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by Josh W
Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:40 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Katanas
Replies: 39
Views: 43

hmph. I thought it would be obvious that I was indulging in hyperbole. The katana needs knocked down a few notches, IMO. Until popular "wisdom" relinquishes its treasured anime-inspired notions about what katana can or can't do, I'll be just as vocal about it being a piece of crap as the katanaphile...
by Josh W
Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:09 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Secrets of the Viking Warriors
Replies: 11
Views: 15

So they "proved" that mail was a crappy defense?

Something seems supect to me here. This doesn't jive at all with the mail test results from the test performed on Erik Schmid's mail at the RA recently.

How deeply was the target beneath the mail penetrated?
by Josh W
Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:45 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Movie armour
Replies: 22
Views: 79

Jack.

I'm not far from you at all.

E-mail me. I've got plenty of armour. What do you need?
by Josh W
Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:59 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Katanas
Replies: 39
Views: 43

No. Katana can't cut breastplates. This test: http://www.shinkendo.com/kabuto.html proves only that, under carefully orchestrated *NON-COMBAT* conditions, a katana (made by Paul Champagne, not Michael Bell) can cause a tiny, irrelevant little cut in a helmet. Who says that katana are lighter than Eu...
by Josh W
Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:00 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Secrets of the Viking Warriors
Replies: 11
Views: 15

So how did each piece of mail hold up?
by Josh W
Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:34 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Advice
Replies: 18
Views: 23

I'll vouch for Brent being an asshole.

...but so is Tancred.

I'm on the 15th century list in question, and I have to back Brent up. Who was that other guy? God, what a dimwit!
by Josh W
Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:51 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Corazinna Plates?
Replies: 2
Views: 51

Master Glyndour of Talon Armoury sells a nice Corazzina kit. The plates are well-formed, but they're made of plastic. Still, even up close, the corazzini he makes from them look wonderful.
by Josh W
Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:45 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: SCA fighting; sport or no?
Replies: 41
Views: 32

It is indeed a modern sport. It's stick-tag.
by Josh W
Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:41 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: (SCA) And you wonder why people quit?(rant)
Replies: 34
Views: 79

First... Where are you at? Second... I don't know about anyone else, but I "bust on" the 14th century because I hate cloth-covered armour. I also hate any age that had more-or-less full plate limb defensed yet featured only small plates riveted to a flimsy cloth cover for torso protection. It makes ...
by Josh W
Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:33 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Pictures of my new arming doublet
Replies: 20
Views: 48

Interestingly, it was JP's signature line right here on the AA that piqued my curiosity about that movie. I went out and rented it, loved it, and bade my wife watch it with me. She was skeptical, and didn't expect to like it at all, but wound up loving it beyond any other movie she's ever seen. We b...
by Josh W
Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:36 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: finished Armet
Replies: 31
Views: 129

Nicely done, Patrck.

I want one. Image
by Josh W
Wed Dec 31, 2003 4:16 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: garb alternatives
Replies: 64
Views: 70

Yeah, somebody show this guy a pair of real hosen. They're nothing at all like spandex tights. More like modern sweatpants, but not as baggy...
by Josh W
Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:22 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: whats wrong with just wanting to fight(SCA)
Replies: 47
Views: 55

"dinglebootz"?

Too much time in Holland, man...

Image
by Josh W
Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:19 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Biggest Threat to Fighting /(SCA)?
Replies: 164
Views: 225

Sceotan, Lately, I actually have been putting in more time in getting my nascent Living History group's gear up to snuff than I have spent with the local SCA. Which is not to say that the SCA locals ever do anything, anyway... I occasionally toy with the idea of abandoning the SCA altogether, but I ...
by Josh W
Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:12 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Biggest Threat to Fighting /(SCA)?
Replies: 164
Views: 225

I love how some of you just instantly jump to the conclusion that, just because I'm an elitist asshole, I don't ever offer to help new folks out. Nothing could be further from the truth. I quote from a post of mine on another thread ("We Need a New Dead Horse to Beat"), a few days ago: "...I've offe...
by Josh W
Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:54 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Biggest Threat to Fighting /(SCA)?
Replies: 164
Views: 225

This is a hobby, a luxury. If you can't get your mundane life together enough to support yourself and can't muster the resourcefulness to save for quality gear, then....Don't Play. At the very least, hold off on playing until you can afford to acquire kit that doesn't make those of us who can manage...
by Josh W
Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:11 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Katanas
Replies: 39
Views: 43

Where's Effingham when you need him? If he were here, he might have a few bits of advice for your friend. Your friend would be advised to take to heart any pronouncements that come out of Effingham's mouth, for he is none other than Anthony Bryant, author of many (most?) of the Osprey military books...
by Josh W
Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:11 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Katanas
Replies: 39
Views: 43

Tell your friend to stop watching anime and read a book.

Have him start with Dr. Alan Williams' "The Knight and the Blast Furnace".

Then move him on to accounts of the Spanish in the Philippines defending themselves from Japanese "Wako" pirates, some of them likely armed with katana...
by Josh W
Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:06 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Breast and backplate use in the SCA......
Replies: 12
Views: 15

Cet.

I need a bulk order of those Rough from the Hammer mild steel breastplates.

Please e-mail me if you're interested...
by Josh W
Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:03 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Breast and backplate use in the SCA......
Replies: 12
Views: 15

I fight in a 15th century Italian cuirass repro. http://thadenarmory.com/armor/prog/joshrep01.jpg http://thadenarmory.com/armor/prog/joshrep05.jpg It's made of 14ga, 16ga, and 18ga steel, and I can't feel a damn thing in it, which I regard as an all-around good thing. Moreover, Calidan, I'm in your ...
by Josh W
Sat Dec 27, 2003 5:56 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: et tu madu? Or is that a basket on my hand?
Replies: 124
Views: 133

Animal's view is probably the prevailing one in the SCA. We're about as likely to see the madu justly banned from the lists as we are to see all those 'big mucking tunic' early period fighters and those stainless bascinet & jupon(under which, invariably, is a plastic COP)-clad, SCA-chivalry-worshipp...
by Josh W
Sat Dec 27, 2003 5:39 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: cutting steel
Replies: 11
Views: 12

How do you think it was done back in the old days, Zorro...?
by Josh W
Thu Dec 25, 2003 7:34 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: ARMA vs AEMMA
Replies: 14
Views: 29

Though I'm not much of a fan of 14th century armour (the armour of the 15th century being *so* much better), those photos *do* improve my impression of the ARMA.

Where/When is this gathering? Will there be more armoured combat there this year? How does one get to participate in this?
by Josh W
Thu Dec 25, 2003 8:24 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Who makes those really cool hilts????
Replies: 7
Views: 7

Mandrake
by Josh W
Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:08 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Your first kit
Replies: 51
Views: 589

My first harness was a set of plate from Mandrak, worth more than he charged me for it, IMO.

There's at least one photo of it floating around on the 'net somewhere...
by Josh W
Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:07 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: ARMA vs AEMMA
Replies: 14
Views: 29

AEMMA is better. At least the AEMMA folks play in armour fairly often.
by Josh W
Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:51 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: What is he talking about?
Replies: 32
Views: 52

What is he talking about?

http://www.livesteelarmor.com/how/cas.html

Is there any truth to what this guy is saying, or does he have a poor grasp of history? I had always understood 'whitesmithing' to be something else...
by Josh W
Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:39 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Fastolf to Falstaff... huh??
Replies: 12
Views: 13

It was Patay, Vitus.
by Josh W
Tue Dec 23, 2003 4:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Biggest Threat to Fighting /(SCA)?
Replies: 164
Views: 225

'salright, Halvgrim.

We can discuss it at Twelfth Night, if you're going...
by Josh W
Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:54 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Biggest Threat to Fighting /(SCA)?
Replies: 164
Views: 225

Sorry Halvgrim... I don't think the sort of live-steel fighting you've done compares with what the AEMMA is doing. Barring some miraculous about-face in the attitudes of the SCA satus quo, I think the SCA approach to serious medieval combat re-creation and research has had its day. I'd sooner jump i...
by Josh W
Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:43 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: We need a new horse to beat...
Replies: 31
Views: 21

How about... After having attended an SCA demo for "Return of the King" last week, and having been introduced to the scholarly study of Medieval/Renaissance European martial arts, courtesy of the Archive's own Magmaforge... I am just about ready to swear off the SCA forever. That demo sucked. I was ...
by Josh W
Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:38 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Biggest Threat to Fighting /(SCA)?
Replies: 164
Views: 225

Anime poses the biggest threat to fighting in the SCA. If I have to listen to just one more geek yap inanely about how he wants to re-enact his favorite scenes from "Final Fantasy" or "Rurouni Kenshin" or some other equally unrealistic cartoon full of stupidly oversized swords...
by Josh W
Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:55 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Fastolf to Falstaff... huh??
Replies: 12
Views: 13

'Cause Shakespeare was a git.
by Josh W
Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:34 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Taboo attacks
Replies: 25
Views: 32

I've known a few SCA fighters who had real issues with thrusts from swords. They had somehow gotten the notion into their heads that they were unchivalrous...
by Josh W
Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:29 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Best Dressed Fighting Kingdom/Unit?
Replies: 33
Views: 36

even uniform tabards can't hide butt-ugly armour...

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