How to wear plate armour 

dude... i was looking for some fashion tips on how to wear plate armour in everyday life...

"...Maille, riveted together-" *uses butted Maille* Every medieval enthusiast: *triggered*

Step 1: Put it on Step 2: done Step 3: take Jerusalem

I like how the helmet looks like it's smiling.

Its funny how we have reinvented body armor in the modern days, just as they did medieval times. Starting with Kevlar soft armor, like chain mail and now steel and ceramic plates, like the hard armor of old.

Bascinets are for visibility like butter knives are for surgery.

Good short primer. You notice it's a few years old, a bit of the info is out of date or condensed too much. But overall, good to see. I'll just never get reenactors and living history people that carry sharp swords but don't wear maille or maille voiders where you'd need them. I'm sure a lot of men at arms forwent them on their legs and took a risk for mobility's sake. But on your upper body? Nah, those armpits are far too juicy of a target.

Thank you, very informative. I really liked the personal description at the end really put me in the suit working with the kit. It's improbable like most I'll ever get to try on a full suit but I could imagine the moral of the Knight and the general Man at Arms of that period.

i love the fact he says that the maille was riveted ( which of course historically it was) and the maille he's wearing is quite clearly butted ;-P

The second guy talking was *way more honest than the first.* He actually mentions the limitations of movement in armor and the encumbrance that the first guy *denies.*

The mobility of C3PO and the same footwork make a great Knight.

I can imagine how rich one needs to be to custom this kind of armor to go shopping in the battlefield.

3:00 "good vision"

Bascinet = Good Vision XD I've got one myself, you can see almost nothing

I'm halfway though amassing my own set of 14th century plate armour, I can move just fine in it without feeling encumbered, although I do really notice the difference once I take it off.

No Gambeson huh? Interesting, I've been looking for an alternate solution to gambeson replacement

Step 1: you put it on. Step 2: you wear it. done.

I thought this was a kingdome come video... Still worth it.

"Good vision" Proceeds to show a pair of incredibly thin eye slits. *laughs

And the note about heavier weapon isnt true. A good war hammer would weigh about as much as a sword. Its the concentration of the mass thats important. You dont want to lumber around with a great unwieldly piece of steel and WISH for a good hit.

Put the armour on dude!!!...

Totally awesome!!! I want my own armor one day.

Great video. The fauld lames are much more flexible than I first thought

butted maille..... [Triggered]

The vision in a bascinet is not great tho......

great vid ! i love it ! greetings from france

The only body part not protected seems to be the place where the sun don't shine. That makes it an obvious target. I think I'd rather fight without a helmet and risk having my head cut off rather than taking the risk of having sharp objects shoved up the arse.

When during my school days I made a full body armour out of cardboard, bascinet was my helmet. Of course it was not exact replica but wision was prety good. I mean it was very limited, but I think that it would have been enought for fighting one oponent. I was not able to see thing higher, above me and lower, near the ground also it was difficult to breath. Doing cardio when you don't get enough oxygen must have been hard

It's kinda funny how the first guy say it doesn't feel heavy at all, then the second say it feels heavy. But second guy is really spot on. While the first does have good points. Like how armour is always a choice between protection and mobility. You can get 100% protective armour. Think 1dm thick steel plates which encase you in metal. You cannot be harmed. You also cannot do anything. You are useless. But if you go for all mobility, great, you can move and dodge. But since even clothes restrict your movement you are now naked. And you don't want to be naked when enemies want you dead. So the armourers worked on tricks to make armour more protective while sacrificing as little mobility as possible. The late medieval plate armours were magnificent protective suits with many ingenious designs. It took rifles going supersonic before they could reliably go through plate armour. But plate armour was and still is expensive. And while you could afford 1 guy in plate armour. In the end it was more economically sound to get 5 to 10 guys with muskets. Sure the muskets didn't reliably go through plate. But being outnumbered 1 to 10 isn't gonna work in the end.

I'm certainly no medieval expert, yet I am an enthusiast. Having said that, I'm fairly certain you would never use a maille aventail or collar in combination with any great helm. The single purpose of the great helm was more protection than the maille around the neck for reduced mobility.

Nice video!

'How to wear Plate Armor' With your body? ._____.

Good visibility...

what effigy is this suit based on? I love it and would love to work on something like this.

are there any other helmet designs?

5:03 HOLY SHITE THAT SWORD AND SHIELD FENCING IS BLOODY BRILLIANT. why cant this shite be in movies?!?

2:58 "good vision" yeah sure buddy whatever you say

Yes this is cool!

by the miniature i thought it was KCD lol, nice video

2:59 good vision xD

BUTTED MAIL SKIRT!?

No surcoat? How do you distinguish between friends or foes?

anyone else noticed the plastic end on some of the laces🤔

Great video, but i think the choreographed 5:02 with the shields after explaining they wouldn't be necessary in full armor, and not showing half swording is a missed opportunity.

Can someone explain how a couter bends? It doesn't look like it should bend at all.

Wait what? The first helmet he showed was mainly for use against archer fire and you can't see shit in it. Thats why knights usually put their visor up in melee combat, so they could actually still see the enemy.

Why do dome of the helmets have a 'beak' like a bird design to them? I have always wondered why that was.

Hell yeah

You guys are cool ..

I'm still having good vision in 2020

And than.. than imagine how many of these men died. The complexity of equipment, the mass of the resources and TIME needed to make all of this stuff.. *amazing* Humans are amazing :D

Is that Raglan Castle behind you?

why was his shield not even facing the other guy in the fight scene

How well could one fire a bow in full plate? I know your movement abilities are quite good just I've never worn plate I love the stuff and frankly I love a good wooden bow so naturally I am interested in coming the two together, anyways anyone have experience in This?

Frasier and Niles's long lost brother

the chainmail is not correct it needs to be riveted rings not butted

>pigface >good vision wew lad.

good vision. ha!

where is the gambeson for anti blunt force gear

It's up to you, you wanna see your life paat your eyes you you don't wanna see anything at all?

Why so many people don't put mail at least in the gaps, i always see only a gambeson on the arm joints, its a great target

Wait a minute, where's your gambeson & haubert?

no I want so armor, just for fun

You need to be safe you almost cut the guy with yore sword when He was putting yore leg armor on

"It's heavy, it's tiring" maybe if your armor isn't fitted correctly

But will the armor stop a 5.56 Armor Piercing Round coming from an AR15??

This helmet actually provides good vision. Stop joking about the eyeslits , guys.

0:57 That is butted maille, and actually you can tear those with your hands, they suck. Real medieval maille had not just riveted pieces, but also were more complex than the one shown here. That "armor" wouldn't protect you from anything. 2:07 Those "wings" can be found on most plate armour, and the polish liked them very much, that's not english exclusive. Also, don't put gold on your fighting armour, that's completely bullshit. The decorated armors were used like fashionable clothing, and for show off purposes, not to actually fight in them. 2:59 No, that messes up your vision, the ones that have good vision are those with lot's of little circular holes in the exe area, the straight line is for extra protection against thrusts. The ability to breath in that is probably not that good, most knights often flipped up their visors just to get some fresh air inside. those holes just there for some extend of breathing, so you don't actually lose conciousness wearing it. 3:27 Actually, that visor has better vision due to the bigger gap. 3:48 If your gauntlet let's that much of movement, then it means that the plates are thin, and won't protect your hand very much. Also, where is your gambeson, or other padding? Without that, you have much less protection against blunt attacks.

Como eles faziam para urinar e defecar com toda aquela armadura?

I initially thought that the microphone was a puff of extremely dense chesthair. I feel cheated.

What about taking a leak?

🤣😂 4:31 looks like a freaking bird dancing . Or some kind of human-chicken . Bagbagbgaaaaaag 🐔🐔🐔

4:32 radar antenna under the armpit？

That's a pretty bascinet you have!

How big of an advantage does medieval-style armor actually confer when fighting to death with swords? Like, imagine you have two good fighters of the exact same caliber fighting to death, and that one of them has an armor and the other one doesn't. What % of the times will the armored fighter win?

Isn't that cuirass a little long?

20th & 21st Centuries Medical Centres & Hospitals.

Good vision? I cant imagine being able to see ANY overhead blows.

I think I’m gonna go broke if I keep buying this armor

Yep you said it .Heavy ,Hot and Tirring. !

looks more like larp gear to me

Dis dude looks like 3p0 from star wars at 4:30

Would I be protected from a bear attack?

No sword can cut off an arm XD Great video!

Centuries Ago, Human Body Conditions were very bad indeed!!

HOW IS THAT GOOD VISION AT ALL

that helmet is stoned as hell

I hope this guy doesn’t do re-enactment... because no gambeson or hauberk could be a bit *uncomfortable*

You put it on. There I saved everyone 5m 53s.

"good vision"

actually the vision sucks in this helmet

0:57 nice butted mail, mate.

21st Century Safety First.

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Very.... Uhm..... Intimedating harness...

That helmet though. *Almost throws up*

lol so it seems gucci gear vs poor gear was a thing even back then

Man the amount of “medieval connoisseurs” up in the comment section. I do watch some of the historical channel like Shadiversity or Lyndibeige, and my knowledge is just adequate enough. This video shows a comprehensive and easy to digest way to wear an amour in medieval(renaissance?) time, that’s all. I don’t know about you but a suit of amour is real costly, so of course there’s some mishaps here and there. But most of them are true. And you still drag out the most stupid of argument like “he said riveted mails but show buttered! “? Like what the fuck it’s because the dude is bald and kinda old isn’t it? Is this why you don’t like this video? Or maybe you prefer a hotter dude to do the job?

You will melt like butter

Literally says white shined armor is better when that is the opposite. Blue steel is what was used for battle not ceremonial armor like half of what he’s wearing.