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Regularly in the comments to my and not only posts the same question pops up: "what are
the chances of a modern fencer against a medieval master in a real battle?" In general,
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As in any pyramid, here each next level is limited to the previous one. Without a good
physical shape, it is almost impossible to hone the technique. With poor technology, the
arsenal of tactics is greatly reduced. And being unable to come up with a victory plan, it is
di cult to maintain a positive attitude.
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master, as a whole will nd himself in a very losing situation. In fairness, the opposite is
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And also, the swordsman of the cold weapon era focuses not on striking / pricking,
but on piercing armor, cutting arteries, etc.
One can ask the same question: could Bruce Lee knock out Datsik? The rst is an
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actor who has the skills of staging a battle in front of the camera, the second is a
ghter focused on in icting quick damage to an opponent. Although both are focused
on hype.
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I’m such an expert on myself, but aren't Renaissance fencing schools geared
toward killing an unarmored opponent?
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and the same thing with boxing, poking in the ring or going against several gopniks
with knives, these are two different things
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"and what are the chances of a modern swordsman against a medieval master in real
combat?"
Well, if we take precisely the Middle Ages (that is, conditionally until the 15-16th century),
then I really can only sympathize with the modern fencer. Judging by the nature of the
wounds that were reconstructed from the same battle of Visby, medieval craftsmen were
extremely practical people - they chopped off their legs and nished off on the ground.
For the mention of psychology - a plus. You can reconstruct ghts as much as you like, but
until both sides understand that they will be killed, the nature of the battle cannot be
reproduced.
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The battle of Visby and the Maximellianian era are all the same two big differences.
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and, do not believe it, in normal clubs, primarily when teaching fencing with a shield
they teach this particular bunch))
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It is generally incorrect to compare sports and martial arts. These are fundamentally
different things.
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Thick, dense forest. Narrow road. Rides on his nag D'Artagnan. To meet him, Ilya Muromets
on horseback.
D'Artagnan:
- Monsieur, I am a subject of a great France, you must let me through!
Ilya Muromets:
- Go away, you fool.
D'Artagnan:
“Sir, I am a great musketeer. You must give me the way.”
Ilya Muromets:
- Go away, fool, I'm in a hurry!
D'Artagnan:
- Monsieur, if you do not give me the way, I will be forced to challenge you to a duel and kill
you!
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They leave for the bushes. After 5 minutes, Ilya Muromets comes out from behind the
bushes, wipes his sword and says: hooliganism, I almost poked out my eyes with wire.
***
They thump in the bar and quarreled. Dartanyan shouts: "Draw a dot on his heart with a
chalk, now I’m poking him at the very point with his sword." Muromets replies: "Yes, sprinkle
him with all the our, I now fuck with his club."
***
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In addition to the sword, the royal musketeer should also have a musket with a
bipod, a broadsword (for equestrian combat), a dag, a pair of pistols. And also a
servant.
The medieval will try to kill, and the modern will try to hit on points. Kill the medieval. Both
in shackles and at the table with meat!
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Two boxing friends meet: heavyweight, weight for the steward, the other acts in the
yweight category.
Heavyweight:
- Count it, there was a case: I come home, I look - my wife has a lover.
Well, I told him once on the left, once on the right, I look - lies ...
Lightweight:
- I also had it: I am returning home, I look - my wife has a lover.
Well, I’m telling him on the left, once on the right, I’m lying on the oor and looking - I’m
leading by the points ...
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And so?
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You have a mistake in setting the task: a modern fencer is a collective image of adherents
of mass enthusiasm, a master by de nition is better than most, especially if the selection is
carried out to death.
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And what? The question is about the duel. Wars are won by masters of command
of the hands of the majority.
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The pepper is clear, the "medieval master" will lay down the "modern swordsman" even
before the latter has time to understand something. In simpler terms, all 4 components of
this “pyramid” are on the side of a person who was in real battles and knows that “cold
arms combat” is not nichrome “fencing”, but a mixture of hand-to-hand ghting, a desire to
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survive and the ability to kill the enemy. Even a simple wound, a modern athlete simply will
not survive, not to mention the psychological and physical preparation, which are
completely absent in a modern fencer.
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Well, just the same physical training for an athlete will be higher. And health in general.
Do not forget - the Middle Ages, medicine is not enough, both qualitatively and
quantitatively. Again, I do not think that the medieval killer will neglect the armor
(unless you are sure that it is super uous, but this does not apply to those in error).
Chain mail, armor, etc. disappeared due to the development of a gunshot. And if there
is no rearm, it is effective. I think this is an important factor that was missed in the
analysis.
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On the tenth day of February 1409, I Fiore de Liberi from Friuli, Cividale in Austria, the son of
Sir Bernadetto from the house of de'Liberi, began this treatise from ghting with and
without arms: spear, poleax, sword and dagger, as well as ghting, walking and on a horse,
in and without armor, and other things related to battle. And for all these things, I will
explain action and reaction, so that one follows the other.
As you can see the Middle Ages fencing school was a very complex discipline. Liberi
himself, by the way, wrote that 5 times he was summoned to death ghts in armor and
without, he came out of all of them as the winner without signi cant harm to himself.
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+2 lasso2007 36 days ago
And more importantly, the shoulder strap is ready to wave these kilograms for several
hours in a row and kill everyone in a row. But the athlete is not ready.
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Dueling is usually one on one and much shorter in time. In short, you confused
with an ordinary warrior on the battle eld
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I will probably tell you my experience in support of both aspects of this article.
On my own, I never engaged in professional fencing. I did not study schools, I was not a
member of clubs or anything else. But in that great heyday of the role-playing movement
that took place in 2005-2009, he got into the habit of hanging out among those same role-
players.
But with them, alas, it didn’t work out very well, because for some reason completely
incomprehensible at the moment, I bought myself two steel training blades - one and a half
and one one-handed.
And, of course, all the happy owners of textiles and durals ran away from me as if they were
a leper, and I had to literally look for the beaten-down guys with steel weapons without
armor just like me.
And found.
And they fenced.
And yes, this, of course, is far from the psychological understanding of "they will kill you
now," but the sensations from the duel are much stronger, and, as a result, the
concentration in the duel is higher.
So. Over time, I switched from direct blades to saber-reciprocating equipment and even
picked up duralumin. But even though the technique has changed, the hand and the psyche
remember the experience of the armless steel chopping.
And at this stage the fun began. Absolutely all ghts had three development paths:
1. After 10-20 seconds of the battle I win.
2. After 5-10 seconds of the battle, the enemy retreats shouting: "It’s impossible, it’s not
according to the rules, it’s necessary to be careful"
3. After all the same 10-20 seconds of the battle, I lose, because the opponent really knows
how to FENCER, and not chop (which con rms the second aspect of your article about “put
d'Artagnan on modern conditions).
Well, with rare exceptions, I came across guys with whom an intense and powerful saber
ght came out.
Ah ... I remembered, I was already nostalgic. And where are my 17 years old?
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Often it was possible to see how the fencer is stretched to his full height, then, on the
contrary, takes his head in his shoulders, jumps to the right, then left, crouches, resting his
hand on the ground. One of the rst conditions for the successful mastery of this art was
agility and speed not only of the arm, but also of the legs and the whole body.
It seemed, however, that Chicot did not study fencing according to the rules of this school.
One would have thought that he, on the contrary, already foresaw the art of the sword,
contemporary to us, whose superiority and especially all its grace lies in the mobility of the
hands with the body almost completely motionless.
Both his legs stood rmly, rmly on the ground, his hand was exible and at the same time,
the sword from the tip Until half of the blade seemed to bend easily, but from the hilt to the
middle, its steel was unshakably hard.
At the rst attacks, when he saw not a man in front of him, but a bronze statue with only a
hand moving at rst glance, Brother Jacques began to attack impetuously, but it affected
Chicot only in such a way that he extended his arm and put his foot forward at the slightest
error, which he noticed in the movements of his opponent. It is easy to imagine that with a
habit, not only stabbing, but also chopping, he very often left one or the other part of his body
unprotected.
Each time, Shiko’s long arm extended three feet and delivered a straight tip to his brother
Jacques chest: it was done as methodically as if it were struck by some mechanism, rather
than a living hand, which should be characterized by at least some vibrations, some kind of
uncertainty.
At each stroke of the tip, Jacques, crimson with rage and wounded pride, bounced back.
For ten minutes the boy did everything that he could learn from his extraordinary dexterity: he
rushed forward like a leopard, twisted in a ring like a snake, slipped under the very chest of
Shiko, jumped to the right, to the left. But Shiko, still calmly wielding his long hand, chose a
convenient moment and, pushing away the rapier of the enemy, invariably hit him in the chest
with his formidable tip. "
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Chapter 23. Lesson
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You can still remember Don Rumatu. He generally chopped everyone into cabbage.
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You can still remember Don Rumatu. He generally chopped everyone into
cabbage.
Not chopped.
“So, Aba’s brother did not select the most skilled ghters, but the thickest
and strongest ones for your arrest. And he turned out to be right. Several
dislocated hands, several crushed neck, broken teeth do not count ... and
here you are! But you couldn’t you don’t know that you are ghting for your
life. You are a master. You are undoubtedly the best sword of the Empire.
You undoubtedly sold your soul to the devil, because only in hell can you
learn these incredible, fabulous methods of battle. I’m even ready to admit
that this skill was given to you not to kill, although it’s hard to imagine why
the devil needed it condition. But let our scholastics understand this ... "
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The cornerstone lies in the last paragraph. On a medal and to death are two big differences.
And you will never earn real combat experience in the gym. Modern professional soldiers
will not let you lie.
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It depends on what weapons and school. A dagger (dagu) was usually used in
addition to a sword. Then only a sword entered fashion. With a different weapon
paired with a dagger somehow did not use ...
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Xs ..... I'm not talking about school .... I'm talking about a ght to the death ....
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Regarding the difference in physical data. If you look at the helmet and swords in the
historical museum (X-XI century), then it is not at all clear what head they are on and in
which hand. I would say 12-14 years old modern teenager. The armor looks quite puppet.
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The average knight was a little smaller than a modern man (ten kilograms lighter and
10-15 centimeters lower), but reasoning about teenagers is neither to the village, nor
to the city.
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Yes, I somehow and without his googles know that this is the case. Why are you
doing this?
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Some strange comparison. You describe the "pyramid of characteristics", abstracting from
its application.
But then bring in the argument precisely the difference in its application.
It’s the same as comparing a darts athlete with a javelin thrower. They have completely
different tasks and they will use the “pyramid" in different ways.
By the way, there is historical fencing, where the rules prescribe to naturally “hit” the enemy.
And with the “ancient master” it is necessary to compare precisely the “historical fencer”,
and not the Olympic one.
In this case, the difference between them will be only in psychological preparation
(although I would not attribute military experience here, this is still a little different).
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There are no injections in the HMB due to increased trauma, but in a real battle,
trauma is needed. Although they are probably not trained at all in such a case, so
ISBshnik may remember the injections and try to conduct them, but the result will
be disappointing ... only if there are no similar injections mechanics and used
strokes
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By the way, since we are talking about comparing ghters of different times. Can someone
tell me the name or author, a long time ago I read a fantastic story about how super-
powerful creatures had fun organizing a tournament between ghters of different types. At
one point, one decided to pull warriors from different times from Earth. There were
(predictably) a Viking, a Teutonic knight, a Novgorod ushkunik, a samurai and God knows
who else. The condition for selection was to die bravely in battle, a second before their
death they were pulled out and formed a team.
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The hunters of the red moon about this book were with a similar plot, but it's not her.
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the ancient master, who has been in real battles many times, will surely have an
overwhelming advantage at this level.
In defense of a contemporary, I’ll say that the ancient master can also completely bewitch,
sensing against himself an atypically well-pumped physics, technology and tactics.
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Are you serious now? The nobleman began to study fencing and riding a horse from
the age of 4 ... every day ... and with many Brethers there were a hundred accounts ...
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It would be more interesting to compare the modern commandos (without a rearm, for
example with a sapper shovel and bayonet-knife) and a medieval knight.
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1) Drive an automatic machine, gun, knife, waist belt, shoulder blade, body armor,
helmet on the battle eld.
2) Find a at area on which not a single stone or stick is lying.
3) Find on it the same twat.
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the entire arsenal of asasins and shinobi is at his (commando's) disposal ... provided
that there is no need to face him
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Knight in the sense of armor and with a sword / ax / hammer? Well here is clearly a
knight
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I read similar comparisons. But if you look at the fencing competition, then I think the
opinion will change. Good modern fencers, I think, will be able to complete the duel within
one to two seconds, and the ancient master will tune in for a long battle.
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Finish by touching the body (as in sports) and complete by killing different things. I
watched fencing competitions, 90% of victorious strikes do not even injure the
opponent, if he has at least dense skin. But for the sake of such touches they often
open, they say, I will touch 0.1 seconds earlier
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In the series “The Last Ment”, season 1, episode 32, the fencer took off his sword
or foil and killed the victim, another fencer, offering him to practice alone in the
hall. The lm is artistic and generally a comedy, but probably consultants used.
https: //thumbnails.megafon.videomore.ru/system/images/thumbs ...
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It should be understood that in addition to cases of getting into the brain / heart or
dismemberment, the affected ghter will be combat ready for another 10-30 seconds.
The ancient master, still lling all those around with bloody grubs, will spoil the
enemy's triumph until the adrenaline is released, hoping that he will then be burned
and sewn up.
So if he misses the injection, then he will die after the ght from pneumothorax, blood
loss or sepsis. And if you are very lucky, then he will simply lie feverish in a bed until he
recovers.
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Yes, the athlete must explain and train him before the duel so that he doesn’t beat
him anywhere, but in the throat, heart and other places that stop the enemy.
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Lol An ancient master, attuned to a long battle. Yes of course. Real ghts lasted just a
few seconds. Waved his sword. Wrong. Died. That’s the whole battle.
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Where are the descriptions of such ghts? One can only guess. But when they
began to record, it was not uncommon:
Under Egmon-op-See on October 2, 1799 between the English dragoons and the
French cavalry. Two half-squadrons of dragoons attacked about 500 victorious
French horsemen and overturned them after a hot battle. Then the French
gathered, and they themselves went on the offensive against the British, who,
meanwhile, were reinforced with a half-squadron. The second clash took place
with melee weapons, and yet the total loss of the British in both battles extended
to only 3 killed and 9 wounded
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Ice.
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Sergei Vitalievich Ukolov is not only the “most powerful role-player”, but also a multiple
world champion in historical fencing. If he is a media person for you who is not related
to the issue, it’s even hard for me to imagine whose opinion interests you :)
But you can try to ask another famous fencer, coach and just a good person. @Surt ,
your opinion?)
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Не. Бойца разведроты на вилы поднимут крестьяне рыцаря. Ибо самому ему
западло хрен знает с кем драться.
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я честно считаю что у древнего мастера нет шанса. Посмотрите хотя бы на бокс и
борьбу 100 лет назад и сравните с техникой и скоростью современных спортсменов.
Разница в силе, скорости, взрывной силе и техники несравнима. Обычный
современный разрядник убьет за первые 1.5 минуты любого чемпиона мира
правившего 100 лет назад. С фехтованием тоже самое.
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Поэтому нам нужна статистика. Надо где-то раздобыть, скажем, сотню тех
и сотню других.
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+1 HappyRabbit777 36 дней назад
Чушь не городите.
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Есть пару пожеланий для будущих статьей. Кто победит Годзилла или Кинг Конг.
Терминатор-жидкий терминатор, Робокоп-робокоп цыпленок.
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