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freiman the minstrel

Guys, I have a buddy that is looking for a reasonable Japanese helm. He has been hunting for several months, with money in his pocket, and he can't find anything . He has been hunting for the perfect helm, but at this point, time is getting a little short. He would very much prefer not to wear a con...

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Audax, Thanks for the post. As usual, there is a lot of really good stuff here. What I am getting from you is that you are very worried that I will burn out on my current training schedule. I am very worried about it too. I can only tell you that I am having loads of fun. You know me, my motto is &q...

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Reading this and other threads I'm forced to ask: Are you taking proper care of your shoulders? With any intensive stickfighting regime you are at extreme risk for rotator injury either repetitive use trauma or subluxation due to muscular imbalance. What are you doing to prevent this? Gaston Sir Ga...

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My program just got really complicated and time consuming. I ended up with it going in four different ways at once. I need to continue the fitness training. That is the price of the ticket. It is taking increasing amounts of time, but I have put a limit of three hours a day, total, to the amount of ...

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Sextus,

I will look forward to seeing you at Pennsic. Maelgwyn will also be missing Tourney of Lugh, as it is his kingdom's silver anniversary. I am disappointed, but that really does seem to be more important.

You can do it.

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Putting together a training program is tougher than I thought. I have never worked from planned, charted workout routines before, and that is necessary for this. I have started to put together a workout routine more times than I can count, and finished it three times, only to find glaring problems w...

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Are you as committed as I am? Do you want to be a winner as much as I do? Do you deserve it? YOU DESERVE TO BE A WINNER. Nobody on the planet has any more right to be a winner than you do. It isn't about being better than anybody else. It isn't about being mighty. It isn't about anything hard, or co...

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Your Grace,

How in the world are you going to be able to keep the two sides within fifty men?

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I'm sorry.

Can I be excused?

My brain appears to be broken again.

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freiman the minstrel

Servus! As a heavy fighter, I don not dislike fencing as a whole but I do have a significant problem with a few individuals within the fencing community who seem to demand equal time at every event and make a huge stink when time isn't set aside for them no matter what is going on. My favorite exam...

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I started writing this on the tabula rasa thread, but it is more about my general program, so I am going to move it. The Audax quote is from that thread. I suspect that you are burning yourself out with your current regimen. One way to refresh your palate would be to not fight at all for a while. Tr...

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I think that it's a matter of fit. Many folks out there are in used armor. Even when purchased new, it is very, very difficult to find armor that fits you perfectly. Off the rack stuff rarely fits perfectly, and even custom fabbed stuff needs quite a bit of fiddling to get exactly right. Even if you...

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Geez. All this smack-talk and Gym discussion. I hope nobody is talking performance enhancers (and I ain't talking about no Viagra!) ':lol:' Not here, unless you count boneless, skinless chicken breasts, tuna in water, and Whey Protein as a performance enhancers. And coffee. I love coffee. Oh, yeah,...

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I have a pretty good method. First, pour a beer. Seriously. Then, take the empty beer can, and use is as a pattern to draw beer can sized circles on a sheet of foam. Then, take the end of your spear shaft, with the PVC cap on, and without it, and mark some of the discs with circles in the middle. De...

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OK, OK.

The John the Novice idea was a bad idea. I will scrap that.

Please stop with the PM's.

But I seriously, seriously need to get back to basics.

And thanks for the advice. I need all the help that I can get.

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Sorry for the brevity of this reply, but I have to run for a gig. A lot of you have posted here, and I will look over them in the morning. Please keep the advice coming. If I was a brand new fighter, how would you train me? and the reason I had to log on in such a hurry. I just realized that it migh...

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OK, I'll do that. I got one of my loaner helms back last night, and it fits me. It will take me at least two weeks to get the rig done, and it will be newbie gear. My personal skills aren't up to making the good stuff, and I am not going to change my focus at this point. Money is tight, so I will be...

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Gentles, I am at a spot where I need to go back to a blank slate, and approach fighting as if I were a first timer. I need to totally reinvent myself. I need to go back, and approach fighting from the very beginning, and lay a firm foundation for more advanced techniques. I think that I am pushing t...

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Servus! Wow - not only have your pot belly and love handles nearly vanished, you've gotten shorter! Great effort Freiman - I am doing something on my own and hope to start seeing the progress. At my size, it takes a while to notice that you have gotten smaller. You really should. Look, your Excelle...

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in fact, one of the guys training in our Scholum has been keeping a pictorial gallery of his bruises as a public display of pride in his progress -- not that I'm in any way, shape, or form condoning such public display of probably private or secret information, and it might be just a way to show-of...

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Shin problems Ouch! I ran myself into a pair of those in college. Check your shoes. When the heels break down that can cause excessive stress on the shins and/or the knees. New shoes can make a drastic improvement. And now here's my question....Whats Tabatta? Never heard of that. Brandr Sorry, I gu...

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Well, I have hit a snag. I am having pain in my lower legs. Could be shin splints. It's probably just an inflamation at this point though. I figured that I could run through it, at first, but the quality of the discomfort changed to pain, and I stopped after only two miles. You can't push through an...

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I am six two and a quarter. I am currently (today) 203. That can vary by as much as three pounds on any given day. The span of my arms when I am knuckle to knuckle is 30 and one half inches. I have been using a 31" round shield for about three years. It is a size that I feel is "right"...

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Thank you, Sir Vitus. I have a workout buddy that will probably be glad to help me with that. I am deciding that I need to be fearless in this, or rather, that I can't suck any worse than I do now.Somebody told me a little while ago something to the effect of "You can't go anyplace new unless y...

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I just found a replay of a Nike Commercial on you tube. It sums it up pretty succinctly. It goes like this. "Look me in the eye. It's OK if you're scared. So am I. But we're scared for different reasons. I'm scared of what I won't become - and you're scared of what I could become. Look at me. I...

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Guys, A potential buyer has asked me for reviews of Matka Boska Armoury. m I am unfamiliar with this particular maker. Please give me any information you have. I am interested in anything. Stories, reviews, pictures, anything. In particular, the potential buyer is interested in manju and Haidate. Ha...

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Well, I'm the one who is starting threads to he can put together his intended dance card... f So you can get easy kills? Or just as a measuring stick for your skills? I don't understand the question. I don't think that any of these people will be easy kills. I want to be a really, really good fight...

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I had a really light workout yesterday. I ran three miles, did a nice relaxing half hour on an eliptical trainer, and did a lazy hour on an exercise bike, set for interval training. I also did a pell session. I also met with a Ukrainian personal trainer that told me that I am now out of the "Ju...

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herrhauptmann wrote:Out of curiosity, who here wants to get so good their name gets mentioned on these lists?
Who thinks it's an achievable goal before they start to get too old or out of shape?

Well, I'm the one who is starting threads to he can put together his intended dance card...

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Would these be available from your shop at Pennsic?

Taking a spear on the plane is always a problem.

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Political in two posts. That took twice as long as I expected.

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you have 147 days.

Be ready.

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Ewan, Thank you for this thread. I have decided to do what it takes to be a good fighter, and I think I need to make one of these threads for me. I am a little worried about actually showing people how badly I fight, but them's the breaks, if you know what I mean. The thing I am most worried about i...

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Events, hands down. Wars primarily, but tourneys too. If you are having problems finding enough fighting at events, you are doing it wrong. I almost always get enough fighting. But, being in Drachenwald, where there are few events, I often feel like my fighting life is all forepl- er, warmup and no ...

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I think that your zeal does you and your knight much credit, but I think that you should talk to your knight about how to use your time. You have about three weeks until war. That time could be much better used getting ready to camp and having great soft kit. The reason to wait on the shield until a...

I really need to find a reasonable Japanese Helm

Tabula Rasa (please help me develop this)

looking for reviews of Matka_Boska_Armoury