Flail vs Shinai

One of the fights during our 27th sparrings meeting.
First attempt with this weapon pairing.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Flail
• fulcontact
• sparring

[cheeplyOwasp]

good dual but bad cam dude. one question, why are you using fail on foot ?cos i thought fail was horse back weapon, it design to use the speed X the gavity X the swing arc to produces bone cushing power , but on foot you cant do a good swing arc and cant have enough speed to use it effectively .

[zukuru]

@cheeplyOwasp the flail is a farmers weapon and was never used from a horse.

°v°

[GeneralAdvance]

@zukuru i thought knights eventually adapted one handed versions for both foot and horse combat, not sure though?

[zukuru]

@GeneralAdvance yes they did - called morning star (morgenstern) - handle of 50 to 70 cm, than a chain/chains with iron balls at the end.

[luckyglasspig]

Lol.. I could tell the kendo guy had something "to prove" the moment he started grabbing at the other weapon. He's a sore loser.

[Tiwaking]

That was really interesting. The Kendoka seemed to go on the offensive to prevent the flail from gaining momentum. Not exactly sure if that was a great strategy.

[Super0jetFromLU]

These guys are good fighters. (Well at least one of them is :P ).

[Khaytor]

@luckyglasspig If he's using Kendo, he allowed all his training to go right out the window, poor footwork, poor posture, poor strikes, little to no ki-ai. Very cool weapon pairing though, and honestly, if I could get my opponents weapon out of their hands like that, I would do it too.

[TheMoistCamel]

@WyldOrbit Yeah haha, would the only way to fight it be further away from it, and then come n close,

or stay close to it?

[TheMoistCamel]

@opsimathics grr. If the knight without a weapon hit a samurai, obviously, it would send him flying, maybe break a rib. But if a samurai used judo, and got the knight to the floor, it would struggle, or even fail if it was that heavy to get back up.

And since a katana couldn't cut through a chest plate, being close with a knife would probably finish it. This is individually

However, group on group, I would put my money on a knight every time, as the weapons they used were_not sharper,_but_heavyr

[TheMoistCamel]

@Grenadier1775 It would yeah, but the Samurai's helmet isn't as secure as a knights is. Obviously, thats a negative thing, so it might come off, taking most of the impact.

One more after that though, the samurai would be destroyed.

The only reason I said it, because if the knight was put to the ground, it'd be very sllow getting up. If the other one survived that long.haha

[Grenadier1775]

@TheMoistCamel a punch to the face from a metal gauntlet would fracture your jaw or knock you out.

[TheMoistCamel]

No, I know they did, but the heavy suit of armour would've made hand to hand very diificult. However the Samurai's armour was lighter, and therfore it would be easier to move quickly :)