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SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by jgalak: I am still waiting for Richard Blackmoore or Sir Rhys to tell respond to the "have some wars and some grand melees, and have rules to match for each" proposal. <...

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At an event yesterday a woman asked me if there was any evidence that women actually fought in medieval tournaments. I told her about the allegorical story about the girls who dressed up like men and fought each other (I forget the source of that just now), and about games where women would pretend ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ringlancer: Unsure of prices right now. Cash is prefered, but will trade for custom armour. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> William! Please put me down for a bear's head to fit...

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Will's a good friend of mine, and perhaps the preeminant scholar working on tournament recreation today. I have worked with his swords several times; I even fought in a tournament in which those swords were the only ones allowed. Unfortunately, you can't hit very hard with them. They're too light, a...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by muttman: Quoted from Sir Rhys: "Just because some folks want to act as an anchor on the organization is no reason for the organization to tolerate them. We're supposed to st...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Christian de Westborn: Suppose you had the opportunity to resurrect and converse with a person from the period of your persona. Say your conversation will be limited to two ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by cheval: Can't you guys get anything right? 1248?? Rhys and Richard couldn't have been squires -- it was a good century before they were 'born'. Talk about practicing 'conven...

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A lot of your answer depends on how well the bascinet fits. A properly-fit bascinet really doesn't even need a chinstrap to protect against the heaviest shots to the face; I know, mine was made by Tom Justus, and I often don't even bother buckling the chinstrap, even though I regularly fight in one ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by FrauHirsch: A young Shire stallion was being used at the local Renn faire for the jousting show some years ago. The scary part was that he had figured out that he was huge ...

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Yes, Otto, the SCA started out just as you said it did. The fact is, however, it's grown and changed over the years into something much more, dragging the people who just want to party along with it. The American space program started out with rockets that are toys compared with those we use today; ...

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I think what's most important is to have a weapon that handles as much like the real thing as possible. I'll give you an example: One of the members of our company has a rattan longsword that weighs almost exactly what a real steel longsword would weigh. Unfortunately, the sword isn't balanced as a ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Otto von Teich: Hugh "Ive never heard of Foreigner,nor a song called "Juke Box Hero"....Ahhhh these young uns.....Otto <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Oh, I'm no "young un" (but thank...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Irish: Maybe I got the wrong Rhys - Led The Black Rose, fought pick up melee challegnes against House Vexillarius (Duke Syr Comar's Household)of the Midrealm many (many) yea...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Russ Mitchell: Ah, but just to be an irritating dweeb, the central tenet of Kelly's hypothesis is not that infantry beat cavalry, but that large numbers of **densely packed** f...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gordon the Grey: Hi SyrRhys, the experimentation has been done for me http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif , the evidence is writen accounts of battle's that are full of ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Owen: SyrRhys- you apparently don't think it's fun, so why drag the rest of us down with you? I love the idea of counted blows tourneys and the like, but why must they be th...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Trevor: It is Not a tournament. It is not called a tournament. It is not fought with tournament rules. It's different. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hell, I *swore* I wasn't going t...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Khann: A well-trained horse will beat the shit out of you. A wild or mean horse will kill you if mean or freighted enough. A horse trained to stomp and bite as well as shoul...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Irish: Gee Rhys - I remember waaaaaay back when sitting in your camp, with you singing your hosehold /unit's war song - to the tune of Foreigner's "Juke Box Hero"... http://...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Alcyoneus: I thought that was what I said. ??? Godendag anyone? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I apologize, I thought you were usin...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gordon the Grey: One man on foot is not match for a mounted man <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> How do you know? Where's your evidence; your experimentation? ------------------ Hugh K...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sieur Raymond: Rhys- I agree that we should work to learn more accurate information, and use that info to improve what we do. I prefer tournament and grand tournament to 'wa...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Richard Blackmoore: Bascot beat me to most of my answers in terms of why mounted is better. But anyway... Question1: Would you rather be the mounted or dismounted knight and...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Alcyoneus: A P-51 has greater mobility and quicker turning ability than a ME 262, but it can't outrun it, you operate in your envelope to survive, theirs to die. I ain't go...

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Ah, sounds like a lot of fun! Just my sort of day.

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Hugh Knight
"Welcome to the Church of the Open Field, let us 'prey': Hunt hard, kill swiftly, waste nothing, make no apologies"

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Owen: The whole fighting sytem is an artificial construct bearing little/no resemblance to reality, so what's the issue with CA? I can't destroy a shield with my poleaxe, I ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Owen: Cheval- Well, I'm pretty sure the ancients held to the law of gravity too, even though it hadn't been discovered yet. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif They ma...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Charron: The question assumes a one-on-one engagement. I would *very much* want to be the dismounted individual. The advantages are too great to the one on foot. The man...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Erik Schmidt: There is some discussion as to how up to date the CoP's found at Wisby were. Some consider that they were quite outdated by the time of the battle. So, given t...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by The Lost Scott: Clang makes his that way and by summer my tops will be the same. LS<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Really? He dishes the upper plates? I'm not talking abot the ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Alexi: Also what style arms legs and helm, it's becoming a problem I don't own Brian's new book urg.... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> No, I can find no evidence that a scale skirt w...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Mad Matt: Splinted stuff works but ONLY if you're German. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If you will look at page 75 of Edge and Paddock you will see the effigy of Sir Miles Stapleto...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: It's a nice helm, but is already over-priced. Any apprentice should be able to make one of these, masters should make more complicated helms, in my opinion. Now if it w...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Charron: Without meaning to simply duplicate Russ' words, my experience has been that those who amalgamate from different systems do not fare as well as those who learn a s...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Rhia: Hugh, dear Lord, where would we be if we'd accepted all those mss. as infallible? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif I think that what Christian says above al...

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