Proud to read this from Dimicator this morning !!!! In this video, Céline and Anthony of Toulouse-based Ost de Griffon Noir perform a show fight that incorporates numerous historical sword & buckler techniques. Part of the reason why they have introduced show fight practice is because it is a good tool for advertising historical martial arts. If you stop running the clip and look at single frames of the video, they do indeed look a lot like images from the Ms. I.33, the oldest combat book on sword & buckler. Show fights are, in fact, very historical, too. Professional champions without a permanent engagement often travelled with gleemen and acrobats, earning money by performing show fights as public entertainment. Johannes Leckküchner’s extensive 15th century book on combat with the ‘langes messer’ (a type of single-edged sword) includes some spectacular show techniques, like playing a board game while the opponent is firmly secured by a joint lock, or, even more hillarious, a grappling technique that ends with the deplorable adversary being stuffed into a bag. But there is more to showfighting: If a choreography is well thought out, it is basically a partner drill. Now, drills have their flipside if practitioners forget about the meaning of the moves and their true intention. To avoid training artifacts, you need to be aware of what it actually is that you are practicing – and which aspects of a true fight cannot be carried out, of course! But drills are definitely a great tool to condition your body and learn motion patterns by heart and gain confidence into your abilities. Because in an actual encounter, there is no time to think about e.g. arm angulation. Correctly conditioned motions have to replace instinctive ones if you want to apply a martial art.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:16:28 +0000
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