This was the first test of the new cold steel santoprene spearhead trainer, fitted here to a rattan staff, which works well to represent a Spontoon, a type of short spear or partizan that was carried by Sergeants in the british army in the napoleonic period, as well as a number of other militias etc.
Also Jonathan's first proper sparing bout against spear in the club. He is using a Black Fencer storta, a renaissance era falchion, though it also represents a great many shortswords, such as the hanger or cutlass well, as well as a great many other types of shortsword.
The fight does highlight the horrors of facing a spear with a sword in an unarmed bout without shields.
