Full blown combat or display only?

[jvrjenivs]

Maybe you should also look in the ancient combat subforum, as there have been discussed this kind of questions too.

The problem with 'legionary' combat is that they hardly fight in 1-to-1 fight in the first and second century, so it's hard to show the public a good 'historical fight', I think.

We therefore are preparing willow training shields and have wooden rudi, to show how the roman legionary trained at the 'palus' and against each other. We can simply show this, as you don't hurt each other (the opponet have to examine his defense also).

On the other hand you've the thing that have to do with gladiators. Those fight also 1 to 1, so here you can show the public a fight. Therefore you can show a nice piece of combat that is worth looking to it. I currently fight with wood, but I hope to change to metal blades soon.