I mean... Why not! 😂Go get them!!!😁

That's a very good question but really not easy to answer. As always it depends a lot. In our case tournaments were off the table for a long time because there simply were none in our area for our weapon and also, we are not very happy with most rulesets and practices that have been developped so far... We personally value weapon control, sportsmanship and general fitness most when it comes to our tournament participants. If you got all three I personally would suggest you can try a tournament, no matter how long you have been active, because you are likely not endangering yourself or others and you are ready to learn from the tournament fights. Some might be ready after a few months of training, others are still not there after 10 years... Generally we observe that most people in Austria/ Italy participate very fast in tournaments (half a year active, one year ative...). The four participants in the video were all in between 2 years active in HEMA/ first tournament, up to 20 years active/ multiple tournaments as far as I know. But compared to most HEMA-tournament-rules this ruleset is very... special xD

As far as I remember, I enrolled in my first tournament after about 2 years and a half of HEMA/ sidesword training. I personally would say rule of thumb: 1-2 years of at least two training sessions a week including sparring sessions... But as the first comment of our club states: It really depends. Greetings, Elisabeth :)

@@MarozzolostinVienna ​ @OrionNumya Thank you guys for the feedback. I'm not there yet, but maybe I should start thinking about participating in a tournament as a personal goal of sorts.

@@FiliiMartis Make sure to have fun and stay healthy, then just go for it! :)

I'm sure if there would have been one in that gym we would have done exactly that... 🤣🤣🤣