The Armour Archive

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/YjwRh6rUz0o
When I didn't wear full kit, I was hit where my armor used to be. Damn.

Chan Lancelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWp0hnkNYqw Sparred with a student from Canada, who wore historical Chinese armor to spar for the first time. He asked me to hit hard because his first sparring session went easy. He wanted to taste the real deal (thus wearing the armor). https://scontent-a-hkg.xx.fbc...

Chan Lancelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOC0guBP9k4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihnGN47kqsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAZ8PsWUdU
A female assistant coach from Jing Ding club came over to spar with my students. She had the upper hand!

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/2IJGWEZn0_M
Sparring with Kin Mo, who was from a local JSA school.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/Enz03LPbQx0
Practicing with Anthony, who studied briefly Toyama Ryu and had fencing background. One of the youngest kid with good potential.

http://youtu.be/OLAxe79n110
Anthony vs Zero

http://youtu.be/35SYtmK-OCI
Tun vs Zero

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/OdSsUW19tkE
Practicing with Zero, who preferred using 2 weapons.

Chan Lancelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQb5jg4NrA
Training with Maxwell.

Chan Lancelot

Mek1485 wrote:Looking good! Where did you get the padded weapons?

Thanks a lot! We made them ourselves. They're simulating exact weight and balance of the specific real swords.

http://www.rsw.com.hk

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/Liqwhampf0s
Training with Yu

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/_gfOUQZKJ1E
Just for fun.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/K0USeEwXK8Q
Single handed leg cuts from various starting position. The difficulty lies in the blade alignment was all wrong until the moment of impact, and became correct only for the duration necessary for penetration, unaffected by the previous inertia.

Chan Lancelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpV68XY-Ho
Training with Dicky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFTIAgkkIyk
Testing out the 3 techniques I used in sparring with Dicky

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/flFDLlkzPhc Desun vs Lancelot armored http://youtu.be/wv3Re9gNaO8 Hon wing vs Lancelot with twin hooks http://youtu.be/Tulsv4OV7LE MK vs Lancelot with twin hooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trZJvgEdhNk Training up Jimmy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXYtmyRZ0c Sparring with M...

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/bJEzzK3FmCE
Silvermoon, a very strong swordsman from Beijing came over for test cut and freestyle sparring.

http://youtu.be/O9GBxE6nNLc
Silvermoon vs Henry on slippery ground

http://youtu.be/gFKLDltCCNs
Silvermoon vs Old Ghost

Chan Lancelot

Jean traveled by Hong Kong occasionally and when he's here, he'll seek us out for some freestyle sparring practice. I didn't spar today because I'll be sparring tomorrow with a Beijing visitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw8I7xadfbo Jean vs Desun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKOc3un7eCo Jean...

Chan Lancelot

Indeed. The level of challenge was way different between the two kind of media.

Chan Lancelot

hhehe here's another one, from a beginner student.

I tested the sword first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMexPi9SadE
A hanwei Chinese single handed Dao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEyS16WE9s
Then it was his exam time.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/hJryGKiBz7A

Student cutting with a Cold Steel bastard sword that I sharpened. Cold steel swords no longer come sharp enough.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/AebwV9ApHW4

Cutting a bracer made of galvanized iron, folded and reinforced, with a han jian made by a Chinese smith namely "17".

Chan Lancelot

We have held the 3rd members tourney on 22nd Feb 2014. This time, the arnis armor was no longer mandatory for the participants to put on. Instead, for all the protective gears they've brought along themselves, they would be considered as actual armor judging by their protective ability against the o...

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/a8ie3xjUxv4
Cutting 3mm Lexan plate test (Riot shield material)

Chan Lancelot

We are honored to have Jack Jiayi Chen visited us today. He was from Singapore, the owner of sgsparring.com and chineselongsword.com, who published demonstration videos of historical Chinese longsword. We've arranged a test cutting for him. Lancelot and Jack were using the same sword, cutting 2 sets...

Chan Lancelot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1jqkurNsPw
Practicing armored freestyle fencing with student.

Chan Lancelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Qgugrg-nc Practicing armored freestyle fencing with a twin Chinese dao wielding friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHdx02ukoMw Practicing freestyle fencing with student, double wielding Chinese Dao, which I have not been using this style for over a decade. http...

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/AFkcSlc_678
980gram katana vs 4.2mm thick plastic knee armor

Chan Lancelot

To prepare for our armored combat judgment of what kind of the blows our armors can soak up for real, we actually did some experiment to help gauge the effect. I didn't post those videos since they may not be as "interesting". Now here you are: Big Grin http://youtu.be/HkFcYvn3ojE Cutting bamboo lam...

Chan Lancelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLWqqVqanOE
Armored freestyle fencing on slippery floor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD2QDi0se2o
Student test cut practice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cGKvnK4lY
Student test cut practice, the third bottle was "armored up" by a dog-toilet plastic plate.

Chan Lancelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuTHe_jc_kk Freestyle fencing with intermediate student Taku in modern material armor, taken as their actual protective value. Grey spot means the attack was defended by the armor. Our armors were not totally sword proof as historical armor was, so good solid hits wou...

Chan Lancelot

http://lancelotrsw.blog.163.com/blog/st ... 001027843/
I just did a write up (well, Chinese only though) for the event. However, just check out the pics and click on the youtube link and you'll see all the videos of the tourney. This time it was held on my rooftop.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/eJfhiGq8f6I
Test cutting an almost free standing bamboo, tied to the PVC with strings only.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/aexgQ3gVuFE
some more casual test cuts with armor on.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/5_c_gmW5_9M
Trying to do some tactical cuts with full armor on. The cuts didn't do super well but were ok. They were too small for this sword. They're better suited for my upcoming DS 2.0.

Chan Lancelot

It's a cut after a smack to displace opponent's weapon. Since there is no partner holding a stick out that I can smack, we gotta smack the air then.

It's a Chinese swordsmanship technique.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/7invm3ROIz0
Testing out a new technique with new gloves on

Chan Lancelot

Thanks! They're John Lundemo custom works.

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Re: Single handed leg cuts

Single handed leg cuts

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Visitor from Beijing

French visitor sparring day

Re: Student test cut

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Student test cut

Cutting a GI bracer

The 3rd members tourney

Cutting a 3mm lexan plate

Visit of Jack Jiayi Chen from Singapore

Re: Trying out armored freestyle fencing with a student

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Trying out armored freestyle fencing with a student

The 2nd member tourney

Re: Trying out a new move with my new gloves on

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Trying out a new move with my new gloves on

Re: Test cutting of 2 custom made Chinese war swords