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Nice I'm into this as well I'm descendant from nobility I have a replica from my family original knight suit that I use with padding for regulations here in Germany .
@@kennethjames9999 that actually depends on personal preference... id personally go with a more dexterous approach than just full on battering ram(giggity)
@@crustybomb115 the size of the weapon and the technique are too different things. Whether you have a dagger or a Halberd if you don't know how to use it, it's worthless.
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, most young men here in America would be too concerned about dropping their phone or spilling their starbucks lol.
i understand why some warriors in history didnt use a lot of aromor, being able to have all your senses, move faster, tire slower and be more agile must be a huge advantage but being able to tank loads of heavy blows and take little damage is also a huge advantage. getting the balance right must be hard.
Having armour was almost always better than not having any. Skill and tactics can definitely overcome the advantage of having armour, but just being more agile and/or aware cannot. I don't think skill needs to be explained (everyone watched this video), but in a battle this will make less of a difference than in a duel. Yet, even if you're more skilled, having armour would be more advantageous. Tactics for example is how during the crusades muslims would ride away from the knights (like pursuit tactics) and always being faster due to having lighter armour, whilst constantly shooting arrows at them. This was somewhat effective. There are also accounts from that period of knights having their backs covered in arrows, but being completely unharmed. Also note that knight armour did evolve a lot throughout history. Later armour was better at deflecting (which is important; like the broken thumbs in the video). Furthermore, armour also has a serious psychological advantage (face coverings often also looked really scary).
Well knight armor would have been custom made for said knight, so it wouldn't be as heavy or restricting as you might think. There's videos of people who have a full suit of armor that was made to the same specs as old knight armor, but because it was made specifically for them they still had full range of motion. If Issac had armor made custom to his measurements it wouldn't have been as hard for him to move around
Armour is based on the needs of the wearer. During a joust, a warrior may wear a 50kg harness with a frogmouth helmet made from 4mm cast iron. During an actual campaign, a knight would rely on his 25kg tops field harness that is 7mm at it‘s strongest(where the plackart and chestplate overlap) and 1-3 everywhere else. They wouldn’t wear helms like greathelms or greatbascinetts, instead they‘d wear saletts or armets. A visored helmet with tiny slots for eyes such as the houndskull bascinett would render you arrow-proof even against longbows with 200lbs of draw-weight or crossbows that often exceeded 1000lbs, while also limiting your vision and your breathing and making you more susceptible to overheating. That’s why many knights opted for pins with that they could ditch the visor altogether once they‘ve entered close quarters, where they were practically invincible.
As a medieval enthusiast, I know that there wasn’t really need for a balance because people would train for years before going into battle with full plate armor. The only reason everyone didn’t use it was because it was expensive and only developed during the late medieval period. Without training though, fighting in full 15th century plate armor is really difficult.
This is the last video I would have expected, but hot dog this was such an entertaining watch. It has introduced me into a world I was not aware that existed. Is there a UFC or Superbowl equivalent to this sport? I'd love to watch some tournaments like this with a high production value.
Excellent video, Sir Butterfield. I was surprised by how interesting i found it. And kudos to your production team (even if that's just you), it was a very well made video. I'm looking forward to seeing what else youve got in the pipeline.
I've always loved to watch this sport when it pops up in my recommended. Since i'm in australia and close to one of the clubs I might go check it out, this sport calls to me for some reason.
I saw a World Championship here, in Portugal, in 2014 or so... and I was mesmerized!! Since then I follow several teams, in Portugal and worldwide. I love that stuff. Cheers from Coimbra (Portugal).
@@axemaster , yes, 2016. It was amazing! I think I remember you (i need to see the photos I took back then). Your team was fabulous... and the scenery was perfect (the Castle of Montemor-o-Velho). I hope to see you, guys, soon here... again. Cheers from Portugal.
I've been doing bohurt fighting since 2007 (in both HMB and IMCF), but I also do HEMA, I regularly do cutting practice with sharp swords, and I'm a harnischfechten instructor. I believe that gives me a solid background to talk about this subject. A couple of things that need to be said: buhurt is a modern sport that is in no way representative of the actual battlefield fighting of the medieval period. The weapons are not "real weapons but blunt" as they don't have any taper, they are usualy weighted quite poorly (considerably heavier than historical examples) and they don't handle like real ones. The armor is also much heavier. Given that the kit is usually meant to represent 14th-15th c armor it's about 10 kg to heavy on average due to poor quality, those usualy fit badly and require very thick padding underneath to mitigate the shortcomings of the metal parts. There are well made armors used in buhurt but they cost a lot and so the vast majority of fighters uses the "cheap" kits that are a curious amalgamation of bits and pieces inspired by historical examples but which usually don't make up a viable recreational of a historical suit of armor. Many people in buhurt don't know historical fencing so even in duels there's little to none of it, the whole thing usually boiling down to hitting with swords as if they were a hammer or a baseball bat. The rules of the duels are quite curious as they give point for hitting with the edge of the weapon against the surface of the armor, so they reward doing the least effective thing possible in an armored sword fight. For that reason people in HMB/IMCF duels don't act of fight as knights would. It's due to sport rules that are very artificial, and if anyone tried to fight like that in a medieval battle they would get themselves killed in an instant. There are HEMA tournaments where people if full armor fight using actual historical techniques trying to overcome the opponents' protection, stab them in the openings in the plate etc. It's done with metal blunted weapons so it can be done safely, but requires a whole lot more training and a much better armor than in HMB/IMCF. I've done both and I enjoy the HEMA armored duels much more. Having said that, I still love buhurt and find a lot of enjoyment in it, but I think it's got a long way to go, and needs a number of improvements/changes in rules and approach to reach its full potential.
@Architeuthis Dux were they sharp enough to cut through metal armor/other swords? Obviously not, they weren't magic, but medieval swords were indeed sharp enough to cut a hand off with a single cut. We have actual weapons in museums, we have medieval treatieses (fencing manuals) that show appropriate use of weapons in different combat scenatios. In armored fighting the dagger was always a last resort incase you were disarmed or fighting got to grappling on the ground, but in harnischfechten most techniques are based on halfswording and they aim teach to puncture soft spots (covered with mail and fabric) like the groin, the armpits etc., which a sword is more than capable of doing. There's a number of amazing UA-cam channels, such as scholagladiatoria or tod's workshop where you can find videos made by individuals who have had access to those real medieval swords, measured and handled them.
@Architeuthis Dux Here we'd have to go into a more in-depth discussion, as it's really hard to make any generalisations. For one the treatises were made for the more affluent members of the medieval community, and they often dealt with the types of combat that a knight or at least a man-at-arms (professional heavily armored soldier) would engage in. It stands to reason that the sort of swords (and other weapons) they'd use would be of the highest quality. Most "civilians" or common soldiers wouldn't even own a sword and they'd use axes, polearms, clubs, or at most some falchions. With the swords themselves there's also a question of type (Oakeshott's typology being the standard here), as you have blade profiles made for different purposes. Type XV/XVa were arguably developed favouiring the thrust and they are not very good cutters (regardless of how sharp they are), but type XVIIIc is an amazing cutter (in fact most modern cutting competitions show that it's probably the best of the bunch, outperforming pretty much all other medieval sword types). We have a number of well preserved swords of those types and they were sharp, enough to decapitate or chop off a limb. Battlefield archeology shows ample evidence of arms being cut off with swords (perimortem damage to the bone being quite easily differentiated from wounds inflicted by axes etc. due to a considerably different blade profile). I've handles really well made replicas of extant medieval swords cutting pig carcasses (sure, not exactly the same as a living human but a good enough analogue) na some sword types are absolutely capable of cutting through muscle tissue and bone with ease. Well made medieval swords were high quality weapons that could hold a viscious edge.
gj. its my sport. really nice to see you try . made me smile for couple minutes mate ! you did really good for real im impress. no gambison on the leg (scary)
That was awesome! Can you imagine when men fought in battles lasting for days, with the opponents actually trying to kill them? No one complained about toxic masculinity back then lol.
And the knights coat of arms read" Irrumabo Putet" and bore the image of a Cassowary with it's neck wrung but good. Surely it was Sir Isaac Lord of Buttsmarn.
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@MARLINA🦋 thanks they were lovely
@@oliverhunter7949 are you joking or did they start making bots to compliment their other bots
Nice I'm into this as well I'm descendant from nobility I have a replica from my family original knight suit that I use with padding for regulations here in Germany .
I love this sport ⚔️⚔️
"Violence is like Sex, if it's not consensual, it's not cool."
Fantastic advice.
"dont forget keep it clean, keep it dirty"
It's best done while armored up and with a big weapon.
@@kennethjames9999 that actually depends on personal preference... id personally go with a more dexterous approach than just full on battering ram(giggity)
@@crustybomb115 the size of the weapon and the technique are too different things. Whether you have a dagger or a Halberd if you don't know how to use it, it's worthless.
@@kennethjames9999 true, but my point is, if your skill with each weapon would be equal, it all just boils down to personal preference...
I’d love to see Isaac do his own version of the Black Knight from “Search for the Holy Grail” 🤣🤣🤣
Yes just a flesh wound
Tis' but a scratch
On second thought let's not go to Camelot, tis a silly place
THE BLACK KNIGHT ALWAYS TRIUMPHS!!!
@@jordanthompson2669 Camelot? camelot? CAMELOT!!! "It's only a model" "shh"
Didn't know we still had knighthoods in Australia. Our Tony will be pleased.
Greetimg from the USA! Thanks for trying our sport!!! It was cool to see a bit of my videos in there! Sam is a great guy! Glad you had fun and Cheers
Good to see ya Simon! Big fan!
This is incredibly cool! So happy for you to have experienced this Isaac!
The first minute of this video was amazing. Isaac should get a job as a documentary voice-over.
as a historian I agree
I wanna see him do a documentary on Australia's first domestic tank now that you say that.
Issac is an amazing guy, he is a super brave man and an inspiration to young men everywhere
@@venia..4529 this isn't the place for your degeneracy, go scare some children or something
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, most young men here in America would be too concerned about dropping their phone or spilling their starbucks lol.
@@venia..4529 what the Fuck
i understand why some warriors in history didnt use a lot of aromor, being able to have all your senses, move faster, tire slower and be more agile must be a huge advantage but being able to tank loads of heavy blows and take little damage is also a huge advantage. getting the balance right must be hard.
Having armour was almost always better than not having any. Skill and tactics can definitely overcome the advantage of having armour, but just being more agile and/or aware cannot.
I don't think skill needs to be explained (everyone watched this video), but in a battle this will make less of a difference than in a duel. Yet, even if you're more skilled, having armour would be more advantageous. Tactics for example is how during the crusades muslims would ride away from the knights (like pursuit tactics) and always being faster due to having lighter armour, whilst constantly shooting arrows at them. This was somewhat effective. There are also accounts from that period of knights having their backs covered in arrows, but being completely unharmed.
Also note that knight armour did evolve a lot throughout history. Later armour was better at deflecting (which is important; like the broken thumbs in the video). Furthermore, armour also has a serious psychological advantage (face coverings often also looked really scary).
Well knight armor would have been custom made for said knight, so it wouldn't be as heavy or restricting as you might think. There's videos of people who have a full suit of armor that was made to the same specs as old knight armor, but because it was made specifically for them they still had full range of motion. If Issac had armor made custom to his measurements it wouldn't have been as hard for him to move around
Armour is based on the needs of the wearer.
During a joust, a warrior may wear a 50kg harness with a frogmouth helmet made from 4mm cast iron. During an actual campaign, a knight would rely on his 25kg tops field harness that is 7mm at it‘s strongest(where the plackart and chestplate overlap) and 1-3 everywhere else. They wouldn’t wear helms like greathelms or greatbascinetts, instead they‘d wear saletts or armets.
A visored helmet with tiny slots for eyes such as the houndskull bascinett would render you arrow-proof even against longbows with 200lbs of draw-weight or crossbows that often exceeded 1000lbs, while also limiting your vision and your breathing and making you more susceptible to overheating. That’s why many knights opted for pins with that they could ditch the visor altogether once they‘ve entered close quarters, where they were practically invincible.
As a medieval enthusiast, I know that there wasn’t really need for a balance because people would train for years before going into battle with full plate armor. The only reason everyone didn’t use it was because it was expensive and only developed during the late medieval period. Without training though, fighting in full 15th century plate armor is really difficult.
Armour was expensive as hell back then so only rich knights could afford full suits of armour
that beard is the only armour Isaac needs
Welcome to the world of chivalry, Brother!
It's so funny to see Isaac next to a normal sized grown man lol
ikr? people forget hes a literal giant of a man...
@@crustybomb115how tall is Isaac? 6’8’’? Around there?
@@bullwinkleofficalYT roughly yeah... hes a literal giant lmao
@@crustybomb115 and I’m 5’4’’ lol
This is the last video I would have expected, but hot dog this was such an entertaining watch. It has introduced me into a world I was not aware that existed. Is there a UFC or Superbowl equivalent to this sport? I'd love to watch some tournaments like this with a high production value.
Battle of nations is the big one.
Check out events like buhurt next and buhurt prime as well
You can also look up Nashville armor combat UA-cam channel
Such bad ass awesome video . Thank you for this cobber
The way Isaac handled all of this only goes to prove how much of a good dude he is, top bloke 👍👍👍
Excellent video, Sir Butterfield. I was surprised by how interesting i found it. And kudos to your production team (even if that's just you), it was a very well made video. I'm looking forward to seeing what else youve got in the pipeline.
I've always loved to watch this sport when it pops up in my recommended. Since i'm in australia and close to one of the clubs I might go check it out, this sport calls to me for some reason.
What city are you in?
Good job Isaac, I’m impressed with your sword fighting skills as a knight
I love this!!! I've had so much fun axe throwing. I get great groups at my local firing Range. now This, damn, I need to give it go!
Look for some HMB in your city or nearby.
I saw a World Championship here, in Portugal, in 2014 or so... and I was mesmerized!! Since then I follow several teams, in Portugal and worldwide. I love that stuff.
Cheers from Coimbra (Portugal).
I was fighting on the USA team there in 2016. Glad you enjoyed it.
@@axemaster , yes, 2016. It was amazing! I think I remember you (i need to see the photos I took back then). Your team was fabulous... and the scenery was perfect (the Castle of Montemor-o-Velho).
I hope to see you, guys, soon here... again.
Cheers from Portugal.
@@aderitodealmeida5644 I have some fights from that time on channel. You will recognise me by the bodies flying through the air or on the ground
@@axemaster , I'll take a look. Thanks a lot.
Oh. My. Gosh. Been a fan of the channel for a while, and buhurt (or armored combat), never expected to see a crossover. AMAZING!
I loved seeing these guys at the Abbey festival, and History Alive, back before covid ruined those events.
One of my mates is even a ref.
Really excited to learn more about this.
That actually looks proper fun
This combined with the game they play in grown ups
Dude that axe 🪓 don't chop my head off haha
This is brilliant.
I never knew I needed this, but now I do.
23:40 win or lose aside, that was a juicy double jab buttsmarn!
Way to spice up the content man great video!🤙
Sir Butterfield, it is an honour.
Holy fuck, I didn’t realize how tall Isaac is.
He is crazy tall!
Excellent. Brave knight. Looks like knackering fun!
Quality content, just what I needed! Pretty educational too ! Keep it up lad ! 💜 from Scotland!
So STOKED you got to experience the Sport, mate!
honestly, this kind of thing needs to be more popular... it honestly looks like a hell of a fun time
This was a very different video to your normal rants (which I thoroughly enjoy), and it was AWESOME!
This was amazing Isaac well done!
Isaac becomes the next hardest dark souls boss
I love this sport, and it's amazing seeing the full on 10vs10 battles pure anarchy
That was so dope
Wow, as someone who has been doing multiple martial arts over the course of 28 years, I am super keen to try this!
All I can think of watching the first few minutes of this is the lollipop guild. Unless Issac is 7 ft tall
Isaac has finally served his beard the legacy it deserves!
This resides me of that add and good on ya Isaac
this was a 10/10 vid!
This is the best entertainment I’ve seen all month 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I mean it’s the second but still
Awesome Video! Would also love to try this Sport
Issac! This was awesome!
Love these pieces!!
loved it great video mate !!
Awesome vid mate. Great fun to watch.
Holy shitballs this looked like heaps of fun! I bet it felt really fucking kool to be suited up in all that armour
I did HMB training for two years and it was the best experience of my life. Loved it
cool
This was great to watch! These kind of (man-stuff) additions/experiences are highly appreciated;)
Buhurt, oh yeh, most fun I've ever had doing anything, good on ya mate.
This looks awesome, I'd love to get up in full armour and just give out and take beatings
I've been watching this sport for a while and it's good to see a youtuber bringing more light to it
Bloody entertaining this is mr Isaac
Ha Ha that was me in the 150's Thanks for checking this out we need more people to see it
Hopefully you can try harnischfetchen some day, it's not as explosive as buhurt but it's more tactical imo.
I loved it mate what a great video you are a legend and all your team deserves a round 👏 great work
Well produced! More!!!
I didn't realize how fucking tall Issac was ...lanky bastard
This is so awesome!
What a great idea. Looks fun
I've been doing bohurt fighting since 2007 (in both HMB and IMCF), but I also do HEMA, I regularly do cutting practice with sharp swords, and I'm a harnischfechten instructor. I believe that gives me a solid background to talk about this subject. A couple of things that need to be said: buhurt is a modern sport that is in no way representative of the actual battlefield fighting of the medieval period. The weapons are not "real weapons but blunt" as they don't have any taper, they are usualy weighted quite poorly (considerably heavier than historical examples) and they don't handle like real ones. The armor is also much heavier. Given that the kit is usually meant to represent 14th-15th c armor it's about 10 kg to heavy on average due to poor quality, those usualy fit badly and require very thick padding underneath to mitigate the shortcomings of the metal parts. There are well made armors used in buhurt but they cost a lot and so the vast majority of fighters uses the "cheap" kits that are a curious amalgamation of bits and pieces inspired by historical examples but which usually don't make up a viable recreational of a historical suit of armor. Many people in buhurt don't know historical fencing so even in duels there's little to none of it, the whole thing usually boiling down to hitting with swords as if they were a hammer or a baseball bat. The rules of the duels are quite curious as they give point for hitting with the edge of the weapon against the surface of the armor, so they reward doing the least effective thing possible in an armored sword fight. For that reason people in HMB/IMCF duels don't act of fight as knights would. It's due to sport rules that are very artificial, and if anyone tried to fight like that in a medieval battle they would get themselves killed in an instant. There are HEMA tournaments where people if full armor fight using actual historical techniques trying to overcome the opponents' protection, stab them in the openings in the plate etc. It's done with metal blunted weapons so it can be done safely, but requires a whole lot more training and a much better armor than in HMB/IMCF. I've done both and I enjoy the HEMA armored duels much more. Having said that, I still love buhurt and find a lot of enjoyment in it, but I think it's got a long way to go, and needs a number of improvements/changes in rules and approach to reach its full potential.
@Architeuthis Dux were they sharp enough to cut through metal armor/other swords? Obviously not, they weren't magic, but medieval swords were indeed sharp enough to cut a hand off with a single cut. We have actual weapons in museums, we have medieval treatieses (fencing manuals) that show appropriate use of weapons in different combat scenatios. In armored fighting the dagger was always a last resort incase you were disarmed or fighting got to grappling on the ground, but in harnischfechten most techniques are based on halfswording and they aim teach to puncture soft spots (covered with mail and fabric) like the groin, the armpits etc., which a sword is more than capable of doing. There's a number of amazing UA-cam channels, such as scholagladiatoria or tod's workshop where you can find videos made by individuals who have had access to those real medieval swords, measured and handled them.
@Architeuthis Dux Here we'd have to go into a more in-depth discussion, as it's really hard to make any generalisations. For one the treatises were made for the more affluent members of the medieval community, and they often dealt with the types of combat that a knight or at least a man-at-arms (professional heavily armored soldier) would engage in. It stands to reason that the sort of swords (and other weapons) they'd use would be of the highest quality. Most "civilians" or common soldiers wouldn't even own a sword and they'd use axes, polearms, clubs, or at most some falchions. With the swords themselves there's also a question of type (Oakeshott's typology being the standard here), as you have blade profiles made for different purposes. Type XV/XVa were arguably developed favouiring the thrust and they are not very good cutters (regardless of how sharp they are), but type XVIIIc is an amazing cutter (in fact most modern cutting competitions show that it's probably the best of the bunch, outperforming pretty much all other medieval sword types). We have a number of well preserved swords of those types and they were sharp, enough to decapitate or chop off a limb. Battlefield archeology shows ample evidence of arms being cut off with swords (perimortem damage to the bone being quite easily differentiated from wounds inflicted by axes etc. due to a considerably different blade profile). I've handles really well made replicas of extant medieval swords cutting pig carcasses (sure, not exactly the same as a living human but a good enough analogue) na some sword types are absolutely capable of cutting through muscle tissue and bone with ease. Well made medieval swords were high quality weapons that could hold a viscious edge.
Could feel the seriousness of John Wayne Parr form all watching once a fighter always a fighter true legend.
looking good out there Isaac
I'm definitely looking forward to more videos like this
Looks like fun. Great job
That looks fun as hell
This looks really nice..... I sure wanna give it a try
awesome stuff! keep up the good work Isaac!
I've been practicing HEMA for years this video caught me off guard but it was definitely very cool
This is something I've been wanting to do
This was just kool as hell.
Didn't realise the Buttsmarn and Sam had hooked up! Crazy!
Damn I haven't seen The Gunslinger on TV or anywhere for ages. It's great to see him again.
12:48 “groin protection” you should know its name big fella
I don't think a video has ever made me happier.. I have a new favourite hobby! Straight up dilligaf moment. I'm moving to Brisbane
gj. its my sport. really nice to see you try . made me smile for couple minutes mate ! you did really good for real im impress. no gambison on the leg (scary)
I don't think that i have ever wanted to try something so much.
That looks epic
Great sponsor! I definitely recommend.
That was awesome! Can you imagine when men fought in battles lasting for days, with the opponents actually trying to kill them? No one complained about toxic masculinity back then lol.
this is fantastic.
great job! HMB is a great sport everyone should try!))
yep fun to do, Im a bit old now to do it but still train in armor
Looks like fun, had no idea people actually did this for a sport, mad
That was the best shit ever! this needs to be a world wide sport.
It is. We have a huge event called battle of nations.
Looks like you enjoyed it 😁👍🐾
Brisbane beasts are a great crew. Shout out to Sammy. Can't wait to fight you, again, mate.
Bro Isaac is an absolute giant in that armor
Man, that looks like awesome fun.
I really want to try armored fighting sports someday
More shit like this! This was fantastic!
19:17 Ah yes thankyou for the name tags xP
just some dudes in armor beating the shit out of eachother for fun, awsome.
This makes me want to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance some more.
I'm glad he did this it's awesome stuff
And the knights coat of arms read" Irrumabo Putet" and bore the image of a Cassowary with it's neck wrung but good. Surely it was Sir Isaac Lord of Buttsmarn.