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i have been trying to get better mikes, but nothing seems to work, i will keep trying to find something suitable.

@@airnt Hmm... a fund raiser on the Face Book groups, pehaps? Perhaps someone even has something suitable they would be willing to donate.

@@jamesgillaspie2338 the issue is knowing what to buy, that will mesh with my devices and will work over 25-50 m distance (hence no bluetooth?) buying stuff i would do tomorrow if i only actually knew what to buy. i have asked a bunch of tech-professionals, and it is proving more difficult than i would think it needs to be

@@airnt That, unfortunately, sounds like a very good reason for problems. As the old conservator at the KMW in Wien used to say, "Technology... it is a thing of the Devil!" But somehow Jason Kingsley gets it done.

@@jamesgillaspie2338 Jason Kingsley is a literal tech guy worth a hundred million and with a company with an entire audio department for filming. Not a fair comparison.

i actually really like Capwells disertation, but also the Goll thesis

couching is done, it is seen on the battle of san romano,for instance. couching sacrifices a LOT of range for a sword, so to a foot target it is pretty rubbish. you can really change the merge speed very precisely when using a collected horse, so you can really hit as hard as you like without dislocating your thumb. (i pushed my thumb out when tentpegging, myself) i have never had anywhere near the issues with fencing impact, as you are almost invariably closign some line to fencing, so you are at a guard. if you do skill at arms, the guard is much more simply extended which aids in accuracy, but is rubbish for fencing as you have no defense.. this however also means you are using locked joints as opposed to fluid movement. the locked position is much stronger impact, but also beats you up yourself. In mounted fencing we need the ability to pull our blows anyway for safety of our opponents, and that really gives us a choice to hit harder but not get stuck so much. having said that, points get stuck quite severely if they penetrate mail, or shiedls, for instance. losing weapons was evidently very commonly expected in period

i know i can pull off a lot of stuff with a sabre, but that doesn't mean they did so. a number of things are clearly mentioned, like Schwippen, but also i think there is some French grip transitions that would work with german medieval sword technique, i am told, but i haven't see the source yet. but so much is so basic that it must be similar in most place. stop thrusts are the name oft he game in mounted fencing on the approach and in mounted stuff the approach is everything. historically they were to give point with cover by the guard, which is pretty much what we see in medieval technique too. to go from strike to thrust really aides this concept, and that is clearly emphasized earlier. this is a good bet with less extensive hilts, so that closing the line is also protecting the hand, give more authority in opposition, but still has a strike that is very much designe to threaten with a thrust at the end.... hence you are still giving point. the armour is a factor, the shields are a factor, the weapons are a factor. especially the much heavier and MUCH longer lances really maen that a 'glefe' is like an artillery piece compared to a napoleonic spear which is like a battle rifle. the longer, heavier lance is used more like a huge rapier or smallsword, and less like a one-handed pollaxe or quarterstaff.... i just to give you a flavour... the use of the back of the big lance is definite, but it takes a lot of commitment to use it and usually two hands, ad a lot of the fightign is done with the tip at distance. the curved blades are really interesting to me to wind and duplieren behind the bind, but i am really not so sure there is that much mentioned in period napoleonic sources on that... It works, though. the horse is a massive factor, and although the decline of riding was evident in the napoleonic wars, with horse meat ground to unprecedented levels etc... there was still a very broadly known understanding of collection, curb use, tight turns and fast accelerations. this is rather comparable.

@@airnt Thank you so much for the elaborate and informative answer .Looking forward to see more videos. Cheers :)

that might explain why the volume is so different from one person to the next