The longsword or bastard-sword was also made in Spain, appearing relatively late, known as the espadon or the montante.

Rapier and even longsword foils are also known to have been used, but they were very different in terms of weight and use.

The major sections of the work include: abrazare, unarmed plays ( usually translated as wrestling but more literally grappling ); daga, including both unarmed defenses against the dagger and plays of dagger against dagger ; spada a un mano, the use of the longsword in one hand ( also called " the sword without the buckler "); spada a dui mani, the use of the longsword in two hands ; spada en arme, the use of the longsword in armor ( primarily techniques from the halfsword ); azza, plays of the poleaxe in armor ; lancia, spear and staff plays ; and mounted combat ( including the spear, the longsword, and mounted grappling ).

Trunks is also known for his use of his longsword which he keeps in a scabbard mounted across his back.

The term longsword has also been used to refer to different kinds of sword depending on historical context:

They also taught the use of the Zweihänder ( as mentioned above ), the dussack, the spear, the quarterstaff and the longsword.

The modern historical martial arts reconstruction community also focuses heavily on the longsword, providing a demand for the specific tool.

Similar stances to jōdan-no-kamae are also found in German and Italian schools of the longsword.

His system is, however, based on the teachings of Liechtenauer dating to about a century earlier, since Lecküchner organizes his system in the same way as Liechtenauer, and also uses the same terminology that is present in his longsword teachings.

The late Roman Empire introduced the longer spatha ( the term for its wielder, spatharius, became a court rank in Constantinople ), and from this time, the term longsword is applied to swords comparatively long for their respective periods.

Training occurs through repetition of skill-related actions ( e. g., hitting a monster with a longsword trains long blades and fighting skills ), using experience from a pool refilled as the player defeats monsters.

Normally, several modes of combat were taught alongside one another, typically unarmed grappling ( Kampfringen or abrazare ), dagger ( Degen or daga, often of the rondel variety ), long knife ( Messer ) or Dussack, half-or quarterstaff, pole arms, longsword ( langes Schwert, spada longa, spadone ), and combat in plate armour ( Harnischfechten or armazare ), both on foot and on horseback.

By 1400, this type of sword, at the time called langes Schwert ( longsword ) or spadone, was common, and a number of 15th-and 16th-century Fechtbücher offering instructions on their use survive.

As noted above, the terms longsword, broad sword, great sword, and Gaelic claymore are used relative to the era under consideration, and each term designates a particular type of sword.

The Gaelic claidheamh mòr means " great sword "; anglicized as claymore it came to refer to the Scottish type of longsword with V-shaped crossguard.

The longsword as a late medieval type of sword emerges in the 14th century, as a military weapon of the earlier phase of the Hundred Years ' War.

In Italy, spadone, or longsword, instruction lingered on in spite of the popularity of the rapier, at least into the mid-17th century ( Alfieri's Lo Spadone of 1653 ), with a late treatise of the " two handed sword " by one Giuseppe Colombani, a dentist in Venice dating to 1711.

The term longsword refers to different kinds of sword depending on historical context:

* Bastard sword, a type of longsword

D rides a cybernetic horse with mechanical legs and other enhancements, wields a crescent longsword which looks similar to Yoshitaka Amano's scimitar sword design found in many of his works of art, but the sword has a hefty length, similar to that of a Japanese nodachi.

During this period of time, the longsword grew out of the arming sword, eventually resulting in a blade comfortably wielded in both hands at once.

After the demise of the longsword, the backsword became the last prominent battlefield sword.

The first page of the Codex Wallerstein shows the typical arms of 15th-century individual combat, including the longsword, roundel dagger, arming sword | sword-and-buckler, halberd, spear, and staff.

Between 1407 and 1410, he documented comprehensive fighting techniques in a treatise entitled Flos Duellatorum covering grappling, dagger, arming sword, longsword, pole-weapons, armoured combat and mounted combat.

Among them are bare fists, a dagger, a short sword, a morning star, a broadsword, a battle axe, a bow and arrows, a pike axe, a two-handed longsword and a halberd.

In Lost Souls, the magical sword Grayswandir appears as a rare artifact longsword that destroys items of chaos on contact.

Used commonly in the modern historical martial arts reconstruction community, the term refers to wasters fashioned to resemble western European weapons like the longsword or arming sword.

Contemporary use of " long-sword " or " longsword " only resurfaces in the 2000s in the context of reconstruction of the German school of fencing, translating the German langes schwert.

Contemporary use of " long-sword " or " longsword " only resurfaces in the 2000s in the context of reconstruction of the German school of fencing, translating the German langes Schwert.

These should not be confused with a longsword, which is always intended to be used with two hands, but is not as large as the Zweihänder.

Johannes Lichtenauer, a fencing master of the 14th century, is attributed with the development of a coherent system of combat with the longsword, especially between unarmoured opponents ( Blossfechten ).

The longsword is characterized not so much by a longer blade, but by a longer grip which indicates a weapon designed for two-handed use.

The blade of the longsword is straight and double edged.

What is known of combat with the longsword comes from artistic depictions of battle from manuscripts and the Fechtbücher of Medieval and Renaissance Masters.

However, a section on one-handed use is among the volume and demonstrates the techniques and advantages, such as sudden additional reach, of single-handed longsword play.

Behind the High Table is a portrait of Edward II ; underneath is a longsword brought to the college in 1902 after being preserved for many years on one of the college's estates at Swainswick, near Bath.

* Katana ( 大刀 daitō, Odachi, Nodachi ) is sometimes translated from the Japanese language as longsword

His favored weapon is the longsword.

During the Late Middle Ages, the longsword had a position of honour among these disciplines, and sometimes Historical European Swordsmanship ( HES ) is used to refer to swordsmanship techniques specifically.

While Ringeck seems to be the author of three of the core texts, glosses of Liechtenauer's verses on unarmored longsword fencing, armored fencing, and mounted fencing, the manuscript is an anthology of several treatises by different masters and is currently thought to have been composed between 1504 and 1519 ( well after the master's lifetime ).

The term longsword since the early 2000s, most frequently refers to a late Medieval and Renaissance weapon designed for use with two hands, but the term is not unambiguous.

The primary protagonist and the de facto leader of the Sorcerer Hunters, Carrot is an apparently powerless boy who carries a longsword, but almost never uses it due to extreme imprecision.

15th century German school of fencing | German longsword demonstration at Furor et Ferrum 2007 ( the action is the final stage of a " going-through " with a throw ).

A katana, a type of Japanese longsword, is drawn by grasping the saya near the top and pressing the tsuba with the thumb to emerge the blade just enough to unwedge the habaki from inside the saya in a process called " koiguchi-no-kirikata ".

is red and silver in color, wielding a tachi ( longsword ) in his right hand and a weaponized shield on his left.

In common with earlier German sources, Meyer's system gives pride of place to the longsword, which is both the first weapon discussed, and the weapon treated in most detail, forming an exemplar-teaching tool for the rest of the system.

By the time of publication in 1570, the longsword had largely become a weapon for use in the fight schools, somewhat ritualistic and sporting in nature, and as a result Meyer's system is sometimes characterised ( perhaps unfairly ) by modern writers as " sportive " in nature.

It is the latest known treatise discussing the spadone, or longsword, before the revivalist movements of historical fencing in the 20th century.