If you LARP, you cannot win.

Mr. Fancyboots. Very nice.

He's not a LARPer. He's a legitimate Viking man-at-arms hired by his government to keep the filthy Swedes out of their fjords.

Will five star Kendo vs. Pingu.

Check out my submission in the hopper for something a bit closer to what WMA folks practice.

glasseye, I want to make this clear, I voted that clip up specifically so we could have another forum to mock you

Feel free.

Oh, so THIS is what you were talking about. Internet people using chain mail, I never would have figured.

There is actually a body of surviving literature from the 15th and 16th century on the subject of.... European combat techniques. It's a valid and interesting albeit geeky area for historical study. I'm not saying it's a valid foundation for glasseye's LARP club or any form of physical recreation, mind you, just that when WMA nerds talk about their shit dating back to what the OLD SCHOOL KNIGHTS AND SHIT DID they're just making a distorted and inaccurate claim, not one completely pulled out of their ass.

There are earlier pieces, such as the I.33 manuscript from ~1280.

There are many text descriptions of a knight's training that we can extrapolate from, but it is true that they lack authority for the actual forms of combat. We patch together what we know from a wide variety of sources, and try to minimize extrapolation as much as possible.

And no, what this guy does is amateur stick waving, not WMA.

Good lord, is an actual discussion of this arising... with actual references to specific manuscripts. I'm as impressed as I am unimpressed by these two 'martial artists'.

This is the beauty of POETV. We can openly mock fat dorks and also discuss surviving texts of the medieval era IN THE SAME COMMENT THREAD.

More like he was in the SCA and started to believe he was so badass that he need to graduate up to "real steel" fighting to show those SCAdian stick jock how a real man do.

"Fag."