Learn the Art of Combat - Halberd Fighting Fundamentals

Hey Hollywood. This is how you make something look impressive while having it remain effective fighting. Also put more halberds in your movies.

These types of videos are invaluable to writers and roleplayers, not just aspiring recreation fighters.

People used to spend their entire living trying to buy a book about halberd arts and to buy a halberd. Now we can just watch it when we're trying to sleep. How times had changed.

I wasn't even looking for halberd anything when I stumbled upon this gem under my recommendations, nice tutorial of the basics.

Thanks for bringing polearms to the masses. I'm sick and tired of sword's monopoly.

YouTube “want to watch a beefy man teach you how to swing a halberd?” Me a tiny 5’5 lady with the strength of a wet paper bag “yes , I can finally be deadly” Subscribed because I’m a nerd with beefy fictional characters that actually need to swing a halberd, nice for drawing and writing

Long pointy sticks are the best. Even better when they come with choppy bits!

Wouldn’t want to break into this man’s house. Cause of death: Halberd. Haven’t heard that one in a while.

Not sure if anyone has made this before, but here goes Handling 1:11 Guards 1:37 Footwork 3:07 Thrusts 3:47 Strikes 4:57 Summary 9:07

Just needs to scream "Ad Morten Inimicus" while doing the wrath hew, and it'll be perfect. In all seriousness, when all those moves were put together fluidly, it was beautiful to watch, and looked deadly.

Alright but can we appreciate how skilled this man actually is? Big fan of this stuff, definitely subscribed

"Can't touch" those pants. Nice fluid work, looks like the product of careful study. Thanks for sharing.

Nobody: YouTube at 2am: Halbert fighting Me: okay Great vid bud

Rollo got sick of the Viking life, became duke of Paris. Rollo got bored of the duke of Paris, began teaching Germans halbert techniques on YT. Git you some, Rollo!!!

Longswordsman meeting a halberd soldier on the battlefield: Oh crap, not a halberd. Anything but a halberd, dear God

Finally a guy doing this sort of thing who actually probably looks like he should.

Man, look at the speed that the head is moving through the strikes. Very intimidating. Thanks so much for this!

I fell in love with polearm weapons and specifically the halberd through DnD but it got me curious about their history and how they're realistically wielded and used. I'd love to get more into recreational fighting, it looks like a lot of fun and a decent workout too. This video is an awesome jumping-in point!

Halbred is my absolute favorite thing to spar with. I made some trainers with ash poles and leather heads with some foam in the spear part for some stiffness and kydex in the blade and hook for rigidity when hooking. They worked great and as long as you trust your partner, you could get the intensity pretty high while still keeping thing safe and controlled. One thing I've noticed that carried over from quarter staff was that to perform rucken in a way that was effective and felt correct was when in straight partying, bring the butt up into your armpit, almost like shouldering a rifle. This is shown in some of Meyers quarter staff plates and I believe in some of his halberd plates as well. I'm absolutely thrilled that you're posting halberd videos and am eagerly looking forward to more!

Really glad I found this video, halberds are such underrated weapons in modern medieval culture