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Nice I'm into this as well I'm descendant from nobility I have a replica from my family original knight suit that I use with padding for regulations here in Germany .
@@kennethjames9999 that actually depends on personal preference... id personally go with a more dexterous approach than just full on battering ram(giggity)
@@crustybomb115 the size of the weapon and the technique are too different things. Whether you have a dagger or a Halberd if you don't know how to use it, it's worthless.
i understand why some warriors in history didnt use a lot of aromor, being able to have all your senses, move faster, tire slower and be more agile must be a huge advantage but being able to tank loads of heavy blows and take little damage is also a huge advantage. getting the balance right must be hard.
Having armour was almost always better than not having any. Skill and tactics can definitely overcome the advantage of having armour, but just being more agile and/or aware cannot. I don't think skill needs to be explained (everyone watched this video), but in a battle this will make less of a difference than in a duel. Yet, even if you're more skilled, having armour would be more advantageous. Tactics for example is how during the crusades muslims would ride away from the knights (like pursuit tactics) and always being faster due to having lighter armour, whilst constantly shooting arrows at them. This was somewhat effective. There are also accounts from that period of knights having their backs covered in arrows, but being completely unharmed. Also note that knight armour did evolve a lot throughout history. Later armour was better at deflecting (which is important; like the broken thumbs in the video). Furthermore, armour also has a serious psychological advantage (face coverings often also looked really scary).
Well knight armor would have been custom made for said knight, so it wouldn't be as heavy or restricting as you might think. There's videos of people who have a full suit of armor that was made to the same specs as old knight armor, but because it was made specifically for them they still had full range of motion. If Issac had armor made custom to his measurements it wouldn't have been as hard for him to move around
Armour is based on the needs of the wearer. During a joust, a warrior may wear a 50kg harness with a frogmouth helmet made from 4mm cast iron. During an actual campaign, a knight would rely on his 25kg tops field harness that is 7mm at it‘s strongest(where the plackart and chestplate overlap) and 1-3 everywhere else. They wouldn’t wear helms like greathelms or greatbascinetts, instead they‘d wear saletts or armets. A visored helmet with tiny slots for eyes such as the houndskull bascinett would render you arrow-proof even against longbows with 200lbs of draw-weight or crossbows that often exceeded 1000lbs, while also limiting your vision and your breathing and making you more susceptible to overheating. That’s why many knights opted for pins with that they could ditch the visor altogether once they‘ve entered close quarters, where they were practically invincible.
As a medieval enthusiast, I know that there wasn’t really need for a balance because people would train for years before going into battle with full plate armor. The only reason everyone didn’t use it was because it was expensive and only developed during the late medieval period. Without training though, fighting in full 15th century plate armor is really difficult.
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, most young men here in America would be too concerned about dropping their phone or spilling their starbucks lol.
This is the last video I would have expected, but hot dog this was such an entertaining watch. It has introduced me into a world I was not aware that existed. Is there a UFC or Superbowl equivalent to this sport? I'd love to watch some tournaments like this with a high production value.
I've always loved to watch this sport when it pops up in my recommended. Since i'm in australia and close to one of the clubs I might go check it out, this sport calls to me for some reason.
I saw a World Championship here, in Portugal, in 2014 or so... and I was mesmerized!! Since then I follow several teams, in Portugal and worldwide. I love that stuff. Cheers from Coimbra (Portugal).
@@axemaster , yes, 2016. It was amazing! I think I remember you (i need to see the photos I took back then). Your team was fabulous... and the scenery was perfect (the Castle of Montemor-o-Velho). I hope to see you, guys, soon here... again. Cheers from Portugal.
I've been doing bohurt fighting since 2007 (in both HMB and IMCF), but I also do HEMA, I regularly do cutting practice with sharp swords, and I'm a harnischfechten instructor. I believe that gives me a solid background to talk about this subject. A couple of things that need to be said: buhurt is a modern sport that is in no way representative of the actual battlefield fighting of the medieval period. The weapons are not "real weapons but blunt" as they don't have any taper, they are usualy weighted quite poorly (considerably heavier than historical examples) and they don't handle like real ones. The armor is also much heavier. Given that the kit is usually meant to represent 14th-15th c armor it's about 10 kg to heavy on average due to poor quality, those usualy fit badly and require very thick padding underneath to mitigate the shortcomings of the metal parts. There are well made armors used in buhurt but they cost a lot and so the vast majority of fighters uses the "cheap" kits that are a curious amalgamation of bits and pieces inspired by historical examples but which usually don't make up a viable recreational of a historical suit of armor. Many people in buhurt don't know historical fencing so even in duels there's little to none of it, the whole thing usually boiling down to hitting with swords as if they were a hammer or a baseball bat. The rules of the duels are quite curious as they give point for hitting with the edge of the weapon against the surface of the armor, so they reward doing the least effective thing possible in an armored sword fight. For that reason people in HMB/IMCF duels don't act of fight as knights would. It's due to sport rules that are very artificial, and if anyone tried to fight like that in a medieval battle they would get themselves killed in an instant. There are HEMA tournaments where people if full armor fight using actual historical techniques trying to overcome the opponents' protection, stab them in the openings in the plate etc. It's done with metal blunted weapons so it can be done safely, but requires a whole lot more training and a much better armor than in HMB/IMCF. I've done both and I enjoy the HEMA armored duels much more. Having said that, I still love buhurt and find a lot of enjoyment in it, but I think it's got a long way to go, and needs a number of improvements/changes in rules and approach to reach its full potential.
@Architeuthis Dux were they sharp enough to cut through metal armor/other swords? Obviously not, they weren't magic, but medieval swords were indeed sharp enough to cut a hand off with a single cut. We have actual weapons in museums, we have medieval treatieses (fencing manuals) that show appropriate use of weapons in different combat scenatios. In armored fighting the dagger was always a last resort incase you were disarmed or fighting got to grappling on the ground, but in harnischfechten most techniques are based on halfswording and they aim teach to puncture soft spots (covered with mail and fabric) like the groin, the armpits etc., which a sword is more than capable of doing. There's a number of amazing RU-vid channels, such as scholagladiatoria or tod's workshop where you can find videos made by individuals who have had access to those real medieval swords, measured and handled them.
@Architeuthis Dux Here we'd have to go into a more in-depth discussion, as it's really hard to make any generalisations. For one the treatises were made for the more affluent members of the medieval community, and they often dealt with the types of combat that a knight or at least a man-at-arms (professional heavily armored soldier) would engage in. It stands to reason that the sort of swords (and other weapons) they'd use would be of the highest quality. Most "civilians" or common soldiers wouldn't even own a sword and they'd use axes, polearms, clubs, or at most some falchions. With the swords themselves there's also a question of type (Oakeshott's typology being the standard here), as you have blade profiles made for different purposes. Type XV/XVa were arguably developed favouiring the thrust and they are not very good cutters (regardless of how sharp they are), but type XVIIIc is an amazing cutter (in fact most modern cutting competitions show that it's probably the best of the bunch, outperforming pretty much all other medieval sword types). We have a number of well preserved swords of those types and they were sharp, enough to decapitate or chop off a limb. Battlefield archeology shows ample evidence of arms being cut off with swords (perimortem damage to the bone being quite easily differentiated from wounds inflicted by axes etc. due to a considerably different blade profile). I've handles really well made replicas of extant medieval swords cutting pig carcasses (sure, not exactly the same as a living human but a good enough analogue) na some sword types are absolutely capable of cutting through muscle tissue and bone with ease. Well made medieval swords were high quality weapons that could hold a viscious edge.
Excellent video, Sir Butterfield. I was surprised by how interesting i found it. And kudos to your production team (even if that's just you), it was a very well made video. I'm looking forward to seeing what else youve got in the pipeline.
Isaac here's a tip about armor...it can be very light and flexible...but it has to be custom made to your body specifications...only then Will it be comfortable n easy to move in...you can do anything in armor if it is tailored to your body...but it also depends on how fit n strong you r because it can take a toll on you
That was awesome! Can you imagine when men fought in battles lasting for days, with the opponents actually trying to kill them? No one complained about toxic masculinity back then lol.
Me: sit down son I have a story to tell you A long time ago lived Issac Butterfield the first who had a beard so furious that every enemy shakes in fear just listening to it blow in the wind
Aw man! That looks like a shitload of fun. I'd love to round up a few of me brothers mates and my mates and go at it hell for leather. I reckon the chicks would love it too.. some of the sheila's we know would belt the shit out of each other...plus as a bonus everyone gets pissed and laid after