This technique is referred to as "sword swallowing".
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During that period most sword maneuvers had german names so it'd probably be like Schwertschlucker or some obscure german pun.
Der Stahlbläser
Aka, the Gluk Gluk method.
"Hawk tuah!" - medieval dude
This move is only allowed after the announcer says "Finish him!"
In France they refer to that as avoiding la grande mort via la petite mort.
"...I guess I can postpone your impending death a little while."
"You drew that quite quickly. Well done."
"No, I didn't already have this drawing and just added pants! I mean - what? Oh. Yes. Thank you. I...uh... draw fast sometimes."
Going for the short sword makes sense
Good roommate right there, helping him train!
Oh my
So uh....which of the 4 longswords am I supposed to be looking at here?
Pretty sure there's a punchline for an oglaf comic in here somewhere....
The gud suk
The gud ſuk
Here we see one gentleman attacking the other Vom Tag
what's the intended technique here? some kind of leg grapple?
BITE HIS DICK OFF!