It’s Friday, so let’s watch some live steel combat.
And now for something completely different.
And now, a music video.
It’s Friday, so let’s watch some live steel combat.
And now for something completely different.
And now, a music video.
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That’s the Skjaldborg group from Omaha, the guys who taught us how. They practice a slightly more dangerous style of fighting than we do, though.
The huge guy is “Big Shawn,” who is extremely intimidating. But the smaller guy with the beard, who often wears a helmet with a horsehair tail, is their top fighter. You’ll notice he generally wins his fights.
Somehow I get a kick out of the spectators watching while sitting blithely at picnic tables, as if this is normal campground behavior.
I think that live steel combat would be a fine new Friday tradition.
Perhaps the girl from “Large Hadron Rap” could do their next music video.
I don’t know if there’s enough out for to a long tradition of videos, but we could go for a bit.
May I add one of my own?
A music video, that is, not a clip of swordfighting, although swords do feature in tangentially …
I just realized that some might think my video, which is a little tongue-in-cheek, might have been posted with sardonic intent. Not so. It’s just a tribute to my childhood love of high fantasy and 80’s rock.
[sigh] Three comments within thirty minutes. I’ve got to get off the ‘net.
Well, that was odd. I thought most of the way through they were trying to be serious and failing, and then it turned out to be a gag. Postmodern, I suppose.
I think that analysis is spot-on, Lars, though I hadn’t thought of it that way. I suppose this does not say good things about my discernment.
Lars, you said, “They practice a slightly more dangerous style of fighting than we do, though.”
That led me to wonder, how do you do this without losing a finger or getting stabbed in the gut? Are there rules or conventions which the fighters follow?
Ehren