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Gentles,

A few years ago, I asked this question on the archive.

Who are the Big Sticks? Who are the very best fighters that the SCA has to offer?

When I joined, the answer to that question was "Jade and Bearkiller", but that might not be the answer today.

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I like triggers because it doesn't take more than a few seconds to swap weapons. Using a lanyard seems to make it take a lot longer. I blew out my trigger on the pell today. I need to remake it. They really do make it a lot easier to hold onto your weapon. I also have the perception that it helps me...

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Thanks, I have been trying to come up with something inspirational to say today, and I am just coming up short. Sometimes you just have to go and do it. One of the strange dichotomies of our game it is a reality avoidance game, but to be good at it, you have to commit yourself to seeing reality. To ...

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I am back. You have 149 days. Since I started this thread, I have been in pretty much constant training. I had a week where I was sick, and a four day period where I failed a gut check. That has been fifty five days. That is just over a quarter of the training time available to you. If you haven't b...

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I built a wagon (actually a wheelbarrow) to carry stuff. I think my armor has been on it once. The wagon is usually used to wheel kids around the campsite lately. I wear my stuff to the field. I have a kind of mass produced "Renn" pouch that carries my card, wallet, smokes and other stuff,...

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Thorvaldr is telling the truth. I am not on line at the moment. I am still training. I have a 10K run this weekend, but if it is snowing, I have decided not to run. I have gotten sick twice this year, and it throws off my training schedule. So, train hard. I am coming for you. You have 155 days. Rem...

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Freiman, I am not sure if I am gonna make sense here, but there is a point where your progress will no longer be a Cartesian straight line going up but you will get increasingly diminished returns for the same increase in effort, so your progress line looks no longer like a linear equation: G. I am...

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Randy maybe do something about your elephantitus? Adric simple measurements as stated above work absolutely fine to get a helmet that fits your head properly. No need to make some kind of weird contraption that you've gotta pack in a box with care so it's not distorted by the wonderful post office....

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This is the link that Hal posted.

Stonekeep has a similar idea, but it's slightly different. I don't have his permission to repost it here.

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We are approaching this incorrectly. Instead of thinking about what why we can't devise a standard sizing method, let's talk about what we CAN do. I don't have a clue where this is going to go, but we an do SOMETHING. While we might not be able to devise a standardized system that will be universall...

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It would be a pleasure. We have actually faced each other across the field once before. At the Gates of Rome battle last year, up near the castle, we were thrown into the same area by the swirl of battle. I recognized your kit, but we were together for such a short time, we never actually engaged. I...

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I realized that I am in a gut check period lately. That is when the excitement of a new program has worn off, and the workouts are becoming a grind. The rewards are beginning to show, but they are really small. The thing to remember about gut check days is that they are the days in which you make th...

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that would be me.

I am getting newbies here, and really need discount gear.

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I agree, modern mild steel is no more a period material than modern stainless. And, if I can inject something. We are misusing a word. It is an almost universal error across the SCA, and I think it might be hurting us more than we would like to admit. Authentic doesn't mean "Exactly like they i...

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That's awesome guys! If you are just starting a regimen, remember, just doing it is your goal. Don't hurt yourself, which is appallingly easy to do. Your success comes from what you can do this year, not what you can do today. If you have already established a program for yourself, now might be the ...

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I wear sports goggles if I think an eye injury might be possible. I know it's anachronistic, but that looks badass. I've always been afraid of somebody getting an eye poked out in a woods battle. Between holes to step into and branches at eye level, just running around is way more dangerous than ex...

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Naw, if you have rigid torso protection you are fine.

Of course, if your torso protection doesn't protect your kidneys and short ribs, it isn't really torso protection.

You might wear one as a marshal deflector, but otherwise, you're golden.

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MJ,

That is a beautiful rig, and you have used it well.

People are always more important than things. This is true regardless of the person or the thing.

You are doing the right thing.

God bless you.

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Guys, My wife's highschool mascot is the Netzaberg Knight. A US Civil War reenactor is the teacher sponsor for what passes for the pep club there, and he has purchased a cheap mail shirt as part of the costume. The problem is it's a mild steel butted mail shirt, on a thirteen year old girl. I am gue...

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here is a historical example with combat with a syth, and the guys seem to be nobles, or at least not peasants. theres also fighting with sickles, flails, big clubs, and some bad ass looking shield. m and a guy getting spanked with a flail Great, Now I have to hunt down another manual. (seriously, ...

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You have 166 days.

That is still enough.

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I have been thinking about this thread. I am getting a lot of responses from people who I consider my friends, but few from the people that I want. While I have been embarrassed about my previous posts on this thread, I have come to believe that the average archiver is helpless, effete, incapable, p...

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Bruhn Engbrecht, Thanks I have updated the card file. This is what the card says. Price (not reviewed) Quality - 5 (excellent) Customer Service (communications) - 5 On time shipping - 5 (I have tried to translate the criteria that you listed into the categories I use in the file. It means that I am ...

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The tall guy wears those 'pants' (as you call them in your uncouth, barbarous tongue) because the weather in this hellhole called Brittania is abysmal. "Join the Legios!" they said. "See the world" they said. They said "It's lovely in the province" they said. "Eve...

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Bastior wrote: Just do me a favour, if the challange is too much for you just say, donâ€™t hide your armour in your Ladyâ€™s car like last time. If you donâ€™t want to fight I can use the time to find somebody who does. As I recall, we did meet at Nieb. We fought. I won. Do I recall that correctly?...

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Itâ€™s so good of you to give me an out for an event I already said I wouldnâ€™t be able to make. Since meeting me halfway seems to give you problems Iâ€™ll make time to come to you. Iâ€™ll be off work the weekend of the sixth to eighth of March so send me your address and order in a good supply of...

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there are study guides (such as they are) for the first four of the eight "Chapters" in the book.

They are in the Philosophy section at these links.

Chapter 1

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... bc+chapter

Chapter 2

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... bc+chapter

Chapter 3

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... bc+chapter

Chapter 4 (by Mikael)

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... bc+chapter

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Ewan, Are you frustrated? When watching these videos, I get the impression that you are at a threshold. Frustration is often an indication that your brain has learned a new technique (or, more often, a bunch of them) but your body hasn't gotten it down yet. I think that you could benefit from workin...

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...This is working out to be the most widely attended one day event in the history of Grey Niche. I wonder if we should tell the autocrat? f The date may be a problem for for my planned road trip. It turns out that we are having Crown Tournament and celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding ...

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Bob,

Thanks,

I have made up the card like this

Price - 5 (Ex)
Quality - 5 (Ex)
Customer service (communications) - 5 (Ex)
On time shipping - 5 (Ex)

Is that correct?

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Gregoire,

Thanks. I have made up the card like this

Price - 5 (Ex)
Quality - 4 (Gd)
Customer service (communications) - 5 (Ex)
On time shipping - 5 (Ex)

is that correct?

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es02,

Thanks.

I wrote the card like this

Quality -5 (Ex)
Price - 5 (Ex)
Customer Service (communications) -4 (Gd)
On time shipping - 5 (Ex)

Is that correct?

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Add me to your list. If you are at the Tuchux Tourney, so much the better. Huh, they should advertise that you will be there, talking smack and getting slapped. Anything for the cause. Hey Ceawlin, I will add you to the list. What are you doing for training? Right now, I am running and doing resist...

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Bastior, I love the way you write. I really hope that you can make it to Boot Camp. I have been working with my Dane Axe (actually, this one was left here by Alisdair when he went downrange, and I am postitive that he will view hitting somebody a good use), and I might have a thing or two that will ...

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Freiman, it appears ( after 15 years of ducking and dodging ) my wife has put her foot down and I will be going with her on vacation instead of Pennsic this year. So I will be meeting you in Tennessee in July. I have spoken with my knight Sir Vitus and he believes it to be a noble and worthy thing ...

Who are today's Big Sticks?

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