are you going to shoot a video with a great sword sparring or are you not so good at it?
They're not safe to spar with. They're too long and have too much mass. You'd have to either move a lot slower or use a padded simulator.
Well, the people at HEMA are fighting on them, albeit slowly, but they are fighting.@@robinswords
By the way, then you can try to fight in armor, if your opponent has them.) But this is completely different.
You should practice actually abzuging instead of just separating
I have a tendency towards retreating under guard, but I am of a mind to drill more proactive withdrawals.