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Could say a knight or mercenary put on his suit of armor by himself or did he allways need assistance?
Untitled. said:I understand that with a mail shirt you can have a belt, but how is the weight distributed when wearing plate armor? Straps?
From my personal experience through reenactment, whilst a good, stout belt can help with the weight of a maille shirt, you will still find quite a bit of weight still rests upon the shoulders. This can be quite uncomfortable when you're not used to it. Sadly I never got to the point where I was particularly used to it. I've always prefered not to wear armour for reenacting because a) I'm not particularly strong in my upper body and b) I'm a lazy sod. Putting on and taking off armour takes time and effort. It's bad enough that as a pikeman I have to wear a morion helmet. Bloody heavy thing.Untitled. said:I understand that with a mail shirt you can have a belt
rapier17 said:From my personal experience through reenactment, whilst a good, stout belt can help with the weight of a maille shirt, you will still find quite a bit of weight still rests upon the shoulders. This can be quite uncomfortable when you're not used to it. Sadly I never got to the point where I was particularly used to it. I've always prefered not to wear armour for reenacting because a) I'm not particularly strong in my upper body and b) I'm a lazy sod. Putting on and taking off armour takes time and effort. It's bad enough that as a pikeman I have to wear a morion helmet. Bloody heavy thing.Untitled. said:I understand that with a mail shirt you can have a belt
Definitely not a cartwheel but I'm only a 125 pounds and I've jumped around and danced around while wearing the full gear during training. We also had "mini hurdles" that were like a foot off the ground we needed to jump over.Amman de Stazia said:I can tell you from personal experience that it ins possible to do cartwheels in that (chemsuit &BA)