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Im just chiming in as one of the guys in the Washington area so that it i sknown that I do lurk here.
Rapier, bleh no thank you. I did some rapier my bad depth perception is too much a hinderance when using a long one handed thrusting weapon, and Id rather study an outdated weapon of war rather than ...

yeah I love the SCa and its slective "authenticity". Poepl will get on you for not having a good persona or using modern materials but its ok to use plastic armor and stand toe to toe.
There even used to be three differnt hand to hand combat activities in the SCA, one of them slowly got killed off ...

tha is so absurd.
A short bladed knife, pointed or un pointed is jsut as dangerous as a 10+ inch kitchn knife. You really only need less than an inch of pentration to kill.
This is why the Uk is great place to only visit, an for short periods of time.

And the "apalling" wound shown in the ...

part of the problem seems to stem from the fact that the actions are either made larger, and therfore easier to see by the untrained eye, or slower, once again so the untrained eye can more easily watch the action.
Maybe if the fight scenes were sped up more they might seem more realistic, maybe ...