Thoughts on fighting with a glaive...
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Today we take a brief look at how armored combatants may have used a weapon like a glaive. Polearms like this are pictured extensively in manuscripts and marginalia of the 14th and 15th centuries in Western Europe, usually as a weapon associated with armored warriors of relatively high class. Although we are not aware of any fighting books that specifically reference how to fight with a glaive, their use was certainly similar to the use of other polearms of the time, on the use of which we have many valuable instructions.
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Looks like a gladius with long shaft.
I imagine that the elongated sharp edge also bites and binds really nicely into other polearm hafts.
youre making me want one of these more and more
thats how dealers work :-)
glaive designs can differ a lot from thrust oriented like this 1 to highly cut oriented
Very true
The more I see of European martial arts the more I am convinced that attacks to the limbs are more effective as attacks or defensive strikes than going for the head or torso, you see similar in in the eastern arts i.e. musashi,s attack the "corners" '(limbs)and why so many guards are held to the rear to protect the hands ,cheers all the best from sunny Troon
Every joint is a weakness, and it doesn't require a great deal of percussive (or penetrating) force to disable one.
Even armored in a gauntlet, a glaive blade slamming down the shaft of a weapon to strike the fingers / forearm / wrist is gonna inflict a whole lot of pain.
Makes sense to me!
It would seem that it might be used in a similar manner to a naginata.
It does seem to serve basically for the same function
I've seen both of those described as "a sword on a stick" 😂
Hi Nathan, I so enjoy these videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them. It helps greatly to appreciate your work and what to purchase. May I ask what books you are using for reference and product guide? Thank you and best wishes to you all
Yay
You guys might consider commenting on the idea of blunt poleaxes that Matt Easton posted about. It seems odd that poleaxes for war wouldn't be sharp. He was light on exact details with his findings and I know you guys have seen a lot of museum pieces and done a lot of research. Thanks for your consideration!
The historical pieces seem to show a broad variance in such things. One of the big issues with pole weapons (and there are a couple) is we tend to only get profile views. The third dimension adds a great deal of info on weight and placement of the striking points. As with all medieval weapons they would hurt if being hit with them, human soft iron hard, so whether the weapon always has to slice a fine filet from the target is probably a modermind thing than a practical medieval charateristic.
@armsarmorinc.4153 Haha, very fair point regarding fileting. I figured that the originals varied, like the swords. I also suspect that we have a small sample size and the higher class nature of the weapon may influence what we find in this pool of extant originals. From tests we've seen, the originals used in war must have led brutal lives. Thanks for your input!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this specific variant is what they're referring to when they're talking about a voulge, right?
Could you fight with one of these in a tight corridor? Like 5' wide? 10' wide? Asking for a friend who plays D&D. :)
I’ll always think of Soulblighter when I see these
can you use the socketed glaive head as a short sword without hafting it?
it would work
If the shaft ever broke in battle you could still use the blade as a big messer😊
I’ve seen some of your polearms on your website and compared to your glaive that you’re selling, they’re a lot cheaper. Why is it so expensive?
Hello, it's because of the thickness and material of the blade, 1/4" 6150. Using the historical thickness means that we need to do. lot of grinding and the complex geometry of the blade takes.a lot of time and expertise. We are putting these blades through our normal sword heat treatment process while all the other polearms so far use an easier to work with steel that we do a differential quench of the edge on (faster and cheaper, but still good on those products. it's the blade on the glaive that makes it require the other treatment).
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I like the information and the demonstations, but you really need to speak and move faster. Put this video at 1.5 times playback and tell me it doesn't sound and look close to a normal speed for most people.
No he don't.
That's a strange glave