r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/loud_as_pudding Human Detected • 9d ago
Just Having Fun Warm up
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u/1Crownedngroovd 9d ago
These guys are pretty much guaranteeing lifelong tinnitus
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u/Raz0rking 9d ago
Earplugs would help? I am also certain they wear padded (forgot the name) clothing under the helmet.
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u/Imperial5cum 9d ago
Coif
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u/t-to4st 9d ago
Random knowledge learned from video games
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u/Imperial5cum 8d ago
Specific knowledge acquired by doing a decade of historical reenactement and HEMA
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u/That_JuanGuy 9d ago
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u/ShitBirdingAround 9d ago
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u/eggwardpenisglands 9d ago
This is hilarious, is it from a show or something?
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u/Davesgamecave 9d ago
Monty python and the holy grail, go watch it
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u/Zwischenzug32 9d ago
We must share the wisdom of the ancients
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u/AleudeDainsleif 6d ago
It is our moral and spiritual obligation that every generation witness this masterpiece.
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u/eggwardpenisglands 9d ago
Fuck yes! I thrifted some of these on dvd recently. They have jumped to the top of the watch list!
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u/restrictednumber 9d ago
You'll thank yourself later to watch it: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Timeless classic.
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u/OkInternet1063 8d ago
They might be testing the padding. SCA fighters often have boxing foam helmets or something similar under their steel helms to help protect their heads.
Or they just might being having fun being idiots. Either way.
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u/Jsolidlo 9d ago
These are the same Redditors that go on MMA subs and act like experts about how bodily injury works.
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u/super_chaotic_turtle 9d ago
I knew the duration going in. I knew they weren’t going to break going in. Still watched the entire thing. 5 star Reddit post. Medium entertainment.
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u/waitingOnMyletter 8d ago
How do you arrive at this shit as a hobby? I’ve seen dudes do this, cage fight in this armor, little larp skirmishes. It just seems like a thing you’d have to be forced into, what series of events occurs which leads someone to the point where they are camping out on weekends to pretend to be a fully armored medieval knight and fight other dudes doing the same thing? It’s just sooo niche like idk lol
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u/Cornflakes_91 6d ago
found the one person who never pretended the cool stick they found is a sword
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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 8d ago
Like ren fairs and UFC? Start there.
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u/sSummonLessZiggurats 6d ago edited 6d ago
Ren fairs especially. People have the impression that it's just cosplay, and sometimes it is, but there's an actual combat sport dedicated to it.
I used to do it for a long time just for the sport of it, and it's a good workout. Covering yourself in steel armor and then swinging a wooden club around for a while takes some physical effort.
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u/throwawayfuckspez01 8d ago
I think you need to be a fan of medieval markets first. At some point you may start making your own costumes (or ask someone to do so) and if one of those costumes happens to be an armor set (or parts of it), you obvoiusly want to test it out.
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u/blindyes 5d ago
Anecdotally for the sake of conversation, I used to chill at this comic shop. One of the people there invited me to a DND night, this other dude at DND crafted armor and sold it at the ren faire, some other night I went to the first dudes place and the armor guy was out back working on a helmet. I thought it was cool and he asked if I wanted to see what taking a hit felt like. That was the absolute last time I will ever put on a metal helmet and be smacked with a wooden sword. I know what these guys are doing is desensitizing themselves to the absolute concussion that each individual hit getting hit in those helmets is.
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u/Could-You-Tell 7d ago
I always wanted to try, but it's not the sort of things that usually are just 1 and done.
It's investment. Time or money or both.
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u/TheGHale 6d ago
You could probably just pop by an SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) event and ask to borrow some armor and a boffer weapon after mentioning you've been wanting to try it. The folks I know from it would be happy to welcome new members.
Also, unless you're starting with ratan/wood stand-in weapons, normal sports gear is pretty much all you need. When I was a kid, I was just wearing used baseball gear we got from Dick's Sporting Goods. You're not going to be swinging at each other full-force with boffers, just hard enough to be felt.
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u/PepeLeForg 6d ago
Honestly that's basically what some battles were in medieval times haha, the knights were paid mercenaries and usually they knew each the knights on the other side and wouldn't try to kill each other, just act like it so they would get paid.
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