The importance of Roman Reconstruction Archaeology

[M. Demetrius]

Needled felt works ok, and you can hit fairly authoritatively without using full power, and still not injure your opponent. I've received a couple of rug burns, so to speak on forearms, but that's about all. And the cool thing is that you can stage a battle without any blood at all, and the audience (when there is one) doesn't seem to mind at all. If they want movie blood, there's plenty of that being spilled on big and small screen.

The big plus is even old, fat guys can do the action, and still get up and go to work the next day. NF started in Europe, where the felt is used as carpet pad. Here, we have to buy it from scientific supply houses, and it's fairly expensive. Dan Peterson is credited with bringing NF sword system to the US, from Germany.