According to some people HEMA is apparently invalid because fighters are not actively trying to bludgeon each other into a coma in sparring...
Concerns about sword blows that would be ineffective in real fights in history are quite real and frequently discussed. How do you score points in a way that discourages light tippy-taps? Different practitioners of historical martial arts have different opinions on this.
Either way, the most frequent complaint I've seen is that it's unrealistic because of armor. A rather strange objection, considering that the majority of medieval and renaissance manuscripts deal with unarmored dueling, not battlefield combat. The ones that do cover armored fighting show very different techniques for bypassing armor, instead of going "KNIGHT SMASH!!!", trying to batter it with a sword as if it was a steel club.
I also address some other points in this video, for example how defense and tactically sound maneuvers are more important in a historical duel than brute force damage.
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