Figueiredos Montante Simple Rule 11: The Galley Gangway
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
- 0:00 Opening
0:15 Version 1 Fast
0:30 Version 2 Fast
0:50 Context and Explanation
1:30 Version 1 Tutorial
2:28 Version 2 Tutorial
3:39 Conclusion And Ending - Розваги
Beautiful scenery with a beautiful man swinging a beautiful montante. What can be better on this weekend? ❤
A picnic-date with a bonfire, bbq and terrible humour?
Aaaaah, the wonders of sources and interpretation thereof, so many possibilities, so much fun.
great outfit! I'm looking forward to more "Greatswords Around the World!"
I am collecting data about scottish greatswords at the moment, stay tuned😁
Great vid with clear instructions!
slaying your foes, and that outfit
I think I prefer your second interpretation on this one :)
But gosh, you’d have to be extremely unlucky to be departing your ship and have enemies in front of and behind you!
You are absolutely right and this thought kept me awake all night🤣
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Hey there, I like your second Interpretation of this rule!
I have one question though: When you are told to "ready a thrust over your right shoulder", why do you rest your Montante on your left shoulder...? I understood it like we are supposed to lie the Montante on our right shoulder, with the flat side, and the point looking behind us, pommel in front of us. That makes turning really easy, since you just need to rotate your feet, and thrust in the direction where your Back looked in the beginning. Thx for sharing, this gave me some new insights to this rather poorly described rule :D
Hi!
When I ready the thrust on my right side I retract the sword so much, that the crossguard is near to my right shoulder. Most thrusts of Figueiredo are performed over the most forward arm so it my look like I ready the Thrust over my left shoulder.
With the Right foot forward after the thrust I interpreted it the way I have shown.
I agree with you that this rule leaves huge space for interpretations. I always tell people to use the movements that feel either natural or better usable for their experience, body- or swordtype. For example I tried the first version with my huge Flamberge and some movements in this rule threw me off balance, no matter how often I tried. That's where the second version worked much better. My biggest Issue with this rule is: What did the Montantero do that the ships Crew and the harbourpeople want to see him dead? 😅
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Keep your sword high so you don't decapitate your galleys motors 😅
Maybe thats why you have to repeat this rule in the other direction XD
Nice. Do we know where the term 'Galley Gangway' comes from ?
PS. Ok I understand now, a Galley is a type of ship !
Yes it is a ship. Performing this rule on a plank seems a bit odd to me, especially when Figueiredo describes to do the same rule in the opposite direction. Like, what did the Montantero do that the ships crew and the harborpeople hate him so much?
@@A_Medieval_Shadow Hi! You mentioned the idea of performing this rule on a plank when entering or leaving the ship. I read and saw this in a lot of interpretations, but I have no idea where it came from. Figueyredo did not provide any detailed description on the context of the rule. Godinho however mentions a rule for the "Gangway of a Galley", where he say: "[...] The same rule will be used in a gangway of a galley, the slave benches becoming the “walls” that are dealt with in the beginning of the rule, but this is understood as the opponents being in control of the stern and bow." So here we do not enter or leave the ship, but stay in the middle, and the opponents come from the two ends of the ship... and in this case, it is clear why Godinho prefers thrusts and tells us not to swing the sword around. But in Figueyredo's version, this interpretation of context can also provide an explanation why we need to cut horizontally instead of diagonally. What do you think?
@@A_Medieval_Shadow 😆 Better be ready for all types of eventuality !
I definately should read Godinho more. In Godhinhos case you are absolutely right. It doesn't make sense to swing the Montante wildly arround if there are too many people nearby that could stop your Momentum. In a similar case Figueiredos simple Rule 9 comes in handy.
Figueiredo mentions in this rule often the word Gangway which to my understanding is kind like a bridge between two points. He himself calls this rule "Galley Gangway" so I thought it is about a galley ship. Like you mentioned he wrote about horizontal cuts so there must be room arround the Montantero.
I definately need to read more Godinho😅
@@A_Medieval_Shadow I forgot to mention that Godinho's comment which I cited above is at his 2nd Rule, which is called the "narrow street", hence the resemblance with Figueyredo Rule 9. Based on his description, the Gangway of a Galley would mean the middle corridor of the ship. So in my interpretation, the difference between Figueyredo Rule 9 and 11 is about the space around the montantero. In the galley's middle corridor, the footwork is limited to a linear movement due to the benches, just like by the walls in Rule 9. But in contrast to Rule 9, in this case the montantero has enough space to do cuts, he just doesn't want to decapitate all the rowers who sit on the "slave benches". So he uses horizontal cuts to cut above their heads, only threatening the opponents who are on the two sides of this corridor (the stern and bow of the ship).