HEMA tournament in Poznan, Poland that happened just this weekend. The fighter on the left in green & purple thrusts his rapier into the fighter's arm on the right in black, but the blunted tip managed to still pierce through their jacket. The rapier thrust was so powerful that it collapsed his bicep muscle, with just the force of the hit causing a chest contusion
this has a lot of people in HEMA questioning the safety standards of our fencing jackets and bringing back the old argument over whether to add a rubber tip or not to the end of the sword point.
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in reply to Il D~uWu~ce • • •it was a hit to his arm and apparently a 350N jacket that it went through to lodge into the guy’s bicep 😬
I have considered wearing a plastron plate underneath my jacket to cover my chest.
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