That's because in 1v1, you score as many point with a sword blow as with a takedown. In melees, there are no point, when you are down, you are out, and that's it.
I can't help but feel that the true medieval warriors who trained every day all day since they were kids would watch this and think they are all amateurs.
Yes. It was a sad day when people who worked for a living got enough free time and disposable income to take up hobbies. That meant that the privileged classes were no longer the only ones who could do things like this.
no shit. But they would appreciate that future generations have kept there way of fighting, or at least try to carry on their historical past in some perspective.
+Jay man "American Knight" is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory, an Oxymoron. There have never been knights in the americas, at least if you don't count Batman. This is a fantasy league which actually would be more accurate and fun if Team USA shows up in Darth Vader Armor with lightsabers. Anyway, I enjoy adults beating the shit out of each other for fun, so please go on.
+Jens Krause Oh, there are a lot of "knights" in America. Google Pennsic. We've been basically doing this since the 1970s. Also, your connection to a bunch of dudes from 700 years ago is barely less tenuous.
+ArchNME Knights where steel encasted state-of-the-art battlefield soldiers, well trained professionals using a horse on the way to work. "Knight" is furthermore a noble title bestowed on one with direct legal consequences. Are you sure that is somehow an appropriate description of "American Knights"? I'm sorry, I don't want to offend with my opion, I actually enjoy to watch these events. May I have a question for you: If you hear a good chinese Rock'n'Roll Band in China, would you just accept it as original? This is the awkward feeling I tried to comment on, really with no disrespect to anybody doing this kind of roleplay and sport.
Before you go into the comments complaining about how this isn't how medieval knights would fight in a real battle, think for a moment: Yes. You are right. That is not the intent of this sport. Buhurt is based off of medieval tournament books, primarily King Rene's Tournament Book, which provides the basic rule set that has been adapted for safety in the modern day. This is a reflection of medieval tournament fighting. It's not supposed to be how they would fight in an actual battle. That's never been what this sport set out to do. Get over it. These guys are exceptionally skilled at what they do. Before you bash them for their supposed lack of skill, go ahead and try this yourself. You'll find it's a lot harder than being an armchair warrior in RUclips comments. Have some respect.
I love all the comments hating on the lack of technique as if we have any clue what good knight fighting technique was. There seems to have been from what I've read, lots of fighting for honor and entertainment in those days hence fighting each other in full plate armor w bladed weapons that are unlikely to kill one another. I would imagine that there weren't weapon regulations the same way that there are now in these tournaments and challenges so there may well have been large men w heavier swords that did rely more on strength and poise to smash the other person off balance and generally inflict so much discomfort and ringing of the ears and aching of the bones that the opponent would yield. Who's to say though, I'm just a guy commenting on RUclips.
How do you join this sport, I've been getting back into studying medieval sword play and I've been wanting to put my knowledge to the test in real time combat.
@@aliteralflamingpileofgarba6236 HEMA and Bunurt are two very different things. As a fan of both, Buhurt is often far less technical than HEMA on average, and is more sport-like.
I don't see the point of 1v1 longsword if you can't stab, it take away so much possibilities. A lot of techeniques revolve around stabing after blade contact
+Praskful I guess the whole idea is to find a sport where you can fight in medieval armour. If the armour changes to a more practical alternative, it doesn't look like medieval fighting anymore and would lose a lot of it's appeal. Also not only are eyes a problem but the throat and neck as well. It appears as if you can't have both. If you want realistic medieval fighting arts you have to pratice alone, against a dummy or with very modern protection and bendable aluminum swords that won't 100% feel like real swords. If you want to fight in medieval armour, you have to find rules that limit the injury risk to a reasonable level.
If killing your opponent is a possibility, then yeah, prohibiting stabbing reduces possibilities. (Stabbing is the only effective technique for penetrating armor?) Because there is no threat of death, it is just two "blokes" whacking each other with strips of spring steel. Atleast in fencing the one being attacked is obliged to defend himself. It is kind of ridiculous when both swordsmen are violently hacking at each other without attempting to defend the other's attack.
The rules in this game could definitely be improved. Currently it gives too much advantage to people's physical weight. I think there should be some consideration on a point or elimination system. It would be expensive, but maybe within reason, to put pressure sensors over vital areas and say that a hard enough hit there results in "death". Depending how much money they want to put in, very realistic fighting could be possible, but the better question is whether fights that only last about 5 minutes and are mostly defensive like in real life would be interesting to watch. Its a balancing act of money, sport-fairness, and entertainment.
The Belgian, Austrian, and Spanish fighters in particular showed a capable amount of skill and knowledge. The American fighter obviously puts little thought into his fighting and just makes me cringe.
I made a documentary about the US team that includes an extensive interview with the USA fighter here. I will post some bits of it on my channel so you can get a better idea of what's going on in his head.
Ahem! Québec has a frontier with NY, VT, NH and Maine... So he's not an European. Those fights are just for fun anyway. Don't take it all so seriously, eh? ;)
I know right? I always wondered about that, what American knights would look like if it was a medieval (and european of course) kingdom, and now I have an answer.
Spencer Bilodeau mh, i just can't see them apply any ususal HEMA technique here. i mean there are so many especially for fighting against armored opponents. nearly all of them just hack away freely.
+Spencer Bilodeau I don't think the longsword side of this is HEMA yes HEMA is an umbrella term that covers many things from antiquity clear up to WWII but as much fun as this is to watch (and its bad ass) its not historical fighting, at least not the longsword side of it. If anything this sport further adds to the misconception of huge knights in overly bulky and heavy armor swinging super heavy swords at each other with little to no skill. I have an HMB/ravencrest battle of the nations long sword and its more like an iron bar in sword form. The armor is often times 10 gage or more (that's thick!) and you do not chop your longsword at another mans full harness(this will only destroy your sword tire you out and get yourself killed) As far as the impact weapons go then ya that's about how it was done, more Abrazare and rondel fighting would be nice but I understand their safety concerns. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the hell out of participating and watching this sport but as far as the longsword goes this is complete rubbish. I would like to see them ether start half-swording and using real techniques or lose the the full harness and go strait to gambason longsword sparring. What do you think friend I would enjoy to here your rebuttal.
+Spencer Bilodeau (repost from below) I got sick of this argument on RUclips and I went and trained with the UK Fed team for a weekend (I've been doing HEMA for about 8 years) Firstly, the guys that actually do this don't call it historical, and don't call it HEMA, and don't really give a fuck about historicity, they just enjoy clubbing the fuck out of each other in full armour with steel weapons. Secondly, while it's not really all that interesting to me from a HEMA perspective, I can say that having done it now, there is definitely some value in donning full plate harness and giving and receiving strikes with full force. Obviously you aren't practicing armoured fighting techniques, but there's a reason that some tourneys seem to have been organised on similar lines; it takes a lot of conditioning both physical and mental to get used to fighting in armour. Thirdly, this is way, way harder than it looks, and my main criticism of the sport now (those who do it refer to it as a sport, not a martial art) is that it's incredibly dangerous and only a matter of time before someone gets killed. That said, it's really fun and the guys I met through doing it are a great laugh, I advise anyone who's interested to give it a go before forming an opinion about it by watching RUclips videos. I had to take two flights and four days off work to do this for a weekend. This is not HEMA, nobody that does it calls it HEMA, nobody that does HEMA and tried it would call it HEMA, you don't know what you're talking about.
+Jake Norman well said, and I agree, this sport is cool and you do learn allot in fighting with full harness, but ya not HEMA and we need more people like you to let that facts be known, cool HELL YA HEMA NO or in other terms (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡 @xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::> ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) NOOOOOO
Anime Tatertot im sure its also hard to see in those helmets. And with the weight on your arms and legs and im sure your movements in general would be sluggish and inaccurate
I'm glad to see someone from New England fighting because whenever I see someone from America they where the national colors and never anything else like the black and white collar.
New England is in America lol. Your comment would've made more sense if you had said you were glad someone from the US was fighting that wasn't wearing the national colors.
They actually also used blunt weapons in tournaments back in the middle ages. Common sense if you think about it. What lord would want they're highly trained and expensive knights to die in a tournament instead of a war.
Usually the chainmail is under the helmet regardless of helmet, the chainmail part is called a chainmail coif (head part) and the neck part would be a chainmail gorget, the helmet is practical for vision and weight as well as a protected head which I think was worn by archers to deflect arrows.
What's craziest about this stuff to me is the "refs" standing feet from the Knights wearing limited armor like they are totally safe. I get the fighters aren't necessarily that mobile. Just watched another 5 on 5 video. Insane lol. They need to have some small tower on the side of the battlefield where they can observe from and jump in if they need to. No way I would be on the inside of the wood
Absolutely not. That is what HEMA does, so these guys don't have to. This is more like an actual medieval tourney in which blunt weapons were used against armor and stabbing not allowed. In this sport points are scored for weapon strikes, knockdowns/takedowns, and disarms over three one-minute rounds. In such a sport, conditioning matters. If armor was good enough that you could fight all day, you have to be able and ready to fight all day. If you don;t have the conditioning to keep up the fight for three one-minute rounds, then you are not likely to win in this scenario, or in a real fight with someone of equal skill but superior conditions.
This particular competition was a longsword competition. There are other competitions for maces, and, of course, there are the melees, in which you can use whatever weapon you want (within the rules). Check out the other videos on this channel and my channel to se more.
Why don't any of the polearm users sweep people off their feet? Seems like the only other way to utilize a pole if you can't poke or are facing an opponent much heavier than yourself.
The Salt Of Ages Opponent much heavier than yourself? Poke him in the face. In all seriousness though, I suggest you look at the german treatises/Codex....a lot of polearm use is hooking behind especially the knee and trying to sweep off the feet...however sweeping someone off their feet, not an easy task.
Like auto racing, a lot of it depends upon ythe condition and upkeep of your equipment. The best built, best kept-up armor leads to the fewest injuries. That being said, injuries happen. I tore my ACL. I have seen sprained ankles, broken and dislocated bones (hands particularly), even a concussion or two. But no deaths yet.
The swords are blunt but they are hard metal. I just joined a group of medieval fighters and it is really fun and exhausting when fighting with these weapons. We use hard plastic swords for practicing with little armor and when we have the full metal gear on, we use the metal swords. Hopefully this helps
1vs1 is so much better than the bigger fights, this doesnt always end in wrestling.
That's because in 1v1, you score as many point with a sword blow as with a takedown. In melees, there are no point, when you are down, you are out, and that's it.
@@captainzorikh Still it's supposed to be a grand melee not a grand wrestling match.
@@JDStone-jg8cg There is no rule against wrestling, and wrestling was done in period, so it is what it is.
There is buffering, IN MY BUFFERING.
sounds like suffering
😂😂😂😂😂
I can't help but feel that the true medieval warriors who trained every day all day since they were kids would watch this and think they are all amateurs.
that is exactly what would happen
Yes. It was a sad day when people who worked for a living got enough free time and disposable income to take up hobbies. That meant that the privileged classes were no longer the only ones who could do things like this.
Well, you aren't allowed to stab. So yeah they would think they are failing.
Sionso Schwalts medieval swords aren't and weren't for stabbing
no shit. But they would appreciate that future generations have kept there way of fighting, or at least try to carry on their historical past in some perspective.
Funny. They're fighting to the most peaceful music from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack :)
Black Phillip was about to comment that xD
this should be in the Olympics
Japan, I have heard, are interested in introducing Jousting in the 2020 olympics
this should replace the olympics
Hell yeah
@@ZenbasTim that didn’t age well
@@ahh5516 damn:(
Why aren't they throwing their pommels at each other?
They're not trying to end each other rightly.
U learn that from stallagrim's channel?
Yep =)
Good to "meet" a fellow fan! Your comment made me chuckle :D
Haha, awesome. I'm glad some people got the reference ^__^
Lord of the Rings music playing in the back just feels right 😂
How come i've never heard of this before. And to take things even further how come this sport isn't way more popular? It looks awesome!
"American Knight" sounds to me, like "chinese Rock'n'Roll" to you. :o)
What??
+Jay man "American Knight" is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory, an Oxymoron. There have never been knights in the americas, at least if you don't count Batman. This is a fantasy league which actually would be more accurate and fun if Team USA shows up in Darth Vader Armor with lightsabers. Anyway, I enjoy adults beating the shit out of each other for fun, so please go on.
Jens Krause Haha I get it now, thanks for clearing that up.
+Jens Krause Oh, there are a lot of "knights" in America. Google Pennsic. We've been basically doing this since the 1970s.
Also, your connection to a bunch of dudes from 700 years ago is barely less tenuous.
+ArchNME Knights where steel encasted state-of-the-art battlefield soldiers, well trained professionals using a horse on the way to work. "Knight" is furthermore a noble title bestowed on one with direct legal consequences. Are you sure that is somehow an appropriate description of "American Knights"? I'm sorry, I don't want to offend with my opion, I actually enjoy to watch these events. May I have a question for you: If you hear a good chinese Rock'n'Roll Band in China, would you just accept it as original? This is the awkward feeling I tried to comment on, really with no disrespect to anybody doing this kind of roleplay and sport.
jesus christ the commentary on this is 1000x better than the Battle of Nations matches. This sounds way more professional. Cheers!
Danish Swordsman was brutal and quite skilled
The real men in this sport is the.... referee.
@@papitas4225 there blunt but still hella scary i bet
The ref should be wearing a fencing mask at least. The swords may be blunt, but a steel bar to the face isn't good for anyone.
Before you go into the comments complaining about how this isn't how medieval knights would fight in a real battle, think for a moment: Yes. You are right. That is not the intent of this sport. Buhurt is based off of medieval tournament books, primarily King Rene's Tournament Book, which provides the basic rule set that has been adapted for safety in the modern day. This is a reflection of medieval tournament fighting. It's not supposed to be how they would fight in an actual battle. That's never been what this sport set out to do. Get over it. These guys are exceptionally skilled at what they do. Before you bash them for their supposed lack of skill, go ahead and try this yourself. You'll find it's a lot harder than being an armchair warrior in RUclips comments. Have some respect.
I love all the comments hating on the lack of technique as if we have any clue what good knight fighting technique was. There seems to have been from what I've read, lots of fighting for honor and entertainment in those days hence fighting each other in full plate armor w bladed weapons that are unlikely to kill one another. I would imagine that there weren't weapon regulations the same way that there are now in these tournaments and challenges so there may well have been large men w heavier swords that did rely more on strength and poise to smash the other person off balance and generally inflict so much discomfort and ringing of the ears and aching of the bones that the opponent would yield. Who's to say though, I'm just a guy commenting on RUclips.
How do you join this sport, I've been getting back into studying medieval sword play and I've been wanting to put my knowledge to the test in real time combat.
Might be good to start with HEMA. Less concussions. Any luck so far though?
@@aliteralflamingpileofgarba6236 HEMA and Bunurt are two very different things. As a fan of both, Buhurt is often far less technical than HEMA on average, and is more sport-like.
I don't see the point of 1v1 longsword if you can't stab, it take away so much possibilities. A lot of techeniques revolve around stabing after blade contact
Why not use hybrid fencing mask to protect the eyes ?
+Praskful Limits the vision too much.
+Praskful I guess the whole idea is to find a sport where you can fight in medieval armour. If the armour changes to a more practical alternative, it doesn't look like medieval fighting anymore and would lose a lot of it's appeal.
Also not only are eyes a problem but the throat and neck as well.
It appears as if you can't have both. If you want realistic medieval fighting arts you have to pratice alone, against a dummy or with very modern protection and bendable aluminum swords that won't 100% feel like real swords. If you want to fight in medieval armour, you have to find rules that limit the injury risk to a reasonable level.
If killing your opponent is a possibility, then yeah, prohibiting stabbing reduces possibilities. (Stabbing is the only effective technique for penetrating armor?)
Because there is no threat of death, it is just two "blokes" whacking each other with strips of spring steel. Atleast in fencing the one being attacked is obliged to defend himself. It is kind of ridiculous when both swordsmen are violently hacking at each other without attempting to defend the other's attack.
The rules in this game could definitely be improved. Currently it gives too much advantage to people's physical weight.
I think there should be some consideration on a point or elimination system. It would be expensive, but maybe within reason, to put pressure sensors over vital areas and say that a hard enough hit there results in "death". Depending how much money they want to put in, very realistic fighting could be possible, but the better question is whether fights that only last about 5 minutes and are mostly defensive like in real life would be interesting to watch. Its a balancing act of money, sport-fairness, and entertainment.
The Europeans always fight so much better. The americans just going for points.
Unless we go to real war.
*Invasion.
USA hasnt been part of a honest textbook war since 1945
The Belgian, Austrian, and Spanish fighters in particular showed a capable amount of skill and knowledge. The American fighter obviously puts little thought into his fighting and just makes me cringe.
I made a documentary about the US team that includes an extensive interview with the USA fighter here. I will post some bits of it on my channel so you can get a better idea of what's going on in his head.
Ahem! Québec has a frontier with NY, VT, NH and Maine... So he's not an European. Those fights are just for fun anyway. Don't take it all so seriously, eh? ;)
2:52 the problem I see is his helmet, he always has to move his whole body to get a good view. This makes him attackable
Ah, but it protects his head and neck. I tis a bit of a tradeoff. The best neck protection limits neck mobility.
Yeah but his helmet kicks ass so it's a good tradeoff
who knew the US flag would look so good as tunic
Could do with less blue
I know right? I always wondered about that, what American knights would look like if it was a medieval (and european of course) kingdom, and now I have an answer.
Never trust a man in a tunic...
@@noahgilbert8630 I understood that reference
i wonder how they would do against someone who does HEMA. i think some of them do, but i can't really see any techniques beeing applied here.
Spencer Bilodeau mh, i just can't see them apply any ususal HEMA technique here. i mean there are so many especially for fighting against armored opponents. nearly all of them just hack away freely.
Spencer Bilodeau thanks! :)
+Spencer Bilodeau I don't think the longsword side of this is HEMA yes HEMA is an umbrella term that covers many things from antiquity clear up to WWII but as much fun as this is to watch (and its bad ass) its not historical fighting, at least not the longsword side of it. If anything this sport further adds to the misconception of huge knights in overly bulky and heavy armor swinging super heavy swords at each other with little to no skill. I have an HMB/ravencrest battle of the nations long sword and its more like an iron bar in sword form. The armor is often times 10 gage or more (that's thick!) and you do not chop your longsword at another mans full harness(this will only destroy your sword tire you out and get yourself killed) As far as the impact weapons go then ya that's about how it was done, more Abrazare and rondel fighting would be nice but I understand their safety concerns. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the hell out of participating and watching this sport but as far as the longsword goes this is complete rubbish. I would like to see them ether start half-swording and using real techniques or lose the the full harness and go strait to gambason longsword sparring. What do you think friend I would enjoy to here your rebuttal.
+Spencer Bilodeau (repost from below)
I got sick of this argument on RUclips and I went and trained with the UK Fed team for a weekend (I've been doing HEMA for about 8 years)
Firstly, the guys that actually do this don't call it historical, and don't call it HEMA, and don't really give a fuck about historicity, they just enjoy clubbing the fuck out of each other in full armour with steel weapons.
Secondly, while it's not really all that interesting to me from a HEMA perspective, I can say that having done it now, there is definitely some value in donning full plate harness and giving and receiving strikes with full force. Obviously you aren't practicing armoured fighting techniques, but there's a reason that some tourneys seem to have been organised on similar lines; it takes a lot of conditioning both physical and mental to get used to fighting in armour.
Thirdly, this is way, way harder than it looks, and my main criticism of the sport now (those who do it refer to it as a sport, not a martial art) is that it's incredibly dangerous and only a matter of time before someone gets killed. That said, it's really fun and the guys I met through doing it are a great laugh, I advise anyone who's interested to give it a go before forming an opinion about it by watching RUclips videos. I had to take two flights and four days off work to do this for a weekend.
This is not HEMA, nobody that does it calls it HEMA, nobody that does HEMA and tried it would call it HEMA, you don't know what you're talking about.
+Jake Norman well said, and I agree, this sport is cool and you do learn allot in fighting with full harness, but ya not HEMA and we need more people like you to let that facts be known, cool HELL YA HEMA NO or in other terms
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡 @xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::> ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) NOOOOOO
WOW that Kiwi was totally outclassed
I don’t know why but I found sticking the straw through the helmet holes to have a sip was really funny.
Is it just me, or did the audio cut off, in som parts of the video?
I got that too
Movies and video games sure did make this a whole lot more interesting... Probably for good reason.
Du Québec?
Eh bien!
Merveilleux!
Amazing!
Great background music
2:40 This is why I'd wear a helmet with a Gorget combo. It would keep a weapon from getting stuck under the helmet.
This is really good!
Crazy to think that there were knights in this hot metal armor in battles, how exhausting it would be.
To be fair they were also going through a mini ice age
Echt gut es hat mir echt Spaß gemacht es zu sehen😲👍🏾👍🏾Really good I really enjoyed watching it😘😘⚔️👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Was the announcer/commentator the guy from the RUclips channel journeys through time?
This was in Poland. That's were some of the best swordsman were born.
13:45 Pahahahahahaha ohhh man
I would love to try this out
The new crusader heros looking good
Whats up with the referee's cell phone 🤣🤣🤣 way to immerse bro. This is a excellent sport!
Jako komentatora słyszę typka z kanału : Tylko Historia(?) nieźle
Bruh the Hobbiton theme in the background 😂😂
Y viens de ou au Quebec le gars?
A little advice, remember everything has length and measure.
I really think kendoka would do very well in these competitions!
a gdzie to bylo?
Love that Lord of the Rings music.
Which companies make the best swords for ACL fighting? And armor wise?
Master uley, force of svan, and medieval extreme are all good starting points!
Beautiful
I don’t judge them for appearing sloppy, I too would panic if a sword was coming at me
Anime Tatertot im sure its also hard to see in those helmets. And with the weight on your arms and legs and im sure your movements in general would be sluggish and inaccurate
great fighting on the part of the Austrian in that last fight
are knees to the body or leg kicks allowed?
IT depends upon the specific competition. Most of the times yes. But in singles matches like this they don't count for points.
American knight's equipment looks amazing, he must have spent fortune on it.
+Enriqe64 I'm not sure about the rest of his armor, but I've seen sugarloaf helms like that go for about $400+ easily if they are really well made.
Probably about $2,500 - $3,500
I'm glad to see someone from New England fighting because whenever I see someone from America they where the national colors and never anything else like the black and white collar.
New England is in America lol. Your comment would've made more sense if you had said you were glad someone from the US was fighting that wasn't wearing the national colors.
Like every fan of this sport like stalliram
Are they allowed to half-sword?
They should implement a system of points for proper blocking techniques too.
What's this sport called?
Why the buffering??
I appreciate the game of thrones score that plays
They actually also used blunt weapons in tournaments back in the middle ages. Common sense if you think about it. What lord would want they're highly trained and expensive knights to die in a tournament instead of a war.
Tell that to all the armchair historians in the comments. Lol
2:27 what is it called when you have that combination of chainmail scarf and helmet?
Usually the chainmail is under the helmet regardless of helmet, the chainmail part is called a chainmail coif (head part) and the neck part would be a chainmail gorget, the helmet is practical for vision and weight as well as a protected head which I think was worn by archers to deflect arrows.
So... which one is Skall?
i see a many cross, what is that meaning?
Yeah Québec!!!
Were they playing "concerning hobbits" from lord of the rings
I'd love to see armored fighting with heavy hard rubber maces or pole axe. You must knockdown your opponent or pin him down in grappling to win.
They have polearm weapons, including axes.
What's craziest about this stuff to me is the "refs" standing feet from the Knights wearing limited armor like they are totally safe. I get the fighters aren't necessarily that mobile. Just watched another 5 on 5 video. Insane lol. They need to have some small tower on the side of the battlefield where they can observe from and jump in if they need to. No way I would be on the inside of the wood
I want that American armor, fuckin sharp lookin
Game of thrones music noice!
Item unlocked : margarita
For all whose fight, hurrah !!!
8:55 *Sparta has joined the game*
The USA team looks pretty snazzy.
does anyone know who the belgian fighter is?
Are stabs permitted?
No
Doent a sword slash go through the eye hole?
TH?e eyeholes are small enough that the risk is minimized. Also, stabbing is not allowed.
3:56 TOP 10 BEST ANIME FIGHT ?!?!!
What they should do is make the 1v1 more hema style where if you get hit the other one gets a point and the round restarts.
Absolutely not. That is what HEMA does, so these guys don't have to. This is more like an actual medieval tourney in which blunt weapons were used against armor and stabbing not allowed. In this sport points are scored for weapon strikes, knockdowns/takedowns, and disarms over three one-minute rounds. In such a sport, conditioning matters. If armor was good enough that you could fight all day, you have to be able and ready to fight all day. If you don;t have the conditioning to keep up the fight for three one-minute rounds, then you are not likely to win in this scenario, or in a real fight with someone of equal skill but superior conditions.
USA was too busy building guns and kicking ass.
USA wasn't cool enough to be in the medieval history
safferoth exactly who usa kicked the ass?
@@2h4d0wDK Ratio'd + shitty luck on the time scale + not cool enough to be in medieval history
holy shit i would be so scared to be the ref
Its Poland, I haven`t knew we`re doing events like this XD
Better than Football!
Why isn’t the ref wearing armor?
Can you half-sword your opponent?
So long as you do not stab him with the point, yes.
whats with the sound?
since they cant cut or stab with their blunted swords, why not just use maces that are actually made for doing that?
This particular competition was a longsword competition. There are other competitions for maces, and, of course, there are the melees, in which you can use whatever weapon you want (within the rules). Check out the other videos on this channel and my channel to se more.
If they get hit by a mace while wearing plated armor, it could cause some serious injury and concussions.
this is like boxing for europeans
9:39 white Steve Harvey
ref has balls of steel!
Dark Souls players throwing hands IRL
Ion see Any sword manual moves, is it just random People with no training in armor and they have weapon
Is halfswording alowed?
Yes, so long as you don't stab anyone.
I get the oddest feeling this isn't armored fighting...
Well, against chain they should be thrusting more, and against plate they should be halfswording.
+Simon Dean Can't really thrust 'through' realistic mail armour...
+Simon Dean they probably don't stab each other for safety reasons...but it does kinda take some of the cooler sword fighting stuff out
Why don't any of the polearm users sweep people off their feet? Seems like the only other way to utilize a pole if you can't poke or are facing an opponent much heavier than yourself.
The Salt Of Ages Opponent much heavier than yourself? Poke him in the face.
In all seriousness though, I suggest you look at the german treatises/Codex....a lot of polearm use is hooking behind especially the knee and trying to sweep off the feet...however sweeping someone off their feet, not an easy task.
how common are injuries in this sport seems remarkably safe for well trained martial artists
Like auto racing, a lot of it depends upon ythe condition and upkeep of your equipment. The best built, best kept-up armor leads to the fewest injuries.
That being said, injuries happen. I tore my ACL. I have seen sprained ankles, broken and dislocated bones (hands particularly), even a concussion or two. But no deaths yet.
Who pays and how much is the armors
Each individual, prices range from $2000 - $10,000
i thought like a real crusader
It keeps buffering, and it is not my internet connection, it is the actual video and it is VERY annoying!
Are the swords real hard sharpened metal? P.s. dont laugh at me I just stumbled upon this
The swords are blunt but they are hard metal. I just joined a group of medieval fighters and it is really fun and exhausting when fighting with these weapons. We use hard plastic swords for practicing with little armor and when we have the full metal gear on, we use the metal swords. Hopefully this helps
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America be spamming the attack button
lag killed it for me :/
Need to research : stance
The only thing I disagree is the ref.. like just have them stand outside and watch... at least give them body armor