The Knight Duel | realistic, non-choreographed medieval combat
Video Overview & Insights
Knight on horseback: Arne Koets ( https://www.youtube.com/@airnt )
The lance hit my visor directly on my left eye. A spear-tipped war lance would have pierced the visor and my skull. The lance we used had 3 steel spikes, so the tip bit into my visor but didn't penetrate it. The lance itself was a whole tree 3.5 meters long.
Knight on horseback: Arne Koets ( https://www.youtube.com/@airnt )
Knight on foot: Dequitem ( https://www.youtube.com/@dequitem )
Men-at-arms on horseback: Katja Bergh
Squire in red: Martin Kuhlmann
Squire in blue: Jonas Schwetheim
Cameraman: Lukas Alberter
Arne Koets is probably a real knight, he is a full jouster, harness fencer, castle owner and of course an exelent horseman. We recorded this duel infront of the german castle Brandenburg in winter. There was a thick layer of ice on the meadow, so luckily for me, Arne's horse couldn't go into a stretched canter. The lance consists of a complete 4 metre long tree with a three-pronged steel tip at the end. A war lance with a spear blade would have burst through my visor and split my skull through my left eye. However, the three-pronged tip was stopped by my 3 millimetre titanium visor and the lance broke as it knocked me over. Even though I was able to land good hits with the sword at the beginning of the foot combat and would definitely have critically injured Arne if the sword had been sharp, he placed his dagger right under my chest plate in the melee and forced me to bend forwards and was thus able to bring me to the ground.
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Knight on foot: Dequitem ( https://www.youtube.com/@dequitem )
Men-at-arms on horseback: Katja Bergh
A Knightly duel, also known as Wednesday in London.
Squire in red: Martin Kuhlmann
Squire in blue: Jonas Schwetheim
by far my favourite Dequitem video
Cameraman: Lukas Alberter
Arne Koets is probably a real knight, he is a full jouster, harness fencer, castle owner and of course an exelent horseman. We recorded this duel infront of the german castle Brandenburg in winter. There was a thick layer of ice on the meadow, so luckily for me, Arne's horse couldn't go into a stretched canter. The lance consists of a complete 4 metre long tree with a three-pronged steel tip at the end. A war lance with a spear blade would have burst through my visor and split my skull through my left eye. However, the three-pronged tip was stopped by my 3 millimetre titanium visor and the lance broke as it knocked me over. Even though I was able to land good hits with the sword at the beginning of the foot combat and would definitely have critically injured Arne if the sword had been sharp, he placed his dagger right under my chest plate in the melee and forced me to bend forwards and was thus able to bring me to the ground.
Why he wearing two breastplate?
Thanks to my patreons for support my work and make short films like this happen: https://www.patreon.com/c/user/membership?u=80869366
that's freaking scary, if I was a peasant with a pitchfork, no my lord I'm not standing my ground
More User Perspectives
Double breastplate double the swag. Taking on a charguing horse full on without a shield or pavise is fucking nuts. Con dos cojones si señor.
@alexrail_89Yep… looks just like a drunken barfight on a saturday. 🍻
@mrt7476Were duels always so quiet?
@IRGhost0I was scared he was gonna get trampled by the horse
@Iftakhar-r8vКакая это нахер дуэль?! Дуэль подразумевает поединок на равном оружии, в равных условиях, а не так как здесь, где один на коне, а другой пеший!
@buhlovar-fc2yx1jj1oOnce opponents start grappling, would it be a good strategy to try to get your opponent's rondel or dagger and throw it away?
@gregmiller8284Dude! You tanked that spear😂😂🗿👍
@italianduded1161enrolling in the rattay tournay
@Irvington_Olythis is sooooo choreographed i can tell you had never been in a knight duel before. god haveyou even been in the midle ages at least once? plase delate this video and aftar that your channel
@federicotorres3685лажа от начала и до конца. зачем принимать удар, после реального удара пеший не поднялся бы, уклониться и ударить коня.
@roxbox3645Imagine on how strong warriors were back then, it takes a lot of strength and endurance to carry that amount of weight on you.
@albanian_rebel1Next time send the invite. I wanna watch.
@MrPerezOPwhy don't you better discuss it with a cup of tea?
@MarceloCarabajal-c8qballs
@alpol7354It always seems to come down to the clinch, takedown and that long dagger.
@bcjaliuGood fight, my lord! ⚔
@rogersmith9705Get this in the Olympics
@wyattsabari76301:31 Hello and welcome to Jackass!
@Unsichtbarer90Hello Stelly :)
@allynaude1142:18 goofy ahh fight
@Centidentgame4Men do this just to touch each other 😬
@stickfiguremakerthat fvvking sick! Awesome work. I wanna be a night when I grow up ^.^
@SirMeowingCatOnly losers were hurt in the making of this video
@stephenkorn343Yay! The good guy won!
@stefanschleps8758Wait, they used to hold the swords by the blade?
@mohammedshahid5302so one on one full plate combat was simply wrestling with steel
@Eighti1Largo logo uma espadada de prima no saco do cara
@vinextartHere after trial of seven
10/10
realistic???
Where are blood?
The knight who died messed up by not carrying his dagger when wrestling him down, due to his size advantage, he could have overpowered him + with a few leg stabs he got with his dagger, making the opponent more weak with leg control. had he still had this dagger while he wrestled him down, he could have landed a clean leg shots and/or a face shot.
@IBMKingManIs he tackles like an idiot on purpose to lose?
@guyfett8371Taking out a knight in full hand-crafted armor and getting to sell it for gold is probably like the modern equivalent of robbing someone at lancepoint for their C8 Corvette
@moldypotato1337I’m my head cannon for the world the makers of knight of the seven kingdoms consulted you for their latest 7 on 7 knight trial of combat
@ElBluznI'd like to thank this man and everyone he works with for volunteering to get the crap beaten out of them for our entertainment :D
@AverageFellow-v4hno peasants were harmed in this recording
@ryancaputo1671so do they really hold their swords with both hands like that? interesting yet not really that usefull it seems, killing blows from daggers instead hmm...
@soulfulfoolAWESOME
@rasenganmakerSo effing brutal.
@urzmont-st.georgeWhy both mamafakas needs sword and horses and so on, if they needs only a knife?!
@astenixThat gothic Sallet armor has got to be some of the most beautiful armor ever!
@MuricaFkYeahI don't quite understand the terms of a duel where one knight begins with an overwhelming advantage. Or how a knight who won a duel conducted on such terms could ever look anyone in the face again. As is said by dequitem, the lance could have pierced the helmet and killed the man on foot, if it had a spear tip. Only thing I can imagine is, the knight on horseback didn't want to duel, and the knight on foot granted him this advantage to force the duel, over some mortal insult--and man, that would be a really dark ending.
Points for the raven croaking in the background, though was that a real raven that was happened to be there at the time of filming?
Is this AI🤔
@anna-mariabogarde3239here we go again...clinch....dagger..stab,stab...why even longswords? Just clinch and stab...lol what a joke.
@Ryuk206I see knights in full armor as human-powered tanks
@Ailau.VeliyaDid he kill him 😢
@KirstineTermansen-i8y