Full contact Hoplite fighting

[maitre Renard]

2Thraex

Hi. We in Russia use steel fighting in antics, but it never can be called "full contact" like, for example, Battle of Nations. and you could never make really full contact fighting with thrusting and choping strikes, because even in the early age the armor gives no protection to palm (wris?hand? how it would be - where the fingers are?))) ), throat and especially poor defense to arms, legs, pelvic.

We use the system, where one have hits. For example, one is hitted in his body - so he "dies". Steel and bronze armor protects you from "death" absolutely (so strike in the cuirass, for example, does nothing). Linen and leaher armor give aditional hits
Of course, you can hit with normal forse in armor, and not strong in unarmored body.

For darts and arrows we use paded heads

That system is ok.
http://mreen.org/anabasis/video-s-lembolopolisa.html