Knights Fight at 36th Annual San Luis Obispo Renaissance Festival Faire - California Armored Combat

This year we were at the 36th annual Renaissance Festival to put on a show for the Central Coast in beautiful San Luis Obispo.
Thank you to the California participating Buhurt teams:
- San Luis Obispo Manticores (Green/Black)
- Santa Barbara’s Soldados (Red/Grey)
- Sacramento Warpigs (Mixed)
- Los Angeles Solo Fighter (Ron Smorynski)
- Las Vegas Solo Fighter (Zach Husch)
We fought both Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm for 1 hour each show. All fights were random matchups. Once someone fell on the hay bales (3points of contact) they were out.
We had a bunch of 1v1 duels and melees 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, and All vs All Buhurts.
This was the 36th Annual Central Coast Renaissance Festival. (It was closed in 2020 & 2021 due to pandemic closures) but came back this year in 2022 with the biggest attendance numbers ever.
This is an ACW event. The venue allows fighters to camp overnight and divides a payment between participating fighters. If you would like to get involved please contact us for more info.
Medieval combat fighters use a variety of blunted steel weapons like, Halberd, Polearm, Sword and Buckler, Longswords, Falchion, 2h Short Axe, Sword and Shield, Mace, Handaxe, Punch Shield, and more.
Buhurt is an international sport with tournaments every month in various countries around the world.

[@johurt7913]

Love that Armet from the Soldado’s

[@EykisCorporation]

A bamboo shelter frame in a medieval knight tournament is a 100% historical.

[@kuroshthegreat8073]

they were carried by a flock of swallows.

[@panoramarick]

Who do I speak with to get a high-resolution version of this video? I'm the promotions coordinator for this faire and would love to have aa few seconds of this for the 2024 tv spot.

[@kuroshthegreat8073]

this may sound like a dumb question but whats the point of them using weapons if the goal is just to throw your opponent onto the ground or out of the ring?

[@Jeff-de8uk]

Also, for melee when its 3v3, 5v5, 20v20, etc or non duels... the goal is to get the opponant to the ground by beat down , submission, pushed, etc.

[@billyscorpio]

Well done lads!

[@dougsfield]

wow this is something new to me!

[@michaelg7385]

gj real nice fight