The Armour Archive

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Well then I accept your challenge! Bring your horse and armour to the Kentucky Horse Park on September 14 & 15, and we will tilt for gilded spurs! If you win, you ca...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Clifford Galbraith: Ok, Rhys...take a valium...cool down and think a bit. You are way off line here.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Sorry, I don't agree that I am. I've made r...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Always first with the name-calling huh, "Sir" Rhys? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> No, I'm not first with the insults. I didn't even mention you until you insulted me. Oh, an...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by pdepamiers: Vitus' comment on spending more time learning how to knock some one down with his lance got me thinking. In my life it is very difficult to balance the time need...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Now you are comparing fighting in armour [b]on horseback to your little stick-games? You are lost in your fantasy. Goodbye, little dreamer....Good bye..... [/B]<...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gwen: [b]Please allow me to point out that I have no beef with the SCA or itâ€™s combat conventions. Iâ€™m not here to rain on anybodyâ€™s parade and tell you what youâ€™re doi...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by chef de chambre: Our armour doesn't have to be functional? Haul your ass up on a horse Rhys, and try using a sword or lance from horseback, and tell me you can do that in non f...

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Very well said, Vitus, very well said indeed. Thank you; it's hard to find people with the courage to stand up and say those things. To some of the others who commented, however, let me say this: What Vitus said in no way indicated the SCA wasn't or shouldn't be about reaching a high level of living...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Deacon: So....are they period? My girl is making cordials and the topic came up, and neither of us knew. References anyone? Deacon<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> _Take a Thousa...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Charron: I am willing to concede that Fiore makes a point of including the grappling arts for every weapon. He also includes all the striking and thrusting, but much of it ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by markH: Maybe he considered closing more advanced? Rhys, with the polearm question you raised, in the Novati version, Fiore showed 82 dagger, 53 longsword (unarmored) and 9 p...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Charron: Hey Mark, Well, you may have something there. It is definitely hinted at in his pollaxe combat. He wants you to take the pollaxe heads to the ground if you fail...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Hurley: Plant your belt buckle on the rail, and don't give way. You can now reach any place on your opponent you like, unless he backs out of range - but if the rules a...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Charron: Hugh said: "LOL! Oh my god, tha anti-SCA folks will go insane when they read that! Well said, Bob." I don't hang with "anti-SCA folks" and I'm not really sure w...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by flonzy: I have 2 problems with your statements SyrRhys. 1. Your are not talking about the typical SCA fighter, but the extraordinary fighters. Most heavyâ€™s I see use overs...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Bob, I entirely agree. [b]This statement was quite unnecessary: Someone suggested that this book has value since *anything* is better than nothing. That's not true, and...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Konstantin the Red: I am sorry, Syr Rhys, but the cited illustration does not show gamboised cuisses. It can't; there's the quilted hem of an arming-cote in the way, and no...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Charron: While I entered the study of Fiore thinking there would be no stop-blocking and lots of single time actions, I have been proven wrong to a great degree on both. </...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by wilmot: Greetings, I thought I should get in on this one. I tend to vary how I work with people, some work with careful instruction and others need to have bad habits "beate...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Olaf MacBrome: From the time I got in the SCA in late '96 until HRM Darius, there were 11 kings... out of those 11, 6 were either Hans or Lucan Von Drachenclaue... </fon...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: This is the same thing I shovel out of the horse stalls every day. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Oh yeah? Prove it. I went to a practice on Sunday where I was showing the "d...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by David deKunstenaar: Hugh Knight, You know there is no documentation either way, and you have some very compelling arguments for your opinion. Then again, so do the stuffing ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Konstantin the Red: Okay, Cet, I just found some documentation on closed greaves with gamboised cuisses. It's in _Archaeology of Weapons,_ Oakeshott, p.287, fig. 139, a 1361 ef...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Clermont: Has Ron considered writing down some of his training so more folks can benefit from it, or is 1:1 work too integral to the method? Gaston de Clermont<HR...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Richard Blackmoore: Those who know Duke Ronald Wilmot may be interested to know that not only is the current King of the East Ronald's former squire Sir Darius (orginally na...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Richard Blackmoore: Can anyone help me with this without just saying Yes they did it or No they didn't do it? I am looking for facts or well supported opinions, I am not trying...

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Someone suggested that this book has value since *anything* is better than nothing. That's not true, and this book is a good example of it. Clement wrote a book that's based neither upon any specific fechtbucher (he claims to base it on several, and that's a serious mistake; much of what is taught b...

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Hi Taltosh, I'm curious why you chose to edge your breastplate in leather (is that what it is?); I'm not aware of any extant pieces done that way, nor of any MS paintings which show that treatment, are you? Do you know of any examples of breastplates that curve down in front like yours does? Which p...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by chef de chambre: When & where? They change radicaly in form in time and place. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> And not just from time to place, but they had different saddles for peac...

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I am not aware of any examples from period in which tubes were stitched and then stuffed. Can anyone supply any documented examples? I do know that the earliest examples of these sorts of things we have, i.e., the jupon of Charles VI at Chartres, the Black Prince's coat armor over his tomb, and the ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Parlan: I've always viewed shooting below or between the rails as ungentlemanly. I wonder if it was thought so back then. I can see it being depicted especially if the author w...

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The concept of "breed", as we use the term today, is actually not very meaningful when speaking about medieval dogs. A medieval breeder would not have hesitated to breed in dogs of other types to get his desired ends, more like breeding lurchers and longdogs today. When you look at pictures of medie...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Kevin the Hound: My apologies, Sir Rhys, your last paragraph in your first post on this (mentioning Joan of Arc) was strongly worded enough to appear to show a bias. Kevin t...

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The only quibble I have with this harness (and it was assembled by a very good friend of mine) is that I can't find an reference to this style of globose-breasted coat of plates in Germany, and the style of klappvisor shown here is more typical of Germany. One or the other seems out of place to me, ...

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kevin the Hound: [B]Sir Rhys, Further searching of that site, which admittedly has a prejudice >for< women in battle (opposite of yours Sorry, you must be speaking about someone else. I have no bias against anything but sloppy research. Oh, and I referenced the Petrarch q...