Messer and Longsword - Leverage and Other Trivialities
Channel: Lansing Longsword Guild
Date: 2022-10-04

A redditor decided to explain to all willing to listen that simple laws of physics unilaterally mean that a weapon used in two hands will always have a leverage advantage over a weapon used in one. Simple physics! While it's true that a two handed weapon tends to have a leverage advantage, you can use simple geometric reality to attain a leverage advantage with a shorter, one-handed weapon against a longsword, and that advantage can be used to threaten or strike your opponent.

It is of course not easy to do while sparring, and a longsword does have numerous advantages against shorter, one-handed weapons, and as you can see in the sparring, the longswordman tends to have the happier end of exchanges. 

Enjoy a ten minute long video making the trivial point that, yes, geometry still applies, even one hand against two.