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No, 50 lbs. is not a joke. I said nothing about plates over maille. I said plate armor. Fully armored re-enactors do simple gymnastics all the time to prove that very point. Do you think anyone in their right mind would don a couple hundred pounds to fight?! The other arguement is preposterous. In the same paragraph he claims a 3 1/2-4 pound broadsword would choke and die on wood and yet a 1 1/2-2 pound katana would easily cleave through steel?! Ginsu, eat your heart out!! Maybe you're saying that tempered steel is different when it's in a katana. Europe had mettalurgy down to a fine art, but they don't know nuthun bout makin swords, right? Japan was the only place that figured out that metal could be folded? Are you also saying that samurai armor is wood two inches thick?! I also hear "I would just knock him down and get him in the back!". Perhaps you think an elite European knight was a large untrained buffoon. Slow of mind and slower in arm. Just crawl between his legs and he won't figure out where you went? What do you think these guys do in their off-time? Pick Daisies?!?!?!?! Come on! Tournaments were held all the time. Fighting was their job! Book after book was written by the martial arms masters on fighting technique. There seems to be this idea that martial arts works just like it did in The Matrix. If you want to see real martial arts, watch a ring match. What do you know? There's no triple flips! No across the ring six feet in the air spinning jump kicks? Heck, it almost looks like they're just boxing! Hmmmmmmm! What's the problem? Are they amateurs? Nope! The problem is, they're not actors!
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