Tips on League combat

For bucklers, I’d enjoy seeing a few more people with the interesting stylish designs, rather than just round ones.

For example, the deeply fluted eight-or-ten-pointed or holly-leaf shape from Talhoffer’s fechtbüch:

or a trapezoidal (not quite rectangular) wavelike/corrugated style, which I like a lot, and paid someone to make for me:

(The grip goes parallel to the grooves on those; sorry I can’t find better pictures just now.)

There’s also this oddity, which the sellers claim is a replica of a buckler (of unusual design) from the 16th century: Italian Buckler - supremereplicas.com

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