SCA Fighting Landsknecht 2006

Heavy list fighters authorizing, re-authorizing, or just plain kicking butt at Landsknecht Veridung 2006 in the East Kingdom - Shire of Eisental

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[irishmage]

The event is called landsknecht, the fighters are SCA regular heavy list.

[irishmage]

The event was landsknecht veridung in the east kingdom this past june

[aurumvore]

Hmmm, I thought Landsknecht wear puffy clothings, breast plate, wear berets, and carry either a pike or zweihander.

[HellPuppy0]

SCA's Heavy Combat rules state that you can't strike with a shield. It's just dangerous.

As for effectiveness, while you're taking your merry time to swing that bulky thing at me, I'll take the same amount of time to put my shield in the way and throw a cut to the place that your shield isn't protecting anymore. :)

That being said, shield snatches and presses are SCA Heavy Legal, and can be quite effective at hampering your opponent's shield use.

[Dimitri0809]

@danielm291

Well, when it comes to melee fighting they are..

[captainzorikh]

The reason this looks like awkward, unskilled fighting in ugly, inauthentic armor is because these are beginners, with limited training, in homemade or borrowed armor, having what is essentially their first fight in competition. Search for "crown tourney" and "kingdom champions" to see SCA fighters at the top of their game and better-looking armor.

[ElessarIII]

@CZRedemption Sorry the first post I was sharper than I wanted ... I do not know the reasons why it is called a Landsknecht Gathering, so I will not condemn it, but really I have not seen a single Landsknecht costume, unfortunately, no other historically datable clothing. You can fight rival and secure and competitive, even if you this fight faithfully. Of course it takes some practice. But what shows up in this video really can not call it an imitation of fighting. This is young chidren fight

[Gunher1]

I dont like that, because its boring

[Mutedmouth]

Nah sorry, you got your own kind of history after 15 something, the yank-cowboy-civilwar kinda history after that our histories merge again in two world wars :(

[RhoDaZZGR]

Medieval is usually defined as pre 1500, sorry.

[tango2romeo]

How are you defining "medieval" here?

Pre-1603 or thereabouts?

If so, we "Yanks" most certainly DO have medieval history. See: St. Augustine and most of the Catholic missions in the Southwest.

[danielm291]

yanks have no medieval history, thats obviously why there so bad at fighting lol!

[CZRedemption]

The event is called "Landsknecht Gathering" for reasons other than the armor and garb that people happen to wear, and most of the fighting in this video is the equivalent of a "driver's test" for the sport, proving that you can fight competitively without hurting yourself or anyone else.

[Achbar]

This is a nice . video, looks like people are all having fun. I need to get into more Great Sword work