ARMA Knoxville videos

[david welch]

We met up today and had a pretty good time.

None of us had fought for a couple of months due to "real life" stuff, and it felt great to get back at it!

This was also the first time we had used all our new stuff together, and we are still trying to get a feel for what we can do with it.

Here are a couple of sword bouts:
Fencing with featherswords

And a couple of dagger drills:
Dagger Drill

Thanks Bill, I had a ball!

[KatherineJohnson]

Cool stuff guys.

looking forward to seeing yall up at jakes place this weekend. Would love to do some dagger work


Kat

[Matthew_Anderson]

I can't get the clips to play or download <img src="/forum/images/icons/confused.gif" alt="" />

[M Wallgren]

Same here

[SzabolcsWaldmann]

RightKlick the link above, a window appears, and there is a link in the middle "download this file"

Szab

[JeanryChandler]

Nice clips. I liked the use of the daggers as backup weapons, they were effectively brought into play a couple of times. Those featherswords look like very nice sparring weapons. Were you striking full speed? Your strikes seemed a bit slow. I was also interested in what kind of protective gear you were wearing, including helmets and anything you might have on to protect your legs.


Thanks for posting!

Jeanry

[Bill Welch]

We were using a light Gambeson, gloves, and a goalie helmet with small screen wire zip tied to the front. No we were not striking full speed or intent. But it was loads of fun.

I like the FIST helmets we were using in the dagger seq. They really are a change from not using the head as a target, that way you can give your training partner a good shot or vise-versa and not do any real damage(but it will still ring your bell good <img src="/forum/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> ).

[Shane Smith]

Try turning the guard out 45 degree's in your ochs to cover a bit better.

[david welch]

Hello, Jeanry!

Yeah, we weren't very fast. We had been practicing for what seemed like a long time before we decided to start videoing at the end. I don't know about Bill, but by then, I could barely hold my arms over my head (and that is pretty obvious on tape. I guess what form I have falls apart when I am tired). As a matter of fact, we were going to do one more dagger play... but we couldn't. <img src="/forum/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

I am glad too, because even though we were striking slow... today I found I am covered in lemon sized bruses. <img src="/forum/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

Also, we were only wearing sweats for leg protection. We were wearing leather moccasin type shoes so we were not really worried about it. If we had been wearing street shoes or tennis shoes with a hard edge we would have worn baseball catcher shin guards.