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Knight on horseback: Arne Koets (    / @airnt   )
Knight on foot: Dequitem (    / @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. After deflecting the first lance with the sword and shild, the second hit me right on my visor. The shield is constructed to deflect the force if hit in the upper or lower part, and resist in the center. Combined with the sword deflect I didn't felt any force. The lance consists of a complete 4 metre long tree with a three-pronged steel tip at the end, so I defenetly felt the second hit on my visor. 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.

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