This is a short video I took of me working on my pell. Mods, if this is the wrong place please feel free to move it. I'm incredibly rusty and obviously a novice. I'm also desperately short on feed back here in Louisiana. Any advice or criticisms would be very welcome. YouTube - Pell Work (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nMlq1-vIQc)

Hello

You are doing fine.
My take is that you are practicing a mix of Italian and German 15th century

You timing in the strike is good, i.e. you do strike in time of the hand, body an foot.
However sometime you arms movement is so large that you end up in a false time which leaves you open to counter.
if your are training for un-armoured, what really maters is tip velocity so you want to stike as if you were painting.

When you are chaining movements, you keep your hand and technique in front of you, and that is good, you just need to apply that to you initial strike.
Each of your initial strike use a lot of arm and little hips, so you have bit of your body that stick out and your opponent sword can land on that, even you hit him or deflect his strike.

I know it his hard to when practicing alone, but each of attack or defence need to cover any direct line of attack, as you wanted to hide behind your sword

When you thrust from the ox or deliver a Zwerch, You move your hand back towards you head, your hands should keep moving forward and up so that you can tuck up you head in.

Have look that it should help to show what I mean and where I come from.
It is very slow and broken down but they just posted the bit where I explained what happens.

YouTube - Stage Escrime médiévale Lille 2009 - 2ème Session - partie 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fg4HVZoNG4)
YouTube - Stage Escrime médiévale Lille 2009 - 2ème Session - partie 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZI9Em6VLR8)

If you have any questions or doubt fire away. (by no means what i am saying is gosspel)

I'd like to hear more about how you built your pell.

Thanks Phil. I'll work on all of that. I meant to post earlier that I work mostly out of Sigmund Ringecks Knightly Art of the Longsword. Sadly I broke my waster in that session, so until I repair or replace it I'm shut down.


I'd like to hear more about how you built your pell.

Its a little rickety, but its essentially just a 4x4 I got from Lowes with some oak 1x4s for legs with a cheap Fred's rug wrapped around it. Its not much, but it was cheap and it gives me something to work on.

Thanks Phil. I'll work on all of that. I meant to post earlier that I work mostly out of Sigmund Ringecks Knightly Art of the Longsword. Sadly I broke my waster in that session, so until I repair or replace it I'm shut down.



Its a little rickety, but its essentially just a 4x4 I got from Lowes with some oak 1x4s for legs with a cheap Fred's rug wrapped around it. Its not much, but it was cheap and it gives me something to work on.

Uncle Sigmund is the best....

shinai and impovisied crossguard are cheap and can be usefull for your interim period. you can get one for 10-12£ in the uk so it is probably 15-18 $ in the us.

phil

YouTube - On the Pell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hUC3bs5mns)

Found this video in one of the Dog Brothers forums. Thought it would be a good fit here.

Aloha, Poi