Also, not all 'medieval combat research' clubs do heavy armour. If you just want to train with the weapons you would need much less gear, especially with certain weapons like a rapier. If anyone is interested, it's easy to find clubs. Helpful search terms are HEMA, SCA or 'period combat'.
I've been in that stuff for SCA combat, it's pretty wild. Your visibility wearing a helm drops a lot.
That shit sounds wild. How did you get into that?
Went to a demo of various SCA stuff a long ways back and started going to meetings of the local shire (now a Barony). It was a lot of fun, and I met some really fantastic people. Every other week they did fighting practice, for those into that side of it, so I had a few opportunities to try it.
tbh, plate mail is awkward, but since it's distributed all over it doesn't slow you down as much as you'd think.
Aw that is really cool... Dang I should look into ones in my area.
