Battle of the Nations (BOTN) Poland - Final Eliminations video

[Sir William]

Same here...to look at it, there seems to be no real rules.  I would love to participate, but the level of fitness required is more than I'm willing to undertake as I'm lazy when it comes to the gym.  Not to mention getting the kit, flights, accomodations- a lot of guys are doing some sort of fund raising in order to be able to fund the trip.  I help out if/when I can as I would love to go- but not that much.

Who knows, I'm 40 now and I've got a little something to prove.  There's always next year.  Great vid, thanks for sharing.

[SirNathanQ]

That video is just ridiculous. I would love to get a nice fighting kit together and try BOTN sometime.
To people who doubt armour's effectiveness, I just send them BOTN videos. Without those harnesses, those folks would all be dead.

[Lord Dane]

That video is just ridiculous. I would love to get a nice fighting kit together and try BOTN sometime.
To people who doubt armour's effectiveness, I just send them BOTN videos. Without those harnesses, those folks would all be dead.

Exaggeration. They would just be more bruised than their egos.

[Sir Vander Linde]

Picture of helm from the French team.

[Sir Wolf]

Without those harnesses, those folks would all be dead.

lol isn't that what the armour is there to stop? lol

[Sir James A]

Picture of helm from the French team.

If that helmet wasn't there ... I'd wager the skull doesn't take impacts like that too well!

[Sir William]

That video is just ridiculous. I would love to get a nice fighting kit together and try BOTN sometime.
To people who doubt armour's effectiveness, I just send them BOTN videos. Without those harnesses, those folks would all be dead.

Exaggeration. They would just be more bruised than their egos.

Without armor, some of them'd be dead- most likely from blunt force trauma and massive injuries to the head, limbs and torso.  Some of the shots those guys land would be lethal w/out their harnesses.

[Thorsteinn]

Remember the report that came out last year from the Team USA guy after the event wherein he mentioned the ambulance runs, broken shoulders, severed fingers, torn muscles, and blood?

[Sir William]

Yes, but not a single casualty; the armor works.

[SirNathanQ]

They aren't pulling their blows, blunt or not, you simply can't take a full on polaxe blow to the head and be able to tell people about it afterwards.
They suffer injuries yeah, I'll grant you that, but they survive, and can fight another day. That in itself with the blows they are taking is a testimony to how awesome armour is.

[Sir William]

Truly, and without said armor...they would no longer be of this world.  No exaggeration there.

[B. Patricius]

Just saw this finally and I was interested in the whole concept of BOTN since I first heard about it being talked about on IceFalcon's shop website.