Combat re-enactment aims to be both entertaining and authentic, with more emphasis placed on the former. This is because firstly, many authentic techniques and manoeuvres are too dangerous to portray in a free combat setting, and secondly because realistic combat just isn't as entertaining to watch! 

Any good martial artist will tell you that most of what you see in a martial arts film wouldn't translate well into a realistic setting, and more realistic fights in a one-on-one combat would tend to be over within seconds rather than minutes. That being said, we do try to keep the combat as authentic as possible within this framework, with many of our members having read historical documents on combat (although none survive from the Viking era, so principles are extrapolated) or having had experience in martial arts. 

Certain techniques such as thrusts and head shots are too dangerous to incorporate because Wolfguard practices free combat, that is to say we do not choreograph fight sequences, but every one of our fights is completely random (even down to who is fighting who) in the sense that combatants are free to perform whichever techniques or strategies they choose within the framework of our rules and