New Martial Arts

[Cheomesh]

They actually have four up, cats, though the one you linked is a correction to their first one. I've trained messer with them in real life; I've booked them to do hands on seminars on four or so occasions now. It's a good art. Their video shot in a garage was done on a cold February night, and they were really trying to compete for space with the camera, so it looks kind of constrained. Gladiatores (the guys who did the video linked above this response) also did one on messer, with the weapon showing up in messer and buckler within another video.

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[macphersonrants]

Originally Posted by DeathFromAbove

Medieval European Martial Arts styles are as complex and complete like the oriental one.

Armed and unarmed ones.
In and out of armor.

They are overlooked often by RPG books.

Very good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC5FIyfI8TA

GURPS does a better with historical European styles than most games in my view.

With the messer clip, I notice the style seems pretty similar to dussack techniques I've trained in. Perhaps you could get some additional ideas from some of the dussack sources like Joachim Meyer.

[macphersonrants]

It would be pretty easy to break several of the historical European styles down by fechtbuch/master to add a little nuance and variety. We could probably also extrapolate several ancient and medieval styles based on visual sources and the work of serious re-enactors.