Hey all!
Yes. We here in Serbia, and several other european countries, have the sport
that is in fact training in traditional fighting and battling techniques of
the corresponding nation. Here at my city they organize a joust in serbian
fighting once a year, and sometimes the knights come from Italy, Hungary,
Russia and Poland. I like to go to watch the joust, and I met the leader and
the trainer of the knights and talked to him about the weapons and the
disciplines of the joust. He showed me a few kinds of swords, something like
a bastard sword, and a serbian broad sword which is very heavy, about 20 kg,
a few wooden shields and a battleaxe with two broad heads, used for crushing
not only armor and sculls, but a gates of a castle or a city. There is also
a mace with six spikes, each is some 10 centimeters in length, and a flail
with a long shaft and a short chain, a standard bow and a crossbow.
The joust consists of group battle, that is, attack on a castle, where one
group attacks and the other defends the fortress or castle, depending where
the joust is held. Then, the duels that consist in a one handed weapon
fighting with a help of a shield in the other. There is sword fighting,
flail fighting and whip fighting, and two-handed weapons fights like battle
axes, serbian swords, or quarterstaves. The extremely strong of them fight
with the serbian sword in one hand and a shield or a mace in the other.
Finally, there is the serbian wrestling. If I try to translate it in
english, I would call it the belt wrestling, because the oponents take each
other's belt and try to throw him off-balance. There is also a russian
technique of the belt wrestling, where one takes the oponents belt with his
hands crossed.
Am I off-topic? No. Because a joust of a kind could be a good idea for an
online game. I know there is a flash joust game, but it is not quite rich
with the choice of weapons and such, thus it doesn't have a big replay
value. If noone does it before I learn the bgt or something similar, I will
do it. And yes, feel free to remind me of that. :)
Best!
Milos Przic
msn: [email protected]
skype: Milosh-hs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnny Tai" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] howlers
Agreed Jim- when I first learned how to use a broadsword I was amazed by
how heavy it was.
Funny you mention the flail- I actually made one at home just to mess
around with.
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