I had to read this article by Sean Franklin: http://swordstem.com/2019/10/02/historical-injury-vs-modern-tournament-targeting/
It’s fascinating how the data shows so much about targeting in the contexts of the history, versus our tournaments today. Does it have to do with the context of the tournament versus the battlefield? Franklin does address this in his article (read it). I do wonder if that is a big part of it. When fighting in a group, one might imagine that the tactics and movements would be significantly different for people fighting as individuals. What might be interesting to continue this kind of study is to look at and analyse some of the Buhurt battles and see where people are hit first. That would take quite a bit of video analysis and time!
