LARPers...

[citizen1080]

I hate role-players as a general rule after playing on FV during my Live years. However, these guys are pretty nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIaHeK9f3YY&feature=share

[MrSparkle001]

That's not LARPing. That looks more like SCA or stage fighting like you'd see at a renaissance faire.

[Pringles]

Holy hell those guys are brutal, how are they not killing each other? I get they have plate on but still.....

[citizen1080]

Holy hell those guys are brutal, how are they not killing each other? I get they have plate on but still.....

Did u see the shield thrust to that guys throat lol...

[Pringles]

Yes! And dat polearm or axe to the head... wtf??

[Zadrian]

That's not LARPing. That looks more like SCA or stage fighting like you'd see at a renaissance faire.

SCA is king of Larps =\

[Skittlez]

This shit is fucking bad ass

[Langrisserx]

you hate nerds yet have a nerd based business in a nerd emulator.. is it like a self hating jew or are you jewish too

[gotrocks]

Bob you need to watch gamers hands of fate.

easy to find. good movie. done by a company here in seattle called Zombie Orpheus Entertainment and Dead Gentleman Productions, they've got some other cool stuff on youtube (gamers 1,2, journeyquest. Yes this has become a plug, they deserve it, 100% crowdfunded).

anyway, if trin miller larps im cool with it.

[Hasbinbad]

these guys are not sca, they are actual martial artists, and those are legit tournaments

sca a bunch of scripted and limp wristed pansies compared to this bunch

[Hasbinbad]

there are actually a bunch of cool things coming out of western martial arts recently

there was a zweilhander video floating around a couple years ago that would make you shit your pants

[Orruar]

Badass. I want to go to one of those with a giant vat of superhot oil.

[Hasbinbad]

this isn't it, but is also cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvIwCooCq8

[Hasbinbad]

here is a fun doc on those guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZNNW3oLFD0&list=PLE8E6C6F998C62521

[Hasbinbad]

irish stick fighting (isf) uses shillelagh style fighting sticks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YHATQZ0zgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43qH9w5Dow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X_J77d7lE8

[Langrisserx]

yea you love a good stick fight thats what i hear

[fishingme]

Bob you need to watch gamers hands of fate.

easy to find. good movie. done by a company here in seattle called Zombie Orpheus Entertainment and Dead Gentleman Productions, they've got some other cool stuff on youtube (gamers 1,2, journeyquest. Yes this has become a plug, they deserve it, 100% crowdfunded).

anyway, if trin miller larps im cool with it.

I was walking around volunteer park with my dog & gf, ended up walking around some larpers. One shot an arrow and it came by. My dog ended up lunging for it and picking it up. Ended up grabbing it, giving it back to the guy and watching them larp for about 10 minutes. Was pretty cool how many people they had, think the number was about 25. All pretty well costumed too.

[Zadrian]

these guys are not sca, they are actual martial artists, and those are legit tournaments

sca a bunch of scripted and limp wristed pansies compared to this bunch

Well, actually SCA isn't guilty of being scripted or stage fighting (although I believe they do stage fighting as a pass-time between "battles") what they are guilty of is a bunch of morbidly obese dudes that think they are medieval warriors.

You can't be a medieval warrior if you huffnpuff walking up steps.

[Skittlez]

Well, actually SCA isn't guilty of being scripted or stage fighting (although I believe they do stage fighting as a pass-time between "battles") what they are guilty of is a bunch of morbidly obese dudes that think they are medieval warriors.

You can't be a medieval warrior if you huffnpuff walking up steps.

Apparently you don't realize how much strength and stamina you have to have to wear full suits of plate armor while you try to beat your opponent down and protect your self.

[MrSparkle001]

I watched it again and realized it's like watching real life Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. A bunch of people running around in confusing whacking each other with big weapons, except there's no beheadings or blood (that I can see).

They're definitely a few steps above SCA and renaissance faire stage fighting, which are themselves steps above LARPing (lightning bolt! lightning bolt!). The only thing I've seen more real than this was a short-lived series a year ago about real life jousters who'd break their hands and suffer nasty concussions when they fell. Brutal shit.

[Ahldagor]

why no hammers? swords don't do shit to plate.

[MrSparkle001]

why no hammers? swords don't do shit to plate.

I wondered that same thing. It's probably because swords don't do shit to plate.
They're mimicking tournament melees where knights wore full suits of plate and used giant swords to subdue their opponents and win their armor, horses and maybe even a ransom. You actually didn't want to damage their armor too much, so large swords were fine.

By the time that heavy full plate was in use, battle swords were designed for thrusting, with thick diamond-shaped cross sections that reinforced the point and limited the cutting edges. The most popular battlefield weapons of the days of full articulated plate were pikes and primitive firearms, often used together in formation. It wasn't armies of knights in full plate armor hacking away at each other with swords. Warhammers and axes were also used. I do believe in some parts of Germany and northern Europe there were gigantic two-handed swords used against armored opponents.

[Skittlez]

why no hammers? swords don't do shit to plate.

Blunt weapons aren't really allowed unless its a special case. A well placed hammer will break your ribs and crush in that plate so you can't breathe.


I asked my self the same thing so I looked it up.

[Zadrian]

Apparently you don't realize how much strength and stamina you have to have to wear full suits of plate armor while you try to beat your opponent down and protect your self.

Not sure how much SCA or Markland fighting you've seen, but aside from the very minor amount of fit folks who actually move around, it's a bunch of 300 pound "knights" standing in a line hoping to get a shot in

[Clark]

there's no beheadings or blood.

[MrSparkle001]

Blunt weapons aren't really allowed unless its a special case. A well placed hammer will break your ribs and crush in that plate so you can't breathe.


I asked my self the same thing so I looked it up.

Yeah there's no way they'd be able to use the true historical weapons because they'd be effective (IE dangerous and possibly deadly). That's why I said above that it's probably because they don't do shit vs plate that they're using them. If they were swinging maces and warhammers at each other it would quickly turn dangerous and maybe deadly and would actually become Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfXZafi_ERY).

These guys are still badass though and I'd love to try it.

[Skittlez]

Yeah there's no way they'd be able to use the true historical weapons because they'd be effective (IE dangerous and possibly deadly). That's why I said above that it's probably because they don't do shit vs plate that they're using them. If they were swinging maces and warhammers at each other it would quickly turn dangerous and maybe deadly and would actually become Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfXZafi_ERY).

These guys are still badass though and I'd love to try it.

I wonder if any Americans have started doing events like these.

[MrSparkle001]

My guess is no. It would probably cost a fortune in insurance and might be downright illegal regardless. Full Metal Jousting is the closest I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh5tsGQ9KLQ but like I said some of those guys were getting hurt bad. I don't think the show was renewed, but I'd love to see new seaons. The jousting on that show brutal, nothing like Medieval times or renaissance faire jousting.

[Zadrian]

I wonder if any Americans have started doing events like these.

Actually they have, but I don't know where. There is a world tournament called Battle of Nations and I believe the US participated last year. I just don't know where the US team is from.

Edit: here you go http://usaknights.org

[citizen1080]

Actually they have, but I don't know where. There is a world tournament called Battle of Nations and I believe the US participated last year. I just don't know where the US team is from.

Edit: here you go http://usaknights.org

This is a yearly event and the US did send a team. They got raped lol.

[Skittlez]

This is a yearly event and the US did send a team. They got raped lol.

I wanna get involved in this. Looks like I found a new hobby to spend thousands of dollars on.

[Zadrian]

This is a yearly event and the US did send a team. They got raped lol.

Maybe it's because they named their team "Team SWAG"..

[Zadrian]

I wanna get involved in this. Looks like I found a new hobby to spend thousands of dollars on.

I do too, but it's just such a time sink.. I would love to do the 1 man stuff.

[Ahldagor]

basically they want the experience of fighting medieval style, but none of the brutality that was actually present. just put on the foam and get fucked up. drunk knights flailing about with foam weapons would be more entertaining. would vomit count as an attack?

[Skittlez]

basically they want the experience of fighting medieval style, but none of the brutality that was actually present. just put on the foam and get fucked up. drunk knights flailing about with foam weapons would be more entertaining. would vomit count as an attack?

Well.. these are tournaments, not war.