Knife Fighting Training
Dual Wield Dagger vs Rapier – Rick vs Nick
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Feb
Feb
Time for something a little different. Rick has trained Capo Ferro rapier, as well as Meyer rapier and military sabre for about a year now. There have been …
As soon as the sword is deflected, in come the daggers. He has to be quick though or of goes his head.
this feels quite similar to wing chun's bat jam do duel butter fly swords fighting style
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It's seems like having two daggers over one sword it's a nice advantage
This is why you get dagers with blade catchers. If he did ge would catch the rapier in a second
And interesting type of dagger/short sword I think you guys would enjoy is the butterfly swords
Dagger guy was good and respectful. What we like to see!
The guy with the rapier should try stabbing more to gain distance, but he was slashing with a long thin sword perfect for stabbing.
Vinland saga anyone?
Use more force with that sword. Daggers can’t stop the harder blow from the swing.
We also tried this out this Summer, and two daggers works surprisingly well against rapiers. Even against rapier+dagger where you'd expect there to be a larger disadvantage.
Why is the rapierist using a slashing style? Couldn't he easily thrust and succeed the majority of the time?
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Aren't those sai daggers ?
The lesson to be learned is – BIGGER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER. The tip of a sword increases your reach but once your opponent smothers your sword or blocks it then you are, basically, unarmed. I've seen in gun magazines that a knife is more deadly within 10' than a gun. If the gun is deflected or the shooter misses with his first shot then the knife guy will be within arm's range and have multiple opportunities to slash and stab.
A lot of these rapier slaps on the limbs would not be fight ending, whereas every single exchange won by the daggers would be the first of a flurry of attacks that would be unforgiving.
What about keeping one of the daggers in an icepick hold, to act more as a defensive, deflecting weapon? That way you essentially have what looks like the length of the forearm protected to act as a mechanism for blocking and then thrust with the extended dagger?
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Well executed bind around 0:22 and… shank shank shank dead
any manuals out there specifically geared towards two weapon fighting?
Cool. But I'm curious.
What type of daggers are those? Eg. Italian, Spanish, French etc.
One thing that really jumped up at me was just how much an off-hand dagger would help the rapierist in discouraging the running in. Without it, getting past the rapier's point (as hard as it is) pretty much means you are safe, with an off hand dagger there, not so much.
That probably explains why they were much more popular than bucklers with thrust-catching doodads.