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Title: Harlem Knight Fight: the Armored Combat League
Post by: Pb on June 07, 2019, 10:20:16 AM
Well, I just learned about a new sport- folks dressed up in armor beating each other up with dulled weapons.

 :O

Looks WAY more entertaining than the SCA!

Here's a neat short movie about the sport:

https://vimeo.com/161511617

The website:

https://www.aclknights.com/
Title: Re: Harlem Knight Fight: the Armored Combat League
Post by: WLJ on June 07, 2019, 10:30:37 AM
folks dressed up in armor beating each other up with dulled weapons.

Didn't they used to refer to that as training?
Title: Re: Harlem Knight Fight: the Armored Combat League
Post by: MechAg94 on June 07, 2019, 10:50:59 AM
Didn't they used to refer to that as training?
Don't talk about fight club. 
Title: Re: Harlem Knight Fight: the Armored Combat League
Post by: MechAg94 on June 07, 2019, 10:58:40 AM
I am not really sure I understand the rules on this.  Looks everyone should just carry big hammers and pound the other guys.  That or charge them and turn it into an armored wrestling match.  At one point, it looked like a guy was hitting his own teammate.  Overall, it looks like the weapons are just softening them up to wrestle them to the ground.
Title: Re: Harlem Knight Fight: the Armored Combat League
Post by: Pb on June 07, 2019, 12:20:21 PM
I am not really sure I understand the rules on this.  Looks everyone should just carry big hammers and pound the other guys.  That or charge them and turn it into an armored wrestling match.  At one point, it looked like a guy was hitting his own teammate.  Overall, it looks like the weapons are just softening them up to wrestle them to the ground.

Hammers are actually forbidden by the rules!  Too dangerous I guess.

Looks dangerous enough to me.

Here are the rules:

https://www.aclknights.com/acl-combat-rules.html
Title: Re: Harlem Knight Fight: the Armored Combat League
Post by: Ron on June 07, 2019, 12:30:22 PM
I am not really sure I understand the rules on this.  Looks everyone should just carry big hammers and pound the other guys.  That or charge them and turn it into an armored wrestling match.  At one point, it looked like a guy was hitting his own teammate.  Overall, it looks like the weapons are just softening them up to wrestle them to the ground.

Within the last year or so I’ve read the first two sections of “The Once and Future King”.

It’s the TH White retelling of the King Arthur story.

Knights who were engaged in Tilting often ended up on foot in long drawn out beatings of each other until someone collapsed.

I need to read the final “book”. The whole story was pretty depressing and I sort of know how it ends.