An excellent video covering some generally good advice when it comes to thrusting, the author chose to do this with a longsword but a lot of this applies with other weapons as well.
There are also things you can do that are different to the suggestions noted here or actively contrary, however one can argue that such examples tend to be exceptions to the rule, or a stylistic difference between systems of fencing.
Timestamps:
“0:00 Intro
0:36 Distance
1:36 Arms Extension
2:30 Arms First...
4:29 Bind Awareness
5:18 Gain Degrees
6:31 Touch First, Oppose After
8:21 Use Opponent's Times
9:20 Do Not Tense up!
10:57 Use confusing Rhythms
11:59 If it Doesn't Work...”
For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:
Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts
Remember to check out A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.
Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by Kajetan Sadowski may be relevant as well.
“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills” by Rob Gray as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.
Another useful book to check out is The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).
Trauma informed coaching and why it matters
Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial
Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.
How consent and opting in function and why it matters.
More on tactics in fencing
Open vs closed skills
The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing
Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.
And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.
Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.
For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.
Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.
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A bizalom egy kétélű kés. Átadod valakiknek és reméled hogy nem szúr vele hátba. Szúrt hátba olyan ember akire nem számítottál?
Trust is a knife with to edge. You gave it to someone and hopefully she doesn't stick it to your back.
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