The fighter’s hand use a padded protector or a padded gauntlet to protect fingers and knuckles. Padded weapons are bludgeon and the force of the hit may harm your hand if is not covered.

Each sport combat discipline have their own rules, basically two fighters hit each to other in a lapse of 1 minute to 3 minutes to make points to reach 5 or 10 points and define the sucess of the combat. Some combats consist in make the hit, stop fight, score the point and continue the fighting. In other rule, consist in do continues hits to reach the necessary points to win the round, a referee decide who win.

There teamfights by nomination in each disciplines. Team fights are usually formed by 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 25 and 50 fighters by team. Big team fights can reach 100 fighters per team. Under 7 fighters per team, referees score the points and decide who fall and who keep the battle. Above 10 fighthers per team, points are not marked, the participants use full padded armor, the victory consist in tumbling down all opponents.

Professional combat not only consists of using techniques with weapons on the opponent, but more martial resources are used such as grappling, projections, kicks, pushes, blows using the shield or even the pommel of the padded sword. Reinforced full padded armor is required to withstand more intense and stronger combat. The fighters must have a good training and physical condition to avoid injuring themselves in the execution of their techniques. Currently only the International Federation of Modern Sword Fighting has this nomination called HARD MSF.

Usually are the referee or judges in the arena, they check the equipmente before start the combat, check the protections of the fighters and watch the fight to score points to show the winner of the round. All Main Judge are certified by an international sport organization.