Fighting

Putting all that armor to use!

This is a local fighter practice at Pullen Park in Raleigh, NC.

For training, I skip the chain mail layer.  Even so, my kit weighs close to 50 pounds.  
Fighting in the SCA is a full-speed, full-contact sport.  Because it is not choreographed, we don't use "live steel" swords and axes.  Our sport swords are made of wood, and not just any wood, either.  We use rattan, which is the fibrous wood of a tropical vine.  Rattan looks rather like bamboo, only not hollow.  It doesn't splinter when it breaks.