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Cunian · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:55 am Post subject: Video of the week

In an effort to learn and share the joys and efficacy of video analysis, I figured I'd try posting a video and we could watch it and discuss what we see in it. If people like it, I'll try to post something regularly. The video for this week is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkoBkylZRs&feature=related

Ariadne · Club Member Joined: 15 Nov 2009 Posts: 183 : Items

Great idea.

The first thing I notice is that they both hold their swords in what I think of as "shield wall" position, more or less horizontally.

(And the guy on the right has fairly complicated heraldry, which I thought was discouraged, but I know that's not what I'm supposed to be watching for).

Isabella E · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:05 am Post subject:

The guy on the right has marshaled arms on his shield. There's 4 different sets of arms represented on his shield. I recognize his because he used to live in Atenveldt and was a good friend of my Laurel's, and the populace badge for the West.

Also that particular guard style is pretty standard here in Atenveldt.
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ouroboros · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:10 am Post subject:

It looks quite static to me. Not a lot of moving around or up and down. Stand, bang bang, reset. Repeat. Repeat.

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Cunian · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:40 pm Post subject:

Well, they're both royal peers, and neither want to show the other any sort of opening, so they're fighting very conservatively and not doing much to break their guards. I think that is one reason there is so much of the fast little face thrust - it's a fairly safe blow in that the sword never really gets out of position for being in front of their own face.

Isabella E · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject:

These are guys that don't need to throw a ton of shots. They are usually only throwing a couple of shots to try and create an opening, or throwing at one they already see that the rest of us don't notice. In my experience a lot of Crown finals look just like that. They spend the first portion getting the measure of each other before they start narrowing in on tiny targets.

Watch at the very end when King Gemini throws a shot to Duke Matthias' left leg. That shot and the block were so damn quick I had to rewind the video and watch it a couple of times. And the winning shot looked like a moulinee (sp?). I had to rewind and watch that a couple of times too.
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rauokinn · Senior Club Member Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 484 : Items

I love HG Matthias' shield and body motion when he blocks -- he steps into and out of blows and dips with his whole body. I need to block like that.

Isabella E · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:47 am Post subject:

He's pretty awesome. Smile

And a nice guy to boot.
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Cunian · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject:

This next one is very lively.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0fLD8hX2wk

Isabella E · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject:

You don't see crown finals with weapon styles like that a lot, that's for sure. I had a hard time telling just which of those last blows thrown was the winning one though.
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Cunian · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 1:12 pm Post subject:

In which bout? To me - In the first bout - which was re-fought and didn't count - Duke Sven had stopped for some reason before the final blow - wrap - was thrown. The next bout, it looked like a high head wrap. The third bout at the end was occluded by the marshal and I couldn't follow. I believe it was a thrust to the body with the thrusty weapon. The fourth bout, Duke Sven did a very pretty face thrust with the thrusty weapon. They decided, though, that they wanted to refight that fight also. The fifth bout, the final blow looks to be a head wrap.

I'm interested in the lateral skipping. It seems to always be counterclockwise, to the right. I was always told bouncy movement was a bad thing.

I remember fighting Duke Sven in pickups at Pennsic sometime.

Isabella E · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 2:29 pm Post subject:

The very last one I think.

Anyway the bouncy footwork kind of occurred to me too but it also seems like at a certain point fighters of high skill and experience often throw the rules the rest of us are told out the window.
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rohesia · Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 2:31 am Post subject: Re: Video of the week

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