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- Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:24 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:40 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Well, why not suggest that?
I could see approval / changes based on the vote of KEMs, the SEM and the Representative for the Marshallate on the BOD.
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I could see approval / changes based on the vote of KEMs, the SEM and the Representative for the Marshallate on the BOD.
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- Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:23 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Like I said Johnathan - AA is only one small group in the SCA fighting universe. The fact the the SEM came on, participated in discussions at all should be considered cool. Imagine trying to keep up on EVERY fighting message board, discussion group, etc.. on SCA combat? The guy has a real life and a...
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:08 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
And is it possible others have contacted him regarding this issue, and their opinions go another direction?
Could it be the majority advised him differently?
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Could it be the majority advised him differently?
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- Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:38 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Just becuase he isn't REQUIRED to make any special considerations, or take into account the opinion of others, doesn't mean he isn't doing so. And the AA does not represent the majority of fighters in the SCA. Heck, opinions on rules and such have been made by people who aren't in the SCA. You seem ...
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:24 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
And I doubt Omerad is making ANY of these decision in a vacuum, or unilaterally.
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- Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Hey, I was just tossing out an idea based on the conversation. Some people choose equipment/weapons for the recreation. Some for a "sport" advantage. I really don't care why someone chooses the way they do, just be honest and have fun. How about a rule that "No weapon designed with th...
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:56 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Hand protection = gauntlet. Johnathan - Personally, I don't find madus to be particularly devastating to fight against. The guys who were really good with it would have been just as good with a shield, or a single tip spear and a gauntlet. We had a couple fighters in the Mid try them out, decide the...
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:29 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
None, I suppose. Personally, I don't see madu's as a weapon that was ever, even in the rarest occasion, used by the vast majority of the portrayals in the SCA. And the most period example, as built, would be illegal as a "punch shield", or offensive shield. People use the madu to "gam...
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:32 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
How about a rule that "No weapon designed with the primary intent to be used in one hand can have a point at BOTH ends."
Though I might change "point" to "offensive head or point" to avoid the whole pike-maul issue.
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Though I might change "point" to "offensive head or point" to avoid the whole pike-maul issue.
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- Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:24 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Hardly. Tournaments were competitions, for prizes - sometimes renown or fame. Judicial bouts were to settle legal disputes. The other versions of this were judicial weaponry (German) - none of these appear to have been used in "regular" combat. . So you're advocating that madus/adagas can ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:04 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Attack or wait?
- Replies: 87
- Views: 1499
Re: Attack or wait?
Agreed - Sometimes I think too many new fighters skip the VERY important step of just fighting for the joy of it. They get it in their head that they need to be working on in-depth strategies and complicated combo-shots by their 3rd month, or they are failing. Fight. Get comfortable FIGHTING. Being ...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:49 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
See, I find the adarga as a Spanish/Moorish item - but that is strictly a shield - except for that one item - which had a center spike, which wouldn't be allowed in SCA combat. It also doesn't list an overall size. The next closest reference I find is a "Moorish Adaga", or Adagra, which wa...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:26 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Attack or wait?
- Replies: 87
- Views: 1499
Re: Attack or wait?
Sometimes you lead an opponent with a push, sometimes a pull.
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- Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:25 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Have you, or would you ever consider, changing your SCA Name
- Replies: 95
- Views: 1199
Re: Have you, or would you ever consider, changing your SCA
Go w/ Aston Martin.
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- Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:55 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Yup - that's what I was thinking, AEiric. Especially since multi-pronged spears wre used in Heroic Age Ireland.
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- Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:18 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Attack or wait?
- Replies: 87
- Views: 1499
Re: Attack or wait?
What does my opponent want to do?
I'll try to deny them that.
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I'll try to deny them that.
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- Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:17 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Attack or wait?
- Replies: 87
- Views: 1499
Re: Attack or wait?
You might want to re-read your Musashi a bit closer..... Standing and waiting or even running away (= moving backwards) is the technique of cowards. It leads to a weak mind and bad fighting spirit. And it has no honour. Maybe the coward hits earlier than the active fighter. But such victories are wo...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:11 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Maybe you SHOULD be... 
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:10 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Have you, or would you ever consider, changing your SCA Name
- Replies: 95
- Views: 1199
Re: Have you, or would you ever consider, changing your SCA
Yup! Changed my name to something more accurate for my portrayal.
Though after 20 years, I don't get bent when people still call me Dilan. Most make the effort.
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Though after 20 years, I don't get bent when people still call me Dilan. Most make the effort.
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- Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:54 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
I'm not sure it is possible to make a weapon with "tines" like a pitchfork or a trident that would be legal, due to the inhierent "limb trapping" nature of the weapon. Unless you made it solid, with three points on a solid "body" instead of 3 times/arms. Which would loo...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:26 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
At which point someone tries to rule lawyer by calling it something else....
"It's not a madu, it's a 13th century Burgundian combat engineer's combat prybar!"
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"It's not a madu, it's a 13th century Burgundian combat engineer's combat prybar!"
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- Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:51 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
Madus are sooo Hindu peasant passe.
Besides, you can now tell people "My madu was so horny, I got 10 extra inches!"
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Besides, you can now tell people "My madu was so horny, I got 10 extra inches!"
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- Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:36 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
Sorry guys... Bad pun.
Heralds cant... not can't...
I guess I'll go out in a blazon glory.
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Heralds cant... not can't...
I guess I'll go out in a blazon glory.
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- Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:14 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
You cant.
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- Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:05 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: flat feet and lack of injuries? (from the "shoes" thread)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 435
Re: flat feet and lack of injuries? (from the "shoes" thread
Nor mine.
Frankly, probably 90% of my injuries are pre-SCA or non-SCA. SCA combat just aggravates them.
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Frankly, probably 90% of my injuries are pre-SCA or non-SCA. SCA combat just aggravates them.
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- Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:01 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: new rules
- Replies: 218
- Views: 3754
Re: new rules
Also, helmets won in sports (with the exceptions of amature boxing, and MA headgear) are for incidental or accidental contact (regardless of what actually happens). Even football helmets generally are taking glancing shots. Ever see whatt happens to a football player who takes a full speed square he...
- Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:15 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
Geeze Johnathan -
It isn't like a guy couldn't use a few more inches on his stick....
Especially if you tend to hold it in the middle....
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It isn't like a guy couldn't use a few more inches on his stick....
Especially if you tend to hold it in the middle....
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- Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:12 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
So, no ideas on my SCA legal Killer Baby Carriage?
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- Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:23 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Appearance - Fighting footwear
- Replies: 98
- Views: 2284
Re: Appearance - Fighting footwear
Most rubber cleats I've seen aren't fun to get stepped on by either I know it sucked when I played baseball. Those are specialized for playing in DIRT/base running. Most guys I've seen wearing cleats in the SCA are wearing 1/4" cleats for soccer or football, and typically "turf cleats&quo...
- Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:21 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
What would be a medical excuse to have an exposed corporate logo?
Red Cross logo on a pouch that had a epi-pen....
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- Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:16 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
True... But I really beleive that in antiquity, Chinese weapon designers sat around playing a game of "Who can think of the most crazy-assed weapon that people will actually try to use". Hmmmmm.... SCA legal FLYING GUILLOTINE! COMET HAMMER! BABY CARRIGE OF DOOM from Lone Wolf and Cub ! Gam...
- Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:45 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
<Kind of like combat archery?>
Heh.
Did I just hear Balin's head explode???
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Heh.
Did I just hear Balin's head explode???
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- Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:10 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA Armoured Fighting) Rule Changes
- Replies: 196
- Views: 2708
Re: Rule Changes
LOL!!!!
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- Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:07 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Appearance - Fighting footwear
- Replies: 98
- Views: 2284
Re: Appearance - Fighting footwear
Depends on the cleat. You can get them in a range from 1/16" up to 3/4". The smallest are typically used for artifical turf, and are like golf cleats. Longer than that (and metal) is REALLY old school, or used for straight line sprinters in track and field. I could see problems with METAL ...