Larping actually looks pretty cool. I'd love to try it at some point.

@princeofelsweyr8099

7 жыл бұрын

Arnar Er Besturson yeah me too

@theguy3851

4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@Submarine_2010

4 жыл бұрын

Same

I'm totally on board with that homemade spear not being thrust safe, but the thing about the shield size seems a bit strange. If you want a dueling con you can prohibit all shields and polearms and let the people fence, but a shield size limit seems far fetched, especially if it's an absolute number and not dependent on body size. Also that helmet is ludicrous, but for fantasy LARP ludicrous is fun.

@KiwasiGames

8 жыл бұрын

Give me a shield that size under Sword Craft rules and I would be invincible. It does mean short people have an advantage with a shield. But as a tall person I have a advantage with reach. So it often balances out.

@NotMeButAnother

8 жыл бұрын

BoredMormon Games I guess I'd have to read up on those Sword Craft rules to really answer that.

@KiwasiGames

8 жыл бұрын

Rules are here if you want them www.swordcraft.com.au/rules/ Its a fun game, I'm there most weeks. But it is definitely a battle game instead of a LARP or a reenactment.

@FischBlubbBlubb

7 жыл бұрын

i think the shield was only in regards to that recruitment/training thing. at a larger larp con you could absolutely use large shields

@KiwasiGames

7 жыл бұрын

SwordCraft is mainly a battle game rather then a LARP. So shield sizes are strictly limited, even at the big events. But other LARP events are different.

So anything that may remotely hurt a toddler, isnt allowed. I got it!

@watch7966

2 жыл бұрын

Saftey is important, but.... Kids 50 years ago: I've got some sticks, lets sword fight. Men in the 21st century: Let's sword fight, but make sure its squishy and foam....

Good larp weapon suppliers/makers: Epic Armoury, Calimacil, Freyhand, Atelier's Nemesis, Mytholon, Fucina del Drago.

Me and my mates used to go to the hardware store and buy huge 6 foot dowling or pvc that had a radius of about an inch and we cut them down to the size we wanted, then put 1/4 pipe insulating foam over top of them, duct taped the shite out of them and then created cross guards and we went to town, we had alot of really epic fights and battles. turned out fine, these rules in the video seem a bit overkill. When i look back on those fights i think, yeah getting hit by one of those things hurt, alot, but you learned how to get the hell out of the way the next time. we only ever had one broken bone and that was a nose from an accidental headshot, that was the worst injury any of us took, and there were close to 40 of us from the high school, mostly all rowers. Really just alot of bruises, a few cuts, and some wounded pride when you took an ass whooping. Still some of my favorite memories were those fights then getting drunk with everyone at the end of the day. Oh yeah, and no armor or padding or anything, the rules were simple, take 1 solid hit to an arm, cant use that arm until the fight was over or if you were "killed" if you took 1 solid hit the a leg, you lost the leg and had to hop. Solid hit from neck to hips were a kill. And no head shots. There was no role playing it was all about the fighting.

G'day, Hmmmn, the Medievalists I've hung around were using real steel Swords, but the Edges had to be no sharper than the edge of a 20-cent Coin, with Steel Armour or Leather over Kevlar, and they all tried not to hurt each other ; but there was nothing like "Foam Weapons" involved, their ideal was to be as real as possible without making people bleed (too much or for too long) but Bruises were totally expected as part of the Game. ;-p Ciao !

@n00bman100

8 жыл бұрын

Here in scandinavia we have Hirds (viking warrior group-ish), we use real steel weapons, made to be safe with blunt edges and spears having flat tips, most dont have more armor than some type of protective glove (like with 5mm wax-boiled leather or hockey gloves xD) to protect the hands, and then most use sheilds. Its quite safe, bruises is something you have to expect, but other than that its quite safe as long as you can control the swings. And ofc we got rules on where you can hit and so on. :P

@KiwasiGames

8 жыл бұрын

Sword Craft gets a huge amount of new people each week. Steel is fine if you know what you are doing. But for our crowd its just asking for hospitalizations. If it makes you feel any better you can still get bruised from a foam weapon.

@n00bman100

8 жыл бұрын

BoredMormon Games Well tbh, my comment was towards Mr WarblesOnALot's comment, I have nothing against Larping and I think its great that it exists, I where even part of something similar when I was younger, we were a group of children of different ages that had these events where we were in the woods doing a Live Action Role Play thing, but with wooden weapons, thats where this started of for me. Have a nice day! :D

@WarblesOnALot

8 жыл бұрын

Adam G'day, Yeah, I knew you were talking to me..., that's why I upthumbed your comment. I'd never heard of LARPing till seeing Shad's Videos. I wouldn't say I'm "Against LARPing" either, in that I wouldn't start, nor sign, a Petition to try to stop LARPing, but when I asked a couple of questions on another thread it certainly drew a bit of a "FizzbangPop !" reaction...; it felt similar to the reaction one gets in a Food Venue when asking what's on the Menu for Vegetarians, and suddenly all the Meat-Eaters on the premises feel so threatened that they begin demanding the Vegetarian explain themselves, and provide a moral defence of Veganism because they've heard that Hitler was a Vegetarian..., and he was an Arsehole...(!). I like to discombobulate them, by mentioning that Hitler was also a Non-Smoker who hated Tobacco ; and asking if that means that Non-Smokers are a bunch of Genocidal Nazi Megalomaniacs...(?) ! It's a funny thing ; but it's not possible, at Law, to ask a defamatory Question... So, it might be fun to ask the married LARPers the classic, "So, when did you stop beating your Wife...?", when the couple returns from a day of Play-Fighting in public places...; tee hee, chuckle chortle, giggle guffaw...! (lol) Take it easy, ;-p Ciao !

@n00bman100

8 жыл бұрын

WarblesOnALot "So, when did you stop beating your Wife...?" I loled to that. xD And the second comment (note that this is the 3rd) was towards "BoredMormon Games" as it seemed he thought my first comment was towards the video even though it was towards you. :P

This skull helmet looks so ridiculous.

@seigeengine

7 жыл бұрын

awesome*

@piegaming6112

7 жыл бұрын

personally think he could get some black fabric he could see through over those eyes.

@lopside2313

7 жыл бұрын

Dennis12869 but cool

@louirudy670

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis12869 thats what makes it awesome

@theguy3851

4 жыл бұрын

Pop culture weapons analysis: shaddiversity

Big exclaimation, that other larps will have other rules and weapon checking rules. And Shad learnt a valuable lesson of checking the rules before making your hard kit

In my group, almost everyone uses weapons made by us, they really don't look realistic but are safe. We don't have any providers here in Brazil.

@sarahyazaki8599

4 жыл бұрын

Achei um BR kkkkk Tentando fazer minha espada pra larp agorinha

how cool is your helmet Shad! wicked. Shame about the sound quality in this vid, bit low. so is your larp gear all bought rather than made ? can you home make larp approved gear? perhaps a vid on how to do that

Who is the biggest expert in real combat? In this corner we have SHAD!!!!! and in this corner we have ...........!!!!!!!!!

Hey, Shad. Do you think it's worth trying to start a LARP group where I live? Of course I would have different roles for Kombat (Combat with a K because of Mortal Kombat, one of my favorite games) I think it could be fun, and would be a great thing for my videos.

I have some foam swords from (game and movie/tv replicas) Global Gear that I picked up from the last Melbourne SupaNova...don't think they'd be approved for LARP, but I bought them so I would have them till I can make some better (probably fibreglass) replicas...would definitely get something more "realistic" if I were doing something like LARP.

I honestly just want to know if it is actually possible to get any anime character blades to L.A.R.P with, particularly kiritos swords or in gamings case, links master sword and hylian shield. Would settle for a dual set of katanas though

@polarbear4696

4 жыл бұрын

There's a couple videos on how a guy makes his scores thrust safe for swords, so with said knowledge and some imagination (and plenty of foam) I'm sure you could make a set that would work wonderfully! If you, do post a video about it! I haven't seen enough flare in the Larp world yet!

where did you get the helmat

I joined a LARP group (though, tbh, more like a battle game than larp), and a dude cracked another guy's ribs with a padded spear. Some of the more dense foam swords can pack a punch too: I've had black bruises across a third of my thigh for over a month from just one fight night (though, tbf, I had no armour or padding on. Just my jeans).

lol the shield went from perfectly fine to broken during the video. you guys are weird. here in germany we normally use foamed shields. everything holds together way better and fuck if someone runs into your shield the dont have a broken nose

where did you get the helmet?

What are some good sources or websites to order full contact larp gear from?

@Madsteel3

7 жыл бұрын

Depends on where in the world you live. If you live in Europe, I can recommend Deinlarpshop.de and Mytholon.com. The former has a wide variety of products for almost all one's LARP needs, while the latter got some pretty cheap but alright metal armor and clothes for LARP use. Both sites have a large selection of foamed weapons available, the most durable of which are of the brand Calimacil, which can take a beating that'd ruin two or three of most the competitors' products, except for Hammerkunst, but those are of hard foam and stiff cores, thus are banned in most the LARP sites in Denmark for being too harmful in the wrong hands. (That calimacil is banned by the more squirmy sites, is generally a matter of wrongly labeling all 'cast foam' weapons as dangerous.) If you live in North America, I only know of Calimacil's own site for a place to get good quality weapons, but I would not use their own site in Europe, due to the ridiculous import taxes applied even to the already expensive shipping. Other than those sites, I can not really say, for I have only been reliant on those and some Danish sites that offer no English language option. Mind that I'm unaware what is really meant with Full Contact LARP. What experience I have, is where people are not allowed physical contact with opponents in combat, only striking with the foamed weapons and no bashing with shields. But I assume that the equipment is only little if any different for either type of contact.

are samurai an allowed character type?

I have an important question.. I am thinking about Starting larp. Is Calimacil, epic armoury, and hero's edge approved?

@der_sebbl

7 жыл бұрын

Calimacil is one of the best LARP manufacturers, their weapons are durable, and have none of the problems latex weapons have

@Xzone256

6 жыл бұрын

Depends on your location and the LARP.

@Gabdube

6 жыл бұрын

Calimacil stuff is simply amazing, they earned their place as the industry leader. I wouldn't touch Epic Armoury "armour" with a ten-foot pole, but their weaponry is fine. I'd still go for Atelier Mitryl over EA though, as far as latex weapons go.

@thomasfplm

5 жыл бұрын

Take Calimacil.

aww man, cut my favorite bit.

Lol, the shield is to big and gives you too much advantage, so you can not use it and then you have disadvantage, and surprise, nobody cares if you have disadvantage now.

@KiwasiGames

8 жыл бұрын

And Sword Craft rules often have less logic then regular Larp

@KiwasiGames

8 жыл бұрын

And Sword Craft rules often have less logic then regular Larp

@seigeengine

7 жыл бұрын

It's a game, not a fight for survival. You wouldn't start a game of chess by replacing all your pawns with queens.

@JanetStarChild

7 жыл бұрын

seigeengine is the only one here who is making sense and understands the importance of balance in a game. The rest of you are idiots.

@KiwasiGames

7 жыл бұрын

Balance is important for participation and variety. Sword Craft encourages participants with a wide variety of abilities. Put in an accurate combat simulation, and we would loose half the players. Loose half the players, and the game just wouldn't be as fun. In an effort to appeal to a wide variety of players, Sword Craft allows a huge variety of time periods and settings. We have barbarians, Romans, elves, Landsknecht, pirates, knights, Samurai, orcs, dragon warriors, Italian renaissance, gun corps, fire elementals, shades and a whole bunch of other groups. Going for realism would force everyone onto the same time period. Or severely disadvantage those who choose a lower tech group. Again we loose half the players, and the game looses much of its appeal.

I want my metal centurion helm INCREDIBILLIS

where did you get that skull helmet?

@lassim3111

5 жыл бұрын

Shad got it from expert mode skeleton overlord

Why not using stab safe blunt steel swords it would be lotsa fun

Question, can Nerf weapons such as swords, and axes be considered as a proper LARP weapon

@greninja9872

6 жыл бұрын

Agent Maine i wonder the same thing, i have a nerf sword that's seen many years of combat, but its in pretty good shape otherwise

@spazzofspeed

4 жыл бұрын

this is late, but generally, no. proper larp weapons are made of high-grade foam, fibreglass or pcv cores, whereas nerf swords are made of cheap foam that will shred, and plastic cores that can snap or pierce through the foam.

@theappleboom5391

3 жыл бұрын

I think they're too hard. A friend of mine chipped a bone in my finger when hitting me with one of them.

Frost ball!

You should try empire

When you do martial arts with weapons or a mixed martial arts place that teaches using weapons it is really fun for larping but then everyone gets mad at you because your better than them and it feels unbalanced. I personally don’t blame them but I’m not braking the rules I’m just using skills and experience

SGT: the general's not going to like this. General : report SGT: their bailees have bailees, their towers have towers, their tower turrets have turrets, their gatehouses have gatehouses and their machicolations have machicolations! honestly Sir after seeing that half the men deserted on the spot and the other half need quality time with a therapist to get them to stop babbling and drooling

This weapon is your life.

sheesh seems like they severely limit a persons ability to fight

@seigeengine

7 жыл бұрын

It's almost as if it's a game and not a legitimate fight.

@breakinginferno6774

6 жыл бұрын

Nah, it's not like it's a game that's made to emulate fighting or anything....

How good are the swords and weapons from Zing Pop Culture - the Lord of the Rings foam replicas? I think they're made by Wicked Replicas.

What place is that?

@Skorpxau

8 жыл бұрын

It was at a park in a place called Moe in Victoria, Australia. A newly starting LARP group called Gippsland LARP.

@megaloss389

8 жыл бұрын

+Skorpxau cheers buddy

Isn't the helmet to small? There is no real padding between the metal and the head.

@joshklein987

8 жыл бұрын

People aren't meant to be bashing each other in the heads anyway, it's just a hit points increaser for the purpose of the game

@seigeengine

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. To highlight this, it's a common rule in these sorts of groups that if you hit someone in a place you shouldn't, like the head, your character dies instead.

Anyone who knows if u ar allowed to use Grate Swords for LARP? #SealClubbing

@Kntrytnt

7 жыл бұрын

Hey friend, it really depends on the chapter you are interested in joining. Some have very specific weapon length/weights that must be adhered to. My local chapter basically states that no weapon can be more than twice the length of the wielder. Also, not trying to nag, but what you are looking for might be a great sword, or a zweihander/bastard sword. There's lots of great tutorials online, ESPECIALLY Pinterest.

@thomasfplm

5 жыл бұрын

Depends on the group.

I disagree with him about not making your gear, I'm all about making gear i have always found they are safer than latex sword

That is the most ridiculus helmet I have ever seen. Are you legit wearing that? Even for LARPs that's ridiculus.

@Gloin79

8 жыл бұрын

what do you dislike about it ?

@TheOnlyToblin

8 жыл бұрын

Are you serious? O_o Do you SEE that thing? It's polished crome! In the shape of a skull! That's a twelve year old's power fantasy.

@Gloin79

8 жыл бұрын

that's the idea :p however it seems functional nonetheless disregarding steel thickness

@shrekas2966

8 жыл бұрын

+Totally Legit Gaming [TLEG] lol yeah hilarious helmet

@seigeengine

7 жыл бұрын

If you have to derive your sense of self-worth by dismissing things as for twelve year olds, you need to grow the fuck up.

alrighty i guess i won't look for a Larp Group anymore

@WillGlen-iq5ih

6 жыл бұрын

ya know not all rule systems work that way

@HB-wl8id

5 жыл бұрын

it's a pretty bitchy one actualy

Can recommend Epic Armory. Facebook got a Epic Armory AU site with shipping etc. Used the gear myself, and it's high quality and very safe. Have not had a single break or pierce to date. It's a bit pricey for my wallet, but safety cost.

@Gabdube

6 жыл бұрын

Epic Armoury "armor" has the wrong proportions to be functional. The breastplates are way too long for a human torso, for example. They're also heavier than more accurate alternatives, and not exactly more affordable. The quality/price ratio is far from the best.

@DocAcher

3 жыл бұрын

Freyhand too! Highly recommend! :)

2:30 à real shield like this should be heavy... i would use a hammer against it

So if you want everyone to be equal, why don’t make everyone have the same gear, and use the same tactics etc. Big shields are great, and I think they should be allowed.

A sheild being too big is ridicules

Awww, so no Shuriken? :'(

The "L" in "LARP" should stand for Limp, Ludicrous or just Laughable. Bring on the Buhurt !!

lame rules

This is really weird watching this now. Also this video makes larp sound boring and unfun. We are fighting of course your going to get hurt