old time wrestling (playlist)

smallsword (Assaut)

Nice fencing video

W3 Axel Petterson vs. Szymon Chlebowski

Bout from Warsow Combat Workshop - W3 25-26 of september 2010.

Axel Petterson - Gothenburg Historical Fencing School
Szymon Chlebowski - Fechtschule Gdańsk  

Sword meets mask

I have always liked the videos from The Real Gladiatores on youtube, these guys are so good at fencing it can be seen, no need to be an expert to see the quality of their historical correct fencing techniques. I have seen many videos with other groups that are not at this level from every part of the western world, this is correct on many levels, technical, historical and most likely their training method is pretty good to reach this level.

One of the biggest problems with historical European martial arts (HEMA) is that with the introductions of firearms, the needs for the use of swords diminished to a level were it only existed as a sport with foil and sabre fencing.

Having a broken line and not a continuous heritage, there IMO only few good sources to learn from, The Real Gladiatores, EHCG Sieniawski & Sons, ACT and other groups, the serious problem is that anyone can appoint himself as an expert after reading a few books. They have no one but themselves to judge how good they are, but as the interest has evolved dramatically there are more persons who can judge the quality.

A self-appointed expert who has published one book or more are then suddenly the super experts with authority, forgetting that Paladin Press, Loompanics, Turtle press and other publisher, many times have no interest if the book is filled with real or false information, Paladin Press went downhill after loosing the trial against them for publishing the Hitman book, now many of their books are worthless and as DVD are superior product than books with martial art, they are going to loose money on that market unless they have a competitive price to diminish the huge amount of illegal downloading.

Langes Messer

Fechten mit dem langen Schwert

Some long sword fencing pieces after Danzig & Ringeck

Fencing with five different medieval weapons

One of our new projects is using ancient weapons and among them also old European weapons, in our newly created sub group under Copenhagen Combatives, the Kratos Combatives group, use AMOK! as methodology, a combat proven modern teaching method developed and tested in the worst hot spots on the world, to survive armed assaults by civilians, in war by professional soldiers and special forces, police, security companies, bouncers, martial arts instructors and correctional officers. 

Reclaiming the Blade John Waller Royal Armouries

I have been lucky to train with many competent European medieval combat instructors, but John Waller and his son Jonathan Waller are IMO among the best and most competent on this planet, they started way before many started to be interested in European medieval combat.

Zwerchhau, absetzen, nachreissen - longsword techniques training

Training with European medieval swords was one of my favourite hobbies, the biggest problem was how to perform the various techniques from the ancient fencing books, after being introduced to a systematic way to analyze combat by training and teaching AMOK! it showed me a superior way to become more efficient and functional faster.