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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Christian1095: I'll be bold enough to name the other factor destroying the SCA... Duke Logan! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Now I am really disappointed that I failed to make the li...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by muttman: Devil dicks. The shot where you thrust someone (usualy on there knees while you are standing) by reaching behind you and going between your thighs. It works, but yo...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gwyneth: But I want more than a doting husband's opinion - I want input from you guys too (god help me! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif ) How realistic is it for ...

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I am afraid that I don't see things the way that you guys do. Then again, I have never been in a group that had a problem recruiting. I think that the greatest threat to the long term viability of fighting is the tendency of guages to simply go up, and not come down. when I joined, I fought in knee ...

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Gentles, I have noticed something odd with my pell drills. When doing slow work on the pell, practicing crossover shots, I have a kind of "circular" feeling on my returns. This (as far as I can tell) occurs only on the traditional, "bellatrix" low return, where you beging the sword return by allowin...

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Yep, pics would help tons.

And I have done the "dancing around" part, but I have never allowed somebody to video tape it...

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Anilid, You probably wont get an answer you really like from these guys. If you had asked about bodices, or shoes, or hats, you might. But wrist bands are probably a kind of a sore point with professional leather workers. Leather wristbands are something that professional leather workers will produc...

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I love the fact that it's a place that I can freely ask questions of folks that would simply be too busy at an event to have time to chat with me. I can ask Master Cad Armoring advice. I can ask Cheval for info on fighting training. I can just spin off a basic question to the entire knowne world, an...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Captain Jamie: PS Cealwin: Nice way to be a responsible armourer. Glad to see people step and say "I will make it right." Even if it is not wrong. <HR></BLOCKQUO...

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Well, everybody else seems to be weighing in on ringlancer's technique, so I guess I will too. Not that he asked us for any kind of a critique or anything, cause he didn't. It's not really fair, he says he missed practice for quite a while before attending that one. He also probably fights a whole l...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ringlancer: **end warning** Six years ago at Pennsic, I was fighting alongside Wulfshaven at the forefront of a bridgebattle. I was in the second rank. We were told to advan...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gaston de Vieuxchamps: The file size is pretty large and I would appreciate feedback on whether we should do future videos at a similar quality or compress them more. The i...

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OK, I have a tiny little suggestion, and a whole bunch of Kudos. I am completely unfamilliar with the manuals other than the Talhoffer. The explanatory notes (next to each illustration) would be easier to reference if you put the page number of the illustration in parentheses right before the text. ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Thaddeus: How big are the rivets? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> It looks like they are either four or five milimeters. It's hard to tell with them peened over. f

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Wulfe: There is that grey area there... "or with equivalent riveting techniques." What is considered equivalent? That might be a question for your local marshal. If there is...

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Guys, I am holding a helmet in my lap as I type. It is for one of the fighters in my shire. the recipient is a person I like a lot. She has been waiting for a couple of months for a helmet that she started at an sort of an armor workshop not too far from here. She did the basic work to cut out the f...

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the "stepping to the side" and the "following blow" are two different things. Both can be conditioned (programed) as auto attacks, but my personal opinion is that it's best to do one after the other. Your milage may vary on that one. The following blow is kind of neat. the idea of using your opponen...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bjorn Swiftaxe: I live in a shire with a female knight who has a really amazing shot that if you step wrong you get to talk like your live in a helium baloon for a few hours...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bjorn Swiftaxe: I am currently in the process of making some ring mail. Well sort of. I'm currently working on the leather vest for it. But I'm not sure how to attach the ri...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Wyrmspleen: One of my strongest annoyances is people picking up my fighting gear, without asking and swinging it around and stuff. I am interested in making a bag to carry a...

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Bjorn, I would like to see your sources on the excavation on the rings. There IS evidence of ring mail use, but there is none of European use, and it's not "in period", though I guess that is a question of which period you want. Stone's Glossary shows two sets of body armor that feature ring mail in...

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Guys,

I am curious about Japanese sword Katas.

Is there anywhere on the web that I can look at one?

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Dimitri, You are, of course, correct. I realized it about twenty minutes after I posted it. I was just hoping that nobody would catch my bone headed mistake. That ought to teach me about posting to the archive after drinking beer, but it probably wont. About your wrap set up/crossover to the ribs. D...

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Guys,

After eight solid hours typing, citing, and revising, the paper is done!

It was a little like passing a volkswagen. But I believe that handing in a little bit of original research will help.

I am proud of the paper. I appreciate the help.

Thank you.

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the twenty first century.

I really like modern toilet facilities and dentistry. I am also big on Anti-biotics.

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I re-read my post, and I don't think I made it clear that a punch block is a jab into your opponent's WEAPON. punching the sheild into you OPPONENT is something prohibited by SCA rules, though they seem to do a very mild variant in the kindgom that Texas is in. Heck, it might not be prohibited by yo...

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I once turned around because I heard somebody behind me say "Milord, Look at me!"

and I once puked on the flower of the midrealm chivalry.

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spalders. I never, ever get hit in the shoulders. It is simply because of the fact that if you can get past my guard and hit my shoulders, you can get past my guard and hit my head. I have leather spalders now, because somebody bought them for me, and without them, the lovely arm harness I was given...

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Wyrm, That's a pretty big sheild. All my advice is suspect, as I have never used a sheild that size. You might consider a smaller sheild. First, you will need to do something to deal with all the weight. Even if you made the thing out of light materials, it is still pretty heavy. Like I said before,...

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my sheild is a 20 inch center gripped round. Nobody around here uses a sheild smaller than mine. I usually set it on my knee copp and block everything with my sword.

No seriously, I am looking for a movement drill.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Dmitriy: Last but not least, a couple of dynamic pictures. The fighter on the left is from California, on the right is from Florida, I believe. <a href=http://zilla.lbl.gov...

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I am beginning to understand how badly many SCA fighters move. This is not a criticism, but rather (in some ways) a product of the rules. I would like to change the way I move. I used to move very well. Now, like so many, I stand in one spot and trust myself to be able to block what comes. Sometime ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by DukeAlaric: sorry if there was a misunderstanding, but I use a diagonally/ side mounted kite. NOT a centergrip. Alaric<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Whoops, I am very sorry yo...

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I think that I would like to know how his kite is strapped or handled. Wyrm, are you using a center grip kite, like His Grace (who has a new name) Alaric is discussing, or a side strapped one? How large is your kite? Does it extend from the shoulder to the knee? Is it taller? Is it shorter? If you g...

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I have two.

Elfin O'Mona. Last time I fought him we were both grinning like idiots, right up until he killed me.

Mike the Mace from Memphis. He moves great, and makes me feel about a hundred years old, and he's grinning the whole time.

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returning the sword to ready re: crossover shots

SCA helmet legality question, please please!!!

Japanese Sword Forms or Katas

movement (SCA)