- Free sparring with the historical arsenal
Video Gallery
Video Gallery
Demonstrations and Interviews
Ishiyama Ryu Battojutsu sparring video with RSW katana.
We were invited by Dharma Buddhism Association to perform a demonstration on German longsword swordsmanship. It was probably the first demonstration narrated in Chinese / Cantonese about this subject in the world. Lancelot Chan, Unicorn Poh and Zachary Au Yeung showed the effectiveness of German style longsword fighting to 40 attendees.
A highlight of the 5 master cuts from German Longsword system applied in full contact free sparring.
As a response to some swordsmanship practitioners who concentrate on delivering hard blows, here we made a video to investigate how hard one has to hit in order to inflict effective damage in unarmored combat and the difficulty in crashing through opponent's defense with hard blows.
Another Cable TV interview of our activity. Presented in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Haidong Gumdo crews Anthony Boyd, Lorne Oliver and Doug Lusby performing a demo using RSW.
The TV show of our part.
Realistic Sparring Weapons Combat (remember to check the weekly gathering session for latest update)
More sparring clips in Activities session.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom and his sword and buckler.
Tom wore his steel gorget and gauntlets, thus hits to his neck and hands in the sparring were not counted. Lancelot wielded his Brescia Spadona RSW in German Sigmund Ringeck style to spar against Tom and his Brescia Spadona RSW as well as the combination of sword and shield .
(Tom's armor 5mb mpg. Sparring videos 25mb mpg each. Part 1 Part 2)
Hugh vs Gunbuster, spear fight.
Wraith with his basket hilt sword and shield vs Lancelot with his longsword.
Hugh with his spear vs Wraith with his basket hilt sword and shield.
Gunbuster vs Kalun, spear fight.
Lancelot with spear vs Hugh with butterfly swords.
Lancelot with his Brescia Spadona RSW with Sigmund Ringeck style vs Hugh Driver's Hung Gar Butterfly Swords.
Lancelot with his Brescia Spadona RSW with Sigmund Ringeck style vs Hugh Driver's Hung Gar spear.
Lancelot testing with a custom made basket-hilt sword against Alikool's Chinese Jian. The superiority of the basket hilt's design, which was practically a sword and shield combination wielded by one hand, was evident.
Lancelot testing with a custom made basket-hilt sword against Kit's Japanese Katana. Even the two handed leverage was no match against the combination of sword and buckler in one hand.
Maurya and his RSW European long sabre vs Lancelot with his Brescia Spadona RSW. A furious exchanges of blows in German Sigmund Ringeck's style.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW fighting in German Sigmund Ringeck's style vs King's European bastard sabre.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW fighting in German Sigmund Ringeck's style vs Zachary's English Two Hander.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom's English Two Hander.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Zachary's European longsword.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Rock's Zulu War Spear.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Maurya's hand and a half sabre.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Chiu's Katana.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom and his sword and buckler.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom and his rapier and buckler.
Tom and his English rapier vs Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW.
Rock and Dipsy dueled with Zulu war spear.
Kalun and his large Bagua Jian vs Rock and his Zulu War Spear. There were a lot of hard thrusts to the throat in this sparring session!
Kalun and his Katana vs Parke's European longsword. Both parties were doing their best and there were many heavy hits.
We installed a wireless camera behind Lancelot's cage and took footage of Realistic Sparring Weapons combat from a first-person perspective, showing the thrill only experienced when facing the opponent on the field.
Han vs Anthony Boyd, Haidong Gumdo style.
Oh vs Anthony Boyd, Haidong Gumdo style.
James and Graham sparred with different sword and shield combinations.
Korea Haidong Gumdo sparring with RSW Katana.
Korea Haidong Gumdo sparring with RSW Katana and Claymore.
Simon and his light Jian vs James's sword and shield. It was a terrific show of speed vs power.
Simon vs James, a spear fight. James employed his fencing techniques. Despite it was just his second time wielding the spear, he was already very good at it.
Simon wielding his light Jian fought Alfred and the longsword. It was a contest of speed against reach!
James with sword and shield fought two opponents in the same time, Ka Lun with a Katana and Maurya with a Tulwar.
Real Sword Test Cutting
(All swords used in test cutting are real swords, not Realistic Sparring Weapons.)
Annie's first test cut, which was a success.
Tai Chi Master Kie Brooks tested 3 different Chinese Jian out on thin and thick water bottles, which resulted in huge differences. He emphasized the importance of having a good sword as well as cutting practice in Chinese martial arts with his action.
A recent test cutting showing that the water bottles were being the target of choice lately.
A precious experimental video of putting the sparring moves to test in real sword test cutting. Since pork arm was tougher than human arm and was placed on a box with certain give, the actual damage inflicted on a human body would be greater than the ones shown in the video.
Brescia test on leather wrapped pork arm. Read the details here.
Lancelot wielded his new sword Brescia Spadona against the tried and true target: Pork arm, performed test cutting on various platform. Very stunning effect!
Lancelot test cut a pork arm with a
European Bastard Sword,
a real one of course. From time to time we test cut with real swords to
appreciate the actual effect of a sword on flesh, meat, and bone and to
verify the effectiveness of certain sparring techniques. Here's the latest
one in which the pork arm was placed on a cardboard box to provide some
amount of give during impact to simulate the resistance one might encounter
in combat situation.
(16mb real player format)
Simon tested his Carp Jian on a pork arm with thrusts, wrist-powered false edge cuts, Dian and chopping cuts.