the first technique is something I like to call random flailing there's no real strategy to this technique you're basically just spasming uncontrollably hoping to hit something and this is definitely something everybody has done in half sword before especially since some people may not realize that have swword allows you to use a lot of Real Techniques to improve your gameplay but of course since you're randomly flailing about you're leaving yourself open to counterattacks with no real defense it's really easy to get clobbered so it's really a coin flip on whether you're going to win or not and that's why I'm giving it a two out of five for effectiveness of course anybody's able to use this technique because it's so easy that's why I'm giving it a three on the usefulness scale a one on the difficulty scale and also it doesn't look that cool so I'm giving it a one on the coolness scale as well over the next technique is half sorting this this is when you have one hand on the handle and the other hand on the blade of the sword allowing you to control the point more easily for Effectiveness I'm going to have to give it a five out of five it is the best way to use a sword in armored combat otherwise you just be slapping them with your sword for usefulness I'm only going to be able to give it a three and that's because this is only really good for armored combat when you don't have armor the more important thing to worry about is a reach now don't get me wrong it's still very usable but it becomes a little bit more situational when you don't have any armor on for coolness we're going to have to give it a 3.5 and that's because you can't do anything flashy you can still do cold calculated attacks that look very nice you can also do some cool grappling moves with half swword which is another added benefit for difficulty we're only going to give it a two because the only thing really difficult would be getting the sword into the cracks of the armor which can be difficult at times but with a little bit of practice it becomes a lot easier the next technique is called the spin kick also known as the roundhouse kick and right off the bat we have to give this one a five out of five for coolness honestly I don't think anything can be cooler than ending a fight with a swift roundhouse kick to the Head sadly those one kick fights don't happen very often and people increase the Damage Done to bots to make the fight end in a single kick with normal damage the fights rarely end like this most of the time it takes two or three kicks to even down the opponent and they don't even give up that's why I'm giving it a ranking of three for Effectiveness and a ranking of two for usefulness because you can only really use it in an unarmed fight once your opponent has a weapon this move becomes basically useless and even if you could use this move without getting hurt why not just stab them with your weapon it's much more efficient for difficulty we're going to give it a three out of five since learning this can be pretty difficult because you need to learn timing and proper footwork but once you get that down and increase your sensitivity all the way it becomes easy to pull it off pretty consistently oh and you're going to get knocked out a bunch while trying [Music] this the next technique is using guards and if you don't know what guards are they're basically positions you your weapon to block off lines of attack from your enemy or to prepare an attack now just using one guard isn't going to save you many of the cuts and attacks from your enemy are going to get past your guard which is why I give the effectiveness a four out of five but what guards do give you is a base to work from setting you up for some great par your posts counterattacks stop cuts and any other attack that you can think of which is why I'm rating it five out of five for usefulness for the coolness scale I'm going to have to give it a four out of five and that's because it is a realistic sword fighting technique and it just makes it that much cooler now for difficulty we're only going to give it a two and that's because it's really easy to use guards once you understand the different guards it's very easy to go from there and if you guys want to see all the different basic German long sword fencing guards I have a video on it right here the next technique is throwing your weapon and unless you've just killed your enemy you're now defenseless which is why I'm only giving it a one out of five but if you do happen to hit your enemy it can do quite a bit of damage that's why I'm giving it a two for Effectiveness for coolness we have to give it a three because you could either hit your opponent and it would look really cool or you would miss and keep missing and run around and get chased by him and that wouldn't be very cool at all now for difficulty I was going to rate this a five until I realized it's quite a bit easier in first [Music] person oh uh don't mind that it's just scratching my femoral artery the next technique is what we're going to call wrestling and that would include any grappling throwing hugging pinning choking whatever this is and this all of these things can be pretty effective if used right which is why I'm giving it a three out of five for Effectiveness for usefulness we're only going to be able to give it a 2.5 and that's because once you're on the ground it's basically any man's game as to who can win also this is very situational when you want to grab your opponents and wrestle them to the ground now occasionally this can end up looking pretty cool like something straight out of WWE but most of the time wrestling is just going to end up looking stupid and you're not going to be sure what's going on for difficulty we're going to give this a three it does take some real skill to handle men on the ground but it's not that over complicated that people can't do it whenever they want to but it is hard to be decisive when you're just thrashing about now I did have to separate grabbing and wrestling because grabbing is more just grabbing somebody's arm to disable them from attacking you with it and since using this technique I found that it's been surprisingly effective after immobilizing one of your opponent's hands you're able to attack them unrelentlessly with your other arm and it's been so effective that I haven't lost a single match while doing this yet so of course we have to give it a five out of five now I thought for sure that this was only going to be the case for unarmed fights but when I used this technique with weapons it still worked so well which is why I have to give it a five out of five for usefulness for coolness I'm only going to go too most of the time grabbing them and whacking them doesn't look so cool it does have its moments though now originally I was only going to give the difficulty one but in armed combat you kind of need to Parry first in order for it to be safe to grab the enemy's arm so we're going to give it a two you also have to be careful about pulling the enemy's weapon into yourself which that's that's what ended up killing me funny enough next are the Forbidden techniques which I discovered only by chance which are so powerful that if they get in the wrong hands it could be devastating and that is the drunkard's guard which can be very lethal and reverse grip which strikes fear into the hearts of your enemies so that they are unable to move but these techniques are among the hardest to master of course they're the most efficient and useful techniques as well as being the coolest the next technique is hacking now hacking is very effective allowing you to kill enemies instantly become invulnerable and use whatever armor and weapons you want allowing you to crush enemies now it is pretty fun to do all these things but after a while it does get a bit boring and that's why I'm only giving it a two on the coolness scale and this technique is not very difficult there's plenty of tutorials on how to mod so it's really not that hard now the last technique we're going to go over today is teabagging now teabagging is very effective in half sword it's very important to assert your dominance and show a display of good sportsmanship it's also very useful and of course it's very cool now luckily it's pretty easy to do it in half sword