The Armoured Fighter: Medieval Combat with Dr. Tobias Capwell & Matt Easton
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Any amount of coverage of the event would be great of course but also could be helpful in expanding/replicating the event. Thankyou for the video by the way!
I must admit that as a HUGE fan of your channel, my dream is that you would do a video about Gotz The Iron Hand!
Can't get enough of Matt and Toby in videos together
Top tier. 100%
Absolutely. Stay curious Dr. Capwell!
Toby is a rather chill expert.
My children purchased Armour of the English Knight 1400-1450 and 1450-1500 for my birthday. Amazing books for anyone interested in the subject!
Thank you Matt for having Dr Tobias Capwell on your show again.😁
I'm very excited to hear Dr. Capwell getting into 13thC armour. I feel that the older periods are more neglected compared to the pletora of high quality easily available information on 15thC and 16thC armour.
Wholeheartedly agree about mismatched weapons! Some of the most entertaining bouts I’ve had have been me with a dagger trying desperately to close with a swordsman. Another thing is mismatched numbers/levels of protection, like having a fully armoured person fight two-three unarmored folks with polearms.
I love mixed weapon sparring. One of my proudest and favorite HEMA bouts was winning with a rapier against a pole arm. One of my most frustrating but also favorite was loosing with a dagger against a sabre.
In both cases I "did everything right," but lost the second time because my opponent also did everything right. Bastard just wouldn't over-swing when I baited on the edge of his reach, and eventually caught me.
I didn't realize Toby left the Wallace Collection. They were lucky to have him!
Well the Wallace is a closed collection, it doesn't take in any new pieces. Toby seeks like a guy always on the move and looking to progress things, so him moving forward to the next thing makes sense.
@@garrenbrooks4778 Good point! Didn't realize that.
Love to see Toby back. I would love to see a series on Matt learning to ride and fight as a 19th century light cavalryman with re-enactments of encounters from Swordsman of The British Empire which are always fascinating. The uniforms, the training, the use of weapons, campaigning and equipment, organisation of HEIC regiments v Imperial regiments, recruitment…the possibilities are endless and would be fascinating I think. Hope you do a little filming at the Armoured Fighter seminar just to give us a taste of what it would be like to be there. Great video as always! 🙂👍👌🙂
Love your videos with Dr. Tobias Capwell. Thank you for the video.
The thought of putting on Gothic Armor is just a pipe dream for me, lol. I'm struggling just getting a Spanish cup-hilt rapier being constructed. This area is most Fascinating, I Always learn something new and "mind-blowing " on this channel. The Very Best to this Armor Program!!!
The Old Tobey…Finest weed in the Southfarthing.
Your mind is clearly clouded
Huh, I always thought the quote was "finest leaf," I wonder if that's because I heard the line before I knew what weed was
I would love to hear Toby talk about chivarly and the attitude/culture around jousting in general.
I can't get enough of Toby's knowledge and insights... I'll watch just about anything you two care to talk about. Some ideas, perhaps interesting facts about armor that many well- educated people still don't know, or stories about museums and their collections.
Toby Capwell is peak nerd. Curates an armor collection, armored jouster, world expert, published author, armored instructor, armored event organizer, TH-cam regular... Seriously #LifeGoals is to be the Toby Capwell of your field.
Love seeing Toby on with Matt!
I absolutely love this format ....This is perfect
Whenever Matt and Toby get together it's guaranteed gold
Yes! We need more Toby! More armour, more jousting, more lectures.
Thank you both for the video ⚔️
I would love to learn more about the differences that Tobby has detected between Italian and French styles of armor
I wish, not sure how to get involved in the UK.
I love the idea of armored fighting as an Olympic sport.
As a judoka, no keep the IOC away from anything you love
Always a pleasure to see you both, plus the fact l always learn something.
So cool to see how many people know eachother - I've met Dom Sewell and I'm a friend of Arne Koets so I went 'hey I know those guys!' :D
Matt, I don't know if you've seen any of the most recent episodes of the history series "Medieval Dead", but you need to review the ones about swords! Their most recent one is about the famous Castillon Swords, which I haven't watched yet, and there's a somewhat earlier one about the two swords recently found in a gravesite in Finland, and unfortunately, that episode is in need of some debunking!
excellent interview and topic. (i loved visiting the Higgins Armory when I was a kid.)
It would be great to hear how different regions and times tried to solve problem of covering the shoulder and armpit in plate armour and still retain a reasonable amount of mobility.
marvellous video interview Gentlemen
bravo!
How absolutely incredible to just be a part of this , i would love to be able to watxch an listen to men in armour
Legendary
Hey matt! Could we get a brief tour of the walls and what’s hanging on them these days. I’m always so excited to see the collection. Best wishes , Matthew
Re Toby Capwell, I know he is no longer there but I really wish the Wallace would have more fencing displays at the front, and 'art of the sword' should have been permanent.
I have two books by Toby! He really knows his stuff!
Toby 😊
Is Jason going as well?
And I understand your love of Tyrol and Innsbruck Toby. It is a gorgeous place.
IDK how often you guys get to read these comments, but I'd be really interested if either of you have any thoughts on why buff coats eventually seem to replace padded cloth armours and arming coats as the layer beneath plate. afaik it isn't any more protective than gambeson (maybe less so), and is maybe more expensive.
Is it just a fashion/status thing? Or maybe because buff coats are more weather resistant?
Great vid, thanks gentlemen.
I reckon the return of Toby to this channel is more epic and important then the resurrection of Jesus...
Here's looking forward to more. 👌😎
"I'll be seeing Toby in his armour... and out of it." *wink*
2:18 Lindybeige!
The photo of the beige guy in armor always makes me think he came out of a British Don Quixote hahahaha
What a great idea. Should be tons of fun. Seems like it will only grow over time. Maybe we'll get something like this State-side too.
You know it's going to be a great video chock full of info when Dr Capwell makes an appearance! 👍👍
Edit: Man I wish we had something like this here in the US bc like looks so damn fun!!!
Please do some collaborations where you discuss the difference between armoured and unarmoured fighting. With you being an expert on unarmoured HEMA and Prof Capwell on armoured HEMA that would be fascinating. I believe some of the sources you teach from show both?
Will there be horsemanship demonstrations? Mr. Sewell' horses look like someone in that barn does very good groundwork.
Cheesy as it may be, I would love a “Tobi’s Top Tips” series.. he seems a busy man so asking for a 50 min deep dive subject analysis would be somewhat taxing. Instead, maybe a 10/15 mins talk on top written sources, top sites to visit etc.. I’m sure you can think of much better ideas but off the top of my head, I would feel very spoilt to have that kind of content to enjoy!
I'd love to listen to (and understand) a conversation between Capwell and William Marshall.
UK seems to have such a rich HEMA and reenactment (among other similar activities). Probably true for Germany and France.
Here, in Bulgaria we probably have less than 200 reasonably regular HEMA practitioners, at best a few dozen people who actually own a reasonably good armor (mostly mail).
I don't even know of people owning 15th century armour.
Great stuff! Could you maybe do a video about under-armor garments (arming doublets, gambesons, et al) together? I find this even harder go get reliable info on than armor itself.
Could you talk with Dr. Capwell about french armor and maybe shoe some examples?
I'm just thinking of all the arms and armor on a plane trying to take off. How many knights can be on a commercial airplane with all that weight before it's maxed out?
Question, was there a style used in Scotland during the age of plate?
Oh, and yes, more early period stuff, too much is in the era of full plate.
two of the coolest ppl on earth in 1 video
I wonder if it'll be bull and hammer armor? While I know my cave lionentech armor will be scales and sap at least.
Well, training in winter-time makes perfect sense. Will keep you warm...
:)
Can you do a vedio about the swords from kerala
now when you guys do all the sword fighting and jousting and other stuff, do you try getting the other guy all psyched out? like they do in wrestling and boxing?
During the reburial of Richard III it was heard "A hearse, a hearse, my kingdom for a hearse!"
does anyone know which jousting event in austria he is referring to?
woo more Toby!
Question for toby. If you were a medieval knight and could ride any animal. What Dinosaur would you ride?
Hay when you fight in armor for HEMA, is the goal to knock the guy down or can score points with your sword.
On the road with Matt and Toby...
Authentic harness combat is a really exciting activity. We've got an armored group formed from HEMA groups up here in Anchorage and it's been a great way of getting the public interested in living history. If anyone here is in the area drop us a line if you're interested. We do our shows at the 14th century village at Three Barons and at the Highland Games.
Like that Corinthian Helmet Tobias
The armored fighter before gunpowder became more and more invincible and it is a very interesting subject. Late plate steel armor became so good that these well-fed, well-trained fighters must have been almost unbeatable on the battlefield. The trick would have been to keep from becoming exhausted and dragged down. Nothing like in the movies of course.
Nothing about plate armor protects you from getting grabbed and grappled, tripped, or trampled, for simplest examples (it can protect you from trauma of horses hooves, of course, but not from getting grounded). In many ways, it's cumbersomeness and encumbrance can make it easier.
So even complete immunity to any strike or shot with a weapon on your opponents disposal doesn't make one unbeatable.
If due to some awful tactical turn of events you are facing 3 men, they can bring you down and capture you relatively easily, even if they can't hurt you at all with their spears.
Getting butchered after getting captured was very possibly the fate of most French victims at Agincourt, for one famous example, after all.
I feel it's often omitted in general fiction or popular culture, particularly video games, where there's limited amount of animations and options. Combat in popular media is mostly about strikes, quick and spectacular ones, too.
@@lsciborTo be honest, what you described is how I think encounters between knights usually went down already in the early 13th century. With impact weapons being much less effective than commonly thought, I just don’t see how a person armed with conventional medieval weaponry could make another person wearing most probably two or more layers of dense mail armour unable to continue fighting without resorting to grabbing or grappling.
Fatigue is a hell of a drug. I can swing a sword well maybe 200 times before I need a break? I obviously could be more fit, but that's not even counting marching to battle, the energy spent moving in formations, and the length of a battle. Much less than 200 swings if I had to be in armor, dealing with the heat and the weight! If someone with a club took a few good beats on me it could really increase my fatigue, even if the hits don't "count" as real hits
@@lscibor It's hardly cumbersome. Watch videos of people actually fighting in it and you get a different picture. Yeah of course its some weight you need to get used to but modern soldiers carry more weight and still fight effectively. You see them sprinting like it is no problem. Now imagine a bit less weight but more evenly distributed. It's also not as well-balanced as plate armor would be.
You were expected to be able to roll, somersault, sprint, fight, jump, climb, ride etc etc in armor with no trouble at all and we have modern evidence that proves this. It can limit your range of motion a bit but not enough to make you an ineffective grappler. Indeed men in plate armor trained hard specifically to be good at wrestling and grappling so good luck getting him to the ground.
@@henriknemeth3370 You get hot pretty quickly, and at some point you're going to open your visor to take a drink or just catch your breath and wipe your brow. Especially if you're a French knight who's been slogging through the muck at Agincourt in your heavy harness for almost an hour, pelted by longbow arrows the whole time. Now you're vulnerable again. Or your visor gets smashed in or knocked askew and you can't see any more. Your horse can't be as well armoured as you and if it's cut down underneath you, the fall could easily mess you up, and definitely leave you vulnerable to being swarmed by enemy infantry. Or the fact that by the late 15th century cannon and other gunpowder artillery were increasingly in widespread use, and despite how unreliable they were at that point, full plate harness' days are numbered.
You guys need to popularize this thing in order to train and simulate large stuff like formation combat, battles and so forth.
Here in the USA the biggest barrier to (reasonably accurate) armored combat is distance. Here in the Western USA drive of several hundred miles is not unusual. In my opinion, for armored foot combat nothing beats a Pas d’ Armes.
Toby, any chance of your books coming out in E - format? 😁
Why not just join a buhurt club? There's one in every Western state. Look it up, you might be surprised.
I'd like to know more about their battlefield role. I guess you could use an anachronism and call it their "doctrinal" role. Did medieval militaries have doctrines?
Can someone in full plate harness ride a motorbike?
If so, what weapon would they use?
A locomotive cow-catcher
Toby means instant like
See Toby Capwell in a HEMA video, clicks on video as soon as possible :-)
I want to see a schedule- 9:00 AM Falling Over and Getting Up
My reaction: "Ooh!"
2:20 I see you back there, Lindy!
Lindybeige photo bomb
I thought armor was just to get higher AC and not to get hit😆😆
It seems odd to me that bevors and gorgets were worn OVER breastplates. I thought a nasty sharp pointy-thing could slide up (assuming no stop rib) between them. Obviously I'm wrong, but I still find it interesting.
Maybe being able to remove it without having to take of your breastplate was a reason for it
Getting asked to revise someone else's book sounds awesome. More scholars should do that really.
Please do a video on this
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how to fight oponits of different sizes to you
how would you fight in inclosed space like a ship or a house.
one on if a morning star turned into a flail..
If 2 bladed sword had 1 blade (same handle how dose it change fighting)
and a baionet for a crossbow, mabey it could dig like a shovel if you put it on the foot rest
or mabey dress in a traditional lady's dress or formal clothes, or uniforms like the inperials fom star wars, and see how restricted it is in combat...
one on paudrines (sorry for spelling)
one on lorica musculata, the roman armor of generals and other leaders,
how would combat be effected by water? (like fighting in or under water)
some videos on Egyptian wepons or Babylon, persan, sumerion, ect from pre hellenistic,
mabey even Korean wepons, or wepons from Thailand, veitnam, a some Chinese, Australia, Pacific countries (including aotroa) (please learn the pronounceations)
Sigismund - scabby fox!
Toby lore released
Would be awesome to see you guys give some ideas on how to get into armoured stuff. Like how to build your first harness without it needing a loan or ending in a divorce 😂
I'd love to see a coop with Schwerpunkt regarding the meeting point of HEMA and the Art of War. That's a kind of talk we need to be having
Armour of the English Knight 1400-1450 : Dr Tobias Capwell : Used from $664.33USD on Amazon. Really? They couldn't have charged another $1.67? I don't do business with amateurs!
A random Lindybeige appears
Sport differs from fighting because it has strict rules.
One of the MANY reasons.
Rules matter a lot - especially a uniform and announced start time - but I'd think the difference of actually trying to kill each other matters more.
Take some mace to fight to 🤣
Fighting in armor ...... that's right up there past the 1% er's biker crew and then some 🤪
I find it somewhat comical that so much of this combat re-creation stuff is financed by art museums 😛
Why? Arms and armour as a discipline originated from art and art history in the first place.