Azincourt 2015 had some really nice hist accurate and awesomelooking (often goes hand in hand :P) ppl and some really nice fighting action ^^ was more fierce than i imagined.
In many respects I feel that attempting to recreate how it felt to be involved in medieval warfare is almost impossible. We live such different lives in the West (I'm speaking generally here, of course), with, I believe, a historically unprecedented emphasis on life and safety above all else. I know that many other cultures place much less value on personal safety and well-being, and the consequences of recklessness, and I imagine they would be much closer to the mindset of our ancestors. But it's certainly a very good point you make. In most forms of martial arts training, any form of sparring or free play tends to be focussed on a net victory, on playfulness (some of us, at least), on experimentation, and on flair. Yet when a sharp, pointy piece of life-ending steel is involved, we'd be foolish to make all but the most conservative and cautious moves, and I'm sure much historical martial training had more of that mindset involved.
I'm part of a 12th century reenactment group from the uk with real steel(blunt) and unscripted combat and i can see your point although i might argue minor points
I think that Battle of Nations and other foot tournament leagues are just that, tournament leagues. They not representing "real" fight or fight school. Bohurt, 4x4 2x2 they are tournament standards taken from the middle ages sport events. They are evolving into modern sport, equipment looks live nice representation but in most case it is modern design or modern take on equipment.
I really like Roland Warzecha's approach to what you brought up towards the end,
Please expand... what is his approach?
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Azincourt 2015 had some really nice hist accurate and awesomelooking (often goes hand in hand :P) ppl and some really nice fighting action ^^ was more fierce than i imagined.
In many respects I feel that attempting to recreate how it felt to be involved in medieval warfare is almost impossible. We live such different lives in the West (I'm speaking generally here, of course), with, I believe, a historically unprecedented emphasis on life and safety above all else. I know that many other cultures place much less value on personal safety and well-being, and the consequences of recklessness, and I imagine they would be much closer to the mindset of our ancestors.
But it's certainly a very good point you make. In most forms of martial arts training, any form of sparring or free play tends to be focussed on a net victory, on playfulness (some of us, at least), on experimentation, and on flair. Yet when a sharp, pointy piece of life-ending steel is involved, we'd be foolish to make all but the most conservative and cautious moves, and I'm sure much historical martial training had more of that mindset involved.
I'm part of a 12th century reenactment group from the uk with real steel(blunt) and unscripted combat and i can see your point although i might argue minor points
I think that Battle of Nations and other foot tournament leagues are just that, tournament leagues. They not representing "real" fight or fight school. Bohurt, 4x4 2x2 they are tournament standards taken from the middle ages sport events. They are evolving into modern sport, equipment looks live nice representation but in most case it is modern design or modern take on equipment.