Weird Weapons from History: Flail

The Medieval world was a time of experimentation and discovery and of course warfare. This lead to some unusual weapons being used and surely one of the most fearful was the spiked flail.

Matt Easton is a massively accomplished European Martial Arts practitioner and instructor and I make Medieval weapons and I really want to learn about flails so I treated Matt to an unexpected unboxing video of a flail.

By complete luck a chap called Tom Sylvester had two practice flails so we asked him and some friends to spar so we could watch and it turned out to be very interesting even though they had not used them before.