#video study

Sliding Hands Through Greenry, 2025

"Mutieren (mutieren, mutirn, mutiren, transmuting) is one of the 17 Hauptstucke in the recital of Johannes Liechtenauer, and means an attack from the bind, which is used against an opponent who is soft on the sword, and in which the combatant winds over his opponent’s blade to thrust low. This technique is typically discussed in tandem with duplieren which is also typically regarded as two tempo thrust in opposition from the bind"

from Wiktenauer, however it also exists in Meyer's KDF as well.

Here’s a masterpost of sorts of Meyer content on this blog

You may or may not also know about these older and recent KDF-related posts on this blog.

I would also argue that while height definitely helps one achieve such techniques in such situations as described in the video, it is not a necessary component to make the technique work.

For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:

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Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts

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Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.

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Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by   Kajetan Sadowski   may be relevant as well.

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“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills”  by Rob Gray  as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.

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Another useful book to check out is  The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).

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Trauma informed coaching and why it matters

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Look at the previous posts in relation to running and cardio to learn how that relates to historical fencing.

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Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial

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Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.

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How consent and opting in function and why it matters.

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More on tactics in fencing

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Open vs closed skills

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The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing

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Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.

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And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.

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Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.

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For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.

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“ Friendly longsword sparring (begin at 3.17) from W3 2019 event - Warsaw Poland.”

Just like in any other martial arts, combat sport or just generally athletic pursuit of some kind watching video of the activity we do, studying it for various details and generalities can help us learn and get better at said activity by informing our training approaches.

One way to do so for historical fencing is to look at the physical movements of the fighters and try to copy them through solo or paired drilling or sparring and get the hang of it more or less ‘mechanically’. Another is to try and observe the tactics they use - are they more often offensive or defensive? Do they parry-riposte or prefer single-time counters? Do they like to feint or go straight forward? Do they prefer a variety of techniques or a number of variations of a few particular ones? Can apply similar principles as they do in your own practice even if with certain adjustments? But also the way they carry inertia, manage distance, when do they seem to threaten and when do they seem to retreat? What are their opponents doing at this moments and how? Then we can do the same for the other fighter in the video as well.

We can also look at the way sequences may grow from certain exchanges.  Sometimes we see the same starting point diverge into several different endings, and sometimes we see differing starting points converge into a single type of situation due to the tactics and approaches of the fighters we’re looking at.

We can try and make gameplans to approach certain types of fighters and try to apply it in our training.

If we’re preparing for a competition we may even try to do so for specific opponents we expect to meet, albeit not to the same degree as professional fighters in fight camps for specific 1on1 event nights.

These are two very experienced fencers having a friendly session that you can go over several times and still keep noticing details.

For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:

Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts

Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.

Check out their curriculum too.

Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by   Kajetan Sadowski   may be relevant as well.

“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills”  by Rob Gray  

Another useful book to check out is  The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).

Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.

Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.

“ 봄입니다. 스파링할때가 온 것입니다.

 It's spring. Cherry blossoms are beautiful in this park every spring. Then you have to do fencing.

 The person in the video is my colleague in my village. He learned from me for about a year, and he can use most of my skills. Yeah, it's completely copied. But sparring with this person helps me a lot. He is patient and has a great physique. His sword, especially from a high position, is one of the things that's really hard to stop. 

 I couldn't film many videos because my condition was very bad. Flowers bloom beautifully in spring, but my allergies bloom tremendously, too. Yes, I'm still sneezing. Take care of your health during the change of seasons. “

And don’t forget - we can use every video of sparring as a training tool.

For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:

Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts

Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.

Check out their curriculum too.

Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by   Kajetan Sadowski   may be relevant as well.

“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills”  by Rob Gray  

Another useful book to check out is  The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).

Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.

Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.

For Those With Little Time to Invest #LifeChurch

People always tell me they need community, but they have little time for it. My Life Group is still the same, but we have split the groups into two different ones: One that is still struggling to study David Jeremiah in a group set to private; another that is now a video study for those with little time on their hands.

Here’s how it works:

Join our new community group (set to…