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Aidan Cambel

plus being smaller makes it easy to get lost in their shield... you can crawl right up a shield and play whack-a-mole before they even realize where you are....

Aidan Cambel

I am 5'4" and a lefty. I weigh a bit more (about 160 now) but when I first started fighting I was about 135. So I encounter a lot of the problems she is facing. The best thing you can do is to instill in her some non-fighting attitude. For example -- when I die, I make it memorable. I don't just fal...

Aidan Cambel

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I wish I had known that my corrazina pulled open like that at the bottom!

Aidan Cambel

For one of his Crown Lists, Duke Maximillian decreed that combatants raise their hand and extend a piece of rope from their fingertips to the ground. This length of rope had to "go around" the outer edge of the shield. This turned out to be a fair way to limit shield size without overly penalizing ...

Aidan Cambel

I understand and appreciate and believe in this concept, but it is hard to get my heart to buy into it. The reason is, I think, that it is hard to don your helm and know you are not going to win before you even get your chin strap buckled. For me, this is a confidence-crushing problem that can beco...

Aidan Cambel

vibram soles work wonders for traction.

Aidan Cambel

Over all it sounds like a good A&S project for you to take-on and to submit to a competition. And when you get to a conclusion, you can inform us here. except I totally suck at research! I have an uncanny act of finding contrary information to anything I find, leaving me walking in circles! So far,...

Aidan Cambel

http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/popnow.shtml

Aidan Cambel

I actually wonder now if some people throw strong enough to pop bubble wrap. Really. This might be a fun test. -Aaron popping bubble wrap requires more speed than force. Take some bubble wrap and slowly push it down hard. It stretches, but doesn't always pop. Now just squeeze it real fast. just say...

Aidan Cambel

When this necro-thread originally started in 2001, it was started by a few Meridians that wanted to see a tournament company in our lands. There once was a tourney company - The Company of St Olaf. I was a member errant, as my persona and armour didn't fit into the timeline yet. But somewhere there ...

Aidan Cambel

Can anyone tell me what "version" of the christian cross was predominantly used throughout England in the mid 14th century? I have looked and looked and can't find anything definitive, but my searching is limited to breaktime at work. Please help! thanks, Aidan May I ask if you intend to wear the c...

Aidan Cambel

This is some serious thread Necromancy. So... did this take off? It did for a little while, then it slowly slipped away again. I think now the time is ripe for it, as the "fun" of counted blows is realized by more and more people. But then what do I know, I have been to 2 events in 2 years! Hopeful...

Aidan Cambel

Worn by people as jewelry or adornment, if it even was used like that in this time. Not necessarily clergy, but population. I know that through time, the "popular form" of the cross changed somewhat. Probably more specifically by region that timeline I would think. I want to cast myself and my wife ...

Aidan Cambel

Can anyone tell me what "version" of the christian cross was predominantly used throughout England in the mid 14th century?

I have looked and looked and can't find anything definitive, but my searching is limited to breaktime at work.

Please help!

thanks,
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

Chew gum. There's a reason damn near every wrestler does it.. This actually does work. I have the "holding breath" problem, and gum helped a lot. you just need to remember, if you chew gum, stop chewing if a shot is coming in. If it rings your head real good, your auto reaction will be to clamp you...

Aidan Cambel

I don't know how to fight in a bargrill, never have fought in one... But i will tell you what helps me --- Those holes right below the eye slots and to the side. They help move the hot air out for one, so your eyes don't dry out, and give you other places to glance. I can glance down real quick and ...

Aidan Cambel

If I answer this for you, will you tell me how to not stop breathing when I fight????

lol

Aidan Cambel

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11100 Not a new idea. There were a small handful of us down here in Meridies that wanted this. The core group of a dozen or so would often face each other in tournaments, and would almost always do this ( although I don't think we really ever go...

Aidan Cambel

One option to discuss here is having a "backstrap", or buckled down strap across the back of the gauntlet, on the sword or not? I found these to be helpful in allowing me to keep my grip loose on the sword, and was/is my trigger solution for a cross hilted sword. I'm not sure I gave it enough of a ...

Aidan Cambel

It's butted... it needs to be aluminum, its not for armour, or even reenactment purposes. it's for a friend who wants a maille bikini top kind of thing, but she wants to make it herself so i am trying to get resources together for her.

Thanks!
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

I know DeCordene used to, but i guess he's done now.

Anyone else supplying precut links? preferably aluminum?

Thanks,
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

Sounds / looks like a thermopoleum... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AvzQ_vj3K8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q4SZsilPPA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Njf7paqKwA Yours is a bit more portable though. This thing works wonderfully. Lower the sides from your plan and you won't even need air vents f...

Aidan Cambel

I found it a much easier task to relieve myself after switching to a pourpoint to suspend my leg harness. That was the biggest problem when using a belt - you have to unfasten the belt to get your pants where you can get willie out, and when you unfasten the belt your leg harness becomes a problem, ...

Aidan Cambel

Shield devices made of colored duct tape sheets... The heraldic uses alone are mind boggling. Ya know, I know this was said in jest - but seriously, there is some merit there. hold on before your eye starts twitching.... Think about this. You take an image of your device and print it onto PAPER. Ca...

Aidan Cambel

It's all about the Dentyne Ice Arctic Chill for me :lol: Thats my fav too. Now I know - Dentyne Ice Arctic Chill can make someone a duke. KEWL! :-) In Service, Aidan Ya, I fight like crap without it. I'm thinking sponsorship: "So, Phelan, tell me how you think you did out there?" "Well Jim-Bob, the...

Aidan Cambel

I turn the piece over and drill from the other side.

that and a small punch mark keeps it from moving.

Aidan Cambel

It's all about the Dentyne Ice Arctic Chill for me :lol: Thats my fav too. Now I know - Dentyne Ice Arctic Chill can make someone a duke. KEWL! :-) In Service, Aidan Ya, I fight like crap without it. I'm thinking sponsorship: "So, Phelan, tell me how you think you did out there?" "Well Jim-Bob, the...

Aidan Cambel

Duke Phelan wrote:
It's all about the Dentyne Ice Arctic Chill for me

Thats my fav too. Now I know - Dentyne Ice Arctic Chill can make someone a duke. KEWL!

In Service,
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

rhys wrote: What flavor? does Hubba bubba work? That might be only funny to me.

Would blowing bubbles while circling your opponent be considered rude? <shrug>

I'll try the gum - that's something I can immediately attempt.

Thanks everyone...

Aidan Cambel

Sometimes what feels like you are gasping is just not being familiar with your body at peak. That is what I suspect is the biggest problem. A little more "history": Congenital Heart Disease runs in my family, my mom had her first heart attack in her mid 40's. Now I have been to a cardiologist befor...

Aidan Cambel

Ceddie wrote:lets talk at fools war. I can show you way better than I can tell you.

Unfortunately, due to work and finances I won't be able to make Fool's War after all.

Sounds like my best bet at this point is to find somewhere to go swimmin'!

Aidan Cambel

yeah that sounds pretty stupid, but its true. I was a premmie baby with under-developed lungs, and have struggled with lung problems my entire life. Even when I was in the Marines, the running nearly killed me - I couldn't breathe. I've had doctors look at x-rays and perform breathing tests and tell...

Aidan Cambel

Thank you for that pattern Old Bear and Giles!

I have been looking for a similar pattern to get the rerebrace design for a very long time!!

Aidan Cambel

The Helmet has the typical weathering, surface oxidation and discoloration for a helmet that is 500-600 years old.

wow.. then the mac helm i used to fight in sitting in my shop must be - like - i dunno... 1000 years old?!??!

Aidan Cambel

Is this the one you were looking for?

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... sc&start=0

Re: Cross

Cross

Anyone selling precut maille links?

I need help breathing