#stage combat

[shakespearenews]

Matthew Macfadyen as Hal and David Harewood as Hotspur at the RSC in 2005

[gameo-archive]

"My George cameo in 2 parts. 🥰 I had to cut out about a minute at the beginning but there you go. I asked how he got to study drama and some fencing tips #DeadBoyDetectives #RenewDeadBoyDetectives"

Did you study drama? How did you decide what to do?

Part 2

"I just started fencing! Do you have any tips?"

Featuring a brief Scottish accent at the end. :)

[savemeryangoslingsavemeeee]

I got to talk about the fight choreo in The Fall Guy for my stage combat class and it did a lot for me. Specifically the scene in the club. Not only is the choreography there a lot of fun, but they also do a good job of hiding any potential errors with special effects in a way that fits the scene so well. It also does really well with balancing out a group fight. Often times it’ll be like a “one at a time” situation but everyone in the scene stayed consistently engaged. The fight choreo also flowed super well. Over all a grand time

[waltzoftherapiers]

Another HEMA concept that I think could be interesting applied to stage combat is over-parries

An over-parry has strategic affects in a fight, but also the character beat aspect of it? The bigger the over-parry the more desperate the move looks

[le-sapphic-artist]

Roman: next time someone bothers me, I’m going to fake bang my head on the nearest surface until they go away

[junpeininj4]

So I started medieval stage combat a few weeks ago, after a friend dragged me to a show at the local renaissance faire And we started talking to the group doing the fencing, and what was I supposed to do, NOT fight them? 

And now I’m part of the crew. 

It opened this big can of worms, because part of it all is to look at least somewhat historical accurate, and when I asked how to best approach this whole reenactment thing, they said something terrible. “Just imagine someone who actually lived back then, and try to translate what that would mean for your kit.”

Oh.

Brother.

You can’t TELL me shit like that.

So now I am supposed to write FanFic about the real world, which it turns out is rather dense in regards to the lore, and my hyperfocus for small, niche, minute little things is trying to comprehend A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE!

A Europe, by the way, that wasn’t quite as streamlined and culturally united as it is today, AND IT IS NOT, but a Europe where Germany was not even a thing, instead being seven Kingdoms in a trenchcoat larping as Imperial Rome. While being mostly ruling over territory that was never touched by Rome, because we killed them when they tried. 

And now I have this guy called Ulfrick, who is living somewhere in the county of Holstein-Pinneberg, works as a bodyguard for a merchant of the Hanseatic League, is secretly gay, and… enjoys music I don’t know the sound of. Eats food that is unfamiliar to me. I don’t know where he gets his clothes from, or his weapons, and which weapons that would be. What he would do for fun, in which currency he would pay for that. Which parts of the world he would know about, or would be able to travel to. How he would look at the world.

Because I am strange when it comes to the characters I invent, I feel like I owe him to find out. 

And that is… beautiful, and intimidating. It feels like eating an elephant, but it also feels like unearthing more and more little details about a new-found friend.

I guess it’s time to become an expert in medieval history.

Let’s go.

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Director: While we were at intermission i got some swords in the mail

[michaelbaileywriter]

Station Identification Time

Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, two dogs, and four cats who don’t like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in a…

[disappointingcabbage]

Stage combat questions

[kultofathena]

Hanwei – Practical Side Sword

The Practical Side Sword manufactured by Paul Chen uses the same hilt as the sharp version from Hanwei (SH2203), but carries a sparring blade designed for safety. Side sword sparring, in both sword and buckler and sword and dagger modes is becoming increasingly popular with many proponents among the ranks of the various Renaissance societies.

[dannyisinspace7]

Stage combat really makes you realize where the bones are in your body. Like I do a stage fall and I’m just thinking “huh I didn’t know there was a bone there”

On the other hand I’ve only been doing this for two days and I’ve almost destroyed my knees so

[s0fi114]

i dont like it when my mom talks mean to me

I feel like a 7 year old after “drawing too loud”

i didnt wanna sword fight with someone when they were boxing cuz thats bad

:(

i wanna die but i dont wanna lose her

[countesspetofi]

I started watching Dynasty over a year ago, but I'd just watch one episode here or there and didn't really get into it like I thought I would. That is, until today, when I watched an episode with the first of the famous "cat fights" between Linda Evans's and Joan Collins's characters. I had read that Linda really enjoyed stage fighting and stunts, and really threw herself into them 100%, and I can see that it wasn't an exaggeration. I think that's what makes them look so real; if I didn't know better I'd swear they were really going at it hammer and tongs. Bonus: several very clear shots of Joan Collins's underpants. I can confidently say that now I'm hooked. I'd pit Krystle Carrington against the Gorn any day.

[waltzoftherapiers]

Three things from HEMA I wish my stage combat class used

1: invitations. Invitations are when you drop part of your guard to get your opponent to attack a specific target. My class talked about opening up targets so that your partner looks like they’re attacking an open target, but not about how a character might do this on purpose for strategic reasons.

2: guards. We went over this a little with small sword but most of the other weapons are generic point-forward guards. But different guards are interesting and look cool! Window guards seem especially popular in TV and movies, and lower guards are good for conserving strength and messing with your opponent’s/partner’s sense of measure (which could be a dangerous side effect in stage combat, I guess)

3: tempo. Not as in speed, but as in the time it takes for each move to be completed. There were multiple times in choreography where a party or response had a longer tempo than the attack, which felt so weird

[manichewitz]

half the reason i want to study historical weapons stage combat isn’t even for acting career reasons its so i can one day get paid to be a knight at a ren faire or historical reenactment thing and wear a big suit of armor and wave a big ass sword around all damn day