Why didn't we manage to preserve medieval sword combat? As the defining art of the ruling caste you would think they would be well documented. Certainly Western fencing evolved a lot more than kenjutsu, but that shouldn't mean documents just disappear.
Also if any of you know a good video reconstruction of how a real 1200 circa battle would look like? Most of the stuff I see are rubbish with a lot of soldiers dueling. Melee combat in battle should be really swift and brutal. You don't have the time to do all the fancy parry and pirouettes against a single opponent because there's another guy there to stab you in the back.
Also if any of you know a good video reconstruction of how a real 1200 circa battle would look like? Most of the stuff I see are rubbish with a lot of soldiers dueling. Melee combat in battle should be really swift and brutal. You don't have the time to do all the fancy parry and pirouettes against a single opponent because there's another guy there to stab you in the back.
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