Which usually implies when they say "cool main character"? Often it means a silent, harsh type, always in a coat, or other long -legged clothes, regardless of the time of year. And, of course, weapons, a lot of weapons, but better, a lot of weapons. At the same time, the coolest of the steep can equally skillfully use each hand and even with two hands at the same time and no matter the sword in their hand or a powerful gun. Another sign of steepness is wearing swords behind your back. And if the main character is in a black cloak, with two swords in a scabbard on his back, then … most likely this is Kirito, which is not that a symbol of coolness. However, today’s conversation will go about paired weapons. The method that in English-speaking countries is called Dual Weld, and we have in shooting in Macedonian.
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And for starters, let’s deal with the term "shooting in Macedonian". It is worth saying right away that he has nothing to do with Alexander Macedon. Yes, perhaps you can meet those who claim that riders from ancient Macedonia masterfully chopped the enemy, bursting riding on a horse into the enemy, with a copy in each hand. Personally, I met people who absolutely seriously tried to prove it to me.
The term “shooting in Macedonian” itself appeared already the 20th century, although here with the history of its origin too many obscure. It is believed that for the first time this term was used by the writer Vladimir Bogomolov, inspired by the so -called "Marseille murder", although Bogomolov himself later denied his own championship.
What does Marseille have to do if the shooting is "Macedon"? The fact is that it was in Marseille, in October 1934, that the king of Yugoslavia Alexander I Karageorgievich was shot dead. The contractor became a member of the internal Macedonian revolutionary organization Vlado Chernozemsky. HMRO – an organization operating at the beginning of the XX, fighting for the independence of Macedonia. Vlado himself, in the attempt, is claimed, he used two pistols, Walter and Mauser. True, most researchers agree that the murder was committed only with the help of Mauser, while Walter, Chernozemy, did not use, but kept as a spare.
That is, it turns out that not only now many are mistaken in the history of the origin of the term, but the term “shooting in Macedonian” itself is likely to come from error. So in the future we will try not to use this expression.
And now, let’s see https://slothypecasino.co.uk/games/ if there were cases in world history when the practice of fighting with two weapons was widespread.
For starters, we will go down in passing the period close to the already mentioned Macedonian. Namely, we pay attention to the armament of the Roman legionnaire. As is known from sources, for most warriors of the eternal city, the throwing spear of Gast, and later Piglum, and of course, a signed gladius. But, I think, do not explain that both of these objects in battle were used in turn, and not at the same time.
But over time, the Western Roman Empire fell, which marked the beginning of the Middle Ages and the Dark Ages, and with them, of course, the Viking era. And it was precisely during this period that those who in modern times were accepted most often (even more often than the Macedonians) to attribute the art of a battle with two weapons. Of course we are talking about famous berserkers. To whom, as not half -wild, brutalized warriors, whom even the Vikings themselves were afraid, boldly go out on the battle, squeezing in every hand for a hefty ax?
However, if you study this issue a little more carefully, it turns out that it is again just speculation. As is known from numerous sources, berserkers, as well as other Scandinavians, trivially used shields in battle. Moreover, in sagas it emphasizes that the shields of the berserkers were painted black, however, it is unknown whether it is an artistic exaggeration, as well as the description that the berserkers, in a fit of rage, gnawed on their shields in front of the battle (Immediately recalled the reconstruction bike about the bread caken, google yourself). One way or another, from all the aforementioned it follows that the berserkers were not masters of a battle with two weapons.
However, if we continue to move on from the dark centuries to the present, then we will not see anywhere that the warriors use the battle technique with two weapons in the war. This is not observed either among knights or soldiers of the hired armies of the New Age, nor, moreover, in the 20th century.
However, a reader who is familiar with the topic may object: “Well, not that it never happened?". Whereas an attentive reader will pay attention to the reservation "in battle". And yes, it was precisely that on the battlefield no one would wave at once with two swords, but still in a certain period of history, fencing with two blades entered, so to speak, into fashion.
But for starters, let’s deal with the first statement, about the impossibility of using paired cold weapons in the war. If we pay attention to the methods of fighting in most periods of human history, then one pattern becomes visible – in any battle, for any army, the most important thing was to maintain the system. And it doesn’t matter whether it is about the ancient phalanx, Skyalborg of the Vikings, the Spanish Terment or the British “thin red line”, the loss of the construction, almost always, is equivalent to defeat and death.
You should not explain that the battles shown in modern films, where two uncontrolled crowds rush to each other, and then arrange something similar to a brawl at a midnight spill in your microdistrict, of course they have nothing to do with reality.
So why can not use two blades with a regular system? One of the reasons is the very device of the human body. In addition to the fact that a person can fully concentrate on only one object, and specifically on where his gaze is directed, which already casts doubt on the effectiveness of the weapon in the second hand. So the fight with paired weapons also implies powerful sweeping blows, which, again, is not only not very convenient in luminous, but also do not forget that no one has canceled Freden Fire, and I think the neighbor in combat construction will not be very happy if he arrives in the back of his head from a comrade.
However, as mentioned above, in human history there was a period when the use of blades in both hands came into fashion, but as it was already said, such a manner of battle was practically never used in the war. I suspect, many have already guessed that we are talking about the very expiration of the Middle Ages and the new time, when Europe was seized by what some historians call “duel fever”.
It is then that the method of fencing with a sword and a dagger is widespread. During such fights, duelists took weapons with a long blade in the main hand, and in the other they used a short blade. Moreover, an auxiliary weapon was used, to a larger extent not to attack, but to parry the enemy attacks.
Surprisingly, at the same time, very similar in meaning, the battle style arises in Japan. After the end of feudal wars, as well as in Europe, art begins to develop, so to speak, civil fencing. It is worth saying that before the era of Edo, the samurai were perceived mainly as horse archers, but with the onset of peacetime, more and more attention begins to be paid to personal blanket weapons and the ability to handle it. And of course, various schools and sword ownership techniques begin to appear. Among the others, the “Ryoto” style, a method of fighting, in which a long katana blade and short – Wakikzashi is also being born. Despite the geographical remotency, fundamentally, this method of fencing is not much different from the then popular battle in Spain with a sword and daga. That is, a sword with a long blade is used to apply damage, and with a short one – to parry the enemy strikes. By the way, one of the fans of this style of the battle is considered to be the famous Miamoto Musasi.
However, there were cases of using paired weapons in history when a fighter fights with two identical items? Yes, but, again, everything said later will be spoken with reservations.
So, in order not to not get away from Japan, we will briefly go through the Far Eastern weapons or that performed its functions. Because, it was not even a weapon in the usual sense of this word, but what could be disguised as something else, which was used by numerous pirates, robbers and hired killers. These are Tonfa, and sickle-kama, and sai, which, according to one version, descended from ordinary. For the most part, all this was widespread on Okinawa, why google yourself, otherwise we risk deepening into this topic.