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10 case studies in Puncture Injury & Equipment Damage: Summary, Analysis & Lessons
All of our safety research is community funded and we need your help to make it happen. If you find this report helpful, please consider supporting us through Patreon. Introduction About a month ago, I put out a call to subscribers, Kickstarter backers and through my instructor Facebook page asking for people who has been…
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Moving to Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/HistoricalFencingResearch The last few weeks have seen an explosion of interest in Historical Fencing Research and our Safety Tips Project. As many of you may know there was an incident in a Polish tournament where a fencer was stabbed through the bicep by an untipped rapier: he is as well as can be expected, back…
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Common Thermoplastic Tip Failures and How to Avoid them
Sword tipping has become a highly topical conversation recently, and many people have been discussing it and asking my opinion about both whether and how to tip your sword. Over in the HEMA discord I was asked about how and when we expect plastic tips to fail, which prompted a very long comment about the…
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Safety Tips: Phase 1 Project Results
In October 2024, thanks to the generous support of 41 backers, were able to conduct an experiment to answer an apparently simple question: what’s the best approach to tipping your sword? We looked at both how different options affect the risk of a thrust pushing on a mask, and the change of puncturing a target.…
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Safety Tips: December 2024 Early Results for Backers
Note: This was an early release of data to backers with analysis based upon a superseded dataset. For the most up-to-date details on Safety Tips read Safety Tips Phase 1 Project Results A month and a half ago we completed the experiments for Phase 1 of the “Safety Tips” research, trying to establish how different…
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Safety Tips: Almost There
An update on the final steps needed ahead of the first Safety Tips experiment this coming weekend.