• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      If you have to wear chainmail to avoid injuries and getting hit hard enough to lose your footing, it’s not LARP.

    • Addition@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Teeeechnically if there’s no roleplay, NPCs, and/or Magic then it’s not a LARP.

      This is a type of medieval combat sport.

    • FippleStone@aussie.zone
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      11 days ago

      I’m sure they’re not actually trying to hurt each other, but they’re probably having a good tussle, so somewhere in-between perhaps?

        • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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          11 days ago

          I did some surface investigation so I could be wrong but – this seems to come from an annual Battle of Shrewsbury reenactment. I think the photographer captured one of the splinter fights from the big push.

          There’s some older footage here (battle starts around 5:00) from someone who participated, that provides some context of the energy. It’s not combat sports and it doesn’t seem scripted. Mostly just dudes in a field putting on a show for their community. Some of these strikes I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of, but it all seems playful enough.

          Worth mentioning for a reenactment to be historically accurate - someone’s gotta lose, and they’ll know to play the role appropriately. It is “scripted” in that sense.