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ouch!
Ian:
--- Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2012-03-25, 13:23:00 ---but the thing is guys fight in open faced helmets all the time with steel even. i wanna know what kinda thrust did that. seems excessive to me.
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True, BotN uses steel and a lot of the fighters wear bar-grills, open faced sallets / bascinets etc...
Sir Wolf:
ive fought w steel in a spangenhelmet. even staged planned and free for all, the head is just simply a non issue when fighting.
Thorsteinn:
BOTN doesn't thrust I believe and Laurin doesn't allow face thrusts/strikes for the non-knight class, however I hear these guys did allow body thrusts. One bad parry and you have a head shot.
Sir Wolf:
body thrusts are in most steel fighting. it's in part of the 5s or 8s depending on what group your with.
Sir Edward:
Fighting with open faced helms is really only viable in stage combat, and that includes improvised stage combat. Meaning, you're not doing a real martial art. If you're fighting true to the arts, there are plenty of thrusts, and the face is one of your primary targets. Hence the need to have perf-plates.
Having open faces or bar grills is simply a big risk even if the rules disallow thrusts, because a bad parry is all it takes. So long as the sword tip is smaller than the openings, there's a danger.
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