#dagger fighting

She took a certain swordtok channel talking about dual daggers as a bad weapon choice as a challenge.

This was a clip from her first time fencing using two daggers against me with my greatsword.

Somehow, after multiple attempts, she got the angle of the parry just right, and parried my sword, while stabbing me in the armpit.

Later, she managed this...

And a few other plays in which she hooked my sword with her off-hand dagger, before stabbing me.

Agility played a part when using most weapons; armour might stop a blow but it was even better to dodge the blow entirely.

However, the answer to your question is (at a guess) knives and daggers. They were worn as part of daily attire which very seldom featured any armour *, so Not Getting Hit was even more important.

* There were some forms of concealed armour such as brigandines, jacks-of-plate etc. (jack = jacket), but IMO those would only be daily attire for people already expecting trouble, either a straightforward fight or an assassin's blade.

Anyone else would need to rely on agility, skill and, given the nature of knife / dagger fighting, a large helping of luck.

Found here via  Medieval dagger research group (HEMA)

A small solo drill to work some basic mechanics in.

Also if you’re bored and want to exercise daggers can be great as they don’t take too much space and you can use a bunch of regular household items as solo drill simulators(and even rolled up newspapers can be used as ok sparring simulators if you happen to have a sparring buddy at home since we’re supposed to be self-isolating).

“ Here i outline the reasons and arguments for why i move the way  I am doing with Meyers dagger. Hope this clears up some misunderstandings and hopefully it might help kill the myth about Meyer being solely for competition, which is a misconception that seems to refuses to die. “

Found here via  Medieval dagger research group (HEMA)

Also if you’re bored and want to exercise daggers can be great as they don’t take too much space and you can use a bunch of regular household items as solo drill simulators(and even rolled up newspapers can be used as ok sparring simulators if you happen to have a sparring buddy at home since we’re supposed to be self-isolating).

“ An example of how to practice full bodymechanics with the dagger thrusts whilst starting in and ending in oberhut. I call his exercize loading the spring”

TL;DR more useful than nothing but shouldn’t be taken as fullproof,especially if you don’t specifically train with it in mind.

“ An amazing night of Meyer dagger, finishing on a a double stab/rip. We perform this as a three piece action rather than the two listed, simply to clarify the thrust to the side to the arm, and the clearance. Gives a lovely double tap feel to the drill. “ From here, for more similar cool pics check out  London Longsword Academy