Valeriy, maybe, you are right. But to my mind, our way of fight is dangerous only at first sight. I can't find an example of extremely serious injury. Boxing is far more dangerous :)

http://bel-knight.com/

Awesome site, although I can't read a lick of it! The image galleries are full of stuff, and would be accessible through the topmost horizontal toolbar. The fourth item from the left.

Cheers!

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It was very interesting to reed responses about Russian re-enactment groups :)
Fights without full contact, not are so interesting, here all depends on adequacy of your opponent.Сertainly happen various small troubles, but where without them? :)

Welcome to myArmoury.com, Wladislaw K, and Valeriy Rog!

Yes, thanks. Interesting forum, only to read it for me it is not so easy. Affects, the problem of a language barrier, he-he... It was necessary to learn English better ;) Here at one Russian forum i see link for this - and become very interested.
By the way here it is - http://www.tforum.info/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?...entry98197

I can't speak Russian medieval reenactors, but I know that Russians reenacting WWII are absolutely fanatical. Soviet reenactors in the states, like myself, are blown away by Russian groups. One group, around Moscow, pooled their funds together and rebuilt an operational armour unit of about 10 tanks, and some german stuff as well! They're crazy, I love the Russians, they are just big on history in general.

It is pleasant to hear this. All the matter, that even around Moscow from the ground it is possible to dig out everything, beginning from an ammunition, finishing sunk in a bog tank or airplain. One of my freands has bought to itself kar98 as a rifle intended for hunting. And and quite legally.

I'm actually one of Ukrainian re-enactors and I think you should check out different Ukrainian web-resources considering historical fencing and re-enactment.

Try some of these:
http://www.silverwolf.lviv.ua
http://www.shpora.org.ua/gallery.php
http://www.deepguard.nm.ru
http://www.yar-tur.org.ua/liki.php

To add to previous posts, I'd like to say, that using steel weapons isn't that dangerous, especially when you check your armour carefully. On the other hand it's a lot more fun than fighting with some plastic or other pornographic weapons :D It's a bit frightening at first, but you soon get used to it and start to make crazy things in a battle :D

A festival of medieval martial arts took place in St. Petersburg region last weekends, Korela castle. Splendid events with soft and hard battles, horse knights tournament, costumes competitions and apleasant atmosphere.
http://www.bern.ru/v2/?t=gallery&ig=48
Soft war http://derpt.13c.ru/Photo/Korela_2006/Skin/Korela_2006S.htm
see also http://silverwolf.lviv.ua/gallery-showimages-fid-82.htm

hard war was extremely interesting and tough
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Ratmir, how come deepguard ere reanectment team? :) www.vlaanderen.nm.ru woud fit more :) - the same guys

Looking at the pictures I notice how the reenactors are NOT pointing their halberds and pole-axes at each other in the reenactment. Good safety in my view. :lol:

Valeriy, whatever :))) It's a matter of habit :)))
It's a pity I couldn't visit that event. We're going to have an interesting festival in Lviv this September, though.
Everyone's welcome :D

I wouldn't say eastern type doesn't include stabs. They are just permited on few festivals, in Korela as well, because of high injury risk. Guys stab as strong as slash and stabbing hurt more than blow :wtf:

I have sen too much great armour replicas in my life to get impressed anymore. I still think that it is beautiful, but not impressed. And those swiss from Bern (www.bern.ru) has some lack of historicity in their armours mixing periods....
But the clothes are really beautiful.
My two cents.

Marc-Antoine Jean, and how about these http://www.yar-tur.org.ua/ ?

Stabbing is good, but when you're wearing a bare mail coat, it's quite painful, even if the spear or the halberd is blunt :)

Jack or gambeson gives good protection in most cases. My jack saves me...
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Padded armour is a good protection for the vikings as well :)
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Hello to all (my first post here).

Wow, someone links to my page... :)

Merv Cannon wrote:

http://www.man.poznan.pl/~ritter/ ( Click on ...." Galeria zdjęć " )

It is shame, that I have no time to upgrade this website (better words - make everything once again from scratch)... :blush:
What can I say... this site shows my level of knowledge from 8 years back... :)

So better look at the quite new "temporary" galleries:

Late XV century event - beginning of this year, reconstruction of late XV century foot soldiers company

Late XIV century event - this year summer, part of project "Interregnum 1382-85" - an attempt to reconstruction of the civil war in Poland (after the death of king Louis I the Great - in Poland called "Hungarian").

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wow. your compagny looks really great.
I want to know, who is your armour maker?
Thanks