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Thank you for the kind mention and for introducing me to your audience! I appreciate your support and look forward to connecting with and sharing Pahlavãni (Persian Yoga) with everyone. As we say in the Zurkhaneh; From Strength man attains Truth.

Great review. Nice kaftan too btw.

Beautiful shield

your beard is like a lion's brother

AWESOME!!!

Awesome informative video

Glad to see you are enjoying it, I would be interested in more videos with different sizes in the future

After thinking a while i think urumi is a weapon that was used to cause harm to enemy and distrupt their formation and weapon. It wont kill and wont be deadly but you can use the urumi like a cloth by just simply throw and pull away, they way how the blade works it will slice to enemy hand causing slice injury. THe one you used on the video could be used while running and circling your enemy so it caught up with the legs, and any random parts of the body.

Excellent! Great discussion, as this is a weapon which has very little academic review at all. Looking forward to seeing continued experimentation and research with urumi going forward.

Thanks for the unique footage.

Imagine being threatened by someone who looks like they are still in their pyjamas 😂

Nice dude!

What historical texts do you use?

seeing the strapping on the shield here helps me understand some of the depictions in Ottoman miniature paintings better

So you use the sainte as a primary as opposed to a parrying or secondary? Is that what was typically done? Just asking because I've seen it labeled in museums as a parry spear.

would the Persians have used chain male voiders in the later 14th and early 15th Century?

Why did they do that?

Amazing video. Would like to see you in a Janissary uniform while reloading a matchlock musket ^^

can i join? from Malaysia

Hello dear Friends, I'm ready to buy my janissary armor. Would you give me some shops i could go? Best regards

nice armors

Is this the one where I accidentally break the spear?

Did you make this armor?

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Crazy cool engraving on that Italian spear.

what are they doing there? for how long i wonder

I remember going to the Higgins Armory Museum as a kid and it definitely helped me get into Middle Eastern history, and I was so upset when it closed; I'm definitely going to visit the Worcester Museum when it opens up the gallery!

Great Video! One thing though. Wasn't the Zulfiqar the sword of Ali RA (the cousin of the prophet pbuh)

Fantastic video! I love learning about Middle Easteen arms and armor!

Hello, can you please share where one might get that riding helmet?

Neat. I'm glad to see things like HEMA and other attempts at historically accurate recreations of martial arts gain popularity.

Just an aside, LARP gambeson or no, but is it historical to wear gambesons over mail?

This is something that could actually be useful in the real world too. It’s simple and easy to do, to train, and it doesn’t take a tank to preform, it’s mostly leverage doing the job. I love it.

That type of sword lasted into the 15th century apparently. Albanian hero Skanderberg had one. His looks like an earlier blade put onto a latter Ottoman hilt like you mentioned.

isn't this turco-mongol armor?

I might ask what were the values of the military aristocracy? Not Janissary or Mamluk, more the landed men expected to serve. Valued skills, mindset for doing violence, etc? The social yes and no, the key literary works a respected man should know. Dont need a video, just a reliable book recommendation or source

I've seen quite a bit of what you spoke about at the beginning. I saw how many times art is often a reflection of the time and place the writer lived in l, despite the desire to get it right. Art of the Ayyubid mounted men during the 7th crusade. Near a copy of a European knight, but he had a turban, even had a western arming sword bent a bit, apparently just told they were curved. Maciejowski bible (I think) depicts Goliath as a 13th century knight. This is excellent work you do, proper research and no out of control conjecture. My thanks

Nice explanation.

Kudos. Informative.

How about West Africa (from the Mali empire to the Sokoto caliphate)? Although you'll probably have to do some 'experimental archeology' like for Mughal India.

Hey man, just wanna say that I really enjoy your work. I dedicated my life to study the culture and politics of the Middle East, specially in Iranian and Turkish cultures . Your work constantly inspires me to keep going, even though I am in Brazil, I look up to people like you that dedicate their lives to promote and save Iranian and other cultures from the islamicate world.

Surprised the court officials didn’t wear white, but I guess standing out from the other countries is good. But also, the black will look nice for longer since white is obviously easily stained. Thanks for the video, very informative. I also believe the leather lamellar you were referring to is called laminar armor.

I wonder which culture had the coolest looking heavy infantry?🤔

where can you buy this?

do you have any sources for brigandine (karkal) armour ?