Interestingly, this castle apparently recreates the European and not the Japanese Middle Ages.
I think that's especially interesting. Sure, it may be just my own cultural bias talking, but I think a skilled renaissance swordsman with a longsword would have eaten a samurai's lunch. I do get -so- tired of the tendency, whenever anyone refers to "martial arts", that it is automatically assumed to be arts of the asian variety. Thanks to Hollywood I suppose, the asian arts have taken on an almost mythological sense of superiority. I for one, think not. Medieval and renaissance europe had hundreds of years too, to develop a martial art that was every bit as elegant, spiritual and deadly as their asian counterparts. The longsword, especially... was the product of hundreds of years of refinement. So too was the art of using it.