NSTIW Story Time:Did a HEMA German Dagger Disarms Demo with wasters once a few years back with my friend Milan Heninger whom I trust implicitly. We did like 4 passes where I would chose the attack, and he would come up with a disarm. On the 4th pass someone said "what is this fake stuff?" so my friend looks at me with flinty eyes and says "attack me for real!" I made sure he was serious, then came at him with full lethal intent. I don't know what he did but I went flying through the air some 12 ft, came down hard, rolled to my feet en garde, only to find him about to attack me with the dagger. Then we both stopped and bowed to the crowd.
Said naysayer was rather quiet.
We got big applause, which helped make up for the torqued wrist & ankle.