Cutlass fighting for talk like a pirate day

Yarrgh, In this video we be lookin; at a method of cutlass fighting taken from 18th and 19th century British fencin’ manuals, ta honour of Talk Like a Pirate Day! This be a rough approximation o’ thar fighting techniques pirates would have used while out swashbuckling and/or buccaneering, between drinking grog and getting scurvy. The martial arts of the Pirate Age be part of a broader martial tradition of the British Isles and thar distinction between pirate weapons and techniques, and those used by thar rest o’ society is rather arrgh-bitrary. A special thanks to uberdice for helping me with the video, you can check out his channel at