The Armour Archive

maxntropy

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs159.snc1/5932_128885402237_759162237_3117838_2306292_n.jpg Please forward, as appropriate. If you are willing to printout and distribute flyers at Pennsic, please let me know and I will email you the original directly (thanks, as always, to Leo for his...

maxntropy

Sir Gabriel of Maccuswell (East Kingdom Knight whom I believe won the Pennsic Lefty tournament last year and camps with us in House Arindale at Pennsic) fights in a set of Black and White armour (here are the pictures I could find): [img]http://warriorsofhistory.com/graphics/craighatfield1.jpg[/img]...

maxntropy

Mr. Lemke took me for significantly more than $200, and has never responded to any correspondences from any sources.

Max Von Halstern

maxntropy

Angusm0628 wrote:Max,

How tall are they?

They're 13" top-to-bottom in the center and 14" top-to-bottom on the side.

Naturally, fully strapped, raring and ready to go!

Max

maxntropy

Hey folks: If I can get a decent price for 'em, I'm looking to sell a set of Icefalcon Splinted Greaves I've never worn (though they have been sitting in my armour bag and are thus perhaps *slightly* touched from shipping and handling) and are looking for a loving owner who can finally treat them ri...

maxntropy

well there is a certan baron from Atlantia that has inspired me but dont tell him Fortunately, flattery doesn't work on the mean and irascible... Besides, it's not that you're inspired so much as asking good questions to lots've quality folks and listening and acting. Now ya just gotta find that sh...

maxntropy

Lest me seeth in jealousy. To have an event in a setting such as that!! Leo: Did you never attend any of the events at the College of the Grey Gargoyles (University of Chicago)? I know when I was attending College there, way back in the eighties, we had some pretty cool events in some of the Gothic...

maxntropy

Damn!

I was *so* hoping Alexandre was going to start using a real shield!

Max Von Halstern

maxntropy

It has been my long and sad experience that even those who believe otherwise about themselves are mostly self-centered and inconsiderate louts who demand courtesy and respect while providing attitude and disdain -- especially if they feel they've earned such by paying for some goods or services. Nat...

maxntropy

My heart is well and truly gladdened by these noble and worthy missives, and I am deeply impressed by the significant growth, open-mindedness, and willingness to listen and learn that such a development demonstrates -- and for my part, I hope that the Archive discussion on the topic of a few months ...

maxntropy

Message sent.

And it's just Max.

maxntropy

Charles:

Did you get my PM?

maxntropy

Most people don't really seem to seek after individuals to honestly advance their reps. They sort of just hope that someone will accidently see them do something cool. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. Sir Vitus: Having grown-up working since Kindergarten in my family's retail establishments, I feel quite confi...

maxntropy

I know you're not going to like it, but these are the shizz:

Can't speak highly enough of 'em, and you can really build a nice, comfortable suspension rig from 'em.

Max Von Halstern

maxntropy

I believe that Hugh is merely emphasizing how very much the feudal system was a socio- economic system -- and that, as a result, the business of Knighthood could at times be a very serious business, as it was a rather costly undertaking (what with all the armour and training and retainers and horses...

maxntropy

Regarding to experimental design (thought experiment or otherwise), I worry that we are being a little three-dimensional in our thinking (examining the expert at a momentary snapshot move/counter-move "turn" in time) and forgetting that our experts actually come-in with an historic databas...

maxntropy

Maybe it's an improvement in the nature of the quality you've been keeping.

Ahem.

But you still should get your butt up to Brick's and practice more often with them guys...

And, of course, get rid of that silly thing you keep using in your left hand!

Max Von Halstern

maxntropy

personally i dont get the fear in asking a knight (or whomever) to work with you but it seems to be a very real situation for a lot of people, especially newer ones. Interestingly, this very issue is also the subject of a thread of discussion on the Girls Club forum moderated by Mistress Cunian -- ...

maxntropy

Max, The archive is a marketplace of ideas. I was just asking whether we are looking at Timex or Rolex. Roger, that. Just wanted to make sure we weren't making folks with less experience feel their input had no currency in the marketplace. I knew I was gonna kill the other guy. I was so damn sure t...

maxntropy

The SCA is chock full of advice. Much of it bad. Nissan is being nice! Look... evidence! We all know that *most* of the advice is bad. Everybody with at least a few more months (weeks?) experience wants to jump on top of the newbie and demonstrate how helpful, wise, powerful, friendly and skilled t...

maxntropy

Max. can you tell me the name of the vest or where you bought it. Roibeard: Sorry if you missed it, but the word "this" above is actually a link to the site where I bought the vest (I did a fairly significant amount of shopping, including communications with alot of vendors and such and f...

maxntropy

How many of you respondees have ever won a tournement? What kind've tournaments (single elim, double elim, round-robin, bearpits, pas d'armes, novice, unbelted, squire, crown, melee, off-weapons) are you interested in? Are you interested in a binary answer or a total number? Local, Regional, Kingdo...

maxntropy

This was a life saver last Pennsic. Excellent idea and great to remind us. For myself, I found this to be more of a life-saver last Pennsic (provides a nice, cooling 59 degree temperature for up to 2.5 hours at 100 degree ambient temperature along with 2-liters of hydrating fluids -- and can be res...

maxntropy

I don't think that testing for visual acuity would answer my question. Perhaps you might clarify the question? Are you hypothesizing that better fighters have faster eye movements assuming a correlation between eye movements and the ability to rapidly analyze visual cues to further refine the proba...

maxntropy

Any thoughts? What do YOU do to get the brain in gear? Will Will: There have been a number of fairly recent discussions on the subject (note the links to the threads below). For example, Rowan (now Glaukos) had started a thread called The Need to Dominate and Competitive Fighting which was based on...

maxntropy

Jackie: Don't make us head down there and beat some relaxation into ya! Maybe you could consider doing the "Scotty" thing and padding your time estimates a bit to give yourself some leeway and enough built-in scheduling flexibility to handle contingencies and such -- your time-to-completio...

maxntropy

Put it on a ring and we can be the Deep and Mysterious Fraternal Order of the Archive.

Or something.

maxntropy

Glaukos the Athenian wrote:In addition to perfect fit, what techniques do you use to prevent armour bite?

I've always found that scar tissue and callouses work pretty well.

And you don't really need to do anything, other than wait a spell, to get 'em custom fit for your rig!

Max Von Halstern

maxntropy

You should be in this as you are in my mind, one of the unbelts who nonetheless epitomizes chivalry. Sir Richard: I am profoundly humbled by the tremendously kind sentiment of your words -- and appreciate them deeply and sincerely -- but can only hope that someday my continuing efforts to progress ...

maxntropy

The only thing that kinda sucked for me was not having alot of experience fighting with the Atlantian units. Well that and being recognized as a threat and getting double and triple teamed. If our Northern Army Atlantian Thugs (TM) aren't double and triple-teaming you in a melee, then they're serio...

maxntropy

Sorry to say I have to disagree with some of the statements concerning "Youth Combat", I find that the 18 year olds that have been in this program (in the East Kingdom) are worse than if they had done nothing up to that point. The problem is bad training is worse than none and a lot of th...

maxntropy

Just to help out, I will take Max's spot Sir Richard: If the conflict with my commitment to try to be one of Atlantia's Unbelted Champions for the tournament makes it impossible for me to participate in the Thirty, it would be my truly great honor, and a personal pleasure to have you take my spot w...

maxntropy

I was hoping this time slot would solve my annual conflict with the Ealdormerean 15 man tourney. Yet again they conflict as the 15 man is running from 4 to 8 on Sunday. Darn. Are you kidding me? Son of a goat-herding grey-bearded tavern wench!!! Finally ready to participate in the Thirty after *ser...

maxntropy

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:For a spiffy shield for special occasions and for maximum spiffiness- I'm the guy.

Don't you mean "Maximilian spiffiness"?

maxntropy

I think my absolute biggest pet peeve is watching someone 'dead' pushing their way thru the other side's line. Last time I said something to someone doing that, "I was told we were supposed to do it this way" I've been aware of at least a couple've units across the Knowne Worlde who have ...

WMA/HMA Classes at the "WMA in SCA" camp at Pennsi

FS: Splinted Greaves

Re: How do you get your "tourney brain" on?

Re: Preventing armour bite...