Combat Con 2021 – The Nerd Review
Combat Con 2021 just wrapped up recently*, the first large-scale North American event to start back up since the Covid shutdowns. It is also a […]
Rule Sets
Finding the World’s Highest Level HEMA
“In your opinion, which country has the highest level of practitioners?” Let’s see if I can answer this in the most unhelpful way possible.
HEMA Tournament Double Hit Frequency
The YouTube channel Turul HEMA recently posed a video attempting to derive the average number of double hits seen in HEMA longsword tournaments. (HEMA Longsword […]
A Win is a Win: How Weighted Point Values Don’t Affect Match Outcomes
Good fighters find a way to get it done. It looks like hitting them more than they hit you is more important than what the point values of the targets are.
First Blood, First Win? How Important Is the First Exchange
How important is the first exchange? Turns out, it tells you quite a bit.
Full Afterblow Smackdown: 1&2 vs 2&3
The most common point allocations for Full Afterblow tournaments are 1&2 and 2&3 points. Thanks to HEMA CM we can observe what difference that makes.
What Can Go Wrong With HEMA Ratings
Differences in tournament format can have a surprising effect on the overall match results, even for the exact same fighting. Does that sound confusing? Read on!
Is Going For Deep Targets Worth It and More – Longpoint Stats Review
Longpoint showed us that once again we want to be going deep and targeting the head, if we care about the afterblow at all that is.
Building the Longpoint Back End
This year I had the privilege of helping out the Longpoint team with software support, and on the way go to offer my two cents about some of the things.
How Did The Sources Say We Should Weight Targets?
A thought experiment: what if we assigned points by how often targets were mentioned?