Sword Fighting As It Was For the Vikings

Kelly Longbow and his son Garnet are professional fight choreographers. Their specialty is Viking warfare, and their methods are as true to life as possible. It's definitely not Hollywood, because our techniques, our fighting, is based on hitting the enemy. It's not like stage fighting, where you're standing out of distance, out of range. This is why we use these dull swords. It has no point, and it's two millimeters wide. So you can't actually, you can injure somebody. So the striking areas are the upper arms, the shoulders, the torso, and up the upper legs to the knee. Like any choreography, the correct first position is critical to success. The main part is that you always have the sword in front. So that it always is a danger for the enemy to come in. So even if you move forward, then he will be instantly hit. And when you do it on the other side, just make a big movement, like in Hollywood, then I will be dead at first. Or even these silly things like turning around. I can't even go around. So this is Hollywood, and this is not how we fight. It would be silly if we just go straight forward to each other. Because when we do, we can easily just protect ourselves. So the way to fight is that you go in the sword distance. If I hit like this, I won't hit his shoulder. But when you have the shield at the same height, I just go straight around and go out. So the body movement will not be the front direction. It is always side steps. So this is how the way to fight.