This is actually a useful review! Thank you!!!

Excellent and conscise review, subbed.

I used them for light longsowrd sparring (ohnly helmet and gloves) and can't find anything wrong here. Every hit I could take to my bare unprotected arms the RD can handle. For everything harder I'd recommend heavier gloves.

Nice review man. After three years of use, i would hope they'd have been sufficient!

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Do you think they are okay for longsword sparring (lighter feders and synthetics) in more of a "club level" free-play kinda thing rather then competition level with the spes fingertip protectors? I try to get something thats more mobile then those clam-shell things, and i also want something that works well with lighter weapons like messer or arming sword and buckler.

Are you sure that you really used them ? because mine didn't last one year in in that condition. Even without spaaring the cross of the longsword damaged mine quite a lot. Did you sparr with them or what do you do with them ? And which weapons do you use with them. Because i think the Longsword itself damaged them quite a lot.

The problem with the size is that if it's not yours, even though it fits, it restricts your mobility, that twist of the wrist that you see in the video with the sidesword, I can't do it with that fluidity due to the problem with the size

1. let's establish that beating each other with what amounts to "poorly balanced bar maces" as hard as we can, with regularity, is kinda dumb. 2. Let's also finally accept that we are practicing carving each other up with swords, not beating each other with poorly balanced bar maces. 3. Swords are sharp (they're bar maces otherwise), and remove limbs, fingers, heads, and sever tendons/arteries/muscles with surprisingly little effort 4. Neither bar mace (blunt "swords") nor fancy-carved sticks (waisters) bind remotely like sharps do (the thing you're actually practicing for the use of), but sticks are easier to make safer than a bar mace. 5. if a sword (or in the case of practice, a sword-simulator) is coming at you... GTFO of the way, any way you can! 6. If you stick your hand out there to be cut off... to include making a habit of intercepting an opposing blade very low on your sword...it probably will be eventually. Hand hits are not "OK", it means you're doing something wrong (the occasional "lucky" strike happens, but it should be relatively infrequent). 7. #1 rule of combatives: protect yourself at ALL TIMES. That solves most of the "problems" of "insufficient" HEMA hand protection... next up, leg protection (one of the hardest to hit targets on the body, yet people worry too much about)!