Regenyei Blade Comparison

[@FedericoMalagutti]

This is an extremely useful video! Good job!!!!

[@superiorhema]

Thanks! I had talked about it so many times, that I thought I should get this info out there lol.

[@armingarcia2189]

My instructor is a Regenyei authorized retailer and he actually recommends we buy the medium. The Strong is pretty much banned for tournaments here and I've heard some people online say that you can just use the Strong with chest protectors but I don't agree with that. Even with the Medium we always use plastrons, they're required gear at all tournaments. I have the Standard w/medium flex and it's worked great for the past year. It's only now begun to bend slightly after repeated flexing but nowhere near enough to be unsafe.

[@CafeUlg]

Have you any experience with the spatulated tips for the regenyei's? They seem to becoming more of thing, but I've never seen anyone talk about their experience with them over the standard rolled tips with Regi's (he says as someone thinking about getting another Regi as there's been a push recently to phase out the use of the strong blade)

[@superiorhema]

No I haven't used spatulated tips from regenyei specifically. Personally I prefer rolled tips if you don't want to put leather or rubber on the tip. Rolled tips give a larger surface area with less added weight. Spatulated/thickened tips are thinner and can slide into gaps easier. Or they can be a similar thickness but then it's WAY more steel added to the tip. Which doesn't feel great. There's some people out there against rolled tips, like B&I etc. But I don't really know of any rolled tips breaking. I'm sure it happens but it's not a major thing, otherwise there'd be a bigger shift. Lots of the big names in HEMA don't have anything against rolled tips. But yes a thickened/spatulated tip can be cleaned so it could have a theoretical longer life.

[@SkyeTsow]

I've been a really big fan of the move towards lighter flex feders!

[@superiorhema]

Ya it's just taken a while for the community as a whole to get the thrusting skill and speed to warrant large change. You could get pretty far with cutting and the occasional thrust. So it didn't force change. For my club as a whole it's really only been the past two years that everyone is landing multiple thrusts.

[@cerealterrorist]

You raise a good point about the rib damage but that can happen with any longsword if swung hard enough, a lighter flex is great and all for thrusts but the cuts are still hard. Regardless of flex, should we be moving toward using full torso plastron like the kind HF Armory or SPES have? More rib protection and after watching a guy get thrusted into the solar plexus to get knocked to the ground, should we be looking to more protection in that area as a whole? A full torso plastron and a jacket should be more than enough to protect our ribs. Also that blade flex @2:55 just makes it look super unsafe and it's going to snap and potentially cause serious damage.

[@superiorhema]

I have sparred and competed in multiple countries and have never had a sword cut that made me concerned for my ribs. Thats a club culture safety thing if you have that problem. It's only the thrust that has the potential with controlled fighters. Yes the plastron was invented a long time ago for fencing. Many tournaments have it as mandatory or recommended. That solves the rib issue and should be worn more. And Helmet overlays for masks should become standard. Lighter flex swords do actually impact less. To get more flex you remove more steel in the last half, meaning less weight swinging. Swords are cutting implements and are not great at blunt force injury to large targets. We have some longswords that we could spar with in minimal gear at a reasonably high intensity. That is actually a (sort of) myth that if a sword gets bent, it is more likely to snap. It has actually just proved that under severe duress it won't snap. If a sword is still straight, then it hasn't actually proved that it won't break when pushed to it's limit. Because under sever duress it will bend or break, going back to straight just means it wasn't severe duress. In that clip the persons arm got in the way of the bend so it got stuck only bending in the last quarter. Epees and sabers will naturally get a bend and that's good. Longsword it becomes more of an issue because you might pick it up different directions and work the blade into an S curve without noticing.