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Imagine fighting a war and seeing a soldier do a side kick to another soldier

"You are gonna be perfectly safe" - Guy with a big ass axe that he is going to swing at you

I tried this back in the 90’s for a while and found out that this type of combat is extremely demanding and rewarding. Every fighter should try it.

Seth: "can you imagine being in the water in this?" "yeah no prob it's stainless steel so it won't rust" Seth: "..."

You see why daggers were so important in the age of plate armor.. you see how grappling becomes important? Good place to have a pointy dagger in the clinch and try to stick it in the gaps and soft bits...

I think having your head locked inside a tiny, heavy metal box while someone tries to bash it from the outside with a heavy object is enough to give anyone a panic attack. Helmet horror looks like it sucks hard.

"Helmet horror" is exactly right. I've experienced it myself as part of a HAZMAT team while wearing the full suit, helmet, and SCBA in low-light conditions. The feeling of claustrophobia, hearing and feeling your every breath, restricted vision and movement. If you're not experienced with it or unprepared, it can get to you quickly. Longest I've gone is five hours all suited up. The adrenaline from knowing I was at most 3mm from conditions that would painfully kill me in minutes didn't help much.

Love that Seth tries all this stuff. He's clearly talented but not afraid to look like a noob to try new things. We could all learn from that.

Imagine being the person on the third floor paying $1400 rent and seeing this outside.

Man this looks fun. Always nice to see sensei seth throwing his kicks, even in knight armour

I've been doing armoured combat for the past 20 years and I really felt both the shoulder shot and the hypo-oxia in the helm. As far as the hitting you with a polearm out of combat and off the armour, that was way out of line. If he was one of my students he would have got a verbal reaming. Glad to hear you are OK, a hit like that can do real damage.

That is some tiny shoulder armor. I wasn't surprised he felt those hits to his shoulder. I'm pretty sure having armor fit your body proportions is a big component in keeping you safe everywhere.

I think it's interesting to see the different habits people form when fighting with armor vs without. You can see during these fights how Seth is bouncing on the balls of his feet and bobbing his arms around to try and fake the other guy out while the other guy is standing relatively still. In an unarmored/unarmed fight Seth has the right idea, but in this situation with the added weight it's the other guy who has the right idea standing still to conserve energy.

I have no problem with this sport. It's neat and people can do whatever they want... but for the love of God, no one ever mistake this as how people fought in armor.

Imagine someone like Brian Shaw wearing full medieval armor running at you with a 1.5m long axe screaming TO VICTORYYY...

Not me literally screaming "THROW HIM!!!" at my phone at the breakfast table watching y'all grappling on the hill in full plate. 😂😂😂😂 I'm so glad I found your channels, dude. I love how you throw yourself into all these new things, full bore.

4:15 was a dick move, I've been to alot of these medieval events and there's typically rules to avoid the neck area because of obvious reasons

"stand still and let me get the edge-alignment right on a 75% power overhead strike on the same shoulder that we had JUST established wasn't that well protected with a much larger weapon for.. i dont know.. a demonstration i guess about how safe this is. oh did you get hurt?" ??

These dudes really take themselves so seriously. Gives off big “I got bullied so now I haze people who want to play my sport” type energy

How it begins: Two warriors in full armour and with weapons face themselves, this battle will be legendary. Who knows what tactics we're going to see. How it really ends: They hug.

I just want to point out that historical armor wasn't as heavy. They add even more protection for this because it's a modern sport. Not that it takes anything away from the toughness of the competitors. BTW, I think you should try some longsword or other HEMA now, as it is mostly based on unarmoured combat. Might be a better fit for you... ;)

Dude, this looks like a ton of fun! Exhausting, painful, and kinda scary, but really fun too. Then again, contact (and combat) sports are my favorite thing.

People dont tealize how much training medieval knights actually went through. They trained from childhood till death, they were no joke.

Seth you continue to have the best martial arts channel on KZfaq

I’m thinking these guys might not be the best representatives of the sport.

4:03 "You're safe I promise". I don't know guys, I think this guy should not be someone who teaches others about this. This guy is actually dangerous.

Fair play for putting yourself through this just to show what it's like, that looked tough as heck

The fact you did a side kick with armor on was sick 😂

Yeah, there’s a difference between joking around and mocking something. You were just joking around, and these guys seemed continually on edge because of it. ‘I promise you won’t get hurt’ - hits you in the unprotected part of your shoulder. Is this basically a medieval McDojo?

I suggest you do some HEMA training too! It's very similar but a slightly different ruleset and padded protective gear instead of plate armor (except for vital points like helmet, gloves, elbows, knees, etc.) We also tend not to use weapons that have as much concussive force as the ones shown in this video, as the style in this video is about armored fighting melees and most HEMA is about simulating unarmored duels.

Genuinely impressive dude. Looked like really hard work, you did well to keep going.

Been in the sport for over a year now an I love it. The people and brotherhood that comes with it is insane

Imagine the brutality of the actual fights where to loose meant you died

i love how it turns from trying to lock and wrestle your opponent to the ground to an intimate hug.

I love watching Battle of the Nations medieval tournaments. 5v5 is the most entertaining in my opinion because I find that individual skill is just as important as teamwork in those types of small team competitions.

I never thought about the effect the armor has on breathing. Just from trying to imagine it, helmet terror sounds like such a fitting description!

Okay here's what we need Seth. You, Hard2Hurt, Houston Jones, 2 other YT dudes if you so desire. Y'all get together, train, and fight 3v3 / 5v5 and see if the YT martial artist can hang with the knights. I'd pay money to see that.

I like how he went from "holy shit this is terrifying" to "Imma kick your ass" near the end lmao

Honestly great example. I'm more interested then anything else I have seen. You did them justice!

To be honest, that wasn’t really the best introduction to the sport. To work/protect properly armour needs to be made for a person and their specific measurements. Wearing someone else’s kit will always feel awkward, and increases the danger of injury. Plus this here was definitely way too heavy, both historically and for buhurt standards. Most kits weigh around 40-55 pounds. The weight of the helmet they gave you was also quite extreme. It’s as if they wanted to limit your movements and exhaust you as much as possible ;P I agree with other comments suggesting you try HEMA. It’ll be definitely more suited to your skills and is actually a much better representation of the real way people fought in the middle ages.

You did great in the armor but those shots from that 'coach' should of never happened. It is NOT okay to shoulder strike someone with a polearm outside of national/international tournaments. For him to do it to you as a 'haze' and MISS the shot.. That's seriously not okay and would be considered a 'dick move' to anybody else involved with Buhurt.

this was the kinda video i was lookin to see how it was, thanks for sharing.

Jeff is a cool guy, I have experienced the same terror. Need to refit my armor and get back into it. Thanks for the video!

Hey Seth, I'd recommend you check out HEMA after this. Buhurt/Battle of Nations is known for favoring strength and endurance over technique, and obviously for the sake of safety you see less of actual anti-armor techniques. However, HEMA studies that in depth a lot more. For example, Fiore has a manual that includes anti-armor fencing, in-armor fencing, and grappling.

I had heard how important wrestling and clinching is in HEMA/Buhurt/Zornhau/swordy smashy fun times sports but it's really cool to see that in action. The guy using his axe handle for a Thai plum was dope.

This was VERY educational; thank you!

This guy deserves more subscribers his content is super entertaining.

Actually took me a second as a German to get the "Das Boot" joke...

Looking at how they grappled, I see where shin kicking might have been useful Also was waiting for a Hema episode

Good to see the Dire Drakes are still around after the pandemic, I was looking into them the same time I started HEMA. I noticed you're a Carolina boy like me so if you want some HEMA training the Triangle Sword Guild is in Raleigh and I'm sure we'd love to have you out at a class.

It was awesome seeing someone with your abilities try this

The way the armor dent at 3:41 after being half-heartedly hit with a blunt weapon gives away the "quality" of the armor. Real medieval armor is most certainly stronger than that

I'm so happy you're covering historical martial arts and their Combat sport offshoots.

It was cute to see the combat turn into a sportsmanship hug

Love seeing everyone coming to watch.

That was sick! I would love to see you try HEMA and fight with longswords or something next.

I would strongly recommend you avoid going there again. Those guys don't know what they're doing and seem like bad news. 1) They didn't gave you jousting armor that was 10-20lbs heavier than real field armor, so they didn't give you proper armor, 2) the "coach" made fun of you for flinching when he swung a fucking axe at you, which is a huge douche move, 3) the "coach" gives me serious McDojo instructor vibes who doesn't seem to give a shit about safety, let alone historic accuracy, 4) the fact that he said you wouldn't get hurt and he hurt you not 30 seconds later with a 2-handed axe on your shoulder area was incredibly dangerous and could have given you hematoma which could have caused a blood clot, or worse, fractured or straight up broken your clavicle. 5) that armor was so shitty and not well protective for real weapons, but if it was any less protected you definitely would have gotten pretty injured and at least fractured a bone. 6) "Palmetto Knights"? Dude that's just cringey. Doing it for fun is one thing, but that dude is clearly not a knight so he should stop calling himself one. That's the equivalent of a Karate orange or green belt calling themselves a an expert or a master. 7) they're trying to come off as rough and tough and are self-conscious that their sport is nerdy and thus are overly uptight about it being looked at as such. FFS they can't even take you making a joke about their sport being nerd shit, saying "this is a fucking sport." Like chill bruh, it's not serious. Overall it looks like the equivalent of a McDojo. Please try HEMA. It's way more professional and suits your skills better.

You can tell Jared loves his job so much. He’s like a kid in a candy store talking about medieval stuff, I love it 🙂

Seeing the brigandine shift and move as they fought was actually pretty cool

You can really see, how grappling was important in these fighting situations. Armored and weapons in clinch, kicking and punching doesn't have much effect but if you fall...

My boy seth was throwing feints with a shield lol 🤣

Dude awesome! I love it when people try this sport! I love doing it :)

That part about taking full breaths to purge the CO2 out of your helmet is wild. Gotta remember that if you're gonna try this

Hey cool to see you doing some buhurt! You actually did really good for a first time in kit. But that two hander shot to the shoulder shouldn't have happened

6:25 Awww there hugging!🤗

I love how this looks really cool and a little silly at the same time

Have heard about buhurt since years ago, but this video really makes me understand the craziness of this sport...

Mad props for giving this a shot, man. Fighting in armor requires a different sort of economy of movement. I hope you also check out some of the historical techniques. Tons of grappling, actually.

Seems like they gave this guy some real cheap armour considering the buckle on the helmet broke so easily along with how easy and deep the armour dented

I will say, good on you for actually doing this, shit stings/hurts, even ratan hurts hella man!

I got 3 minutes into this episode before I looked up "buhurt" nc and found the Dire Drakes page and then realized that some of the buildings in their pictures look awful familiar. Then i read the description and found it that this video is with the Dire Drakes. Nice.

I honestly just love being in this sport so much. It's super demanding, but the friends you make are lifelong for sure!

Fun fact, you can get helmet horror with motorcycle helmets too, dont crash so hard that it gets stuck

The crazy thing is that those matches last around 2 minutes, Knights dealt with that armor and those symptoms for 3-9 hour sieges.

Re- thinking the mail lol. This looks like a blast of fun

What? No spinning roundhouses or flying jump kicks in 80 lbs of armor! Anime has lied to me! Looks like a lot of fun!

For another foray into the weapons arts, I can suggest a few- HEMA (try a few different weapons out, with longsword, MS 1.33, rapier, and sabre being ideal), SCA (armored, fencing, and war melee), and ARMA (precursor to HEMA, still around as a distinct entity).

Round 3 is just a friendly round, they're so cute hugging each other.

I love that you instinctually use the Thai knee block to stop incoming attacks. We got a Muay Thai guy here for sure.

Good to see you stepping closer to my martial art. Any chance of you giving HEMA a try? 😀

Next try HEMA. Buhurt is relatively ahistorical, it kinda just makes stuff up when it comes to equipment and technique.

This video gave me that middle of the night motivation

This was awesome to watch

The armor you had on was so poorly made.. I feel so sorry for you haha! I hope you had fun though! We love to see the people showing interest to try Buhurt! Well done too! GGs

This sport is very cool to watch and certainly is similar to medieval tournaments, but in a more lethal contex, people this heavily armored would not do what they were doing; they would either be hit with something heavy( like a polaxe, that long axe he gave you or a warhammer or a mace) or wrestle and stab into the gaps in the armor. It would be fun to see you try HEMA.

That trap hit early in the video....hooboy....I still wanna do it. I could totally see this becoming an all-consuming hobby.

“Does stainless steel float?!” Incredible that that question needed to be asked.

if you're using a shield, extend it out in front of you. It's much more effective that way than if you're holding your shield close.

A great KZfaqr covering my favorite sport; I can't stop grinning!

I'm glad you struggeld too. I can fight better than average and I'm not a small guy but when I tried this for the first time, someone smaller than me and someone who knew no martial arts besides this, made things very hard for me haha. It was humbling. I thought they were just a bunch of nerds before I gave it a go and they gained my respect big time. It's really hard

LARPers: * having fun hitting each other with foam swords as a *HOBBY* * Buhurters: " Am I a funny comedy ( joke ) to you "

Helmet tear is a scary experience man

This looks fun. As far as entertainment, why not. As far as "Medieval combat" goes, its on the level of Airsoft being "Accurate depiction of gunfights", and then somebody with akimbo Uzi naruto-runs trough the field, firing wildly.

Awesome workout, I would love to get into this sport.

These people have the best chance to catch my interest rn.

Thank you for doing it! Hope time for HEMA longsword tournament will come too.

From H.E.M.A. to Hematoma in one video. Any chance we're gonna see the time machine go to feudal Japan?

The side kicks!!! I love it. Ser Karateka

"Are you ready?" "Maybe.... I don't know, man" I feel you, bro