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Me too!

I think I've seen him at Belegarth a little more than Amtgard the last few months.

I've heard that chat on site before!

Nothing wrong with HEMA, but this is diffrent and fun. No reason to dictate what game people do to have fun.

Also hema is significantly more expensive.

Not meaning to put words into their mouths but to add to the culture difference most of those knights without pants come from Texas and are sword knights and there has been, in the past, a "jock" mentality where garb and pomp and ceremony feels less important.

@@Baelnorn I understand, and for fighting that's whatever. But for a ceremony it's just a bummer.

Fair enough! Although, I have to admit, I'm guilty of not wearing pants, but I'm trying to be better.

@@Baelnorn You could always split the difference and wear a kilt!

That would look very awkward with the jean pants I wear under my garb!

It's not. This was taken in Ashland, OR, about a 4 or 5 hour drive south of Portland, but there are Portland area foam fighting groups if you're interested in checking it out. Let me know if you want if you're interested and I can provide you with some links to some of the groups.

That's incredibly kind of you to say. It means a lot to know they make a difference in your life.

Thank you. I appreciate the well wishes.

That's very kind of you, thank you. No worries if you're unable to, I don't want anyone to put undo hardship onto themselves on my account.

It's great fun! I love playing my foam fighting. Thanks for the comment!

Thank you! I'm glad you found the channel and I appreciate that you liked it so much you even subscribed!

Thank you, I appreciate it, playing the game is pretty fun and a great way to get some exercise.

It would be nice, it can get hard to fight with armor and make sure you take all your shots. Sometimes you don't feel them.

Tournaments have referees. But that's to ensure people aren't cheating. For our game the rules require folks acknowledge hits. It can be a lot to think about, especially when you're new to wearing armor.

Nice! I'm sure they appreciated an audience. I remember a few people coming to watch!

Sarah let me know if you're interested in watching the local practices!

For sure! I've rarely fought in armor but I imagine it would be particularly hard to call some flail shots against metal armor. They tried their best though and kept the communication up!

That's awesome, I'm glad you found it useful! There are a few more instructional videos from SKBC you might find useful too, especially the two sword and polearm videos.

Lol, so you do!

Friends and family!

People do love there shields!

Thank you, I had fun doing it!

I agree, both games a pretty fun.

They're doing leg on death. Not sluffing, just a respect thing. He even takes her leg at the same time and he tells her not to take it.

Good catch. There was some fights where leg shots weren't counted, I see that a lot with travelers from Texas areas.

18 - 36 inches.

It was a good pit, but people were still line fighting so you might not even have noticed it.

That is Sir Clalibus, he's pretty good at making garb as well as fighting.

@@Baelnorn Rad!

They are pretty solid!

It is pretty bad ass.

I was glad I was able to catch that little moment on audio.

It is for LARP and/or foam combat. It's not rooted in a historic source as far as I'm aware.

@@Baelnorn gotcha. That makes a lot more sense.

Lol, thank you! I thought it was pretty good for TH-cam.

Sorry you had such a bad experience. etiquette can be regional, the game is so big, but in my experience flanking a team is not shunned upon but I am limited to mostly the Pacific Northwest. Now, running wide around a flank, not engaging them, and backstabbing after you've gone unnoticed because you won't engage, that can cause a ripple. But that doesn't sound like what you did. If you're in the Olympia area again, I suggest you give the park another try. They have flourished in the last few years and is a thriving park. They even have a warlord or two fighting out of there.

@@Baelnorn oh I will. Looks like an entirely different crew nowadays, top that off if my friend Sir Pyro likes them they can be bad. ^_^

@@akdustable Sir Pyro is pretty good peoples.

They sure can be!

The pit was pretty small! We made it work though.

The speed and power in which we swing with in this LARP would cause bruising if we used latex based weapons.

That sounds really fun! I hope it went well.

Me too! They are good peoples.

Highcross #1 in the hood G. but really great time at the event. Super cool peeps in yalls area.

@@DeathLilly1355 I'm glad the camera audio caught your reaction to the highcross, it was gold. I'm glad you enjoyed your time and made the long trip to visit.

No malintent meant here to Jayme but this is exactly why bearpits should not count towards warlord numbers, and why we shouldnt really count streaks like this. Notice neither Carlos, nor myself ever were in his ring. Two of the top 3 fighters never got to fight him in this run. 1 washed up warlord who was out of practice, one that was only using a single sword, (All the same company) were there giving him troubles, but his win was not predominantly increasing in caliber as a d.e. tournament would generate making us fight stiffer competition every round and ultimately fighting the best repeatedly throughout a streak. Love the videos, don't stop posting them, but this isn't the right context of a streak...and yes you said kill count, but the significance of the number recognition could definitely be taken as relevant to the w.l. streak number

I understand what you're getting at. I only highlighted it because, well, it's TH-cam and it gives people a reason to watch it more. Which worked by the way, watch time was up! Also there was a local warlord in the mix, not that it invalidates your observation, but Devry did fight him and lost. A bearpit is different than the escalating difficulty you find in the standard bracketed tournament. It is worth having the discussion!

​@clalibus this really highlights why streaks should count. Diego, yourself nor any other warlord streaked more than 10. Deathlilly took people to the paint and did so 21 times. Pretty impressive.

It is and the requirements are a weird one. It can also be slightly different from kingdom to kingdom.

Way back when I came up with the idea for what Neverwinter put in its initial corpora. AFAIK it was the the first instance of it but havent researched it. I just wanted something that reflected a renaissance amtgarder who wore all the (job) hats at some point.

I know Blackspire inherited it's definition of Marquis from the old Burning Lands corpora. It may have been tweaked since it was adopted though. I have no idea of the time table for that though.

I don't know, compared to Bel, I think Amtgard has more incentives to RP, people just don't as much. Honestly RP in Amtgard varies by region and goes in waves, at least in my experience. It can be hard when you want to RP but other people don't. :(

Fancy hats are always the answer.

I've never heard it explained that way, but the analogy is sound. But yah, they don't do much out side of roleplay and taking a man at arms.

This was the first time I met him! He certainly sounded well versed in the subject. I liked that he was fairly concise.