Postby Adam Bodorics » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:13 pm
Basically I have problems with the position of the parrierhaken. With this assembly you can't finger the quillons and can't use it comfortably in "long grip" (lack of better term). It has no function and would trouble you while grabbing the ricasso and would exclude some of the techniques. This leads to a simple thing - it can only be used as a huge longsword even as there's far more to bidenhanders. (yes, you can do halfswording with it but you can do that with longswords as well)
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Other thing is that so far I haven't seen a flammenschwert with plain quillons. Making that blade was pretty expensive (and would be expensive today as well if you don't use CNC), nice and lightly decorated quillons were much cheaper. I don't know if it's clear enough, but it seems like, uhm, adding nicely roped fully rolled edges to a rough-from-the-hammer breastplate. If you have more money, you buy one with a better finish, and you consider the roping only after you had money for the better finish.
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One more thing is that they seem to prefer the less extreme flammenschwert form, which was the less common one, but that's only personal taste.
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Overall, that particular sword seems like the work of a quite talented but not too educated LARPer.
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And I highly doubt they train in using them. Check the way they carry it on the march and give me just one more source showing that method and I'll withdraw my doubts, but that seems absurdly stupid.
