Early HEMA videos

[admin]

I'm going to make this a sticky thread, feel free to post any HEMA related videos from before 1945. I shall generally leave out sport/modern fencing unless it it pre-1900 (there are a lot of post-1900 sport fencing videos).

1926 British sabre - explaining the difference between 1900 military and 1920 sport sabre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loluky6-8Jk&NR=1

1914 British cavalry sword training:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNKLFn41IU&NR=1

1880 French infantry sabre exercise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYJU9OugZg

1900 French la canne drill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HstnToEA7KA

1920 French soldiers sabre (sport?) fencing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Zf40pBUNE

1920 British singlestick(?)/sabre mounted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzboJMgHLiQ&NR=1

1930 British Navy cutlass drill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCF_DFRND9I

WW1(?) United States hand-to-hand training:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga4zLsMmkE0

[Roger N]

I like this one with duelling shields from 1956... Not from before 1945, but pretty early still.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfom99lM_oU#t=0m17s

Also this one of gladiator fencing from 1935 is cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475GgHIle_s

[Batfink]

Love that in the US close combat video at about 4.30, after knocking his opponent to the ground, he stops to adjust his hat before putting the boot in...

Also... to justify having posted that comment-

Jack Dempsey vs. Bill Brennan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFxcNfXMA60

There are several Dempsey fights on youtube but this seems to be one of the best and closest... lots of very low slipping followed up by work from the clinch which seems to be very characteristic of the style.

Old Muay Thai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAtgyIbkRaw

Not strictly HEMA (except in the sense which would be opposite to HWMA... but let's not go there...). Is interesting though... It's only a short snippet (with an annoying trailer in the middle c.2.10-4.20) but it shows a style that appears as different from modern Muay Thai as Dempsey is from modern boxing.

[craftyfighter]

Stick fighting Canne de combat in France in 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARA_35xYET4&feature=related

Savate, interwar years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJme1iy6qOc&feature=related

[Max C.]

1916 French bayonet fencing championship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMglDHI_ ... Og&index=7

1891 savate and canne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Z55GB6 ... g&index=31