Battle of the Nations, a medieval fighting championship is currently happening in Prague, livestream here:
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I just find it odd that the folks over on /int/ have a thread for it and we don't.
Battle of the Nations, a medieval fighting championship is currently happening in Prague, livestream here:
William Robinson
Josiah Morris
>that guy literally stabbung a guy in the ass with a falchion
>no ref call
Lmao french apparently cant pierce polish armor
Elijah Smith
What is the point of this shit?
They're jumbling together weapons and armors from different centuries.
They pointlessly use blunt swords as shitty maces (then what's the point, just use a fucking mace).
There doesn't seem to be proper refereeing happening.
I mean, I'm sure they have fun (somehow), but it's such a shitshow that it hardly warrants a thread anywhere but in /asp/.
Liam Mitchell
It's pretty hard to reenact mortal combat if it's not mortal
Tbh, it's just NEETs having a field day
Gavin Clark
Too anachronistic and boring for my taste.
Brody Cooper
Lmao why do they have weapons and shields if it's just a wrestling match?
Daniel Robinson
If it was reenactment, I'd expect them to actually be historically accurate. Which they aren't.
I think they're trying to simulate mortal combat, but they're being dumb about it. HEMA does this shit much better.
Mason Morgan
Yeah, this is really terrible. The Hema guys are much much better. They have no foot work, and no technique . there just hitting each other
Of course the Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians still have living sword lineages, but people seem less interested in those
Aaron Ortiz
>but people seem less interested in those
That's probably because very few people are willing to move to 3rd world shitholes to learn that stuff, and what few instructors move to 1st world countries prefer to create mcdojos rather than teach.
Easton Barnes
It's something called fun.
Nicholas Nelson
Because it's not actually all that historical?
They're fighting to a entirely 21st century ruleset, wearing armour and using weapons that have been inauthentically designed to suit that modern ruleset and fight in inauthentic ways to gain the best advantage in that modern rule set. It just has a thin veneer of medieval history to dress it up.
You can strip out the medieval dressings, put them in plastic armour and biker leathers swinging crowbars at each other and get exactly the same thing only much more easily and safely.
Daniel Morgan
>neets
>who can afford a fuckton of weapons and armour and travel around their home country, followed by a trip to a random castle in Europe
Adam Bell
I'm not studying, nor working, nor in training. I live off a trust fund. Am I not a neet?
Robert Taylor
I know alot of legitimate Japanese sword styles in the US and Europe. There are some good FMA guys too. As for Indian I only know of one school in England run by a sheik guy
But Filipino and Japanese stuff is not hard to find if you live in a major population center.
Elijah Howard
What you posted is pure mcdojo material tho.
Zachary Ramirez
Well no, a mcdojo is a money making business, those a traditional Japanese martial arts that were actually practiced by samurai, and practiced roughly as they were centuries ago.
I say roughly, because of course no marital art is a time capsule, and Amdur and his teacher in particular made some modifications based on cross training and sparring
Lincoln Ross
Do you mean they actually practice? Most dojos that waste time with staged demonstrations usually do nothing else.
Hudson Wood
Well of course they practice, but you must understand kata are the foundation of all styles of Japanese swordsmanship besides modern kendo, which is more like fencing.
Kata are not just staged demonstrations, or play fights. some of them dont even look like fights, they are methods of instilling the principles of timing, distancing and proper technique which can be drawn upon in combat with live weapons.
Those exercises can involve unexpected variations, and quite a bit of risk of injury.
Matthew Harris
It's not really historical m8
Tyler Kelly
Why can't those slav teams focus on jousting instead. Like video related but with sharp points.
Kayden Sullivan
Probably because jousting armour and horses are expensive.
Julian Hernandez
They already got armor and I believe eastern European horses aren't that expensive.
Nathan Nelson
>They already got armor
They got something resembling 14th century armour. Late 15th - 16th century jousting armour, which is required to do it without people dying regularly, is a whole lot more expensive.
>eastern European horses aren't that expensive.
The horses need to be strong enough and properly trained.
Watch this: youtube.com
Christian Campbell
William Rivera
Turns out jousting requires a fucking of training, knowledge, experience and specialised kit. Not just barrelling in wearing rusty mail order armour and a steel bar.
Jaxon Baker
I went to a Renaissance fair looking to see the kind of jousting match I saw on TV. I was sorely disappointed.