Definitely not the SCA....

[Inquartata]

Wherein we may see the disadvantage swords suffer against armor:


http://www.lancasters-armourie.info/the_finale.wmv

[KShan5[PrFC]]

Although you have to love the headbutt at the 1:10 mark.

[cowpaste]

Lol, what is this? Crazy peoples.

[Bokken]

I counted three or four headbutts in there, most from the guy on screen-right. Seemed like every time they got close, he'd wallop the other guy. Curious...

But considering everything, strangely appropriate.

[telkanuru]

And here, we see why the greatsword was a useful weapon. Slow, cumbersome? Yes. Able to break bones even through armour? Yep. It was like a baseball bat with an edge... I can see a properly trained duelist dancing around those guys, tho, even if they're using (comparatively) dinky swords.

Headbutts are OK, but I didn't see the fairly standard move of thrust-miss-smash-face-with-pommel

[cowpaste]

I prefer the Chinese wuxia version where they fly around and keel each other with energy blasts.

[Inquartata]

Head butts, buckler smashes, it's all on, apparently. The only thing prohibited is horizontal strikes to the face ( might enter the view slits, I suppose ).

But there's no halfswording with the longswords, which is the indicated method against armour, so I suspect that thrusting is out as well.

[cowpaste]

I wonder if the people inside those armours have powerful bodies like us fencers.