The art of fight-Modern Knight

The historical medieval battles world championship logo,first held in 2009 in Ukraine
Over 30 countries have joined the competition

he main goal in every dyscyplin is to topple your enemy to the ground when you meet with the soil you also meet with the defeat.In this picture you can see the marshal(man in the yellow with same coulored flag)he's a judge.

The most important rules is to not choke oponent,do not hit the lying man or do not hit somebody without a single piece of armour(when you have lost gauntlet all competition is pause until you leave the fight area) 

This really ekstreme sport exist since 2009(the idea comed from Russia)and unites more than 30 countries around the world .Worldwide tournaments are held at the buldings and places connected with medieval era(castles,remains of defensive walls or in the fortresses)

Every country needs to have 8 to 50 representative

Polish Representation 3rd place in general and in 2018(Santa Severa-Rome)Poles get 8 medals in various disciplines.

next incoming opportunity to get medals and glory will be in 2019.In this year Tournament will be held in Serbia exacly at Smederevo fortress

Rules about the armour are very loose ,knights can wear pieces of armour from XII to XVI century.The strict rule is about wearing armour:you must have all the body covered in it.But weapon chose isn't restricted by any rules(In group fight)Soo you can take whatewer mlee weanpon from medieval era(without maces,and nothing sharp of course)

Knights can fight 1 vs 1 to even 50 vs 50. The moust popular is 21vs 21 call ''the royal"

The art of fight-genesis

At this painting  we can see a  band of knights probably from XII century fighting in a long chain armours and great helmets with decorative talberts on them. Winning group domp the helmets from they oponents to show that the're beaten.

One of the most iportant aspects of medieval knight life was war.We might say that knights functionined and lived only for fight and contest,because the other points of knight's rules such as defending christans and proceeding according to rules of Holy Bible were reather threated iconically.

The most popular and known combat skill tests was the knights tournaments consisting of a series of single duels or on the beggining just one battle but with blunt weapons in this battle the only rule was: Try not to kill your oponent and the main quest was to take captives to the special area.
By the time in France shaped the duel we know the best:The horse duel.
Knights fought using five metres long lances with blunt tips and they try to dump their oponent from the saddle.

Turnaments were reserwed only for the richest nobility cause knights fought in private armours using their own lances and horses.I must refute the myth about the warrior rising  from the ground and continiue fighting after falling from the saddle because lose of helmet or falling from horse were signals to who won the duel.

There also were infrantry duels(always with armour)but they were rare because infrantry fight was less spectacular than horse duels.For win the infrantry duelist must bring his enemy to the ground.

 In this XV drawning we can see knights with full plate armour and Great basinets on their heads.From blood spiling from their legs we can tell that in this duel they use sharp blades ,and they strike to kill oponen

Of course they were more brutal and spectacular way of fighting called "sharp fighting"like Zbyszko vs Rotgier fight.
Unfortunately when the fights were battlet in armours knights didn't fight using long swords(too heavy,too small places)They fights using short war axes or shortswords,maces or various types of blunt weapons which passed the exam against the practically unpenetrable plate armour.

Above we can see the page from Talhoffer's fight book.This book writen in XV century is just a mine of knowlege about the medieval combat.

How the man should be armed

Using  this images i want to show you how the europe armour have evolved . From the Germanic Nobleman from ages before Christ to knight wearing half-plated armour

At this picture we can see man in a short hauberg and simple helm witch nasal and cheeks protection.
His weanpons constitute round small shield and jawelin made for throwing.
He also have a shortsword  maked for slashing.
That single man is in infrantry but nobles usually serve in cavalery

At this picture we can see the member of the Hospitaleri order.Im sorry for little misunderstanding
in this picture, because we can see brother in black robe but the black robes with white maltan cross were
reserwed for normal autfit
When Knights of Saint John(Hospitalers)were moving into battle they were wearing red robes with white crosses
This palticular knight have long chainmail with chain gauntlets, the chain leggins and great helm on his head.
He have also the arm and forearm plate protection.Forearm protection was used by archers.
As weanpons he have short arming sword made for stabing & slashing and a migdal shield

In this picture we can see the man wearing connection of chain and plate armour.
Everything is covered in plates without armpits and the elbows. On a head he have helm called "hund helm".
He should also had cover his back of calces in chain but this one is just a model.
As a weapon he had half board sword.
As you  can see that he don't have a shield,because shields were too heavy for a warrior covered in plates.

            

My First Post- Want to know

Hello dear users of Blogger! I bow to everyone without exeption ! In my first post i want to introduce myself and do a little talk about my hobbys.Let's get this over with....

As you may know my name is Wiktor.I have grown up in a typical Polish family in a small house in suburbs near the park with my Drandad,Mom and Dad.Im interested in history of wars ,,specjalization" -Persian and Peleoponesian wars,life of Alexander the Great and The Crusades to the Holy land.I also interested in music and i can play a few instruments, but music isn't my horse enymore .I either make sports regularly, but nothing special about this. I read a loot of books too not only historical,my favourite non historical books are ,,Roots of the Heavens" writen by Tulio Avoledo and ,,Master and the Margaret" by Michaił Bułchakow.

In my personal blog i want to talk about the medieval ages and how they afects the modern world. 

The dark ages had two most important ascpect:The fight and the god's might.

Soo in my first posts i will try to talk about religion and middle ages combat. 

Why the medieval period? For a various reasons. Firstly because i grovn up in a  atheist family without the god and i want to know what is really atracting people and how do believers see the world.Secondly i know that for true religious person nothing is imposible and that is impresing for me and i have more respect for Them than for everyone else.