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I have 2 complete sets for the whole body except for the helmet as I use different ones depending on the activity. I can recommend this equipment and have tested it for HEMA fighting full contact with steel swords from the Albion, it was with maximum intensity and no injuries except for when banging the head always feels uncomfortable with all the parts of the sword.

🛑 The most important person in your training room isn’t the instructor. It’s the role player.

The instructor sets the framework and the standard, but the role player is the one who brings unpredictability into the room. They create resistance. They introduce pressure. They force decision-making under stress. Without a committed role player, training becomes choreography instead of preparation.

The role player absorbs the strikes, takes the takedowns, and drives the scenario forward at full speed so officers can pressure-test their skills before they have to do it for real. They are the stress variable that turns drills into reality-based training.

When role players are under-protected, intensity drops. Resistance becomes hesitant. Scenarios slow down. Everyone feels it, even if no one says it out loud. The realism fades because the risk feels uncontrolled.

When they are properly protected, everything changes. They can move naturally. Fight back honestly. Escalate resistance when needed. Instructors can push scenarios harder without crossing into unnecessary injury. That is where meaningful growth happens.

Effective training is not safe because it is soft. It is safe because it is engineered correctly. That philosophy drives how we build Spartan Training Gear. Protect the role player, and you elevate the entire room.

That is how you build capability that shows up when it matters most.

This is the book that I have used to teach my students, a lot of scientific research shows that the most effective way to improve your skills are counter intuitive. I can recommend this to any kind of sport activities, but especially for martial arts as they are using the worst way to teach their students, that is based on old traditions and makes the learning curve very slow to become more functional.

I was so surprised that the first time I had the possibility to spar with steel swords with the proper protection equipment, that a lot of techniques that I was not sure that I could do under pressure were possible, suddenly they felt natural and could ecexute them without thinking about the proper moments to use them.

I can only conclude that the vast amount of full intensity sparring and sword play training to perfect the techniques was so efficient that the transition was easy, that I learned from the EHCG and even if the paper work of my membership was not delivered to the HQ by our club. I had paid a lot of money for training and I was even an instructor in sword fighting and had a class every Friday and assisted regular training with HEMA training. I believe that all the people who I have trained with me, remember that I was part of a very small group that trained regularly and as much as possible from the beginning, when the best expert in HEMA John Waller and master Steve Tappin created the EHCG.

I was surprised that I got the EHCG badge to only discover many years later that my personal info and money was not sent to the HQ of the organization. It was partially due to a training opportunity for the unemployed, I was working full time and not eligible, so I could only participate by accepting not getting a piece of paper as evidence for having completed the one year intensive instructor course training full time Escrima and HEMA, I paid a lot money for a course that was free for the unemployed that I didn't mind, so I expected that when I got the membership badge that it was legit and not later receive a message that I violated the rules of membership of the EHCG as I wasn't registered as a member, I started from the beginning since before the creation of the EHCG under the guidance of master Steve Tappin.

That's how it all began... ⚔️ Techniques from the Medieval master Fiore Dei Liberi 👑. #hema #fencing #desw #sports #martialarts #medieval #combatsports

That is a pretty close to my own porcupine defense fighting style against attacks, countering punches with my elbows and also kicks with my elbows. I also use hammer fist and elbow attacks on limbs to inflict maximum pain and have a structure that doesn't collapse, but also strikes that breaks down structure.

I was so lucky to learn gunting from one of the best and most experienced Escrima instructors in Europe, how to destroy my opponents limbs with roots from knife fighting, he had a lot street fighting experience and one of the most feared street fighters in Hamburg and the whole organization in Europe, he worked as the top bouncer in the red light district. I was lucky to get free private lessons from him at a summer camp, something that he only taught very few people and was very secretive about it, he did it due to a request and recommendation from our Scandinavian head instructor that I really wanted to learn that from the only one who had trained that and could teach it.

It was not officially not allowed in the system that I trained to teach unarmed FMA fighting, as that was only delegated to the Ving Tsun students to learn unarmed single combat, I know that this sound very strange but that was the politics in the organization that I trained back then, but I was lucky to be there when our master did it anyway against the orders from the rest of the organization.

An art that I have spent a lot of time to perfect, combined with sharing information about how to find the placement of nerves in between the muscles in general and not specific points with one of the best acupuncture and acupressure healer with a background in Tai Chi and other Kung Fu system. Later I had my toolbox expanded by some of the top FMA and IMA instructors in the world.

Self Defense Technique #kravmaga #selbstverteildigung #selfdefense #combat

The 2 styles shares a lot of similarities but the lack of glowes changes a lot both positive and negative, elbow strikes to the head and headbutts in Thai boxing have some clear advantages but the big gloves has some negative consequences. In the end it is not the song but the singer that makes a lot of difference, combining the 2 styles would improve both.

Kyokushin vs Muay Thai. 🥋🇯🇵🥊. . . . . #kyokushin #andyhug #andyhugforever #masutatsuoyama #kyokushinkarate #karatekyokushin #karate #oyamakarate #oyama #masoyama #kyokushinkai #shinkyokushin #kyokushinkaikan #dojomcosta #dojo__seidokan #sokyokushin #kyokushin_karate #kyokushin_fighter❤❤ #kyokushinfight

Arm scissor is the most painful experience I've had, I screamed so high that other wondered why and they also screamed when trying to experience how effective this hook is.

Decades before the Kimura and Tarikoplata had names in BJJ, Lou Thesz was chaining the double wrist lock into the short arm scissors. 📹 Colourised and remastered. All footage from around the 1950's.

This was essential to survive slash wounds, I always get annoyed with the depiction of gladiators with a six-pack, a small slash wound would be killing blow as the distance to the organs would be too close and nearly impossible to treat, they were the few slaves that had medical treatment due to their high value, not even the richest merchants could afford medical treatment. The first book on medical wound treatment was based on gladiators and was used for over a millennium.

The pictured Gladiator was the actor and expert in all things 'Gladiatorial', Emanuele Vaccarini (R.I.P.), was the head teacher at the Gladiator School in Rome. He often shared his expert knowledge in numerous gladiator posts on my page and is sorely missed by all.

Despite what Hollywood shows us, champion gladiators were elite athletes, heavily fed with a large calorie count, so while they would be big, strong, and very muscular, they often carried a higher level of body fat than the movies would have us believe. Fortunately, these and many other 'Hollywood History Myths' are being regularly debunked.

Numerous ancient sources describe their food intake as 'barley and beans,' with high meat and bread consumption, and regular meals - five a day according to more than one source. This was the standard intake for athletes who won for their masters, with honeyed meats, quality wines, female or male companionship, or similar luxuries as incentives and rewards.

The link between animal protein and muscle mass wasn't quite understood, but trainers realized that heavy meat stews with beans and bread put a lot of weight onto their fighters. They even had the big men train with heavy objects such as heavy wooden beams, large sandbags, and boulders because this type of training made them stronger and bigger. A heavy carb intake made big men bigger, and that's what counted. This extra energy helped them train, and a shallow wound could often be survived due to protective layers of fat.

This individual was a brute force fighting machine, so the bigger he could get, the safer, stronger, and more lethal he would be. This gladiator is a Murmillo, very similar to a Thracian - tall, broad-shouldered, wide-waisted, with massive thighs and a barrel chest. If you can visualize a male powerlifter or 'Strongman' competitor, that's what the elite-level boys would have looked like. Literary sources, graffiti, inscriptions, skeletal remains from famous 'Gladiator Graveyards,' and even toy figurines sold at the games confirm all of this.

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IMAGE: Gladiator School of Rome. https://www.gruppostoricoromano.it/en/

A tiger claw weapon called a bagh nakh with a bent blade. India in the 1800s.