>>204672
>HEMA is not the only surviving art that was actually used in warfare. That isn't even close to being true.
>what is MOF's lineage

>I am pretty sure Eskrima has been doing sparring for longer than HEMA has been a thing.
Their "sparring" is just drills done really fast. Its like calling bag drills in boxing "sparring"

>>204828
>You would be much better off doing regular unarmed martial arts like boxing, wrestling, muay thai, judo, etc.

Abrazare is just Judo except not watered down for sport, and still retains a lot of the "lethal" components. Ringen is what modern Wrestling is based off of. Boxing is based on old school Pugilism. Muay Thai is just Savate except good.

>HEMA by definition is not surviving. The whole reason why there's so much interpretation of the sources and experimental archaeology is because it wasn't preserved and there are no living traditions.

Almost every martial art that exists now is less than 150 years old. Even "long lineage" martial arts like Kendo were made in the 1920s but claim a long lineage because theyre loosely similar. The longest living western traditions are wrestling, boxing, and fencing. HEMA is just dialing back fencing a couple of centuries because in the end its basically the same because MOF was built off older styles. The old fencing dudes did an excellent job preserving their traditions in books unlike eastern shit where its just century long games of telephone and a lot of dudes making shit up and claiming "muh Okinawan lineage".

Saying "muh lineage" is just weeaboo cope because they dont know kendo was made as a sport for high schools and most if not all eastern martial arts are modern inventions based off western shit.

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