#German Longsword

[vidilpoge]

FFS I've being denied access to the iron tournament AND being explicitally said that I cant use my fencing jacket because I've put a colorful patch on it. I have to take it off. I don't really care for the tournament because I had an inkling they would not let me take part in it, but my plan for the patch was feingning ignorance about them not being permitted

Please tell me, fencers wolrdwide, are you allowed to personalize your equipment in your club or you have to stick to certain colors, models and brands?

I am talking of esthetical stuff, like painting the mesh of the mask, putting patches on the pants, embroider the back of your jacket, choosing some bright color or fancy pattern for your socks, so on and so fort.

Reblog for bigger sample size etc.

We have to wear all black, stick to a small hadfull of approved models and get scolded for anything out of place. The only free for all are the shoes.

[mockingnerd]

1500s German fencing master 🤜🤛 1980s thrash metal legends

(…plus 21st century metal fan/historical fencer/designer hit with a lightning bolt of inspiration)

If this is also your hyper specific brand of interests, you can get it here! 🤘

[drdandy]

Got some sparring in at my home club. I’m so sad to say goodbye but am so grateful to have discovered my “fighters spirit”.

[hyp3rbolee]

gesture drawings from fencing!

[josephbrassey]

Opinion: big long sequences in the various KDF treatises are not things you’re meant to replicate in whole under duress. They’re sequences that teach smaller individual actions by chaining them together into bigger actions in order to make a concept more ingrainable to the working mind.

You’re not going to go into a fight and replicate the entirety of the Noble War, but each piece of the Noble War can be used in response to certain actions, and by learning them as a group you’re absorbing a principle about how winding works that you can apply to a bunch of different situations.

Whether or not this works in training comes down to whether the student understands the purpose of what they’re doing.

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

Some small details for a character learning sword fighting for the first time:

- sore wrists

- blisters on hands

- every movement opens you up to be hit

- they will hit the tops of their arm and own sides with the sword while learning

- there is a primal sixth sense when you know you’re being toyed with

And, for your typically nonviolent characters.

You don’t aim for the swords. You aim for the person holding the sword.

It sounds so obvious but needs to be accepted. Actively. When holding a sword you have to understand you’re attacking another person. Even to block you have to aim your blocks at the other person or they won’t be strong enough to actually protect yourself.

[armthearmour]

A rare example of a specialized armored fighting sword with a blunted section of blade,

OaL: 53.3 in/135.5 cm

Width: 10.9 in/27.8 cm

Depth: 1.8 in/4.5 cm

Weight: 5.6 lbs/2.6 kg

Germany, ca. 1520, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

[illustratus]

[m3dieval]

Detail from Konrad Witz's Sabobai And Benaiah. Circa 1435, Germany.

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[tytoalbion]

Of course I got it in action 😌

[vidilpoge]

About yesterday's meet

I took part in the two handed sword and in the sword and buckler tournaments, and did bad in both of them.

They are structured so there are round-robins and then the two partecipant with most wins (breaking ties with points earned) go on to the direct elimination bracket. I stopped at the round-robins both times.

I can't quite put my finger on how I feel about it. I liked how I fenced in the two handed sword even if I took more losses than wins. I think I've done well enough. Against my first opponent, a guy on the smaller side that played it more on the technique and mindgames side, I almost pulled off a parry in hengen with thrust to the throat in indes. It slid by the neck. Play was so good people from the sidelines gasped, play was so good the referee adwarding the points said "congratulation on the action, but it didn't go thru, I'm sorry".

Then I had two opponents in the ring, the fencer and the frigging sun blasting in my face if I tried to position myself in the centre. The blinding effect of sunrays hitting the mask mesh, IYKYK. In retrospect, it messed me up a lot more than I gave it merit for.

So like, I was happy on how I fenced but I did not really win. It bums me out.

On the sword and buckler side, this was what I was working with:

I have not trained it for a long time

The weapon provided was a sidesword, with finger rings and a knuckleguard

Everyone else was used to sideswords and reinassance sword and buckler

The I.33 system I studied sorta of expect the opponent to fight you using the same style

I haven't even seen a buckler since last May

This meant:

My coordination with two weapons in hand was miserable

The longer blade and the complex hilt made I.33 fencing even more cumbersome

I was not familiar with the guards they went in and the stikes they threw out

I had nothing on them, while they were confidently doing their own thing

You can bet I forgot after years of only longsword sparring that the legs are targets and you have to defend them

But! Newbies where happy with our matches! They told me I had them run for their money. A more advanced fencer told me I was good, not playing into his ruse. I had no idea what he was talking about. I still had the damn sun in my eyes. The outside of my upper left leg is black and blue from at least three hit to the same place. As I said, I don't know how to feel about the whole ordeal, because I don't feel like I was competent but I got positive feedback from the people I fought against.

[knightwithakay]

since moving to a new state my attempts to socialize and make new friends have included contra dance, parkour classes, larp, (befriend vintage bookstore owner??), join and immediately run in fear from bumble bff, and now longsword classes

from this you can draw an extremely accurate and damning picture of who I am as a person.

[kultofathena]

Valiant Armoury Craftsman Series – German Medieval Longsword – Red Scabbard

This Valiant Armoury German Longsword is part of Valiants Craftsman Series and was entirely made in the USA by Zach and Sonny Suttles. This premium quality offering from Valiant has a blade of 6150 high carbon steel which has been well-tempered. The sword is finely balanced and is quite responsive and will both cut and thrust with great ability. The crossguard and pommel are steel and the wooden grip is well-shaped and contoured and is finished with a tight and excellently executed binding of oxblood hue leather. The blade and hilt were mounted together with a hot-peen construction for a powerful and strong permanent connection.

The sword is completed with a high quality scabbard, suspension and sword belt for a complete package. The scabbard is wood which is leather-bound and embellished with embossed leatherwork. The chape is steel and the suspension buckles are antiqued metal with steel tongues and these are knotted onto the scabbard with bands of leather. The sword belt is thick and premium quality leather with matching fittings and highly detailed decorative leatherwork. Two included sword hangers connect the belt to the scabbard buckles and also adjust its angle and height to fit.

[blue-hi]

bruise image below the cut

look at this thing. it has a bump like in the cartoons

it was the second-to-last exchange of the night during sparring and my partner got this single massive hit on me across my forearms and i immediately knew it would leave a mark but they already looks like day 2 or day 3 bruises. i'm eager to see how they develop

they hurt like a son of a bitch lmao. i had to leave all my gear in the car bc i couldn't fathom picking them up and carrying them

[kv-actual]

Very excited to have a picture of my Big Dumb Sword™ in my Landsknecht kit. Me jack chains are pretty. Border Wars 2024

[platypusisnotonfire]

I just texted my nephew something about one of our shared interests because he’s genuinely one my friends he’s so cool

But then I realized I just texted a 12 year old in the middle of the school day