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Cutting, fencing, and ringen* from Poland, may 2011 With our Swedish friend Axel Petterson ?KUNKS 2011 on Vimeo watch for the sparks. G. * 15th Century German wrestling

Quote of the Day: The future pope Pius II was astonished to discover how militarised a society urban Germany was. As he observed in 1444, ‘not only every noble, but even every burgher in the guilds has an armoury in his house so as to appear equipped at every alarm. The skill of the citizens...

haven't been around for a while, but I thought I'd drop by and post this one, it's too good not to spread about a bit. So one thing you could almost be certain that we have today but did not have in the Middle Ages, is robots. Well, if you believed that, you wouldn't be exactly accurate. In...

More high-energy fun from our Slovakian friends YouTube - Shielhau Krumphau watch for the sparks

I finally finished Krzyzacy today, the volume I read was all in one book hardback, not the same edition listed on amazon which I thnk is broken up into 2 or 3 books (which is a good idea). It was a challenging read in parts, I can see why some people get bogged down in it. But for me it was a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrcv7kaSUwc I'm about 3/4 the way through watching this film, I had to pause it last night and get to bed but I'll finish watching it tonight. I was a little disappointed at first because I'm used to foreign historical or even fantasy films being a bit more...

Another good HEMA promo vid, not very high speed but a well done and a particulalry convincing demonstration of a lot of good unarmed techniques. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-C-zlvypk

Is the SCA is taking over the Sinhaloa cartel? Crime Scene - Video: Marijuana-smuggling catapult G

here is an essay I wrote for one of the Codex books on the metalurgy of weapons codexmartialis.com • View topic - Metalurgy of Weapons Essay

Oh yes, of course. It's considered his best film. The whole idea of telling the story different ways from different points of view is brilliant, copied recently in that movie about facebook. I just saw Hidden fortress for the first time, there are some really great mass combat scenes in...

Here is that National Geographic show they did on Talhoffer YouTube - National Geographic - Medieval Fight Book - Part 1-4 YouTube - National Geographic - Medieval Fight Book - Part 2-4 YouTube - National Geographic - Medieval Fight Book - Part 3-4 YouTube - National Geographic -...

Pagan folk metal So I hope this isn't too off-topic for an RPG forum, I think it is related... you can be the judge. There is a new genre of pagan folk metal which seems to be merging the heavy metal scene in Europe with the re-enactor scene there in some interesting ways. I think it may be...

On the surface that statement is true, but of course you probably know it's also a bit misleading because 'many' European swords were actually curved ... including some of the principle weapons in the 15th and 16th Century manuals HEMA people study, like the grossemesser which is quite similar...

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Yeah whenever I watch an old Kirosawa Samurai movie, the ones from the 50's where they still have the realistic fencing, I feel on completely familiar territory, it's like watching a HEMA tournament. Same guards, same cuts. The only real differences are from the physical design properties of...

Us HEMA-istas like the ones in slow-motion because you can make-out the techniques, but it is also fun sometimes to see them at full-speed, or even a bit more than full-speed like in this excellent demonstration from a Czech HEMA group. YouTube - Zwerchhau, absetzen, nachreissen - longsword...

HEMA inspired stage combat, from Bohemia YouTube - ?ehart - long sword and other historical weapons I particularly like the dussack work.

Here is kind of a cool axe-fighting video from Hammabourg, these techniques are from historical sources YouTube - hammaborg, peter falkner, mordaxt, 63v

On another forum, somebody asked about the plausibility of a medieval or pre-industrial society resisting a more sophisticated or high tech invader in a guerrilla war. Most people thought it would be unlikely in a Feudal society. But of course, Ye Olde Days weren't like a Monty Python skit or...

Irish stick-fighting, in Gaelic, with subtitles (from Irish TV) TG4 - Irish language television channel - Teilifis Gaeilge - 1 Hour Documentaries - Na Chéad Fight Clubs (P1)