Video from "Swordfish" historical fencing tournament

[DdlR]

A selection of fights from the recent Swordfish seminar and tournament event in Sweden:

[captain zorikh]

Thsi is col stuff. It is good to see the variety of weapons forms. Interesting how the saber fencers kept at extreme range from each other, while the hand-and-a-half sword fighters kept on coming into grappling range. The action when one of them lost their sword was pretty exciting.

Nit-pick: With all of them wearing black, it is hard to see what they are doing, and to tell them apart.

Disappointment: I was expecting Hugh Jackman, John Travolta, and Halle Berry with swords.

[yli]

Jake Norwood?

He's the HEMA instructor at my gym. The Maryland KDF flag is up in the background in that fight. They do a lot more longsword than saber in classes though.

[Spungdeeper]

Jake Norwood is also the President of the HEMA Alliance and all around awesome dude.

[blossfechter]

From what Jake's said, he basically used his knowledge of dussack in the saber fights.

And I concur, Jake is an all-round awesome guy!

[SBG-ape]

Falchion, Messer, dussack, cutlass, sabre...they all have more in comon than they have differences. The reach & hilts vary, but they're single handed, single edged blades balanced primarily for the cut, but capable of thrusting. It doesn't take a huge leap to transition between them. I'm not surprized Jake, having dussack experience, did well with the sabre.