Fencing

[Potjeh]

The problem isn't that the armour is too heavy, the problem is that it messes up your centre of balance. You need years of wearing it daily to get a really good sense of balance in armour, and reenactors just don't have that.

It definitely makes you tire faster, though. When you move in a glorified tin can, it tends to get very hot.

[Jackard]

Have you ever heard of the SCA?
http://www.sca.org/
The armor they wear isn't as heavy as the metal stuff (my dads suit is made from a cut up old pickle barrel and several pieces of modified foot ball equipment) but you can ask them, they definitely cant do a handstand. maybe a cartwheel (if they are my stepbrothers uncle) but the armor is still just as stifling and difficult to move in as the real deal. a little more flexable but not by much. and some people really do wear the real equipment. The complaints you'll hear the most are; my chain mail is heavy (after a long day of wearing it), my armor is too hot (they've got people running around giving water to the "fighters" to counter it) and also about how some guy would not take a shot even when they hit them as hard as they could on their unarmored ass. (those bruisers are nasty)

witness the ridiculousness of someone using the SCA of all things to justify his points

[Irish_Pride]

How come this thread is still alive :L.