The Gun Counter

Cool! National teams in full armor, bearing real weapons, have at it! The Russians sure like their halberds, and use them to great effect--opponents go down like they'd been, well, poleaxed.

Here's Team USA's site, great video on the front page:

http://usaknights.org/

They sell some gear and team stuff on the site for fundraising, I got some of the team stickers, they're cool.

Here's USA vs. Poland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCL8ONmOKBw

Here's Russia vs USA, 21 on 21, from this year's meet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB-Ogu9wCOw

Here's a bunch:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... UafSXLJp5Q

It looks like the key is to just shield rush your opponent when he's not looking. Looks cool, and is probably mostly authentic, but I wonder what their insurance rates are. I'd rather see something with a scoring system for blows.

"Bear ye any steel that may be used in an offensAUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!"

I know one of those guys, he was a couple years ahead of me in high school, but he didn't like to apply himself much to class.