Considering the difficulty of these cuts I'm quite impressed with these gentlemen's performance. I wish I could've gone to this event since it would have been both educational and enjoyable.

Bespectacled fellow is quite theatrical.

All very impressive, guy in waistcoat deserved a few extra points for presentation though :P

Those triple Zwerchhaw were amazing!

Great cuts. Some really good technique in this video.

I like how you are humble and help clean up after the cuts. Menial tasks like that are utterly necessary and nobody should feel they are above them. I also see Sean Franklin in this video, did you guys manage to talk to each other and exchange opinions?

Thank you CarnalKid! Always appreciate being educated! That's what I signed on for! Many thanks!

I didn't expect those last cuts made by James Clark I understand is his name, the waistcoat competitor, to be so powerfull and effective. I am concerned someday someone is going to lose the grip of his sword in this crowded audience. It happens in baseball, tenis etc. I'm a worrier

Holy crap the big bearded guy in the white shirt is a beast.

Some great demonstrations of technique in some fairly spectacular fashion.

absolutely phenomenal

Awesome video, that kid in the vest's short edge cuts were pretty nice.

I love how you can see the 'oh no I fucked it big time' on the face of the first guy.

Hey guys, do you know what is is that guy on the right at 1:40 using for leg/shin protection at video "FightCamp 2015 standart tournament rules - historical fencing"? i want to buy a long gambeson because i have problems of people hitting me into shins.

I LOVE the broad blade on Jake's Albion Principe. I wonder if it handles like a hand and a half sword, due to it's stoutness but the broadness can probably make up the extra weight making it not as effective in one hand as say a Mercenary from Albion.

A lot of people here seem to think things should have gone differently... By all means, get involved and earn your place as a judge, until then, stop trying to do their job. It's disrespectful.

That was very exciting to watch and oddly moving.

Love the cut @7:40

Wow! Ian Laspina, Richard Marsden and Matt Easton all in the same video! .../s

looks so much cooler chopping things up in a vest

I feel that energy X)

So tense!

Matt, do you have any insight for us into how the point system works for the cutting tournament? Does knocking the stand over mean you get no points at all despite having cut through a mat, for example?

1:28 I didn't expect anything less from The Hound.

Hey Matt, what do you think about throwing a circular shield offensively like a frisbee á la Captain America? Random question but I've always been curious about it.

Wow, Norwood's a great cutter.

Does being big and strong help with the cut at all? Or is strength only for maintaining the proper stances? Are cuts like this practical for an actual sword fight?

Impressive.

Was everyone using their own sword? Or one provided to them?

Clarke was amazing. What type of sword is that? Forgive my ignorance

I'd have switched second and third place, but all of them were very impressive.

Are they doing this in a Banquet hall?

from 7:58 WTF!!!THAT is impressive

7:55 can we conclude from that: The more over the top the cut looks like, the better it is?

does it ever happen that somebody loses grip of their sword? seems that it could be a dangerous situation with so many people all around in every direction.

Seemed like first and second place winners had very similar, broad bladed longswords, anyone know what type it is?

You can see the power of passing footwork...

Please could somebody clarify to me, how are results made in the competition of this type. Is there a jury, or it was done solely by some measurement? In my humble uneducated opinion gentleman of the utmost left should have won.

or is it purchase?

Well done gentlemen - particularly the chap with the spectacles. I would seriously consider making this a shirt and tie event.

So I'm not sure exactly what the objective is here, or how to tell who's doing well, but in general I'm guessing you're supposed to cut through all of the weird rolled-up things cleanly and not knock anything over? So I guess it takes a lot of speed and accuracy with the angle of the blade.

Lol, that UUUghh in the end of the video :D

it looks like snooker but with swords. still, it's fun.

I like how the grim reaper, Fedor Emilianenkos brother, got into HEMA

Coming here from The Ocho

Did I see Richard Marsden in one of the cleanup crews?

Did they all have the same sword? Because if they had differently weighted it would mean some had advantages over others.

I had no idea that a Broad Sword like that even had an Edge! I always believed that the damage was done purely through the momentum.

That triple schielhau though!

7:56

7:23 I actually thought its Matt

For some reason I read "Final" as "Fail" the first time...was confused until I took a second look at the title.

was that ian laspina?

In my first day of fencing class I told my teacher: “I like everybody helps everybody”. He answered me: “I like they hug each other”. Impressive cuts all of them.

This was interestingly formal. Yes, interestingly is a word...maybe...

you guys make your own swords

Luckily for me, Alaska abounds in "natural tatami" targets. Devil's Club and Poison Celery. Both of which penalize you for improper cuts in their own deliciously natural ways. I slew a GREAT many of them with a 22 inch Galivian latin machete from the age of reason to now. I've broken one, and someone else broke another =( But those blades are like excalibur to me, or like the Kokiri/Master sword to Link, how I love them! I haven't found a real replacement, America is gimped on melee the way the rest of the world is gimped on firearms.

1:12 for those who say that charging attacks dont work in real life :P

Why are they all using different longswords

That zornhow though!

It boggle my mind that Mssr Easton seems so keen to advocate test cutting on Matts.

Where's Skallagrim at

Is there a reason why people are wearing a suit and tie while doing these cutting? Suit and tie are certainly not ergonomical for this kind of task.

you guys don't have plexiglass up? these cats could lose their grip (that one guy kept drying his hands on his pants...this is extremely dangerous

Why do some of the competitors looks like caterers?

why are they all wearing such fancy clothes?

I feel like the skinny young guy had his elbows and arms out way too far for it to be realistic. Although I could be totally wrong, I don't know anything about cutting. That's just how it appeared.

Why do they hate these mats so much? 😎

Why do they look like they just came from a business meeting?

What stops a sword coming loose and hitting someone or is that very unlikely? Sweaty competition hands? A Faulty sword grip? Nervous spasms? Maybe a cage might be an idea...or everyone in the crowd has to bring a shield :D

Don't mess with fat samurai.....

Sandor Clegane??

I loved the vid and I watched it five times already. However one thing worries me - no matter how skillfull these men are (and they are), they could lose grip on their sword any moment. Even a master can make a mistake, get a cramp, sneeze at the exact wrong moment, etc. etc. And if sharp blade capable to cut three tatami mats went flying through the air, it could seriously injure or even kill someone. There should be some protective barrier (like arrow catching net, or plexi wall) in the line of the swing between the competitor and spectators and judges, or enough distance (although I imagine the sword could fly quite a few meters with such powerfull swings). I am suprised there were not more obvious and readily visible safety measures, given this happened in USA with their shitty health care system where anyone potentially injured would almost certainly have no other option than to sue the event organizers in order to be able to pay the hospital bill.

The guy on 1:10 is the only one doing things right. He probably would wreck these other fools on an actual combat. Me included because I dont know shit.

The "being dressed like snooker umpires" thing is really off-putting.

A katana would slice those really easy and very straight.