6 hours of hot steamy action later…
"Were we not tasked with saving the fair princess from the vile dragon?"
"Fuckith!"

This image is from Paulus Hector Mair's 16th century martial arts manual, one of the most inclusive in history, which features (I shit you not) scythe fighting and sickle fighting. You can see pretty much all the images with sources and some translations here.

And as gay as this image looks (which is very, very, gloriously gay) What the guy closest is doing is a ground grappling move to wrench the further guys leg from its socket.