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Corby de la Flamme

Corby de la Flamme

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Corby de la Flamme

There's only so much I can suggest for goofy foot fighters, but: 1. Neither one of you use your hips to throw blows. Sometimes your body gets behind a blow because you step, but not most of the time. 2. Neither one of you throws an offside leg blow, while both of you are open to being hit by it. Thi...

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I'm not known for being shy with my opinion, so I'll say right away that many of the shields in the SCA, and even in this thread, are hung terribly . If your hand does most of the work, it's wrong. If there is any single point of failure, it's wrong. If your elbow isn't VERY close to the center of b...

Corby de la Flamme

I train my students to land their blow as their foot lands.

Corby de la Flamme

Here are a mess of my pics from this weekend's Hastilude at the Hollow. SCA jousting, foam tips.

Corby de la Flamme

What Sigurd said.

Also, if you continue to have a problem, just move to Atlantia.

Corby de la Flamme

There's nothing in the rules that say you must be able to hold a polearm with two hands.

Corby de la Flamme

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this. The best way I know of to encourage people to upgrade from any mundane tent is to camp in full sun, in summer, with no trees around. Unless someone loves getting up every single morning a few minutes after dawn, they will lust for white canvas very quickly. h...

Corby de la Flamme

I was very disappointed this ended up conflicting with some war point due to the rain earlier in the week, or something running late. I forget. But I remember I was fighting when it went on.

Corby de la Flamme

The armored town battle was as dumb a battle I've ever been in that didn't require us to move haybales in armor or build some dumbass thing. Notably, every single time it was run, the battle turned out just the way anyone who could rub 10 brain cells together would have guessed it would. This strik...

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Prevention is key. All my hard gear except my helmet, gauntlets and knees is leather. Oh and gamboised cuisses. I use three bags for my gear: Wash Every Week Bag AKA clothing. This stuff goes directly to the laundry bin after fighting. At Pennsic, it gets hung out to dry on tent ropes. Anything that...

Corby de la Flamme

Ken Mondschein wrote:My challenge bout with Robert Downey went so well that I propose a formal Deed of Arms for next Pennsic!

-Participants shall attempt to outfit themselves in 14th or 15th century kit

BOOOOOOOOOOO! from the 13th century gallery.

Corby de la Flamme

Where I come from, this is known as "I have a banana in my pocket AND it's nice to see you."

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Graedwyn wrote: Anything you can do to make your hockey glove less noticeable
would be appreciated.

-Graedwyn

I'll bring some brown spray paint!!

Corby de la Flamme

Many of the examples/thought experiments above make one error: they add some amount of not-insignificant weight to the rod. Shrink tubing is overkill. Making an extruded formed rod with a shaped base that's more than 1.25" will make the rod REALLY HEAVY. People who like light swords already think th...

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I'm going to borrow my squire's norman nasal helm and be out there with my mail on!

Let me axe you something, Saxons.

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Here's a link to a small gallery of the rod I've been using for two years.

I got hit with this last night.

Corby de la Flamme

I've been away for a while. I'm way late to this conversation, and I'm not going to say anything I haven't said before in other threads on this. The poly sword I use is the same one from this video. Note the date for upload: March of 2010. More than two years ago. It is the same one I have posted pi...

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Every bit of my hard kit besides my helmet and gauntlets is leather. Some of my leather gear is over a decade old. Until this past Pennsic, some of it was nearly TWO decades old. It still smells like leather,not funk. I have never had to spray it with anything to knock the smell down. That's because...

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They are legal without cops.

Depending on how big your knees are of course. I have skinny knees, so does Johann. You might need to add some side protection.

My Answer Alphas have a bit of sole bend added, covering the top of my fibula, for example.

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It would be useful if you would discuss specifically how successful you have been with this form. The proof is in the pudding. Does using it to convince people you deserve a belt qualify? Of course it would. But I intended my comment for the Original Poster, not you Sir. Apologies if you thought so.

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I'm now using something else. I found the Alpinestars had two big drawbacks: Uncomfortable to kneel in. Relatively fragile. I'm currently wearing these: http://delaflamme.org/another-option-hidden-knee-armor Which are MUCH more comfortable, though I needed to add to my previously cosmetic gaiter to ...

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It would be useful if you would discuss specifically how successful you have been with this form.

The proof is in the pudding.

Corby de la Flamme

Amazon has them new, but they've gotten kind of pricey.

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Maybe I haven't put credit where credit is due. In my experience, Duke Hrangvaldr of the Middle is the first guy I ever saw fighting sword leg forward, basket on leg, shield on head.

For brevity, I refer to the style as Oscar the Grouch.

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It's not something I would suggest if you're from a kingdom that takes a stiffer shot, unless you have a lot of upper body strength.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/ja ... protection

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Sadly, Mikhail the Armorer, who made my gauntlets to order 15+ years ago, is no longer with us. There are some pics of my gauntlets somewhere here on the archive. I obviously recommend full coverage for the hand. But I'm also a fervent proponent of a mechanically attached thumb. Mechanically attache...

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I would never trust my hands to finger gauntlets. But then I'm a very forward pole arm fighter. I've been wearing the same pair of clamshells for 15 years or so, and had I been wearing finger gauntlets for that time, I'm pretty sure I would have broken 4 or 5 fingers. If I had insisted on finger gau...

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Sir Corby de la Flamme of Atlantia has used an aketon as his principal body armour for some time. It's packed tightly and serves him very well. It's sewn as a series of pockets, then each pocket is stuffed with cotton or linen batting, IIRC. Not exactly. it's tubes that were stuffed after sewing, a...

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Maybe a flying rainbow unicorn for a crest would cute it up.

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Knocked around with Kelby in the back yard this afternoon, and got him to take pics.

Ice, you're welcome to use this.

Corby de la Flamme

Haven't watched the video yet, but wanted to chime in on Apparent Speed. Apparent speed is also increased by delaying the moment when the tip of the sword begins moving in its final arc for as long as possible. Same reason why boxers don't throw haymakers--big, open, arcing shots have easy to predic...

Re: how to cut thick leather?

Re: Armor Lot for sale

Re: new fighting vid. nothing special

Re: Need help figuring out how to fix my shield grip.

Re: Step-strike or strike-step?

Jousting pics, Atlantian Event.

Re: Feeling shots in my 14th Century armour

Re: Unpadded Maces vs. Unpadded Polearms

Best way to encourage upgrades to tents

Re: Battle of Hastings at Pennsic 2012

Armored town, short bridges, woods

Re: Getting rid of 'fighter funk'

Re: Planning: Armored cut 'n' thrust deed at Pennsic 2012

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Re: Battle of Hastings at Pennsic 2012

Don't add weight

Re: Battle of Hastings at Pennsic 2012

Only the wrong type explodes.

Jumping in late

Re: Getting rid of 'fighter funk'

Re: WTB Alpinestars knees

Re: The Mace and SCA combat.

Re: WTB Alpinestars knees

Re: The Mace and SCA combat.

Re: WTB Alpinestars knees

Re: Right Leg Forward fighting style

Re: Right Leg Forward fighting style

Re: Why I Refuse to Use Paypal

Got my mailcoat!

Re: Clam vs. finger gauntlets

Re: Clam vs. finger gauntlets

Re: Do Outlanders still fight only in gambesons?

Re: Sigh.Who makes "cute helms"

Ice asked for pictures

Re: Shot speed training / Training device