Scoring based suit of sparring armor.
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bigbuttjackson ONLINE (09/06/2015) [-] 
I also want to do it, therefore, I challenge thee to a fisticuffs!
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muffincannibal (09/06/2015) [-] What if you break the high tech armor? Do they get sued for endangering costumers with faulty armor? Or do you get charged for that $2000 arm?
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angrybacteria (09/06/2015) [-] I'm still trying to figure out how the man in the upper right got up so high while armored.
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EdwardNigma 
(09/06/2015) [-] As a matter of **** , you are still able to move around in armour quite well.
Though still, that is an impressive jump.
Though still, that is an impressive jump.
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reeeeeeeeeee ONLINE (09/06/2015) [-] Nobody thought a guy stumbled upon a group of medieval warriors in a city street you nonce
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vladi (09/06/2015) [-] Someone already made one 2007 . He tried to sell it to the Canadian military but they turned it down. Then he tried to sell it through ebay, but nobody there wanted it either.
Some info:
Trojan armor
In early 2007, Hurtubise made public his new protective suit which was designed to be worn by soldiers. Calling it the "Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor", Hurtubise describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour." Weighing in at 40 lbs, he claims that the suit can withstand bullets from high powered weapons (including an elephant gun). Hurtubise published a demonstration video where 9mm, .357 handgun rounds and a 12 gauge shotgun round were fired at the suit's vest from short range, the apparently uncut video shows no marks at all on the ballistic clay underneath.[11] The suit also features a knife holster and air conditioned helmet.[12][13]
The suit has many features including a solar powered air system, recording device, compartments for emergency morphine and salt, and a knife and gun holster. He estimates that the cost of each suit to be roughly $2,000 if mass-produced. It has been called the "Halo suit", after the fictional MJOLNIR battle armor worn by the Master Chief character in the Xbox and PC video game series Halo.[14]
In early February, after failing to receive any offers to buy the Trojan, Hurtubise, now bankrupt from the expense of creating the suit, was forced to put the prototype up for auction on eBay in the hopes that it would bring in enough money to sustain his family.[12] The auction's reserve bid was not met.[15] There was a raffle for the suit on the Mission Trojan website, whose goal is to raise money for further prototypes and testing of the Trojan Suit to demonstrate its abilities for military applications.[16] The suit was won by Sara Markis of Florida[17] who re-donated it back to Hurtubise for work on his next prototype.
![Someone already made one 2007 . He tried to sell it to the Canadian military but they turned it down. Then he tried to sell it through ebay, but nobody there wanted it either.
Some info:
Trojan armor
In early 2007, Hurtubise made public his new protective suit which was designed to be worn by soldiers. Calling it the "Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor", Hurtubise describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour." Weighing in at 40 lbs, he claims that the suit can withstand bullets from high powered weapons (including an elephant gun). Hurtubise published a demonstration video where 9mm, .357 handgun rounds and a 12 gauge shotgun round were fired at the suit's vest from short range, the apparently uncut video shows no marks at all on the ballistic clay underneath.[11] The suit also features a knife holster and air conditioned helmet.[12][13]
The suit has many features including a solar powered air system, recording device, compartments for emergency morphine and salt, and a knife and gun holster. He estimates that the cost of each suit to be roughly $2,000 if mass-produced. It has been called the "Halo suit", after the fictional MJOLNIR battle armor worn by the Master Chief character in the Xbox and PC video game series Halo.[14]
In early February, after failing to receive any offers to buy the Trojan, Hurtubise, now bankrupt from the expense of creating the suit, was forced to put the prototype up for auction on eBay in the hopes that it would bring in enough money to sustain his family.[12] The auction's reserve bid was not met.[15] There was a raffle for the suit on the Mission Trojan website, whose goal is to raise money for further prototypes and testing of the Trojan Suit to demonstrate its abilities for military applications.[16] The suit was won by Sara Markis of Florida[17] who re-donated it back to Hurtubise for work on his next prototype.](http://static4.fjcdn.com/comments/Someone+already+made+one+2007+he+tried+to+sell+_f3cd65d2b3040138299cec853a59ade8.jpg)
Some info:
Trojan armor
In early 2007, Hurtubise made public his new protective suit which was designed to be worn by soldiers. Calling it the "Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor", Hurtubise describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour." Weighing in at 40 lbs, he claims that the suit can withstand bullets from high powered weapons (including an elephant gun). Hurtubise published a demonstration video where 9mm, .357 handgun rounds and a 12 gauge shotgun round were fired at the suit's vest from short range, the apparently uncut video shows no marks at all on the ballistic clay underneath.[11] The suit also features a knife holster and air conditioned helmet.[12][13]
The suit has many features including a solar powered air system, recording device, compartments for emergency morphine and salt, and a knife and gun holster. He estimates that the cost of each suit to be roughly $2,000 if mass-produced. It has been called the "Halo suit", after the fictional MJOLNIR battle armor worn by the Master Chief character in the Xbox and PC video game series Halo.[14]
In early February, after failing to receive any offers to buy the Trojan, Hurtubise, now bankrupt from the expense of creating the suit, was forced to put the prototype up for auction on eBay in the hopes that it would bring in enough money to sustain his family.[12] The auction's reserve bid was not met.[15] There was a raffle for the suit on the Mission Trojan website, whose goal is to raise money for further prototypes and testing of the Trojan Suit to demonstrate its abilities for military applications.[16] The suit was won by Sara Markis of Florida[17] who re-donated it back to Hurtubise for work on his next prototype.
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xexion (09/06/2015) [-]
Look if the guy could make a suit that was relatively bullet-proof, airconditioned, etc., for only $2000, every gov't would gobble it up immediately. Its made by the guy who made the bearproof suit which was, mind you, a lot of contact sports gear put together. It looks cheap and if you were really creating such a thing you probably wouldn't focus on making it look something out of Star Wars or Halo.
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alexanderh ONLINE (09/06/2015) [-]
A suit of full plate weighed about 50 pounds. With modern compounds, 40 pounds is not THAT unreasonable.
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anotherhaloguy ONLINE (09/06/2015) [-] Come in with a Warhammer and mash the **** out of your enemies
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zaywoot (09/06/2015) [-] Although it looks cool at first glance, I have to be realistic with this, the fingers are exposed, and you get hit on the hands and fingers a lot when you fence, the hips and shoulders are exposed, so thrusts will be a bitch, the armor sensors, as far as we know, cannot measure push/pull cuts.
Basically it will be bashing clubs into each other - which can be fun, no doubt, but not what I would be looking for
Basically it will be bashing clubs into each other - which can be fun, no doubt, but not what I would be looking for
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doctorprofessornv ONLINE (09/06/2015) [-] To be fair, there really isn't a good way to 100% simulate actual weapons combat, since actual weapons combat involves injuring and killing your opponent.
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zaywoot (09/06/2015) [-] But that's the issue, anything involving swords almost always involve thrusts, so what you have left is beating each other with rods and pipes or pretend axes at best, even then the added weight an axe has will be dangerous because of the gaps at the shoulders
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justakewldewd (09/06/2015) [-]
Hmm... a series of emitters along the 'edge' of the weapon, each being detected by a receiver inside the armor, could allow for the simulation of a slice or cut when the weapon is run across the surface of the suit. The main problem would be the possible fragility of the emitters and getting the receivers to detect such an attack properly.
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xexion (09/06/2015) [-]
I think injury is an inherent risk in this "sport", but to bring this armor up to par it has to be able to allow its wearer to take a mace blow to the head well. It's all ***** in general because it seems they want armor for simulating being unarmored - it has to be the wet dream of the middle age, consisting of hard plate and cushion - but with all the gaps covered as well, but extremely light and with a full range of motion. Even the Dark Knight's suit can't really handle dogs without making his head immobile.
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zaywoot (09/06/2015) [-] There is always a risk with sports.
But yea you're entirely right, trying to create armour for simulating armourless combat is difficult as hell, because of gaps needed for range of motion etc. also the surface just wouldn't act like a person with a shirt on either.
I like that they're trying, trying to develope the technology is great, but I'm skeptical with these
But yea you're entirely right, trying to create armour for simulating armourless combat is difficult as hell, because of gaps needed for range of motion etc. also the surface just wouldn't act like a person with a shirt on either.
I like that they're trying, trying to develope the technology is great, but I'm skeptical with these
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ghostyogurt (09/06/2015) [-] Pfft only a matter of time before it's nothing but flippers and spinners
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sinery (09/05/2015) [-] People should know it's sparring armour and that is what it will be used for.
Will be way more lame than it seems it will be.
Will be way more lame than it seems it will be.
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ophir (09/06/2015) [-]
When we were young, haven't wel all once picked up a stick, or a piece of wood and acted like we were fighting as medieval knights, or ninja's or maybe even vikings. There are usualy sports that focus on one fighting style. now immagine if all these sports would come together in a non-lethal, but stil very real way. Everyone has a different style, everyone has a certain way of fighting but the goal is simple, defeat your opponent. I just summarized MMA, now add melee weapons to it, **** even use boxing gloves if that is what you like. it's MMA but with weapons. (I am not saying that it will replace MMA) But if it is affordable, it wil become very populair
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sinery (09/05/2015) [-] Would rather see an incarnation of medieval knight duels, but with better armour and dull weapons.
Fight to the yield / blackout / execute.
If you're just gonna dick around with your friends you could just buy like cross gear and beat the **** out of each other with sticks.
Fight to the yield / blackout / execute.
If you're just gonna dick around with your friends you could just buy like cross gear and beat the **** out of each other with sticks.
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xexion (09/06/2015) [-]
This is honestly terrible. It's about as legit as pro wrestling, except that has better scripted fights. Why?
Watch at 48 seconds as the dude on the left swings in an arc that wouldn't hit his opponent in anything but the wrist, in order to do a SPINMOVE leaving himself completely exposed (in which his opponent cuts his neck), in order to do some sort of side kick which completely misses.
What I just watched was two kids in armor with weapons doing whatever they think is cool.
These sorts of things need a good ruleset in order to not be stupid - a pre-determined 'killing blow' of sorts, because otherwise it's just two guys in armor doing nothing to each other.
Some people will shy away from HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts - aka swordfighting and the ilk) because they use "historical techniques" which normally produces something only a historian likes. In HEMA they do what people did when they lived and died by the sword. As someone who's training in longsword let me tell you first hand - some of the **** they came up with is ******* genius.
Watch at 48 seconds as the dude on the left swings in an arc that wouldn't hit his opponent in anything but the wrist, in order to do a SPINMOVE leaving himself completely exposed (in which his opponent cuts his neck), in order to do some sort of side kick which completely misses.
What I just watched was two kids in armor with weapons doing whatever they think is cool.
These sorts of things need a good ruleset in order to not be stupid - a pre-determined 'killing blow' of sorts, because otherwise it's just two guys in armor doing nothing to each other.
Some people will shy away from HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts - aka swordfighting and the ilk) because they use "historical techniques" which normally produces something only a historian likes. In HEMA they do what people did when they lived and died by the sword. As someone who's training in longsword let me tell you first hand - some of the **** they came up with is ******* genius.
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affix [OP](09/05/2015) [-] This gear is competition based. With point scoring and biometrics. If you care about that sort of thing this is for you.
But nobody said you can't have both. Enthusiasts would probably have period armor and this as well to have fun with being able to talk **** about score.
But nobody said you can't have both. Enthusiasts would probably have period armor and this as well to have fun with being able to talk **** about score.
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xexion (09/06/2015) [-]
You'd have to invent some real kickass armor. Any sort of anti-armor weapon whether it is armor piercing like the ahlspiess, or crushing like a warhammer, is utterly devastating when scoring a hit against armor.
See this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi757-7XD94 an upsidedown sword giving a few blows to the head against a fully armored opponent brings the guy in the video almost to the point of concussion.
You get into a catch 22, you need to invent an armor that is impervious to martial weapons (so noone gets their skull crushed in, or stabbed to death), but in doing so you cannot realistically beat the **** out of said person. Which sucks. So I also posted a cool video.
See this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi757-7XD94 an upsidedown sword giving a few blows to the head against a fully armored opponent brings the guy in the video almost to the point of concussion.
You get into a catch 22, you need to invent an armor that is impervious to martial weapons (so noone gets their skull crushed in, or stabbed to death), but in doing so you cannot realistically beat the **** out of said person. Which sucks. So I also posted a cool video.
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stepsword (09/06/2015) [-]
this is the kind of **** that supervillains break into labs to steal
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anon (09/06/2015) [-]
That thing looks clunky as hell. I don't know if those are trained fighters or not, but they seemed to be a bit awkward in their movements.
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twentyseconds ONLINE (09/06/2015) [-] I think obesity will no longer be a thing in the future.
They will finally bridge the gap between video games and fitness.
God speed.
They will finally bridge the gap between video games and fitness.
God speed.
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anon (09/06/2015) [-]
Altho this is cool and I would love to try it sometime. As a martial artist, I have to say that part of fighting is the fear/concern with being hit. I can see a lot of people disregarding wounds to go for a kill in this armor because it doesnt hurt, and it will register as a cut on the sensor.
You see this best when you give an empty-hand fighter a face shield. OMG do they get brazen, just because they dont feel the pain to the face. Doesnt help develop your fighting style because you wont have a face shield in real altercation.
Fighting with weapons you obviously need protection tho.
You see this best when you give an empty-hand fighter a face shield. OMG do they get brazen, just because they dont feel the pain to the face. Doesnt help develop your fighting style because you wont have a face shield in real altercation.
Fighting with weapons you obviously need protection tho.
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subaqueousreach (09/06/2015) [-] I think this may be an issue initially, but if the sport does kick off like they want it to then I think we'll see a lot more people being cautious and less brazen with their strikes since being hit does still hold consequences, just not lethal ones.
They may still accept small blows to deliver stronger ones, but that's already a tactic in standard martial arts. In fact kyokushin is basically built around the idea of taking blows and hitting back harder.
They may still accept small blows to deliver stronger ones, but that's already a tactic in standard martial arts. In fact kyokushin is basically built around the idea of taking blows and hitting back harder.
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doctorprofessornv ONLINE (09/06/2015) [-] You just have to make the scoring emulate real life damage. A strong enough strike to the head can still register as a KO or a joint strike as a critical hit that takes down a lot of your health.
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kichmica (09/06/2015) [-] And the armor comes at the mere price of 250.000,00$. Ain't that worth the fun
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thechosentroll (09/06/2015) [-] It'd be cheaper (and possibly more fun) to just fight in my underwear and deal with the hospital bills.
