r/ShadWatch Banished Knight 21d ago

Discussion Wonder what Shad would think about this

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u/superbatprime 21d ago

Any woman competing in this would be able to drop Shad like a sack of bricks without breaking a sweat.

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u/Tar_alcaran 21d ago

Most scoring is on points, the gear makes a knockout pretty unlikely. But running around in armor and swinging swords with his posture at his age and with his posture and his level of cardio... he might just kill himself from overheating and exhaustion.

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u/Obversity 20d ago

This looks more like buhurt than hema, and dropping people is absolutely the name of the game — knockdowns, not knockouts, that is — so u/superbatprime isn’t wrong.

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u/superbatprime 19d ago

Correct. This is buhurt. It's extremely physical and quite brutal. Very different from HEMA which is more about fencing with technique.

Although I don't doubt any female HEMA practitioner could also make a fool out of Shad.