“Now just for fun we’ll each name what we place our
trust in. I’ll choose first, and there are three things I place reliance
on---one is my purse, the second my axe, the third my storehouse.”—Spoken
by Glum in Killer Glum’s Saga, Ch. 14
I may have nothing to provide in regard to your purse
or your storehouse, but…that trusted item number two, well, there is much that
I may have to offer.
The good folks at FightFast have forged a fearsome
battle-axe beast dubbed The Norseman. She is a rock-solid durable and
formidable behemoth that conjures feelings of thew-driven power as soon as you
hold it in both fists.
The Norseman is solid and dependable, not a mere
shelf-piece. Oh, don’t get me wrong—she is a beauty, with sinuous lines well
deserving of display—but, The Norseman is more than your standard ornamental
“weapon,” one of those designed to look good but stay away from use lest dings
and swings dull blades, rattle shafts, and pit and curl “impervious” blades.
I have personally put The Norseman through a car door
more than a few times and she holds her line, she holds her edge, the haft does
not move a whisker.
Now that, is an impressive Beast.
The FightFast folks knowing my penchant for
in-the-weeds historical mayhem were kind enough to give me the honor and the
privilege to put this Beast thru the paces and then present an A-Z of Combative
Battle-Axe Destructive Berserker-ness.
Being no Master Forger I cannot attest as to how
this Beast was made but, I can walk you through the detailed woods of the use
of this Man-Slayer.
The accompanying instructional DVD runs 2+ hours in
length. It is comprehensive to say the least.
Without giving the cow away for free I can offer you a
sampling of cream to taste.
First…
We must acknowledge that The Norseman, hell, any axe,
is a piece of history that you can hold in your two fists.
The axe was a primary formative tool of this species;
it stands alongside the wheel, and the taming of fire for helping those who
preceded us forge afar as successfully as they did.
An axe was used to harvest fuel for fires, build
shelter, craft other tools/furnishings, clear land, kill running game, and, our
main area of focus, warfare.
The instructional material draws deeply from
axe-wielding warrior traditions the world over AND the deep woodsman/lumberjack
culture that knew a thing or two about swinging an axe.
We must never forget that as a tool, the use was
constant and familiar to all and those who swung it more often than most
[woodsman, lumberjacks, frontiersman] often have the most to offer regarding
application.
Side-Bar: The material
presented is not specific to The Norseman. One can perform any and all training
with an axe purchased at your local Home Depot, it simply won’t have the
romantic heft or durability of The Norseman.
We will go deep into the technical know-hows of
battle-axe use and forgo the Game of Thrones choreography that in no
way, shape or form resembles battle use in any axe-wielding Warrior culture.
Myth-busting saves us time in combative training and
allows us to get to the bone-rending realities that more than make up for loss
of good camera angle flash.
In other words, we want the nitty, the gritty, the
accurate and the realistic.
We want to know the brutal realities of the battleaxe
inside and out. We want the speicalized knowledge that allows us to see as soon
as someone lays a hand on an axe if they know of what they speak.
We want to see someone carry the axe from Point A to
Point B and decide if he is in our Warrior Wall or not.
We want to see his Facing Line, we watch his wrist for
Angle of Deflection.
Yes, the Battleaxe warrior wants every wild-ass
bondafide use that can be made of the fearsome weapon that is inertial steel,
but the Wise Warrior wants every interface with the weapon from the casual to
the Blood-Frenzy Fed Battle Usage to be fueled by proper mechanics from the
first touch of hand to haft.
An axe is more about accuracy and the finesse of the
human who swings it than the steam-power of the human itself so—don’t skip the
details.
The Battleaxe Devil is in those details.
“A manly attack, that!”—[Spoken by Kari
Solmundarson after Skarphedin Njasson kills Thrain Sigfusson with an axe strike
to the jaw.] Njal’s Saga, Ch.92
Ready to start your own manly attack?
Our store offers the instructional DVD but not The
Norseman itself. For that honor, snag one at FightFast and you’ll get the
instructional material as part of the package.
But, if one wishes to get started while fattening
their purse [the first item of trust in our opening Viking quote] then you can
grab the instructional material from us and put your Home Depot stand-in
through the paces. Click On to Snag!
Hell, since there’s no axe on our side, if you grab a
copy I’ll kick in the 11-page Training Syllabus.
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