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Arngrim wrote:Thanks for the excellent answers given so far!

But I am still a bit curious about what the initial fighting was trying to simulate, does anyone know?

Wasn't it a tourney to make their lady Queen? For a day the party something like that?

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lochinvar76 wrote:Dangit Stefan... how many more hilts am I going to have to buy from you?

He is a bastard he makes an awesome one then next the next year he improves it into something even more awesome.

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Is that the King of cups?

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Count Johnathan wrote:Nice one Vitus. Could you please tell us what materials were used in crafting this fine weapon? Maybe a little construction rundown? Thx

Then please send 2 to Atenveldt for testing

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How to deal with a big shield Madu user

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Greetings Fellow Archivists Inspired by Count Jonathan's excellent HIT HARD TAKE LIGHT thread, I would unearth another phrase from the sca's past/present which I found to be very useful, and indeed, pivotal in the sca's success. Feel free to share your thoughts - either in support or why you think ...

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2 arms, some ribs, a leg....probably a few fingers. A few knockouts too. The first arm was a combination of armour failure and shot power in a singles match when I had told a friend of mine who knew me as a child that I had been training very seriously and for his sake he should not underestimate m...

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was the netting set up for the whole event?

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Just had dead guy bits installed Fri and they repaired my Meniscus as well. Very stiff was yelled at by nurse to sit down in recovery room i dont remember really though. I figure now we will be safe in the zombiepocalyse they will smell us as one of their own:) Balin In 1986 I tore the fuck out of m...

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lochinvar76 wrote:Would a harlot patch be used to ween someone off their prostitute addiction?

...and where do you wear it?

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[...... Balin: No, I don't want to see my noble brothers slain on the melee field. As a commander, I want to simulate real warfare as closely as is safely possible, in the hopes of forcing myself and my soldiers to think tactically on their feet and consider a wide range of options. I see "batt...

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DeCalmont wrote:Gee, what a surprise...Johno and Balin involved in a thread that's turned anti combat archery...

Johno said bringing it up would not help the thread

At least we are not wishy washy

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Aten 101
Fighters not Targets

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I don't know if I like Bacon Pie- though I'd sure as hell give it a try! Broadway: between the archers themselves and guys like me who enjoy having archers in battles for the extra element that they bring to battle scenarios- yeah, I'd say thousands. I also live in an archery-heavy region and run a...

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Whats a big shield? I have fought with a shoulder to shoulder chin to crotch heater most of my fighting life. At one point i was given a "tourney shield" but it tired my arm out fighting so long with my "smaller shield has made my blocks ...dynamic, but when i ran into my first Westie...

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I'm invisible!

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Traditions make us who we are. They give us our identity and seperate us from the rest of the wad. Having the option has always been the way and it has always worked. If it isn't broken don't fix it. Would you support the Knighting of a person who chose not to fight from their knees because they fo...

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Try not to punch out at shots when you edit block them. It sounds like you are catching most of the force with the front corner or edge. Also because of the basket the front corner is weaker because of the bolt holes. You could add a aluminum plate that is corner sized epoxy it to the wood then dril...

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I've seen many people get knocked out. Too many to count at this point. I have almost been knocked out plenty of times but not not entirely thus far. I have knocked a few out as well. In a game where people are hitting each other with sticks it's just something that happens sometimes. I don't think...

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"you will be called shark bait."

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http://tubeduel.com/

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Where is pic from? Those are awesome.

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Alric of Drentha wrote:
Niall Mor wrote:What exactly is mohair?

Mohair comes from one of these:

Angora goat.

No no it comes from

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"I was once told by an opponent that his shot was good, but because I had armor on I didn't feel it. At the time, it seemed like the most retarded thing I had ever heard. Now that I think about it, it still is.... " Well, Leo....that depends..... Many years ago I decided ABS barrel plasti...

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What is a good shot? One that the giver and taker both agree upon. Well kinda but in end it is the taker that has final say. All the taker can do is throw harder and hit it again, or lose and bitch about it. Balin Edit All the giver can do ...DOh I was thinking the other direction. "GOOD!"...

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Maeryk wrote:
Balin50 wrote:What is a good shot?

One that the giver and taker both agree upon.

Well kinda but in end it is the taker that has final say. All the taker can do is throw harder and hit it again, or lose and bitch about it.

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Edit All the giver can do

...DOh

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What is a good shot?

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What is a "good" shot?

Oh right the one my opponent decides is good.

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We have 2 areas in our camp the main camp with all the pretties period tents fire pits unit pavillion weapons racks etc... and the ghetto(we call it France) where we stick all of the non period tents some years at some events the ghetto is fine other years they are smashed in belly button to... I th...

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Pretty helm you should list it on an Outlands list too they like them Deer out there

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Ingvarr wrote:I have yet to meet an Aten Knight who will complain about getting hit too hard or too often.

Oh i will complain... to myself for sucking

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All good Belt is cool. We have sumptuary traditions here they are not laws, but a followed (hopefully) out of a sense of respect for those traditions. Balin So I did a google search for Atenveldt Sumptuary Laws Found a PDF and read it. verbatum: " Belts -White Belts are reserved for the exclusi...

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http://squires.midrealm.org/belts.htm I was reading this the other day and noticed in the early years at least in the Mid the red belt was suppose to have the arms of the knight you were squired to at the end to discern a squire to one who may not be. Not sure why that fell out of practice here but...

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Belt is cool. I for one do not have a problem with it when i look at it i see a cool plaque belt before anything else. red is not the dominate color in any sense. We have sumptuary traditions here they are not laws, but a followed (hopefully) out of a sense of respect for those traditions. Balin So ...

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Belt is cool. We have sumptuary traditions here they are not laws, but a followed (hopefully) out of a sense of respect for those traditions. Balin So I did a google search for Atenveldt Sumptuary Laws Found a PDF and read it. verbatum: " Belts -White Belts are reserved for the exclusive use of...

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The new merchant's layout was weird. I normally walk through in a weaving path so I know I hit all of the shops. It was interrupted in weird spots, and a few poor merchants were off all by themselves. Gossip is that we only have one more year at this site, then we may be moving back to Schnep Farms...

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