A very British vid on "Dual wielding".

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Dual wielding:

I'm a huge fan of Lindybeige's videos as there as funny as they are accurate in my opinion

Gareth will get a kick out of them especially I reckon

[Gareth]

Nope, the guy is pretty much spot on.   One of the few exceptions to the rule seems to have been a bit of a fad in the C16th, the style known as "Case of Rapiers", that is fencing with two swords of the same size.  Like so:


by Marozzo


by Di Grassi

The practice was encouraged because it was hard, not because it was effective.

Many, many years ago I had a bout with a chap who had done quite a good standard of training with twin Chinese broadswords, I was using a single sabre.  The results were interesting (and mostly in my favour ).  As the chap in the video suggests, coordinating two effective attacks to land completely simultaneously is much harder than you might think. 

[pfrsantos]

Thanks, Mike!

 

I'm going to have to look at more videos from this gentleman. Very informative, very clear examples.

 

[styx]

I'm with Pfrsantos, simply gotta look at more vids

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

He has loads of videos and the guy clearly knows both what he's talking about, and how to deliver it

[Grathr]

Thanks for sharing. I have to watch more of his videos


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[enki_ck]

Nice video that makes lots of sense.

I was watching through his channel and found quite a few videos of him in Croatia, various videos of the Diocletian's Palace.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I haven't got that far yet as I've only seen about 30 vids so far!

[Chako]

Thanks for that...now subscribed. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

No worries

[styx]

I subbed too. the guy is brilliant and gets to the point quickly

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Scholagladitoria is in a similar vein too

[Gareth]

Scholagladitoria is in a similar vein too

I've known Matt Easton for years.  While we don't agree on everything (training methods especially) that doesn't make him a bad guy.  I respect his opinions, even if I don't always agree with them.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Funnily enough there seems to be a polite rivalry between the two you tubers too

[enki_ck]

Scholagladitoria is in a similar vein too

I've known Matt Easton for years.  While we don't agree on everything (training methods especially) that doesn't make him a bad guy.  I respect his opinions, even if I don't always agree with them.

Ah, yeah, you used to be an instructor, right? Do you still teach?

[Gareth]

Scholagladitoria is in a similar vein too

I've known Matt Easton for years.  While we don't agree on everything (training methods especially) that doesn't make him a bad guy.  I respect his opinions, even if I don't always agree with them.

Ah, yeah, you used to be an instructor, right? Do you still teach?

Yeah, and would you believe I was once far better known than Matt Easton?  I stopped teaching a few years ago now, the politics of trying to get a national federation to move in a way I wanted became frustrating, the organising of a club and the teaching three times a week (for free) became work rather than fun.  I still keep my hand in every so often and still have friends who are involved, but personally I lost the love.