Sword and buckler combat, plate from the Tacuinum Sanitatis illustrated in Lombardy, ca. Finding manuscripts dealing with the classic heater shield is the holy grail of the HEMA community.For other uses, see Buckler (disambiguation). There is also a duelling weapon known as the duelling shield, but it honestly has more in common with a klingon batleth than a shield. We can get some ideas from italian rotella. In the time period in question the classic heavy shield was becoming obsolete for these groups. The fight books were mostly concerned with the needs of noblemen fighting judicial duels or bourgeois fightschool students. The big problem is that we honestly don't know how people fought with larger shields. Missile troops and polearm equipped infantry could easily carry one looped on their belt. The buckler was also very useful as a secondary defense. But yeah, bucklers weren't intended for use in a kind of shield wall. Once two formations were locked together, the spanish bucklermen would attack, their equipment making them superior at close quarters. The Spanish raised entire units of bucklermen to use against pikeblocks. You can see how energy is being manipulated and redirected to get past the opponents defenses. For those who have never used sharps, sharp edges stick together almost magnetically, and the responsiveness and sensitivity to energy is magnified. The first is a vid about how Sharp weapons perform differently than blunt weapons in the bind, and how this affects technique.
These vids here show some sword and buckler stuff from the oldest known medieval manuscript on the martial arts, the Tower Manuscript, written by a monk. This results in a sort of swordplay that is very close in. Many of the conqistadores such as Hernan Cortes were rodeleros, sowrd and buckler men trained to attack enemy pike men when two pike blocks collided.īucklers aren't shields to block with.they are much more active and are used to cut off the angles and bind the enemies weapon. The buckler survived right up until near modern times, and sword and buckler men were famed as duellists. But the truth is, sword and buckler was more common. We have all seen plenty of depictions on two handed swords, especially in mass media.
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