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slightly off topic, I don’t suppose anyone knows the best place to source links for making riveted maille?

I think his point may have been that Digrassi continues the use of the shield ward where Talhoffer etc had previously suggested it (and no doubt they picked it up from someone before them).
Either th ...

No offence to the creators (as it seems to happen with most videos of techniques) but their holding their weight wrong and it's forcing them to make up for it with incorrect footwork.

As everything ...

Wow, a whole post with no spelling mistakes andswords and sheild vs katana/twohanded sword sheilds men wins every time

A shield is a deflexion surface as noted many times over thus far, so a shield on the back needs to still be useds as such for it to have much value.

Slowing blows prevents cuts to a shield worn on ...

Oh I love piercings, I need to start getting more, had to take too many out due to work, only thing to beat a piercing so far is getting my wisdom teeth ripped out while half conscious.

Next is sca ...

hang on you have a "genital piercing" and you are complaining about getting hit in family jewels with a sword.

You have some funny ideas about swords if you see a piercing as more painful than a cu ...

Damaged genital piercing after recieving a redoubled cut in rapier into unprotected areas.

He does however also make use of the half pass and elonge (used this termanology as I can't see him suggesting the earlier version) does'nt he?

That’s simple though, that’s just control, range and manoeuvrability.

True but Silver is renaissance swordsmanship rather than medieval, so his footwork and technique have changed somewhat (not to the degree of rapier texts but still) do you think the same still applies ...

Also debatable, once Knights had the armour to not need shields they discarded them to use a two handed sword, which shows the value of shield fell away as armour got better.

Further to this, a shi ...

A 18th century English pirate vs a 13th century French Knight, remove the inaccurate flintlocks and the knights maille protection and my moneys still on blackbeard dying a feeble death from lack of ge ...

As much as I love eighteenth century swordsmanship, an enlightenment swordsman with a sabre would be destroyed by a medieval swordsman due to the difference in footwork.

i.e the knight or even man ...

Wait, wait, you mean... a logical conversation.....over the internet, surely you must be kidding, such things are like unicorns, dragons and ladies they only exist in fairytales and the like.