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Great fight review. Watching this a second time a year later !

Im a bit late to the party here but if you need anyone else to hold your camera then im volenteering (maby a free knife for meee tooo.) Nice little bundle you have there. Im almost about to order the same dagger and Steel striker.

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What a fun fight to analyze! Thanks for this!

I came here hoping to see more of Jamie Stevens. Where is she?

The last rondel works fine, and looks great. My wife is of German ancestry, mine, English. Every night, for years, she trys to take over my half of the bed. Now I can keep her on her side.

Whats the Link for the guy who made the armor, Id like him to price some Arm Bracers.

This is great. I need to see more polearm fighting analysis videos. Post link if you have a playlist of polearm fights.

Where can we see more of Duke Miles fights? I love his style

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I like this notion quite a lot and agree that revisiting the imaginary armor convention is a very good idea.

Great breakdown!

Nice explanation

The videos that you do are the most valuable sword fighting videos on the entire internet. Not only are the videos available for intermediate Fighters looking for get to advance levels... but it provides a detailed historical account of how we fight today. 25, 50, 100, 500 years from now people can look back at these videos and understand how we fight today and how fighting might have changed over time

As a highly competitive unbelted fighter, I can tell you that these videos are extremely useful and greatly appreciated.

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This is my standard probing shot. Probing Left Right Center. I have not found a good name for it. Excellent demonstration with the ax to show edge alignment.

Hey, This is a longshot. But would you by chance be able to get back to me on the physical properties of titanium plate armour? I'm a fantasy worldbuilder and I have for a long time wanted one of my fantasy races to have anodized titanium armour as their high class armour. However I also want to know how effective it is, And what to look out for in terms of design for function. For example, From what I can tell, Titanium flexes to a point that it wouldn't be ideal for use in a helmet. However it *seems* like it would be functional for the rest of the suit. I just do not have the option to actually test it myself. And there's very little actual reputable information on the topic out there.

Great Fight

Where can I buy it

Wow, this has been out there for 5 years and this is the first time I have seen it. Interesting piece, but I guess I would go with IF we are all throwing at an acceptable level across all Kingdoms, why change anything? Been fighting 40 years and my spiel when I explain a good blow is it is about the penultimate killing blow, not necessarily the actual killing blow. If this blow puts your opponent at enough of a momentary disadvantage that ending the fight would be easy for you, then *that* is what we take as a "killing blow". I sometimes describe our combat as recreating tournament combat of the middle ages and the fight is over with a blow that causes the spectators to cheer, or a blow that draws blood and demonstrates victory without necessarily "killing". I live in Australia so my experience outside my Kingdom is necessarily limited, but I *have* been to about 20 Pennsics and fought a LOT of people. Not sure I actually agree that all Kingdoms hit and receive at the same sort of level but I WOULD love that to be true!! Sir Agro, Kingdom of Lochac.

Logan- Old style High form shield position is flat that way and cocked close to body, base of shield close to leg. I was taught this in 70's. You use the outside corner to block by moving laterally and turn the hand.

A few years ago I was wondering just how realistic SCA calibration was, for both heavy and fencing. At the time I ran a quite unscientific test at Raglan one year using a small (dead) pig, butted mail and various weapons, no gambeson. The standard armour against a standard blow would vary greatly with the weapon I think. I still have the photos and notes, although I never have got around to writing it up. A good thrust with rapier or heavier sword made it through the mail, whilst cuts ,ade no difference to the mail. HOwever, the heavier a weapon got, the less that mattered. A mass weapon broke bones even if the mail stayed intact. A warhammer went through the mail like butter, with a spike and the hammer made a mess in the mail and broke bones. A low end SCA helm (which was all that we could find to sacrifice) also fared badly, acquiring a large number of diamond shaped holes (it was a popular trial) without any great force being required. It very much emphasised why fencing rules are positive pressure. With a rapier (and no mail), there was a little resistance from the skin, and then no resistance at all unless the blade hit bone. Another thing we tried was weapons against shields, and the big difference that heavy combat doesn't really pick up, is that sharp weapons tend to get stuck in (non-metal) shields, rather than always bouncing off.

Sean needs to use a cross block. And counter shoot.

I know I'm very late to the party, but I find all your videos extremely helpful as I'm entering into Armored Combat. I'm wondering if you can explain what happened at 10:20 when Duke Agrippa wrapped you on the back. Did he not hit with the edge?

Dope!

this video is a gem, no where else do you get to experience a man in titanium combat armor like this.

cool video.

You got which line is which mixed up. The "Tod Cutler" line is less custom, more budget but still amazing quality and historically accurate. "Tods workshop" is his super custom made to order line. Edit: I enjoyed your video.

Well thought out. I was in the East Kingdom from 1989-95, fought in Pennsic19 and 21. I fought mostly polearm, some spear, liked sword and shield the least. As I recall, the claims by those older than I were that they did experiment with swords against mail on hanging sandbags and the like. The only problem was that it was butt-linked mail, not riveted, and it was suspected even then, that riveted would probably hold up much better to both hacks and thrusts. One thing I though was interesting, though. We made a pilum/angon and tested it against a 55 gallon oil drum, thinking that would approximate a lot of the period plate. It did shed flat axe and sword blows nicely. However, the nail like point of the pilum punched through with little difficulty, far easier than say a thrust from a migration period sword. We also found that boiled leather was extremely hard to cut through with an axe or sword, and seemed better than plate against the pilum. We ascertained that the spear thrusts we were delivering on the field were likely more than enough to run a person through and our typical sword thrusts were good for plate, and incidentally, that boiled leather was actually quite good armor.

Good exercises to likely prevent torn rotator cuff especially when giving and receiving blows during combat. Quality content.

How long did it take you to get your package?

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One of the best gifts to medieval fighting.

There’s so many squeaks I’d go crazy until I found all of them and fixed it.

Who made this armor?

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Nice, I'm thinking of making on of those myself, just need enough tyres.

Just running across this video now. I'm perfectly fine with changing the imaginary standard for how much armor we're supposedly wearing. The issue, though, is that we are basing this off of how hard a blow is hitting, as opposed to how well a blow was executed. Swords aren't blunt force weapons. Their job isn't to break bones on impact, their job is to slice through things. Hitting things harder doesn't cut through them more effectively, proper edge alignment does. Grab a steak and hit it really hard with your knife. Now try slicing through it gently, pulling the blade across and making sure the edge is pointed in the right direction.

Those heart motif knives are beautiful, and would be a great gift! Good job, sir!

Dude I know all of them! Agrippa I vaguely remember Ozz is a close family friend And Athanaric’s my *dad* lmaaaooo And “injured” in an understatement. Dad tore the muscle off of the bone! And finally, for now, I’m visiting dad for Christmas soon; when I do I’ll ask him what he thinks as he fights and let you know!

Have you considered reviewing bouts by Dietrich Von Stroheim?

Hmm. There is no retreat to buy time. One thing I know is if your opponent attacks with no tell on your weak you won't have enough time to Parry with the dagger. Your brain needs time to see,, process,, and respond. May work against mid to low level opponent. Wouldn't work on a John Drake or Tora.

Sneaky leg shots are great :-)

Not taking anything from either combatant, but a critique for consideration. I notice how linear their feet/stance is. I have personally moved away from it because as you can see both of them have to "jump over their sword hip" to swing. Yes, that buys a little more range, but limits some of your offensive angles and increases your recovery time. I try to maintain at least a 30 degree angle between my feet and my opponent.

Duelist1954 uses TC's work. Even his bargain line is excellent!

To stand toe to toe with Amos like this is highly impressive.

Nice video, very informative. Thinking about upgrading to either spring steel or titanium myself, but I am really worried about having a good fit, does Sir Mrks still make armor?

Love the moulinet. It tends to be my bread and butter. The same hand motion can end in a head, body, leg or even a thrust. It's so versatile. Great video.