The Armour Archive

DukeAvery

If Brion agrees, I will fight you at his practice. I'm glad you've joined us really Jade. I've been waiting for a flag officer. Conditions 1) We are both healthy and the ground is dry. Injuries or rain or real life emergencies allow postponement. 2) 5 good blows to sca legal targets. 3) Fight to be ...

DukeAvery

Wait - because you do not want to be at Pennsic with a half healed wound. That will suck. Maximize your healing by eating right and other stuff I am not an expert in.

If you're protecting it you shouldn't be fighting on it.

Just my opinion.

Good Luck

Avery

DukeAvery

And I didn't do my homework either. Your Grace Jade If you have specific posts you'd like to address, please copy them either publicly or privately. Some of them I regret and have apologized for many more I have not and will not. All men makes mistakes after all, although not all own up to them. I b...

DukeAvery

Brother I have great respect for your fighting methods. Your guys are tough fighters that train very hard and well. You can win fights other ways very successfully however. I used to use other methods, and I sometimes do. I can generate power with either leg forward, but I switched because I was wre...

DukeAvery

Your Grace Jade If you have specific posts you'd like to address, please copy them either publicly or privately. Some of them I regret and have apologized for many more I have not and will not. All men makes mistakes after all, although not all own up to them. I believe they have been a useful learn...

DukeAvery

Count Johnathan

I find your posts impolite. There is no one true way - if you believe otherwise then we must agree to disagree.

For those interested in studying the matter further I offer this

http://www.bellatrix.org/school/section04.htm

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

It worked exactly as I intended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bI82AjFsZQ I rest my sword on my shoulder all the time. There are different schools of thought on these matters. I don't advocate the sword forward defenses, but they are employed very successfully by some well respected sca fighters. ...

DukeAvery

m I rest my sword on my shoulder all the time. There are different schools of thought on these matters. I don't advocate the sword forward defenses, but they are employed very successfully by some well respected sca fighters. Regards Avery Don't rest your sword on your shoulder. It is a lazy and bad...

DukeAvery

Greetings Gilbert I am not angry at anyone because I have been very careful of my attachments, but I am somewhat sad. I appreciate your brave offer to act as my champion of cause, but I do not think it would make matters any better. Nor, frankly, do I understand what one of those is and how it could...

DukeAvery

sirroric wrote:Your Grace,

You have clearly missed what I was communicating, for that i apologize it is totally my fault. i am going to however take your sage advice and ignore you now.

Roric

Then please accept my apologies. I'm a bit stressed today.

Regards

Avery

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DukeAvery

Use a mirror on the other side of the pell from you. A big window with the lighting right works great.

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

Count Johnathan wrote:

Laugh now monkey boy.

DukeAvery

Your Grace Jade My relationship with House Bellatrix is an old one, if one step removed. I have spent much time with one of Paul's squires while they were out of kingdom and seconded to my knight. She was an older sister to me, and eventually I was the lieutenant of her royal guard. Those were some ...

DukeAvery

Your Grace Avery, Come here and I'll pound the sand. Maybe. You see, I've learned not to make commitments in these matters. I'll ask around to see if anyone I know has heard of you. As for "my boy's" reputation with a greatsword, I find it interesting that you were unwilling to even fight...

DukeAvery

Your Grace Jade I do not fight opponents whose control I have reason to question. Your boy challenged me and has a reputation with a great sword I was not apprised of. As for your otherwise mocking comments, go pound sand. If it typical of the new West Kingdom. No wonder Paul doesn't play much anymo...

DukeAvery

Greetings Squire Varyag I see what you are saying, however; What may be customary in one principality may be somewhat different in another. Ritter Brion, a long time westerner, as well as a participant in the fight has acknowledged that my interpretation is not without merit. Secondly, I have heard ...

DukeAvery

Greetings Gilbert I have much familarity with the different views of corkscrewing. I started in Caid and moved to An Tir for a time. There I had to completely re-learn how to fight a fighter on his knees when I am not. Caid placed few restrictions on this while An Tir placed many, which makes me ver...

DukeAvery

Guys - there are many different styles that are successful in sca fighting. Slick floors are more than annoying and as a fighter coming up on 50 I flat avoid them. If I had to (really wanted to) I would wear whatever shoes would stick however goofy and non-metal knees in order to minimize common inj...

DukeAvery

If this is otherwise obvious my apologies - but which fighter are you? The round or the heater? Edit - nevermind, when I logged I saw your heraldry. I'll comment on your style later. I thought you would be the heater because, be aware you are a little nervousness in your movements. Regards Avery

DukeAvery

You do look directly down once, but I believe you weren't "seeing", just being chagrined over your rising off a hip wound (which I didn't catch until you metioned it). That is why these discussions can be valuable. I wouldn't want anyone to see something that wasn't there, nor fail to see ...

DukeAvery

Sigifrith Hauknefr wrote:Actually, I *was* warned by the marshalls about rising up from being hipped during finals. Actually, by Uther. But I know, he just loves his first born son better than me...

An interesting thought.

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

Both yourself and Brion admit the rules may have been at least infracted on apparently multiple occasions. What are we being taught? You also don't deny that Titus' foot is between your legs. Regards Avery [/quote="Sigifrith Hauknefr"] Finally - even if this instance WAS a violation of con...

DukeAvery

In the interests of fun discussion, from what I can make of the translation and the videos your side wins when all the other side is all out. When a fighter is knocked over or "submits" (cries enough), he is out. The marshals appear to be able to out fighters by reason of being clearly def...

DukeAvery

In Crown Lists I've found the marshals reluctant to object to any thing other than an armor failure. For example, I've have been struck repeatedly after holds in quarter-finals before. This one of the unwritten rules changes that occurs in sca fighting as you progress in skill. SCA marshals like to ...

DukeAvery

...and the painted ponies go up and down...

DukeAvery

Congratulations on your fine showing. The round looks good on you, you move much like Duke Torgul. Consider a longer sword. Regards Avery In Brion's fight with Titus at the 13 second mark Brion feels the need to push Titus off. A bit later Brion has to do it again at the :36 mark. Brion cannot "...

DukeAvery

Greetings All In Brion's fight with Titus at the 13 second mark Brion feels the need to push Titus off. A bit later Brion has to do it again at the :36 mark. Brion cannot "cannot straighten his upper body perpendicular to the ground" without having to push Titus off. These movements, howev...

DukeAvery

Interesting...what about this rule from the MHB? West Kingdom Armored Combat Manual- May 2007 ... I. It is forbidden for a standing fighter to run over or press a kneeling fighter to the point that the kneeling fighter cannot straighten his upper body perpendicular to the ground. This rule is meant ...

DukeAvery

audax wrote:Excellent. I just completed a polehammer.

I'm building a winged-spear/partisan, an old favorite of mine.

One of my sons just asked for his own rattan longsword. Made my day.

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

I don't mind one trick ponies, as long as it's "Sit Pretty."

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DukeAvery

I remember reading somewhere that banded maille may have been maille with "something" (leather, rope etc) run thru the rings. Could this have helped prevent catching somehow?

Just an idle thought, I am not a scholar of such matters.

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

I would also like to offer an apology to those who spent preparing for this Saturday that would have otherwise spent their training time differently. I'm sorry for that, and for any sadness that I may have inadvertently caused or may have otherwise offended. Let us try again - this is my olive branc...

DukeAvery

NASCAR, your days are now numbered.

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