He Pulled it Off?! - Spinning Attack & Dark Souls Roll

Well, I guess fancy fantasy fighters are getting some vindication today. In fact, I found someone who does seemingly crazy things against a resisting opponent. Let's take a look several times. I've made fun of fictional sword fights with exaggerated movements, you know? twist, turn, jump, etc., which I think wouldn't work in real life. Here's an event apparently called Glory of Warriors that has some interesting moves, unfortunately I don't have any detailed information on this because it's all in Chinese. I don't speak Chinese, I don't understand it, the only thing I could do was enter the description of the video into Google Translate which has some strange results, so the only thing I could get is that it's called Glory of Warriors and there was information about the weapons in there which yeah, they weren't translated terribly well, the fighter in question is using a pair of these hook swords here, the machine translation called them crested chrome, yeah, I don't know much about them other than what I've been experimenting with I made a video about these with my unprivileged perspective on how they could be used in terms of design, so really the only thing I can deduce from this is what you can see for yourself: It's a competitive armed martial arts event in the ring and let's take a look to what's going on, so I said one of the fighters has a pair of hook swords, the other is using a two handed sword and I think they are synthetic, they don't seem to be steel as far as possible.

I can see it and they have protective gear and as you can see they go at maximum intensity and speed so it's always good to see and what I also like compared to medieval m1 is that they don't rely on armor you know? What I've seen at a lot of events is that everyone is equipped with armor and they keep punching each other frantically, basically they're not really worried about their own safety, these fighters are, so you know the hits are scored, so this is It's treated like a fight without armor and this is what immediately caught my attention when I saw this.

I was like, "Excuse me now, he made it, so let's watch that again, boom, so this is something that if I had seen." In a fictional fight I would have said, "Oh, come on, there's no way you can pull this off." What he does is push the weapon away with his hook sword, then immediately strikes with the other one and the swordsman does a great job. He basically he disengages immediately and raises his sword so he can defend against that follow up, which he does, catches it and then red spins. Now this, I don't know if this blow, the swordsman's cotton could have hit him, but just with The tip it's a little hard to tell, so he makes a turn and crouches down into a stance that I'm sorry, I can't name.

I've seen it before in Chinese martial arts, but I don't know what it's called anyway. then he hits the left hooks or the arm he looks like and then the right hooks the torso and it looks like the other guy is like the fluffy kittens and butterflies. This is one of those cases that really supports an argument that I've seen people use unconventional techniques that have the advantage of surprise, you know, the opponent doesn't know what's going on, suddenly, boom, it happens and you make it, Now there are a few things you need to achieve this.

Now a big thing is athleticism, this guy has it, you need power, you need to have balance, you need to have body control and flexibility to not only be able to get to such a low position but to get there. get out quickly, that's another problem, so this is where I would say this might be different in actual combat. This also applies to any type of competitive combat. This also applies to hema tournaments. In fact, there is always a big debate about how. you should try after hits if you don't know what it means, if you hit your opponent and your opponent within a certain period of time hits you back, that is considered an after next, which can award blue points to the opponent who landed after . or it can deduct points from the

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er, so the idea is to discourage taking a hit because if you think about it in a historical combat, if you manage to even mortally wound the opponent if it doesn't immediately incapacitate him and he wouldn't just drop him. or avoid a subsequent

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if they're capable, you're screwed, it doesn't matter that you know you maimed or killed them if you die yourself, and this can be really tricky, it's really hard to really decide how to do it.

Let's address that in terms of rules because some people may just be chasing points with those looking for hits if they know they can take points off the opponent or get one themselves or whatever, they might do this no matter what and just say, it's well, whatever you do to me, if you hit me, I will hit you immediately now. Ideally, as the attacker who just hit me, you should be able to defend yourself afterwards and this is the problem I see here, it is very exposed. He's basically adopting a pose that you know he's not able to defend himself from because everything is cool, both of his weapons are far away, especially his makeshift weapon is like aiming behind him, the other one doesn't cover him either, his head is completely exposed.

So if the guy with the sword just cut off his head, he would be finished. The question is could he do it and I would say yes, because what happened here is that he hit him first on the left arm or shoulder. It's a little hard to say this, you know, with a hooked sword, yes this would cause quite a bit of damage, it would render the arm completely unusable, maybe not hard to say, but it's not incapacitating as such unless you drop the sword completely, which I don't do. I don't see it as likely because he still has his main hand on the sword and then hits him in the torso, which is a good hit and could do a lot of damage again with a hook sword, but would he just drop it? he just stops him from acting, it's probably not in a real fight, so he could probably still cut at least with the right hand of that sword.

You know, he might collapse shortly after, but he should probably still be able to land that counterattack. and if you cut the other guy straight in the head, red is probably less likely to survive than blue, it's here, no, no, it is again, it's a little hard to say in a real life situation, but that's one drawback of this, so it worked, at what cost? and don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to take anything away from what he just accomplished, that's incredible, it's very well done, I'm not going to talk about it in any way, especially in this context, you know, in this competitive environment, the shape.

Yeah, 100 percent of the points there in actual combat is dangerous and I don't like what the swordsman did here that much, I have to say because I don't feel like this really adds anything, especially with the way he is. Throw that cut you know the moment he turns his back to you. Sometimes I exaggerate that point a bit. The problem with the spin is that you turn your back to the opponent. It depends on what type of weapon the opponent has and how close he is if you do it. Fast enough, the opponent may not be able to read that in time and react and hit you in the back in the middle, but there's still a problem here: he's hitting without even looking at it, so I'm pretty convinced this is going to be a rubbish edge alignment in fact this looks pretty flat so I doubt this will do much good and then look at this look at the long post recovery like it's here it really is exposed the other guy went to the sure and he just wanted to protect himself so he wasn't punished for it, but he could have done it, I don't think it was worth it, so here we have a double: the swordsman cuts him in the neck, this is an unnecessary hit because If only I had done it. kept his left hand hook sword in contact with a sword, he would have had it, he would not have been in danger at all, he could have avoided it, keep in mind that it is always easy to analyze a fight after the fact, I know very well how in the medium is a lot harder than you might think just looking like oh wait why didn't you do that why didn't you do this um it's a real fight it happens quickly sometimes you know it happens basically but that's not like that The other spectacular thing about I want to talk, yeah, I really don't know, in fact, it almost went very wrong because the thing is that he hit out of measure at a distance where he didn't even threaten the other guy, so if the swordsman had just slashed right at this moment, you know, as soon as he realizes that this is not threatening me, you should have intervened immediately and cut it off or the other thing is as soon as he turns around, you know what's coming, this telegraphs a lot, so yeah he had cut off the other guy's arm again, it looks like he was defending, so in my opinion this is unnecessarily risky, this is not a good example of turning, in fact this is a very good example of why maybe not you should do it. or at least this way, the other one was much better because he was at the right distance.

Yeah, I like that they're both cautious, they're not just rushing, they're actively trying not to get hit, which is not something you can say about a lot of armored fight events, there it is, so it legitimately achieved a role of Dark Souls. Apparently let's look at that again to see if it did any good for him, so now is a good time to do it because he has control over the sword, you know, you can see his left hook sword is binding the sword so he can control it, he knows she's safe then, even though he leaves her a little too quickly, but that's how he does it now.

I don't know if he actually hit the other guy, I think he probably did it now, it's obstructed by the rope there, but I'm pretty sure this blow here with his right, with his right hook sword, probably went through the guy's leg. another type. I can see him trying to escape, but I think he probably hit him, so then he

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s over there and now the swordsman slashes. He's actually trying to get him there, but he darts far enough to be, you know, out of reach and he gets up. then immediately and raises his weapons immediately, that's good, honestly, I don't have a problem with that, that's an example of how the Dark Souls role works and there is a point to make about athleticism if you have the necessary strength, flexibility and the speed you can achieve. things that someone else couldn't and so if you're writing a story where the hero fights someone who is more skilled, which is often done to raise the stakes and tension, then there will come a point where that the hero will probably leave. having to do a high-risk, high-reward maneuver, something the opponent doesn't necessarily expect, something that works perfectly well or fails catastrophically and hurts you badly, which is this type of situation, especially spins, they're also kind. high risk high reward like it happened here, especially the first one you saw.

You know the stance at the end is very vulnerable to counterattack, so the risk is there, but you know it can also work against someone who is otherwise better than you. but I don't really see it coming in the physical aspect. I've often seen people in the hema class, you know, moan or

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their eyes or drag their feet when it comes to conditioning, a lot of hima schools don't really focus on that. a lot about physical training at least from what I've seen and, you know, if people are there just to have fun, which is usually the case, you know you can't expect everyone to be a dedicated athlete or they should be whatever if you "I'm there for fun, so it's okay, don't worry about it, but there's definitely a certain tendency that that can't be neglected sometimes.

I'm guilty of that myself, obviously, you know, apart from injuries and other excuses, I could have done something better and I could definitely do a better job right now, so yeah, it's important, you know, I would definitely say that even if you compare skill directly to fitness, you know someone who knows all of them. the techniques and is good at them, etc. versus someone Who only has physical ability is going to win, without a doubt, um and the weight is a little heavier on the skill side, it is more important, especially considering that with a lot of skill you can make your movements more efficient and therefore save energy and effort, etc. but fitness is definitely important and should not be neglected and I would also say that sometimes the way the movements practice humor can end up a little stiff again.

I speak for myself. It's definitely good to have an emphasis on doing the movements as well as possible. as economical as possible as efficient as possible, you know, reduce them, compact them so as not to waste time, etc., but sometimes it can cause a bit of rigidity. You know, I found that very notable when I had the opportunity to train with Sword Sage, which was amazing because of the way he definitely used some moves that I'm not used to, I really like lateral moves, you're going down and that's not something I normally do and that worked for him, however it also created problems. that I mentioned before, where you can end up a little bit exposed, you know, falling low like that can lead to getting hit and we've had at leasttwo doubles where this basically happened like he went down low, he hit low and I hit and uh, or he delivered an after under something like that and uh, he hit a really good hit, but he still took the hit, which is not in absolutely what you want. real combat, so there is definitely a risk, but at the same time I don't think we should avoid it completely.

I don't think we should rule anything out if it seems too fancy or whatever, as long as it's mechanically sound. Can you know how to try it against a resisting opponent and succeed without putting yourself in unnecessary danger? Everything's okay, okay, that's interesting, so he turns it into a pole arm. I almost don't think I saw that before hook swords were used together. I like this, but it's a pretty good idea, I like it, so it shows the versatility of the weapon that works very differently. The good thing about this is that he has this guard here who is helping him because if he didn't.

If he had this, the swordsman would have caught his hand right there, but he does, so he's safe, that blue tried to slash but the red one caught him, there's a hit to the head, there's a boom and then yeah, the hit rear landed on the blade, so it was. sure okay so the other two unmasked wrestlers do a quick demonstration so yeah I really like to see this is pretty interesting and I would really like to see more of it because it's something I have to remind myself. It's too easy to overanalyze something in a bad way and simply dismiss it when it's not the problem, it's not necessarily that this technique itself is doomed to fail, it's just doomed to fail in the hands of someone who doesn't have the necessary skill or ability. . adept enough to achieve them, there are techniques in European historical manuscripts that also seem fanciful and you will absolutely fail at them if you haven't practiced them enough and don't have the skill to pull them off.

For example, the passata soto is a good example, you find it in rapier manuals as well as later thrust swords, here is Lee Smith demonstrating that in one of my videos, so I shoot this way and this disconnects and from here I come under where his hand is, oh Okay, now you're like, but you can hit him in the head, yeah, yeah, I can, so obviously, if this fails, it's a very compromised position, you're very spread out, you're near the ground, your legs are tightly bent, so it's going to take you a while to get back on your guard.

By the way, there is a less exaggerated version, as shown by Coppell Pharaoh, where you don't go all the way down and touch the ground, but instead just do a very deep lunge and lean forward, which will still take a while to get back to guard, this one doesn't. It's the fastest position to move from and then there's the inquirtata which, if done right, looks like a total boss move and very elegant, but if it fails, then it's pretty embarrassing. Here's Richard Marsden explaining it. I want my chest to look normal, I don't want to be able to outline because what I want to do is go up to here.

Well, I want that to be taking care of my backpack. So yeah, it looks really cool when you do it right, when you do it wrong, it looks like it's not good because if you fail her back or whatever, she's slow, so not everything that looks fancy is necessarily ineffective, It tends to be It may be a higher risk, but it can definitely be done if done well and with enough skill, if done poorly of course you know that if you turn towards the opponent when you are not even in a range where you can threaten them, it will you're going to do you have a hard time or if you turn against someone who has a very fast weapon like a rapier or much less a small sword, yes they could literally stab you in the back while you try unless you are very fast but yes this is a good one counterexample and let me know what you think below thanks for watching and have a good time friends