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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