Thank you for bringing this pice of history back to light, this forgotten techniques art of combat/warfare. Wish we one day could see how a 216 men pikeblock worked together. 👍
I still watch & use your videos to help with my webcomic writing. I have a character who fights with a messer, your videos have been indispensable to the coherent portrayal.
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Really nice :) show me the results when its ready :D
Beautiful as always 👏 I hadn't even realised there were so many intricate ways of using a pike till I started watching your demonstrations, it's an entirely different type of polearm
More to the pike than just poking at the other guys?
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In the end its mostly all about a thrust...what else with a Spearhead. But we have also wrestling and pokes with the rear-point. Will be covered in the next videos :)
Let's be honest with each other. The pike is one of the strangest weapons. I mean people have been killing people with pointy sticks since forever. Some dude finally thought "he lets make an extra long pointy stick and make it act like a noodle"
Just curieus but when is a long spear a pike. Like is it a spear with a shaft sow long that you can't propperly hold it with one-hand. Is it a spear sow big that in the context of your environment you can only use it in 2 hands, but you might still be able to use it like a spear in 1 hand in a other type of context. I have seen something called bording pikes and there bassicly pikes meant for usages against people bording your ship, but there easly used in 1 hand you just wouldn't be able to controlle it well on a ship. Or could we call a partisan or big winged spear that is meant to be used 2 handed forms of pike. What's your personal opion or what do the periode masters say about the topic? I want a pike, but like one of these 5 meter motherf*ckers is way to big for me, plus I will not be able to find a good kwalitie shaft long enough. I think I might be able to make a spear of 2,5m with head, but could that be called a pike or not? I'm about 1,8m weighing around 60 kilo's, sow a 2,5 meter spear is really pushing it to use it one-handed is that enough, or will it not handel as a pike yet at that point?
Looks good on one to one. Would most likely look different when standing in formation with people to the left and right, though.
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Definitely, you have to be very attentive in formation and watch out for several opponents at the same time if possible. However, the techniques you choose are rather simple. The source shows us more than you would need for the field battle. At the end of the video series there will be another video about the pike in formation.
Something that might be relevant: I was reading Paul Wagner's Master of Defence" recently and learned that 12 to 18 foot staffs were used, and even somewhat popular in England during the 16th century - Silver distinguishes his quarterstaff of 8-9 feet from these weapons by referring to it as the "short staff," and William Harrison mentions "divers" travelers carrying them, indicating that they were a civilian self-defense weapon. I don't know if the Germans used them also, but if so it is possible that Meyer's longstaff is more than just a training tool for the pike and could be used as a weapon in their own right, used for individual or small group combat, not just in pike blocks.
So when it comes to the warfare of pike phalanxes they really do have one direction of attack right, which is the front? That said, is it safe to assume that when it comes to quickly raising a force to deter an invasion, pike-armed levies are cheaper and easier to train and muster other than sword/spear and shield infantry? It's sort of coming from my theory that despite the armies of 1st Century following the legionary-style warfare, pike armies still form the bulk of Hellenistic warfare. 2:32 I have a question for this attack. I know that armies of that time period used steel cuirasses and arm pieces which is why shields aren't of much use, but if they were to use shields, say the ones of 60 to 66cm diameter, can this particular attack be foiled if the opponent were to raise his shield on his left arm which would the deflect the incoming pike thrust.
Thank you for bringing this pice of history back to light, this forgotten techniques art of combat/warfare. Wish we one day could see how a 216 men pikeblock worked together. 👍
I still watch & use your videos to help with my webcomic writing. I have a character who fights with a messer, your videos have been indispensable to the coherent portrayal.
Really nice :) show me the results when its ready :D
@ yoooo!!!! hell yeah man! 🫡 :DD
This is exactly what I would like to see more. It was such a common weapon that it's a shame that hardly anybody is still training the use of it.
Beautiful work and interpretation!
Beautiful as always 👏
I hadn't even realised there were so many intricate ways of using a pike till I started watching your demonstrations, it's an entirely different type of polearm
Awesome... seems like it takes a lot of getting used to.
Thankyou for making this video, I have never seen this weapon used before. Devastating if it hits.
cool video with the pike btw nice dussack and federschwerts 👍
Another great video!!
Class is in session!
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More to the pike than just poking at the other guys?
In the end its mostly all about a thrust...what else with a Spearhead. But we have also wrestling and pokes with the rear-point. Will be covered in the next videos :)
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Looking forward to it.
Is there anything about Pike vs shorter weapons like longsword?
Not longsword but battlesword...but its basically the same :)
Let's be honest with each other. The pike is one of the strangest weapons. I mean people have been killing people with pointy sticks since forever. Some dude finally thought "he lets make an extra long pointy stick and make it act like a noodle"
I feel its not that strange. Make an extra long pointy stick to outrange other pointy stick.
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Just curieus but when is a long spear a pike. Like is it a spear with a shaft sow long that you can't propperly hold it with one-hand. Is it a spear sow big that in the context of your environment you can only use it in 2 hands, but you might still be able to use it like a spear in 1 hand in a other type of context. I have seen something called bording pikes and there bassicly pikes meant for usages against people bording your ship, but there easly used in 1 hand you just wouldn't be able to controlle it well on a ship. Or could we call a partisan or big winged spear that is meant to be used 2 handed forms of pike. What's your personal opion or what do the periode masters say about the topic? I want a pike, but like one of these 5 meter motherf*ckers is way to big for me, plus I will not be able to find a good kwalitie shaft long enough. I think I might be able to make a spear of 2,5m with head, but could that be called a pike or not? I'm about 1,8m weighing around 60 kilo's, sow a 2,5 meter spear is really pushing it to use it one-handed is that enough, or will it not handel as a pike yet at that point?
Looks good on one to one.
Would most likely look different when standing in formation with people to the left and right, though.
Definitely, you have to be very attentive in formation and watch out for several opponents at the same time if possible. However, the techniques you choose are rather simple. The source shows us more than you would need for the field battle. At the end of the video series there will be another video about the pike in formation.
Thanks, give us more polearms, please.
Love you Björn!!!
Something that might be relevant: I was reading Paul Wagner's Master of Defence" recently and learned that 12 to 18 foot staffs were used, and even somewhat popular in England during the 16th century - Silver distinguishes his quarterstaff of 8-9 feet from these weapons by referring to it as the "short staff," and William Harrison mentions "divers" travelers carrying them, indicating that they were a civilian self-defense weapon. I don't know if the Germans used them also, but if so it is possible that Meyer's longstaff is more than just a training tool for the pike and could be used as a weapon in their own right, used for individual or small group combat, not just in pike blocks.
Great work as always! Your videos are always an inspirations ;)
I'm waiting for morematerials about mangual or maybe something about using axes? ;D
Neat video! Question tho, why are the pikes so wobbly? Is that how they were as in battles back then?
No, a bit stiffer :)
Hello one question you only study in Meyer's class or you know others?
My own class is the Meyer Class, but i share my thoughts with dozens of other groups :) I travel a lot...
So when it comes to the warfare of pike phalanxes they really do have one direction of attack right, which is the front? That said, is it safe to assume that when it comes to quickly raising a force to deter an invasion, pike-armed levies are cheaper and easier to train and muster other than sword/spear and shield infantry? It's sort of coming from my theory that despite the armies of 1st Century following the legionary-style warfare, pike armies still form the bulk of Hellenistic warfare.
2:32 I have a question for this attack. I know that armies of that time period used steel cuirasses and arm pieces which is why shields aren't of much use, but if they were to use shields, say the ones of 60 to 66cm diameter, can this particular attack be foiled if the opponent were to raise his shield on his left arm which would the deflect the incoming pike thrust.