Hey there! I’m the guy getting absolutely thrashed around 7:30. I am the Marketing Coordinator for this particular event, and we have grown to a significant size and venue. We would love to show you more and invite you to our event to get the full experience!! And maybe even try some armor on! -David
i went to wizard summer camp and have witnessed people break their wrists, dislocate their knees and get heat stroke from sword fighting. never question the dedication a nerd has to the larp.
Hey so, this sport is called buhurt! And I am a buhurt fighter. I love fighting and have been in more than 2 fights, after the first fight you just want to get in and go again. No weapon is 30 lbs that would be impossible to wield in kit. Kits cost $1500-$12000 it just depends on the blacksmith and the intricacy, this also depends on time period and if you get it second hand. You're right there is not a lot of money in the sport, we pay for all of our travel out of pocket. Buhurt fighters who take care of their equipment and properly pad their helmets experience significantly less head injuries and concussions than football players. For such a violent sport, there's a lot of care for safety and love for other fighters. Also the reason some fights continue on the ground is because there's pro fights, melee, and several duel variations. Thank you for bringing some eyes to the sport! You're video was fun even if you called a kit a costume ;)
First one actually looks like how a fight between two knights would turn out like, I think. One guy just drops his sword and starts bashing the other guy's head with his shield. You can't really slash him if he's wearing plate armor, but you can still bonk him half to death.
Notice how they don't stab each-other; that's the main difference between this and real armoured combat, chiefly because stabs are incredibly more dangerous than cuts and if they were allowed in modern sports like this there would be... issues. Also, armoured combat had a tendency to end in a sort of horrific dagger-armed wrestling match which is likely too grotesque, and *definitely* too dangerous, to incorporate into any sort of legal modern sport. In most other forms of combat you at least have a good chance of dying quickly, not struggling desperately for three minutes straight in dirt and mud while your adversary repeatedly tries to slip their blade between your armor's plates and nick your femoral artery.
Nah, 2nd & 3rd fights are more representative - the guys in the first fight just forgot they had weapons in their hands and started wrestling lol ru-vid.comG4rnn7kZU9Y?si=s0_nxTolCEy0PgaD These guys are also wearing medieval kit, but their technique is far far better
Hi Danny! I used to be one of the knights at Medieval Times. I assure you, we got injured plenty, mostly because of the horses. The sword fighting can be safe if people know what they’re doing but not everyone did, so there’s always the risk
@@TheBuddel not the average peasant or commoner, and who knows what it was like during an actual battle (probably less graceful lol) sure, but swordfighting has always been its own martial art.
Question: Does learning the choreographed fights give you actual usable fighting skills? Like if you where teleported to the actual medieval period, could you competently fight? As a fantasy writer, I've always been curious.
Alright now that Ive watched the video through I’ll answer some questions. Armor is very expensive, usually the helmet is the heaviest piece and most expensive often minimum of $300. My knight’s armor cost $9,000 but it is hand made, beautifully detailed, and uses both stainless steel and brass with engravings. My personal armor cost me like $100 because most of it is stolen road signs bent into the correct shapes. I’ve been fighting for about a year now, my knight has been fighting for over 30 years, and another Sir I know has been going for over 40 years and has even been crowned king. There are many different ways to be part of medieval combat, I am specifically part of SCA, which has much more relaxed guidelines. Overall its actually very safe. All of the armor prevents basically all injuries aside from bruising. The only thing I fear is a 300lb man holding a great sword. For a decent majority the reason for fighting and wars is the reinactment portion. Its actually helped to establish what has occurred in history. One occasion I know of, not in fighting unfortunately though, is historians thought shoes were made one way, but many reinactors making shoes found other ways that made more sense and explained various holes in the bottom of soles or other niche things. There have been many occurences where reinactors have proven historians wrong, and historians have even come to the SCA for help!
first of all, this is actually cool and a very unique and interesting hobby. secondly, there are a lot of parallels here to furry culture and i think that definitely says something about humanity. /pos
@@Cationna Knights at Tourneys and Jousts used to knock other Knights off their horses and steal their stuff wholesale. It's unchivalrious, but actually VERY knightly to steal signs. They're just keeping the tradition alive!
Haha not sure if you looked it up but it’s a themed restaurant experience where you eat “medieval food” and are the audience to a scripted knight battle that happens in the arena in front of you. It was featured in the movies Cable Guy and Garden State. I think they have locations in California and Vegas. Maybe other places as well.
@Saga_Anserum Even with the Armour. Swords weren't made for bypassing armour like this, but if you found yourself fighting someone this heavily armoured with a sword there were three main options (that I know of): Halfswording: Halfswording is where you would use one hand to hold the handle of the sword and use the other to hold the blade and guide it through the plates in their Armour to impale them. Even with a blunt weapon this can pierce through flesh and risk the Armour breaking the sword and turning said blunt weapon into a sharp. Pommeling: To hit your opponent in the head or face with the very back of your sword. Hitting someone with the pommel is almost equivalent to hitting them with the ball-peen of a hammer. I have personally seen someone get a concussion from an accidental pommel even through their extra-padded helmet. Mordhau: Literally translated to murder-stroke. The Mordhau is where one turns their sword upside down and holds it with one or both hands from the blade and uses the guard and pommel to beat their opponent. All of these options can injure or kill someone in metal armour.
@@perfectpomegranate8193 don't mind me, just gonna frantically write all those down for use in writing and drawing! Still, wouldn't there be a way to enforce rules about it? I did fencing when I was younger, and I know there's some variety of rules amongst sabers and epees, and with haedong kumdo.
Can we all just appreciate Danny's dad look? The stubble? The cardigan? The clearly-no-sleep dad eye bags? He's rocking this look and I hope that baby Danny will be king of the gregs someday
@LilFrg for instance, I've fought in something called 'Dynamo Cup' which was an invitation only tournament held in Russia. It was the highest level of fighting at the time, I took an axe to the hip and had an open wound about 10cm wide by about 6cm deep and that went through 3 layers of padding. It's an actual fighting sport wear you need to have you armor dialed in or you can and will be hurt. There's always a lesson to be learned.
medieval times is live theatre, of course its scripted and choreographed. theyre actors, not mma fighters. even with all of the safety precautions they take, the knights get injured often. if they genuinely fought, it wouldnt be sustainable due to the amount of injuries there would be
Buhurt is not "choreographed " it's a live combat sport like boxing or mma Theres Buhurt or hmb Sca Hema Larp Then theres reenactment which is "choreographed"
Actually in medieval time using hand to hand vs someone with a sword was an actual thing. Because grappling someone and throwing them to the ground can be more deadly than a sword hit
Especially when armor became too powerful to be effectively defeated with a sharp object. At that point people began to use maces and other heavy blunt weapons so that they can cave in armor and win fights that way.
Yup. I would choose a good shield over a sword any day. People often don’t realize how you could use them not only to block as a defensive weapon but to punch like the dude in the first fight. Getting pounded by the edge of a sturdy shield is brutal… especially if it’s made out of vibranium.
@@Mayflower-Yev Not exactly. Armoured combat revolves heavily around wrestling, but it very much involves sharp weapons. The idea with using a sword in armoured combat is that it's a nimble in-fighting weapon that can be maneuvered to exploit gaps in the impenetrable plate defence. These gaps are generally covered by more flexible chainmail, which is still mostly impenetrable, but thrusts to such areas are still very useful. Firstly, the tip of the blade can still cause shallow injuries through the chainmail; obviously, if you're about to go into a life-or-death wrestling match, bleeding freely from your armpits does not give you good prospects. Secondly, planting the sword in your opponent's mail gives you an opportunity to control their movement: if they press forward, the combined force from both sides can force the sword through the links and turn a small cut or stab wound into a fatal injury; since they can't effectively push back against you, this also allows you to force them to the ground. Given a stab wound followed by a hard impact with the ground, your opponent is thus less likely to effectively resist your putting them in a hold and stabbing them in the thigh/throat/face/etc. with your dagger. Maces, hammers, axes, and other top heavy weapons, meanwhile, work in a very different way - instead of exploiting gaps in your opponents defence from up close, they deliver powerful impacts from arm's length. Ideally, you manage to land a powerful blow or two to the head (not likely to be lethal or anything through all that armour, but as before with the stab wounds, this is an every bit counts kinda situation) or to joints (with the hope of damaging the armors articulations, thus mobilizing your opponent, but also because articulated sections of extremities tend to be somewhat less well defended and you have a greater chance of actually damaging something underneath. The problem, however, is that to generate sufficient power for this sort of thing to work, you really need some space to get a proper swing in. Bludgeoning your opponent at that range still isn't usually going to be lethal, and often doesn't even have much stopping power through all the armour, so there's a real danger that your opponent just tanks a hit or two as best they can while closing the distance, and now they're within measure and your weapon becomes fairly useless. This is why swords remained extremely popular sidearms throughout history and up through the heights of plate armour use, while hammers and axes saw use rather more rarely, and usually in mounted contexts, where riders have more difficulty getting into or staying in close quarters, for obvious reasons. And finally, it's always prudent to remember that the sorts of swords, maces, etc. referred to above (often single-handed, always portable) were sidearms; the first weapons an armoured fighter would resort to in combat would be lances, any of the obscene plethora of halberd-like two-handed polearms, and pollaxes (the short, heavy, brutish cousins of said polearms, made for close single combat). Those could actually fuck someone up without the rolling around in the dirt.
As someone who was president of my high school's Renaissance Faire club, and whose friends do Dagorhir (foam weapons) and SCA (real weapons) as an adult, Danny's incredulity that this sport exists is both hilarious and wonderful to me.
Yes and no. Any sword can be deadly but there are ways to minimize the risk. For one, banning thrusts. Thrusts were illegal in duels and if you thrust your opponent you were tried as if you had the intent to kill them. A popular German sport all the way up to WW2 called Mensur involved fighting each other with sharp swords with only the head as a target as that considered less deadly. All they had was goggles as protection
Using a sword as a baseball bat would be very ineffective most the time. It takes quite a bit of skill to hit with the sharp edge of the blade correctly, failing to do so wouls end in results closer to hitting someone with a metal ruler than a bat and risks injuring yourself. The handles of Swords aren't circular, so hitting with the flat edge without meaning to risks the sword rolling and breaking the structure of your wrist, sending all the energy from the impact back into it. If you want to bludgeon someone with a sword, you use the back end, the pommel. Pommeling someone is so dangerous that it's banned in most tournaments, even when your opponent is fully geared. When it is allowed you're only allowed a light tap or even to mime and call out that you would be pummeling them.
For anyone wondering, there are injuries occasionaly, but much rarer than you think. These men train for a long time before they go out and fight for real. This armor is quite expensive as well. My father and his friends spent lots of money, even less than most since there was a blacksmith in their friend group. One on one battles are popular, but so are teams, and even championships between contries. I never got the chance to attend an international event, but as a child there were lots of tournaments in Ukraine during the summer. Our family had had historic clothing for these occasions, and almost always they were hosted at old fortresses and castles
In Poland (and many other European countries) professional knight fights were a thing for years. I've been to several events, and I agree that the judge wearing armor is crucial, I've seen swords break and send pieces of metal flying during matches. The knights are really nice people though, I always enjoy chatting with them when they're chilling after the competition in the camp.
Danny I NEED you to know my friends and I have been watching medieval MMA for a few years and what WE do is we smoke some weed, put medieval MMA on, turn off the volume, then play the saddest music we can find to accompany the fight. It's AWESOME. sometimes the music lines really well and it's like a movie. It's romantic, tragic, and oddly homoerotic! Would reccomend!
My brothers and I had a variant game where we'd turn off the sound for TVv shows and talk for the characters. I have a feeling these two concepts could be combined, with great success.
I love how no matter obscure the subject is that Danny covers, there's always someone in the comments going "HELL YEAH THAT'S MY SHIT" because I think it's a testament to how diverse an audience Danny has :D
Damn cool ass idea! Dude and what if you got you and your friends to do this in person and fight between yourselves?! Maybe I will see to that with my friends 👀
8:44 to answer the question, to get a relatively cheap kit of armor. You’re looking at about $2000 or more. And then depending on what league you go through you’ll need to pay the insurance fee for liability. That amount is dependent on what league you go through.
This sport is rather safe from what I heard, but it does hurt quite a bit. The weapons are blunt and generally you are 'out' once your knees touch the ground. It's also actually based on an actual medieval sport called buhurt which eventually lost popularity, before being revived in Russia some time ago.
@@JonasTheBonas that would cave in the armor and actually hurt the person inside, blunt weapons are usually banned. Think of the weapon more as a tool for spacing, disorientating, and grappling against your opponent.
I love how Danny created a nice way to make time to do his job AND care for his child. Getting a guy to make some slideshows and or setting up videos for him to react to, absolutely an amazing dad.
@@latioslad1 uhhh...i was going to write a funny reply, but i genuinely cant tell if your comment is satire or not...soooo...this is awkward edit: imagine there is a comment above mine and im not just responding to myself like a strange person
@@WoolyCow In that case there's only one way to settle this. I'll get my armor and axe. We shall settle this matter of honor at the Medieval Times. (I wasn't paying attention to the OP comment and only saw yours out of context while scrolling. So R.I.P my humor detectors I guess LOL sorry about that)
@@latioslad1 A DUEL YOU SAY? Why my record of medieval fighting is a flawless and categorically undefeated 1-0 (i am too scared to get back in the ring as last time, despite my heroic victory, i broke my collarbone, four ribs, lost one finger and my dignity with it) but for you i will make an exception! on the forth toll of the 6pm bell i will lay siege to your person in a brief yet equally bloody display of my physical superiority! umm...so...uh, is thusday good? i think the steaks are half off that day, could we maybe also get some drinks while we're there?
SCA armored fighter here 😉 Alright don’t usually comment on these but this is my hyperfocus so here we go lmao; okay so there are tons of medieval fighting “leagues”; this type is called Steel fighting, theres a few different leagues in the US and Europe. Then there’s rattan fighting where they use sticks instead of steel swords biggest group that does this is the SCA; then there’s foam, one of the groups I’ve heard of for that is Dagorhir. Hope this helps any curious onlookers 😉
This isn't SCA and you know it lol. Sca plays stick tag, this is actual fighting with weapons. This is buhurt. Don't lead people astray by telling them its a different sport. Buhurt is one level up from sca.
@@andrewbarron6303 Buhurt is pretty cool, and definitely more intense then the SCA. I got a few buddies that do it. I'm a smaller fighter so any game where the only kill that counts is if you're opponent is on the ground, like in a Buhurt Melee, is not really my cup of tea. The singles could be cool but I haven't been impressed with any of the swordsmanship, at least not yet. The sport is still young so that could develop. What can I say, I like the stick tag 🤷.
The way the first guys only use their weapons to muscle themselves into each other's space so they can kick each other completely recontextualized what I thought this sport was gonna be
My dad is a retired marine in his 50s and he does this sport like weekly. My mom hates it bc he comes back with like black eyes from practice lol. But honestly it’s such a fun way for him to stay in shape and connect with people. I love that he does it bc whenever my dad comes up I get to drop in the fact that he has a suit of armor and fights guys on the weekend. So fun
I totally recommend looking into HEMA, it’s the practice of learning how to use polearms, swords, also shields, it’s an abbreviation for Historical European Martial Arts
Was looking for this comment! HEMA is awesome, been doing it for a few months now, mostly focusing on longsword but dabbling in quarterstaff and dagger. Its so much fun
the quiet clinks of the swords in that last clip absolutely killed me hahaha it's like those tiktok sounds of like screeching shoes and being out of breath, used on videos of people doing crazy dances lol
they have an event like this in aigues-mortes in the south of france and it's usually quite fun to go and watch (usually the russians win everything tho)
Hey Dany! Czech person here the last video u talked about where there was a group fight took place in Czech republic (or at least the narrator was czech) In czechia its not that uncommon to have medieval battles that are important to our country's history recreated in yearly events, they are not actually fighting for life in the last clip, rather i believe all the people are actors or people who just love the history of our country and the weapons are fake and wont actually harm anyone :) im not typing this out of malice, just thought i would clear some things up!
fuck danny i’m so stressed right now about so many things, i watched this to take a quick break from my homework and i laughed out loud for the entirety of the video, the positive affect you have on the world is so much larger than you can imagine
I went to the Ohio Ren Fest last year and randomly wandered by a tiny fenced off square in the middle of a field where this exact sport was taking place. It was the most entertained I was in years and they just kept throwing more guys in whenever one fell down. There were no rules I could discern. It made me really understand why gladiator matches were so popular in the olden days.
My friends do Armored Combat League. It's an international competition in fact The Dallas Mythics will represent the USA as the National Melee team for the women’s division at the IMCF World Competition in Mexico this upcoming May. I just wanted to brag on them a bit. These fighters work hard for these competitions, and I'm super proud of them. They are an LGBTQ+ friendly crew and great people all around.
Ok now that I have finished the video: Yeah buying the armor is very expensive, however these organizations are aware or it, and some will have loaner gear for new people. If you're interested in a local group with Armored Combat. SCA is the most popular one, and they definitely keep loaner gear. They consider themselves a "historical reenactment" group. So you would see fights like Samuri vs Knight and that's usually because the player has chosen that esthetic and the really committed ones will fight with that style. There tends to be strategy in the 1 v 1 fights, but big army battles not really, just hit as many of the other guys as you can. SCA however doesn't do competitions like you were talking about (they do have internal tournaments, but they are usually very local, and they're not sending an official team to compete nationally or anything). Armored Combat League on the other hand is international, and they do have group fighting that has strategy. Another thing to note is that both of these groups have safety standards the fighters must meet with their equipment. For example the bare minimum for SCA is all of your joints have to be protected along with your neck and head, from there long sleeves and pants as full coverage, and torso padding. Obviously in large competitions people are going to protect themselves much more, but the minimum isn't uncommon in a practice setting amongst friends that you trust not to injure you. The general idea with the safety standards (similar to most Combat sports) is having good fights, but also keeping the players safe enough that they can fight more later. As I tell people when teaching Combat for my larp: we want our friends to come back so we can hit them more.
@@bookfreak360 Glad to see another person with first hand knowledge! It's such an amazing sport, I hope to bulk up and get enough endurance to join my friends team some time.
Armored Combat is an amazing sport, I know many people who have done it and are part of the midwestern league. Watching it first hand is really something to see. I also do boffing, a combat sport similar to fencing almost, but with foam handmade weapons. My room mate has fought before in plate mail and is trying to get his own set rn. He already has the helmet and gauntlets, and the shoes you noticed! Those are usually period accurate leather shoes that usually go under the platemail foot coverings. There are different leagues and rulesets found across the sport, but different variations have been around for a long time. EDIT:: You can actually find leagues performing at different venues around the country/world, the most accessible being at some renn faires. The guys I know go by the rules where if you fall and hit the ground you are out, this looks a lot more brutal lmao.
I feel like these fights are probably the most accurate look we can get at what actual fighting was like back in the day. They're not just competing, they're out to _wreck_ the other person by any means necessary.
As someone who LARPs, knows medieval re-enactors and has been to jousting events (my country has a few that happen) and my god it is so brutal and so mush fun to watch. Saw a 20-knight free for all fight and the crowd was going absolutely *crazy*, so many dirty tactics (that the announcer was talking us through and yep, those tactics were in fact historically accurate). It's very oddly fun and I'm going to see it again :) the peasant within me must be entertained by violent fun
my brother and i was in a local medieval fighting club for a year, and yeah buying equipment is super expensive. the regulars made their own gear (swords, armour, etc), and were teaching us how to make out own gambesons (padded cloth armour). it's super fun hanging out and learning to fight, but all the weapons and shields are heavy, and i always came home with at least one bruise
My brother actually does this as a sport. Part of the hand-to-hand aspect is genuinely getting the other person on the ground. Some bouts will have a rule of the first person to the ground loses, but not always. In armour like that, if you do it enough, it's not impossible to get to your feet. With someone punching you, it is a lot harder. I'm saying this from my own experience in regular sword sparring in a fabric gambeson. If the armour is made properly, it's probably something like... 55-60 lbs? Normal for a medieval knight to be able to move around, roll, and run in since the weight is distributed over the body. That said, if you're not used to the weight or the armour has shitty points of articulation, good luck standing after being knocked down.
if they just fought with the weapons the fight would never end. pretty much all full plated sword fights are gonna end in wrestling, punches, and stabs when the opponent is down.
Kinda. The way that they use the weapons to make it safe make fights happen this way, if they used the weapons as intended in an actual duel to the death then the weapons would become a whole lot more effective.
8:20 actually war hammers were typically under 8lbs. Even back then they actually would use war hammers on heavy armor targets and yes the sword is usually an afterthought once you enter fully close range, the tactics really were “just punch” and knock over with the shields and then find soft spots on the targets and lean on your blade until something squirts out so obviously this modern version isn’t trying to kill so it’s very very good to use the weapons less for that reason. Remember even wrestlers end up with lots of health issues down the road so I’m actually more interested because they’re not just fencing and treating it like a fist fight also.
Hi! I have been practicing a form of WMA for three years now (HEMA, specifically.) This is Buhurt. Men and women dress up in metal armour and essentially beat on each other until only one can stand. I think most commonly you see it as an attraction in Renaissance Fairs. In terms of realism there's a few things to take into consideration. The main thing is these weapons are... not really being used how they would be if you were actually trying to kill your opponent (go figure). Armour is quite effective at what it was designed to do, protecting you from getting your limbs chopped off. When wielding a sword, to get through the armour one would "half-sword", keeping one hand on the handle, using the other to grab the flat of the blade and slip it through the plates in their opponents armour to impale them* . Alternatively they turn the entire sword upside down, holding onto the blade like the handle and beat their opponent senseless with the blunt end of the sword. I have seen first hand how dangerous this can be, even with full head protection. Anyone interested should look into HEMA too, Buhurts nerdier cousin meant to simulate what armourless duels would look like, without all the blood and guts associated with it (most the time). *In a legal duel, impaling (or thrusting) your opponent was illegal. You could recover from a cut, you could not as easily survive being made into a shish kebab, for this reason when you would thrust your opponent you were tried as if you had the intent to kill.
Do HEMA guys do this "sport" or what? Because all these guys seems to be bonking each other as hard as they can with no technique, even the "pros". From What I can tell.
hey i do historical fighting but fencing style so i can only speak from observation of ppl who do stuff like this but im taking my chance to infodump - grappling and blunt stuff is actually more effective against metal armour than weapons like swords damage-wise iirc war hammers can break bones thru the metal (which is why blunt weapons were so prevalent) - to get into stuff like this you can do a lighter version of this (heavy fighting in SCA or HEMA). SCA in particular can be pretty cheap because most groups have loaner armour for people to use & most end up making their own armour out of plastics and leathers. SCA also has rebated steel fighting which is just a version of this & then it can progress from there, or alternatively some renfaires also do stuff like this. - even in lighter versions it still can hurt you like a motherfucker and it is very scary at first. Theres a tradition of signing rlly bad bruises in my group. Its like any combat sport though really, this is just more of a spectacle whereas usual historical fighting stuff is more regulated and friendly. This version is basically "if you wanna go out and try to die" lol
I will note that war hammers being able to break bones through armor is somewhat of a misconception. In reality, armor is really really good, and you're much better off getting in-between gaps or tackling your opponent and trying to remove their armor. Blunt weapons have considerably concussive damage at times, but really don't cause permanent damage to a target, polearms are effective because of their range and leverage. I think this misconception comes from places such as D&D or video games, where in order to find a good balance to make blunt weapons good, they get modifiers that do additional damage to armored opponents because that seems realistic.
I feel like it look me way too long to find a comment that mentioned the SCA (I’m a proud Calontir). I love Danny’s surprise and confusion when this is a normal weekend for me 😅
I've tried this type of fighting before locally (it was called Buhurt) and honestly it's extremely fun. There are some less intense match types that remove the ground-and-pound stuff. I highly recommend trying it out if there's a Buhurt/Society for Creative Anachronism group near you. They usually have spare kit you can use; Danny's right, a full steel kit can cost several thousand dollars (unless you're doing SCA combat, which has lower armor requirements)
In the US, we have SCA (society for creative anachronism idk) which is basically this exact thing and aside from the fighting, they also have absolutely INCREDIBLE artisans who make everything by hand-there’s a chapter in every state If SCA seems too intense, there’s a similar LARP called Amtgard which focuses on less intense fighting paired with magic-super fun and there’s also a chapter in every state
As other commenters have mentioned, the sport is called Buhurt which, fun fact, comes from the French “béhourd” meaning “wallop” so it’s not too surprising to see guys just straight up punching each other in full armour
Danny, if you like this you should look up HEMA videos! HEMA is a more technical martial art meant to simulate unarmored combat, it's historical and has weapons from cultures all over the world!
@@vickygayming dang, that's actually pretty cool. But does that mean that cultures with less or no written records can't use their weapons? or are they allowed to make new written records so they can fight with them now? I feel like there are a few cultures automatically excluded
This brought back memories of watching this every lunch period with my friends when we were freshmen. Quite a fascinating sport, honestly, if I had the funds I would totally do this.
Knight fighting is cool, but they also do like actual jousting tournaments too. With the lances shattering and everything. Actually saw one in person and it's insanely dope.
my dad and mum used to be a lot into medieval stuff and would often take me to like medieval roleplay festivals and even made our garage into a little blacksmith station where he would make swords and like armor (we still have the sword somewhere). I think he even fought in those events sometimes but not often cause my mum would make him stop. It;s honestly very fun and roleplaying as a medieval child was the best part of my childhood i think,
when that guy with the axe chucked the other dude to the ground, i just immediately knew homie wasn't getting back up. armor like that weighs like 60 lbs, bro was down for the count