Sword Training

Nice! This is definitely something to look forward to.

I have requested a group instead. At least we can organize our videos and guides better. Our fitness journals will probably have to stay in the health, physical fitness, well-being forum.

If anyone's form of combat requires armour of any kind, could I get links to what is used? I can try to replicate some things out of leather (and I have some jerry-rigging metalwork I can do) to help teach people how to protect themselves. I would imagine a minimum is bracers and kidney protection, but any additional guidance is appreciated.

For HEMA, we use:

Light combat:
-fencing mask
-fencing jacket or historical padded gambeson
-leather gloves

Heavy combat:
-all of the above, plus
-padded gloves
-gorget (either armour or leather)
-elbow and shin guards.
-cup/chest protection
-mouthguard
-optional: maille shirt or plate armour

This is where we get most of our gear: http://www.woodenswords.com/default.asp

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/51201297/calimacil-foam-lightsaber/description

discovered this while browsing youtube. Seems to combine lightsabers and foam sword fighting. Figures safe lightsaber combat starts from Canada, eh?

Perhaps a good idea for those that want to get into contact duelling but cant afford all the safety equipment involved?

Calimacil has a bad rep for the harder fighting groups. The foam is not suited to hard combat and the cores can snap easily. Then again, I am function over form on this aspect.

ah, figures.

They look good, but you can't really repair "latex" weapons well, they are generally used with lightest touch LARPs as opposed to full contact.

I did a quick video on Muscle Memory, if you have any advice on the video itself, anymore more you want to add, I am more than happy to redo it.

https://youtu.be/OWlKPjwCnEQ

Great video and very important! Tomorrow I'll try to pick up enough hardware to do one of the lightsaber videos. I have some supplies currently.