“This week Stu will be making duck noises for 2 minutes straight…” Thanks for the video, really useful

@thehemashow3447

Ай бұрын

Glad it helped - Stu is currently floating about in a pond living his best duck life.

As a guy that believes everybody deserves to fence, I absolutely love this topic 👏 👍🙏

Im actually extremely excited, iv just found out you guys have a club in my area and ill definitely be popping by in the next few weeks!

I approve of the swearing.

I've always thrown half the stuff I've bought away or destroyed it by chopping it up to try and make it work for me. I've wasted thousands over the last 20 years and have also had to change my 'perfect' kit out for an ageing changing shape and dump perfectly good items because my neck vanished or my gut doubled in diameter. LOL. So for me, HEMA has been an evolving (or even devolving) kit problem for the entire span. I don't think it stays static and from the whole pile of stuff here in my man-den, I draw nine different kits for different purposes. And with getting old, I now have to use a set of arming lists or I'll forget something. :-) As for this video advisory, well done there. I've been looking at current kit specifications and and been drifting about wading through all the stuff confused. This neatly does the job. Cool!

@thehemashow3447

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, appreciate the feedback!

Great video for people getting into the hobby, our club basically recommends the same stuff. However I think it's worth mentioning false economy here, because it's an important issue facing someone getting into the hobby on a budget. Is your goal, as a cash-conscious new starter, to pick up a synth and get stabbing as cheaply and quickly as possible? If so, Red Dragon has you covered. However, there's another possibility - which is having the goal of reaching Steel level gear with the absolute minimum of wasted cash along the way. If that's the case, I'd skip over Red Dragons completely in favour of a SupFen bundle (which if you email them, they are happy to edit to your preference). As Stu says, the RD gloves are nonviable for Longsword. You need clamshells. The RD shins aren't exactly great either. The RD jacket (while safe) is something of a heavy horse blanket. If you only want to buy each type of PPE once, and you're certain your end goal is Steel Longsword - I'd skip the RD step completely. Side note: a lot of HEMAists run under-sock hockey shinpads (such as the Adidas Lux or cheaper equivalent) and KneePros with their fencing pants, rather than over-the-trouser shin options like RD and Supfen offerings. When you're on a budget, it's also good to know what order to get things in. For HEMA, it's "Weapon last. Protection first." because you can easily borrow a sword. You don't want to borrow sweaty jackets, masks or gloves. To take part in basic drills and light sparring with foams/boffers and synths - Mask, Gorget and Gloves. To do more intense sparring with synths, and drills with steel, add jacket, elbows and forearm plates. Once you've got that in the bag, get leg PPE (first knees, then shins, then pants, in order of importance) and a mask overlay to make you steel sparring ready. Steel sword last. No matter how much you want one, or how pretty they are. No point in owning a feder when you've got broken hands.

can we all agree that saving money and swearing are some of the best things in life (and getting some great advise as well i guess) 😅

@thehemashow3447

Жыл бұрын

The youtube algorithm disagree's that swearing is good but Stu likes to argue with it.

wtf was it with ducks dude?

I make my own trainers and gear over the years I've gotten pretty good at making swords and if i get better i might start a club and try to disseminate historical fencing on my city

@thehemashow3447

Жыл бұрын

Stu had to look up the word disseminate XD

@velazquezarmouries

Жыл бұрын

@@thehemashow3447 it looks sus but means spread

@velazquezarmouries

Жыл бұрын

@@thehemashow3447 i sometimes use complicated words because English isn't my first language

@thehemashow3447

Жыл бұрын

Still better than Stu's hahaha

@velazquezarmouries

Жыл бұрын

@@thehemashow3447 they teach us all the complicated words and a bit of grammar. i personally had to learn most of my grammar and conversational English by myself