Videos part two

Gaston de Vieuxchamps · Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:12 am

My wife just added the second video I edited for the web from the 1994 tape of Baldar and myself.

This is a large file--25.7megs--so it's best to right click on the link and "save target as" rather than having it go to a temp file.

It is about 8 minutes long with a lot of text that might be hard to read at full speed but should be helpful if analyzing the video. It has several of the basic excercises and the basic kata-- actually an outdated version of it but it hasn't changed that much.

This video was originally shot as part of our stillborn CD project. It was intended to be source video for little 5-10 second clips that would loop in a box while you read the text of the manual so it's not ideally shot for this format but I think it should be helpful anyway....

As before, I would appreciate commentary.

PS-there is no audio so no, it's not a problem with your player :-)

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps · Tue Dec 23, 2003 7:09 am

This is the URL for the movies:

http://vieuxchamps.com/photo.html

[This message has been edited by Gaston de Vieuxchamps (edited 12-23-2003).]

Ashfield · Post by **Ashfield** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 12:12 pm

Now that's usefull ! !

Thank you !

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Jean Paul de Sens · Post by **Jean Paul de Sens** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:06 pm

Excellent. I like the classification of shots. Easy to explain, and fundamental in their differentiation. Granted, in all fighting the shots will be some combination of the basic types.

Like the kata at the end too.

Query, how would you change/modify the kata for a longer sword (your guys look to be around 30" right?)

Ringlancer · Post by **Ringlancer** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 10:02 pm

Wow. I like this. I like this a lot.

Christoffer · Post by **Christoffer** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:32 am

For some reason it seems to be familiar to me. I wonder why.

D. Sebastian · Post by **D. Sebastian** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:11 am

These vids are most appreciated!
Do you have any that cover footwork?

HvR · Post by **HvR** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:06 am

Thank you again for sharing - this second video was great - I too would be interested in information regarding footwork if you have anything to share.

Helmut

bkillian · Post by **bkillian** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 12:29 pm

Amazing. Gaston. I have to ask Have you studied FMA or some Indonesian Martial Art?
I use the exact same drills and progression. And I swiped them straight from the dojo. The other question I have is are you teaching replacement stepping or triangular stepping in conjuntion with these drills?

Bryan Killian
Atlantia

william · Post by **william** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 2:10 pm

Uh-oh. This becomes addictive. Very cool stuff (I hope there's more !?!).

Again, thanks for sharing.

Will

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps · Thu Dec 25, 2003 6:19 pm

Wow, thanks for the enthusiastic replies!
I got to get back downstairs for a big family dinner but but to quickly address some of the posts...

I'm not sure what triangular stepping or replacement stepping is but I have a feeling we do the second mostly.

I haven't studdied FMA but Baldar did steal some of his early drills (especially the figure 8s) from an FMA video.

We are much better at teaching sword movememt than foot movement but we are constantly working to remedy that. There are a number of drills with footwork now but most of them either weren't invented or weren't "ready for prime time" when this video was shot. There have always been drills with foot movement (the hip rotation drill, and the original lunges) but not ones that really "taught" footwork.

Baldar learned to move his feet playing judo as a teenager. I learned to move my feet from karate and aikido so we both know some variety of footwork but it took us a long time to decide which particular things are most useful for SCA since we knew that learning footwork the way we learned was not the most efficient way for SCA fighters. I think our latest students move their feet better in relation to their current skill level that any previous Asgardians.

I'll write more after Christmas and also get to work on recording some newer footage!

Merry Christmas and such...

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bkillian · Post by **bkillian** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 7:25 pm

Triangular steping, and replacement steping, are terms used for the same thing. It is where the lead foot and rear foot change places To create better angles for offence and defence. Its sort of changing from a left stance to a right stance in traditional asian martial arts. Fer instance......
Two right handers Sword and shield. Fighter A throws a flat snap, Fighter B raises his front shield corner about and inch while swaping his feet. Fighter B Has now blocked The flat snap and is now in a dominant position in relation to Fighter A's defence.
Its so hard to describe in words what it takes 5 seconds to show in person.