Armoured calisthenics

[serpentstar]

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This is me doing some push-ups, squats, star jumps, sit-ups and burpees, wearing late 15th century style medieval armour (full plate leg harness, full plate arm harness, gauntlets, riveted mail standard, steel brigandine on the torso, & a cotton & wool arming doublet underneath). The idea is to demonstrate that even heavy plate armour was designed

Comments

[ed_fortune]

Nutter.

Awesome though :)

[serpentstar]

Thanks, on both counts, Ed. :D

[timgray]

What he said!

You should have got laid low by an arrow in the last frame as an ironic statement or sumfink.

[serpentstar]

I don't need any more ironic low-layings in my life! :D

[greylock]

Is that the same accent as Alan Moore?

[serpentstar]

Mine? Not really, though Moore's isn't entirely dissimilar (generic educated British, but not upper class; not strongly regional). He is mostly a southerner, so though neither of us has a strongly regional accent, his will be weakly southern as mine is weakly northern (notable in the way we pronounce words like bath and dance, I expect).

[greylock]

The only bit I could make out clearly was the "starjumps?", and it sounded broadly similar.

Picking accents can be hard, but there were points of similarity there.

Anyway, I have Dr Who to re-watch.

/How can we convince Alan Moore to plot an episode? If not co-write?
He'd be in it, wouldn't he?

[ffutures]

That just cries out to be set and cut to the tune "Knights of the Round Table" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Or possibly not...

[serpentstar]

Feel free! :D

[ffutures]

Don't have the video skills, I'm afraid.

[mr_tom]

Alternatively

why don't they teach history with concrete examples like these?

[snesgirl]

plus that is a funneh vid :)