Why cant movies and tv use historical armours as inspiration, they look so awsome and they had a real functionality. All the crap armours hollywood show us look like shit compared tho this

Hey guys! So, the reason, Bob wasn't wearing the helmet for a few reasons: the helmet is a big pain to put on. Has to attach the aventail separately and align the cheek pieces correctly (huge pain). Also, Bob wearing hearing aids and can't wear them with the helmet on, so the interview would included a lot of shouting 🤣. Sadly, his knees were giving him some issues that day, so he didn't take part in the deed. Hope this clears some things up and we'll see about making a video covering a more in depth about the helmet in the future. -Reece

Bob has such a nice harness. I saw him fight at Red Knight in 2015 when I was first getting into Harnischfechten and wondered how anyone ever got a hit on him, since he has so few openings. I since got one of Oleg Yanchuk's S18 armets and I can see why some people have issues with them. But holy crap is that helmet tanky. And for a historical visor, the visibility is pretty good.

That helmet is definitely an interesting one. We are lucky to have that fresco. In general it was really interesting to go through all the features of that armour, and their functional use.

Is that the same Bob Charrette who wrote the first Shadowrun Novels? I used to playtest Shadowrun back in the 90s and used to hang out with a lot of the writers of various RPG's and video games back then while copious amounts of coffee. Good times. Back then I had a bbs and we'd use BlueWave email and rack up expensive phone bills. At least the technical writing and editing part paid once in a while. Sadly the gaming industry wasn't good at paying people back in those days! Sometimes we'd actually mail disks back and forth when working on games or playtesting video games on my BBS like LOD or VGA Planets. Good times. Got distracted by the tangent. Beautiful armor and looks extremely functional. I didn't know about the lance rest/arret being such a multiplier of effectiveness! His gauntlet looks great. Be nice to have that kind of flexibility for blossfechten and reminds me of those old comfort fencing gauntlets that broke all the time but looked cool.

Very good armor!

Nice. Would be cool to see him on the field in action. I love how you cut in shots of manuels or live training.

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This was another very interesting video and the interview really covered his armour well. I'm looking forward to your video that gives more details about his helmet. I also like hearing how different Knights have learned, like Bob, by comparing their harnesses against the training books of the same time period.

Thanks Bob.

Great video.

I have similar pauldrons, and I often find that moving my arms across the chest horizontally can make the top of the pauldrons press against the throat. Is there a solution for that? Maybe mounting them differently on the arming doublet would work. It seems like Bob does not have that issue as much, which is good.

I would have love to seen Bob in his helmet. Next time perhaps

Since you've added chainmail to your kit, do you still wear a black swan arming doublet under it or what are you using for an undergarmet?

What happened to the Toby Capwell talk? Maybe I missed the news. Keep making great content :)

Your interviewee looks so sexy in his armour , very very impressed with its shape on him. wish he could have fully armoured up though and put the helmet on .