STORTA! Italian falchion

Falchions were single edged swords with broad blades and were popular from the 13thC across large parts of Europe and of course came in many styles. One very late style from around 1600, was the Italian version called a Storta. Always fancy, always detailed, always ostentatious and always efficiently ’cutty’; it may look like its just for wearing about your palazzo, but it is just as happy in a pub brawl. I was lucky enough to have Matt Easton from Schola Gladiatoria here and so we chatted Storta. If you would like to support this channel, visiting my sites really helps, as does signing up to the news letter on the home page of my sites and this way you will be one of the first to know what you need to know. The film I referred to about the Swiss sabre is here Custom work from ​​ Budget production replica weapons are available here ​​ And T shirts and Merch Matts excellent channel can be found here