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I used to volunteer as a squire for an organization that did full-contact jousting at renaissance festivals. It was so much fun. Challenging work, out of doors (except for when it was in an indoor stadium), and they guaranteed I wouldn't go hungry. My job was basically to pick up broken lances, reset the rings on the quintain when it was in use (sometimes they'd use that in addition to jousting, but I haven't seen them use it much anymore), lead the horses from the stadium after the joust, and help the knights and horses with their armor and stuff. It was important to keep track of where the horses were so you didn't get run over. Those horses were massive. I'm fairly tall for a woman in my part of the world at around 5'10", but the horses made me feel very tiny. The other squires told me that typical horses would like like ponies after seeing the warhorses. They were right. Unfortunately I had to retire after only three years due to worsening health. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep it up for long, so I made the most of it while I was able to. It was fun while it lasted.
Your gonna have such awesome stories to share with your kids and your grandkids. I bet that they’ll go to school and show off by saying “ my mom/grandma is cooler than yours, I bet yours didn’t train with horses and jousting at medieval festivals”…… that’s so cool 😎 😂 😂😂
@@Rock-Lickermaking a joke of it??? SIR, the kings tournament is no joke, watch what u say or we shall meet each other at the next tournament in single combat!
I want to see Qxir do a whole series on commentating over unusual/absurd sports! I'd suggest Hurling, barbie truck downhill racing, Tejo, competitive stone skipping, and competitive air guitar as some fun ones to start edit: also motorcycle chariot racing
i was lucky enough to have seen one of these as a kid, they gave kids pool noodles and made them fight, despite the fact that the adults who had just gone before used real but dull weapons in the match before, the kids managed to end up injuring mostly themselves significantly more with the pool noodles
I used to work with a guy that did full contact knight stuff on the weekends. They have a whole community with kings and knights and all sorts of ranks and roles. He would come into work bruised to hell from all of the fights but he LOVED it.
This is crazy i was literally JUST watching a video of heavy fighting when i woke up, and now my fav youtuber does his own commentary on an event! AMAZING! congrats on the hard earned milly
I do kendo, and I can confirm that full contact sword fights are the best. The rush of adrenaline gets me hooked, I wish more people trained with melee weapons. Also, congrats on hitting a million, I'm a long-time viewer, and I remember when you were a little channel with simple little drawings 🙏
The world jousting championship is held in New Zealand every second January. Watching the two horses charging at each other, and riders thrown from the saddle is just fantastic. These fighting bouts are just as good.
Eyy, congrats on the 1 million! Started watching your channel some years back and I'm so glad you've made it this far! 🎉 On a side note, I find it amusing how you made a video on Effin Eddie a while back and now you made a pretty hilarious commentary on another completely different sport. Keep up the good work!
@Arkasha-Z Most armor is sold over face books and range in price based on style. For example a starter set is about 900 USD while German Gothic plate is 3000 USD
@Yom_Bristol We do grapple training and it is a big part of it, but the weapons can be used to assist in controlling your opponent. For example a pole arm can be hooked over someone's head and help control their head movement.
You can see a few instances of guys using their weapons as levers to fling opponents around. This was actually an authentic tactic; half-swording an arming sword or even wielding a zweihander "backwards" to use the guard as a hook was a frequent tactic for getting an armored foe off their feet. Then you'd work on them with the pointy bits or even switch to a long dagger for the kill, in situations where death was the goal (obviously not in tournaments). I did notice some blunt weapons (a mace in particular) which is meant to crush and disable heavy armor joints to immobilize foes, or ring their bells hard enough to concuss, but I'd imagine there's some rules about that in this system... But it's a little surprising to see wild swings against armor that is clearly not going to be penetrated with a blunted axe when the wielder has a perfectly good broad hook for tripping or levering.
Congratulations on the million and hope you won that million bucks. Been watching you since the beginning and can't believe its been five years of looking forward to Fridays. I raise a mug of grog in your honor, Slainte. Last time I watched a tournament was back when it was Ukraine vs Russia with Ukrainian victory.
Why is it called a "blow" when you hit someone with enough force to crush their tissue and bones. It wouldn't be too bad if they were actually blowing each other off but this is horrible.
Here is the mass of permanent bruises on my leg.... And these bruises on my shins..... And the missing tooth (got me with a sword, 18 stiches)..... And my little fingers, broken 5 or six times, and the right one mostly cut off once.... That was an axe. Always the pinkies. 🤪 And some vision loss in my right eye. Two pokes with pointed sticks and five or six fistfights heh heh. 🐸
Finally. Ever since you were at what was it, 70k subs? So glad to see the evolution and the slow bettering of your videos. Looking at where you are now to where you started, this was a long time coming. Happy 1 million!!! Edit: longer video!! I asked you last comment to have some longer videos and this did not disappoint!!! Thank you so much, MADE my day!!
You’re always hilarious, but you outdid yourself here. Your coaching of Sir Yellow and his incapacity to take your advice was priceless. You have a future as a play-by-play commentator.
Here since 3 or 4 hundred thousand subs, don't remember too well, great to see you reach this many. It really hasn't even been that long. Good luck on your future journey.
I used to belong to the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) here in the US. We would recreate the Middle Ages but the fighting was not like this with real weapons. The weapons were made of Bamboo and duct tape so no one got hurt to bad. It was fun. Congrats on 1 Million Subs.
As a former SCA fighter, I can tell you that SCA weapons are NOT made of bamboo, which is hollow, but of rattan, which is solid. And hurts. (Though "mass" weapons such as maces and axes have heads made of polyurathane foam.)
Sir Yellow definitely deserved that win! The same for you, King Qxir! Congratulations on the 1 million! Been a subscriber for years and i look forward to more of your work!
In America the acw, previously the acl, hosts these fights. A guy named Simon (forgot his last name) was in a free for all brawl when his helmet came of *as* another man's axe was coming for his head. Simon survived after the axe was removed from his skull, and invented a new armor standard for the league in the Simon strap. A strap connecting the back of the helmet to the top of the back of the torso armor.
I love you Qxir, wether its doin the dishes, going for a blunt cruise, or I need a good laugh and to relax after a long day, your videos are amazing and please continue!
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers. I’ve been watching your channel since the Chimp Warfare video and have seen it grow overtime. I’m proud of you dude, you are definitely my favorite RU-vidr.
Haven’t seen the whole video yet so I don’t know if you’ll cover it. But I imagine this hobby can’t be cheap, the cost of their suits of armor and weaponry.
Thank you my brother for making me laugh once again and showing me something that I haven't ever seen before once again I'm super stoked to be one of the million with you buddy
@@joostfloot5279 Maybe if you had two armies of untrained peasants. Trained warriors would be in formation and used tactics in battle. You can't just rush in and take down 5 guys on your own. This is just guys running around and smacking each other for a few minutes but they happen to wear plate armour.
@@RabidBeast45this is basically what happened during the combat of thirty during the Breton succession war, small scale combat like this doesn't really have much tactics, and combat with knights is clunky and takes a painfully long time to do anything effective
Wasn’t a weight issue, they only bothered with “trucking” people. A common practice in American sports like lacrosse and football. Tuck your shoulder in, make your center of mass low and hitting your opponent while running to knock them over
@@percdispenser1115this was a common tactic in armored fighting. You knock the knight down then find a gap in his armor with your dagger and end him rightly
Congrats for 1.000.000. The melee is always about who is able to resist and keep the enemy at the breaking point, and the main thing is always who is the best at resisting pushes and being able to cause some damage with the weapons and teamwork. So the armor and the weapons are designed for safety, but they don't provide a real advantage.
Straight from ESPN8 The Ocho! Anyway: fuck yeah! 1 mil! Hope it goes way up, one of the best creators in this god forsaken whak, you really deserve the best
Do the weapons still hurt pretty bad? I was wondering what the use was when I saw that you get “killed” by being wrestled to the ground basically and I was a bit confused about what the refs were getting fussed about or what made them call certain matches sometimes
@@cam5816 the weapons do hurt when you are hit, especially from an axe, but they are primarily used to provide enough blunt force to knock your opponent off balance or daze them.
Haha your commentary with the last two knights had me in stitches 🤣🤣'Choke him yea... choke him. Pummel strike to the windpipe.. CUT HIS HEAD OFF NOW!'
I showed my dad some of these videos while we were on break at work a few months ago and he's been enjoying them ever since. Also, congrats on 1 mil king 🎉
Congrats on 1 million Not sure when I subbed but I remember when this channel had 10k subs and knew the style of your videos had massive potential well done lad RU-vid should defo add a feature that shows when you subbed to a channel
