Female Wins Longsword Competition at World Invitational Tournament
Modern day female longsword expert wins the The Longsword Competition at the World Invitationals.
Trained in European martial arts as she puts it (When you think ‘martial arts’ it usually brings up images of Far East fighting styles, so this was interesting to hear European sword fighting described in this way), and using swords that she herself designed (specifically for her style of fighting and longsword competition), Samantha Swords is a girl after my own ‘Geek’ heart.
See her video interview complete with sword play demonstrations and training…
http://www.thegeekocracy.com/modern-day-knight-female-wins-longsword-competition-world-invitational-tournament/
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-- Mal
according to the video credits at the link.
Cool stuff.
In the comments section on YouTube she made a comment herself about this blaming the confusion on her accent...
"Russell- I didn't design the swords. It's my accent- I was saying, "the swords are designed for this kind of fighting...". This confusion is understandable because I am actually a props and weapons maker for film! "
Now I'm going to be spending hours on YT watching videos of sword fighting which will no doubt lead to my watching videos of other medieval weapons, then that will lead to other medieval videos, and if 'm lucky I might realize I've spent enough time once the sun has been up again for a few hours. LOL!
Thanks for this though. I've always had an interest in the medieval period... weapons, armor, jousting, tournaments, fashions, religion, building, politics, medicine, economics, war, etc., etc., etc.
and some other interesting clips associated with my grandson the fencer.
