historicalfightingguide: From The Dragon Prince.Someone likely already posted these screensho
historicalfightingguide: From The Dragon Prince. Someone likely already posted these screenshots when season 1 was new but hell. To nitpick - ‘’sweeping the leg’’ isn’t going to work the same as with legs in unarmed combat cause if nothing else swords are supposed to cut and the leverage one achieves with a leg vs a sword is different even if you were to hit with the flat. However if we were to assume the idea is that ‘’sweeping the leg’’ means attacking it than Soren(dude on the right in armor) is only halfway-correct. If you go for lower targets you effectively shorten your range, especially with longswords(which seems to be what they’re using) that are primarily used in two hands(even though they can be used with one at times,and we actually see this in the show itself), and you thus to attack them you have to really open yourself up elsewhere, usually the head and general upper body which you usually want to avoid doing. And it tends to mean you usually go to a somewhat lower stance which is harder to recover from. This doesn’t mean you can never ever attack low, either with longswords or other weapons, just that you need a good set up. If you don’t do it right odds are you’re getting hit in the head after hitting the other person in the leg, or at the same time as you hit, or you might even miss them as they hit you. Actually at least a few fighting system through history have techniques to deal with this or concepts that describe it. “ Überlaufen (overrunning; overreaching) is one of the 17 Hauptstucke in the recital of Johannes Liechtenauer, and is the technique responding to an attack to the low opening by attacking the high opening utilizing the greatest potential reach of having the arms fully extended at shoulder level. “From the Wiktenauer website. We see a similar thing in Fiore’s manuscript as well. “When a sword flies for your legMake a downward blow to his face or around to his throat:His arms will be wasted more quickly than his head,Because the distance is manifest for a shorter time.If your opponent strikes to your leg, withdraw your front foot, or pass backwards and strike downwards to his head, as shown in the drawing. With a two handed sword it is unwise to strike to the knee or below, because it is too dangerous for the one striking. If you attack your opponent’s leg, you leave yourself completely uncovered. Now, if you have fallen to the ground, then it is all right to strike at your opponent’s legs, but otherwise it is not a good idea, as you should generally oppose his sword with your sword.”Again from Wiktenauer. It appears again in military saber as well The text notes ‘The Advantage of shifting the Leg’.This image is originally from Angelo’s posters and both them and the system can be found here in greater detail. For further discussion check out Military and Classical Sabre. Another version of the image alongside a comparison of what can happen if you don’t slip the leg nor use the opportunity to strike the attacker. The consequence of not shifting the leg. The former is what happens if you ‘sweep the leg’ without preparation and are then caught and punished for it.The latter may happen if you for example feint an attack to a high target convincingly and then quickly switch to a leg strike.However Callum(on the left in the images at the top of the post) doesn’t really do that(as can be seen in episode one of season 1, the scene starts at around 11:20 while the super obviously telegraphed attack by our dear Callum comes at around 13 minutes in). Thus in their situation Soren is fairly accurate in what he says. In the show itself we do however in episode 2 at around 15 minutes we get to see Rayla - one of the best if not the best in terms of pure skill out of the Moonshadow elves -a group of elite warriors sent as assasins(she’s kinda like Witcher^3) actually do the leg sweep successfully to a pair of guards after jumping over and flipping behind them which Callum notes before running away. There’s also a moment later on when a ‘leg sweep’ attack happens when Soren fights Rayla and he traps her blades when she does that: Or at least it seems that way because a few seconds later she pulls out her ‘trapped’ blades which makes him slip and fall out of balance which leads to her deservedly gloating to him about it: That happens in episode 2 of season 2 and again Rayla is kinda like Witcher cubed in terms of the ability to pull off ridiculous moves. Related to that we have a bit of Fiore:I beat your point to the ground very quicklyAnd in this way, I strike you without a doubt.The student who preceded me beat his opponent’s sword to the ground. Now I am going to complete his play, as follows: after I beat my opponent’s sword to the ground I stomp on it with my right foot.[228] This will either break it or prevent him from being able to lift it. But wait—there’s more. As soon as I have pinned his sword to the ground with my foot, I strike him with the false edge of my sword under his beard or into his neck. And then immediately I will return with a downward strike of my sword to his arms or his hands, as you see drawn here.[In the Pisani Dossi, the Scholar stomps with his left foot and his opponent’s right foot is forward; the Scholar’s opponent is also left-handed.] Fiore might be doubtful about that outcome being thes same as in the tv show but I think that within the tv show it works perfectly well even though the odds of the scene developing that way in real life would be way smaller(but again elves don’t exist in reality either). And there’s further non-sword development in the scene later on anyway as well. P.S. Do check out the tv show if you haven’t already it’s pretty damn cool. -- source link
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