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This is a fantastic thread. Thank you. You talked a bit about fitness training for knights, but how about combat training? Tournaments were a thing, and I'd like to know more about what actually went on in one apart from the jousting. And of course I assume the knights didn't just hang around all sedentary and poo poo if there wasn't a tournament or a proper fight around to go to.
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The GoT choreography is pretty standard fare for a fantasy show or movie: they don't swing at each other, they block with the edge and just pull their swords back to bash them together again, and so on. And they seem to have this idea that knights were slow lumbering monsters swinging heavy bars of steel so they're also really slow and clumsy. It really does take away from the sense that these people are trained knights and poo poo, but of course the vast majority of watchers are not going to notice or care. Still, I can't help but feel that getting even some of the basics (like "aim at your opponent, dude" and "parry properly, goddamn it" and "you aren't going to do poo poo cutting at plate") down would improve the fight scenes considerably.
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Arglebargle III posted:I have heard some Nordic language speakers complain (I think the Skyrim thread) that Jarl is pronounced almost exactly like Earl and that a heavy "ya" sound is wrong. So this is actually an example of language correctness.
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