Campeonato Mundial de Combate Medieval,

The Medieval Combat League is a new sport that has entered Spain for a year and a half. But in Eastern Europe, for example, it has been around for decades. It is a sport that is quite proven in terms of safety and quite regulated. It has a very, very extensive regulation that guarantees the safety of the fighters, as it can be in any other contact sport. Here we are going to use a series of weapons that are not going to have edge and tip, but it is also going to have the characteristics in weight and force that its original replicas of the time. And we use axes, masses, swords of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, mainly. The pioneers in this sport were both Eastern Europe and Russia about 20 years ago. It arises from the need to put a certain rule in what would be the recreational combats. And by fixing it and doing it in a sporty way, it has already become a category in itself. We have everything perfectly balanced, with equipment that perfectly supports all types of impacts of the weapons that we are going to use. They are quite large, quite forceful weapons, they are made of steel, which is important, and they have no tip or edge, as you can see. Here we are really looking to make the fighter touch the ground, we are not looking to damage him, under no circumstances. We have a typical longsword, the one we are used to seeing in knights. It is used only in duels, and in duels the blow is taken into account. It is always practiced in one-on-one with these weapons, it is not usually used in multiple combat. It is around two and a half kilos. This is an archer, which is basically like a jungle machete, which is attached to a resistant stick. It is very, very forceful. We also use two-handed weapons. As you can see, this is a fairly forceful archer, there are older ones, but it must be said that the weight is fixed. We cannot use any weapon of any size and weight. For example, for a weapon of these characteristics or higher, the limit is three kilos, including the stick. That is, no matter how hard they hit you, it will not transmit more impact than your armor can withstand. As we wear very good armor, the shield is no longer so defensive. We usually look for smaller shields, because they are used as other weapons. Its objective is to knock down and hit. I am the first girl who started in the Spanish team. You can't be a princess. When you put on the armor, you have to change the chip, you have to put on the mentality of I'm doing sports, I'm going to hit me, it's hard, you have to carry a lot of weight on top, it's complicated, but it's worth it. The truth is that it is very satisfactory. Then, when you finish the fight, when you finish the fight and you sit down and relax and you feel that you have done it well, the truth is that it is very, very, very satisfactory. It is not 100% historical steel, it is hardened steel, with which we can cut a little in weight and we gain a lot of resistance. But on the contrary, in the helmet we are going to use another type of steel, which is not hardened, because if the helmet is going to bend, it is going to absorb a lot of kinetic energy from the impact. The so-called mesh, which has been used for millennia in antiquity, which we mainly use as additional armor to cover gaps in vital areas such as the neck and some skirts to protect the hip, but it is mainly used to seat the neck pad and a very, very thick pad, which we wear both a padded helmet and inside the helmet. In such a way that you are barely going to notice an impact. We can also add additional eye protection so that it is very, very difficult for a weapon to penetrate the visor. It has cost more work in other areas of Europe than in Spain to start sports in the women's section, because there is a bit, not of machismo, but if, as you are a girl, I don't want to hit you too hard to see if I'm going to hurt you, but at the moment when a girl stands in front of you, throws you noses and hits you in the sky with her mouth, the truth is that you have no choice but to move. For example, there is a Russian woman who beats the best wrestlers, and except for difficulties with the armor, which is more or less the same weight as that of the boys, there is not much difference. It is true that we are less strong, but that does not mean that we cannot reach the same physical level as they do. It is more about training, the same or more than the boys, and go for it. A lot of noses come out. In this sport we find male and female categories, but they practically perform the same modalities. One on one with sword and shield, both male and female, sword in both hands, weapons on stake, such as halberds, with a handle of at least 1.75 meters and an ax head, for example. We are not talking about anything despicable. In group categories we have the 3 against 3, female, due to its reduced number at the moment, 5 against 5, male, who will have a rule that they will go to knock down, count to knock down, and the team that is standing wins. And then we have the 16 against 16, which is the same rules as the 5 against 5, the same objective, but it is already a field battle. There are already groups of halberds who work with penetrators, a group of people who are going to be in charge of distracting the opposing team, the so-called runners who are going to be there in the race continuously moving and throwing the people who are neglected. In reality, what you are going to look for is a fast and efficient knockdown, without getting tired. The fight here lasts a minute, a minute and a little. Although we are used to the movies that they can hit for minutes and hours, a 16 against 16 fight is not more than a minute and a half.