As I said earlier, I'm considering buying a macebell for my weightlifting regiment and swordsmanship studies. However I am should I expect a totally different style of wielding and techniques from training with Indian clubs?
I already started searching out club and bat combat manuals including the few translations available of Kshatriya bootcamp guides and martial arts texts so slowly I am becoming acquainted with club fighting and bat self defense.
I mean aren't maces and clubs quite similar in weight distribution (specifically their weight is mostly at the top part of the weapon)?
| John A. Brown wrote: |
| As I said earlier, I'm considering buying a macebell for my weightlifting regiment and swordsmanship studies. However I am should I expect a totally different style of wielding and techniques from training with Indian clubs?
I already started searching out club and bat combat manuals including the few translations available of Kshatriya bootcamp guides and martial arts texts so slowly I am becoming acquainted with club fighting and bat self defense. I mean aren't maces and clubs quite similar in weight distribution (specifically their weight is mostly at the top part of the weapon)? |
Clubs and maces are used in an identical manner. The only real difference might arise in terms of balance; it is possible to make a club like a baseball bat, which will have a different distribution of mass than a club that is more rounded at the top. It is noteworthy that many if not most medieval depictions of clubs seem to show the latter shape, with a clear spherical swelling near the head. This is in essence no different from a mace.
Besides looking for the more obvious resources like Hans Talhoffer, Paulus Hector Mair has a section of his manuscript on the "Peasant Staff", which is really a two-handed club. Also, Fiore gives a couple of wrestling techniques using a baton, and this could easily be transferred to the club or mace. Wiktenauer, as you probably know, is the place to go to find this material.
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