Відео

Fencers fence, not for honor, nor for money, women, or for power. Instead we fight for hummingbird wings, a leopard's stealth and deceptive things, like a liquid mirror in the night, or a desert image skewed by light, or an ancient wrong made newly right. For things such as these a fencer may wish to fight. And yet - for the fencer - a floating, dodging, lingering, stinging foil may offer more than just a fray. To feel through steel an opponent's skill, and to fight with one as though to kill, and through it all to call it play, this, my friend is the fencers way.

Respect and gratitude

your analysis is valid for all the martial arts . thanks .

Thank you for another thoughtful video. I know nothing about stage choreography though I find it difficult to watch most movies in recent decades that have swordplay because so much of it is dismal from the perspective of any kind of functional realism [not that I am an expert but I've been hit with enough wooden wasters by opponents good and bad to know that what is fun for an uneducated audience is often dismal for anyone who has spent time with a variety of training partners.

Fighting is always good for you i wish I was in the pirate days

Great video!

In HEMA clubs this is pretty much standard, we just don't have any official terms for this. I guess this is one of the advantages that not being a big sport brings.

No he won't he will want to do it again to c if he really is good or did he just get lucky there are two types of people who fight with a sword the one who has nightmares after surviving the fight and will never pick up a sword again and then there's the ones who have fun killing his opponent and needs to keep going to c if they are the best sword person in the world

Man listen fine expression of the past cheap seats. I imagine Balzak and Maupassant.

I want listen to you and appreciate if the algorithm show understanding

It is very unfortunate that sport fencing has devolved into what it is today. I was in the Edmonton Fencing Club through the 80's but by then they had a Russian coach who was all about winning. The hyper competitive mindset had almost completely infected the club. All the classical fencers got pushed out. I did epee for a while but was, at 24, deemed too old to bother with. Didn't fence again until 2010 when I started rapier with SCA.

I see a comedic opportunity in the Nadi story. Je touche! Non! JE TOUCHE!!! NON!!! This escalates until our Nadi character is pulled off stage with a hook and Cyrano finally makes his touch. Cut to dressing room where livid actor is yelling at Nadi. Nadi replies haughtily. In a fit of pique actor challenges Nadi to a real duel. I could go on.

As Michael Crichton, the writer of Jurassic Park wrote on his novel on his character Dr. Henry Wu: " realism it's the enemy of entretaiment". Great video, thank You!

Dam this guy's my favorite great insight

Bravo!

I was brought up in classical fencing in England in the 80s.. when I came back to the States it was very different..

Can you do a vid about "le botte secrete" like the coupe de jarnac.....I think it's known as a false manaco......something I read in a book about sword play many yrs ago

Reflexive integrity

So...personal honor. ❤

I'm hard pressed to have a conversation with someone that doesn't make up blatant lies to "win" at smalltalk, let alone someone willing to speak the truth at their own detriment. If you live that kind of life, it will be an honorable but difficult one, especially in the modern corporate world.

If i want to learn french i wood take a french class get on with showing some sword swings or stabs or blocks

i often marvel at how no matter the culture it always seems to be the sword that teaches the philosophy of manliness and warriorship.

Fantastic lesson, thank you

When it comes to training partners, Classical Fencing seems a lot like Judo.

Thank you for sharing this and explaining it in a clear and concise way. Modern Olympic Fencing, while athletically impressive, has terrible sportsmanship. The bits I've seen, generally, it's like watching two people treat each other as robots. I have been doing Historical Fencing for a little while now, and our school has roots in Classical Fencing- we call every touch against us, and decline every touch we don't think we made. This behavior is not widespread at HEMA tournaments we participate in, though I have noticed that more and more people do call their touches when fencing against our students. I hope that we can continue spreading a culture of honor and respect. Thank you for aiding in that. :)

Thanks for this gem of intelligence Master

Thank you master for showing us how much wisdom there is in the Western way of the sword.

Excellent message.

touche

Thank you, for this video. Very useful

Golf is predicated on self governing and most, not all, golfers respect that.

Wonderful. I've been practicing Kendo for some decades now and in its true and proper context follows much the same concepts. Thanks so much for this.

Most eggcellent. Qui morituri te salutant.

Well done. You've made me a believer. The world needs Classical Fencing. And lots of it.

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...and then there are those who claim hits when there were none.

The Four Keys ❌ The Four C's ✅

That video perfectly summed up, what is wrong with the way people have been raised the last 50 odd years.

Merci! Very important message.

If honorable behavior is not enough motivation, a purely transactional basis for honestly and openly acknowledging a "Touch"(or any failure) is simply higher skill development. A failure creates a boundary condition for a skill. Honestly recognizing it to yourself identifies gaps in the training of the skill set, whether in technical execution, psychological preparation or general physical preparedness. Denial of weakness ensures perpetuation of weakness. Lying to yourself is the worst self harming behavior in every endeavor of life, because you have to manufacture excuses for failing instead of solutions. As they say in the Infantry "The maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters."

This kind of spirit is sadly largely lost in the world of sports (or the world in general) but traces of it can still be seen mainly in rugby and sometimes in cricket.

You summed up my 10 years in martial arts in one video. Thank you.

Thank you. A very interesting perspective for times in which honesty seems as rare as common-sense. I know nothing about fencing except that I trained occasionally with colleagues who had fencing experience and found them to be skilful adversaries [I did HEMA style sparring -- protective gear, wooden and plastic weapons for a decade+]. In my experience training with a small group regularly and various other individuals from other styles; the best training came with people who were not afraid to admit that they had been "hit"; the worst, no matter how skilfull, were those who routinely denied that they had been touched out of egotistical reasons. P.S. One lesson that I/we learned early on when free sparring was introduced was that in a match between equal opponents ... it wasn't scoring that was difficult, it was surviving that moment without getting touched in return! One of the reasons that I never liked the tendency in some clubs to allow winning techniques that allowed you to ignore the fact that you had lost an arm taking out the opponent.

I will never meet you probably. I am 67 I agree to everything you say without having keep any kind of a Sword. But mostly is the way sir. Your way ha e somethin of very rare. Quolity. My children must hear you.

This gives a whole new meaning to the term "live by the sword"! It was a beautiful concept described in this video.

I've never done fencing but it's for sure fascinating stuff! My sword work has been kendo taijitsu and combat ju jitsu. Essentially all katana bokken stuff. I hadn't done it for over twenty years and enjoying starting again. Rusty, but it's all still there. 😀

Who remembers Touche Turtle?

Absolutely fantastic video. Nice to meet another who understands what fencing is all about. You just happened to state it better than I ever have on almost 50 years. You are right though, fencing for me lost it's luster with the influx of the light and bell in the mid 80's. A time where calling touches against you made you smile for your opponent. It was a different era. I time when we still appreciated the art. Let me express the motion in my soul Let me move freely over the ground Let me feel the softness of the steel Give me a blade, and let my heart dance.

what is the difference between HEMA and Classical Fencing?

Mind blown. Excellent philosophy. I'd send my kid to your fencing school any time.