Justinder is totally hoping so!😊

Thanks! We were lucky to have Ironwood come up from Tucson to Fight with us

Definitely would be down for the local amtgard group to come by. A couple have come out and tried it. Foam is an easy low equipment entry to sparring. The difficult part is keeping an edge alignment mentality, so we usually try to get students into synthetics and steel as soon as they get gear.

@@burningsunhema there is single edged weapons in amtgard , called flat blades. Amtgard is less style and more high speed tag. But you’d be very surprised at the level some of these guys fight at. It’s very very impressive. I know longer go out anymore longer amtgard truly was a younger man’s game the fighting aspect anyways. But I do enjoy watching your videos it reminds me a lot of a great time in my life , with the foam fighting. I spent 95-01 having a blast !

Glad you found it! There's a ton more on our channel of both single rapier and rapier with dagger

Thank you!

Hope you heal up soon and can hit back to the sweet sweet joy of swinging a saber!

Oh he is just adjusting his hair. It gets in his eyes

Steel dussack is certainly a beautiful weapon! We currently only have the leather dussacks, so leather dussack it is for now. We need to hold a steel dussack fundraiser lol

Hi Michael, we are down south and west in Silver City. If you wanted to make a trip out this way we would love to have you!

It was a ton of fun. The "dagger" is a sparring knife from Tak Knives. It's the Air Wolf from the "Compressor" collection. We really like sparring with these knives. They're solid in the hand and blade for contact, yet the material has just enough give and softness to be used against bare skin. The tips also have compression points so the only protection you need is for the face and throat. takknife.com/products/compressor-air-wolfe

@@burningsunhema, thank you for the information. I'll have to look into those.

Thanks Taylor! Wish you were out here to come fight with us

Thanks Dash! I've gotta start training up the buckler now for our next tournament meeting 😉⚔️

Thanks Scott!

Thanks Reese! I wish we were closer so we could fight again

Hi Luis, thank you, and the fighter wearing the metal codpiece is Justinder.

Greetings from New Mexico! Yeah it was a match of two technical fighters who really love Messer. Working to not get hit, which should always be the goal, produces much more enjoyable to watch matches than fighters who rush in for the touch.

@@burningsunhema Fighting with the goal of not getting hit is very hard , indeed. Her is one of our attempts at saber for comparison: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g36kn4xorNOAn7M

Oh man, it was hard. Julian added a new level of vertical attacks as he is 4 inches taller with a much longer reach than anyone else that fights in Silver. Had to readjust the guards lol.

They are both using 42" rapiers. That measurement is taken from the cross

Hi Tim, The side of the knee protection is added. It's a stiff, but light plastic material that does a great job of protecting the sides of the joint and tendons. It was made by Tony Huang. We're both also wearing gorgets made by Destroyer Modz. Nate is wearing Destroyer Modz forearm protectors. If you feel you need the upper protection, you can always add it in or get something like the Spes Pro jacket which has them built in. Personally I find those that wear less "armor" the more likely they are to protect themselves rather than go into "tank mode". Also with a jacket appropriate to your weapon and a respectful partner in control of themselves and their weapon, the likelihood of injury is very low. Its usually when people lose control of themselves or their weapons that injuries happen. We try to Train the former and weed out the latter. For back of the head protection, a Spes back of the head protector is more than sufficient. I couple that with an internal padding system designed for football helmets. It takes the sting out of head shots. I was also once hit hard in the back of the head after hold was called, which made my legs wobbly, but no lasting damage or concussion with the internal padding. I highly recommend it: Unequal Mojo Lacrosse Helmet Liner, Lightweight, Flexible, Supplemental Padding Drops into Lacrosse Helmets, Made with a Military-Grade Patented Composite, Coated Aramid Fabric a.co/d/4qtDBxM

The sabers supplied by socal were too blade-heavy, leading fighters to not be able to control their strikes safely.