How fast can you swing a Greatsword (with and without armour)?

This is a re-upload with a small interesting addition to compare the speed of the same Greatsword-flow with and without armour. I didn’t get that comparison out here on YT before, and since a lot of people have been asking me how fast you could swing a greatsword made of steel, I figured it is time. Surely a Greatsword must be slow and cumbersome? They are quite nimble however, and when you have learned how to work with the mass of the blade effectively, you can easily recover and redirect your movement. As you see here, it isn’t even that much harder to do it in armour. #historical #fencing #hema #greatsword #montante #zweihander #armour #experiment