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Jean Paul de Sens

Please correct my comprehension errors. Centurion Daire de Haya fought no one in the first round, while Centurion Chiang Ti Lung fought a destructive bye in the same round. Duke Patrick Michael enters in the quarter finals, defeats Sir Morgan Buchanan, and is defeated by Count Gunthar Jonson. I kno...

Jean Paul de Sens

Brackets can be seen at

http://marshal.ansteorra.org/

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Interested.

Jean Paul de Sens

Regarding leg armour, the goal should be

1) enough that you don't get deep bruising
2) not so much that pain still doesn't reinforce

I.e., you want it to hurt when your defenses fail, but not enough to prevent you from going to another fighter practice later that week

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Trystan of Anglesey wrote:I think you should allow non-Kingdom teams as well, otherwise you are missing out on some of the best spearmen in the Knowne Worlde.

He did say:

Build your best 10 man team from the known world- We are looking for spear gods here.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Donjoy are excellent. It's what I had for fighting after I blew out my ACL and had it repaired...

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

My Ansteorran Fantasy Spear team would include: Duke Charles Inman MacMoore Duke Hector Philip Martel Duke Mikael of Monmouthshire Duke Miguel Sabastian de Oporto Earl Daffydd Whitaker Sir Asoph Hearts Sir Alexis la Bouche Sir Alrek Kanin Sir Jean Paul De Sens Sir Rurik Ivarsson Regards, Richard An...

Jean Paul de Sens

For good "get ya going quick" burner, I can heartily recommend Ellis Knife Works for their do it yourself venturi burners... parts are about $36, and takes about 2 hours to put everything together. Or you can spend another $24 and they'll put it together for you. Adding a good furnace to my setup ha...

Jean Paul de Sens

Ghostrider technique #1: Knock shield away, kick in the ribs.

Jean Paul de Sens

To me, it has the opposite problem of RFF, in that when you rotate your hips to the fullest, if the opponent is on line with the axis of your lead foot, you'll be at the full rotational extension... JP, this is only a problem if you throw the sword out straight from your shoulder, rather than pulli...

Jean Paul de Sens

How can the drawing be wrong? No, the drawing is right. In the very first picture on this thread, Andrew has it right, but should put his elbow more in his ear. I find that when he and I fight, he's got his arm in the "proper" placement. Someone else's mileage may vary - I'm 8" taller than he and a...

Jean Paul de Sens

but if the question is *stance*.. there you can see it being done. The drawing has the lower stance all wrong.. the back foot is in FRONT of the centerline (or it appears so) and the knees should be bent more. It *can* work.. but you really have to get low and light with it, and it takes a lot of p...

Jean Paul de Sens

Aaaah, here's what I was looking for...

I found a bunch of other images... I don't see him in the "classic" (as shown from that manual) stance in any of them...

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Sorry, Corby, I didn't see this when I posted my topic... hope you don't mind.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Ok, so I was reading Corby's responds to Livitasia ( I think) and he was talking about Oldcastle style.... so I'm reading through it again, since I haven't read it in a while, and I was at the stance page... m Sooooo... does anyone actually stand like that? Can they send me a picture of it? I'm just...

Jean Paul de Sens

I like it but be be advised I am going to write in some rules for 'heavy' or 'full-contact' jousting on real horses... Yay Trystan!!!!!!! In my perfect world, the WCJA ruleset will hump the heck out of the IJA/Leeds/EJL rulesets and their lovechildren will inbreed to produce the SCA Heavy Jousting ...

Jean Paul de Sens

The SEM has asked that we delay this project until November or December, and as such I'd like to do so.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

I'll have to post Richard and my fight from last spring crown... we had a rockin and rollin fight... it was impressive.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Alfred, I'd like to not digress onto the issue of whether elbows should be armoured versus forearms. I'd like to just focus on the issue of relying on usage of an object versus an inherent property. A shield does not inherently cover all points of the elbow. It requires the body to be in the way to ...

Jean Paul de Sens

ts a mistake because the justification is flawed. it can easily be proven that naked elbows behind shields that properly cover the elbow are perfectly safe. a rule that states the elbow must be covered in such a manner so that the possibility of damaging it is kept to a minimum during normal fighti...

Jean Paul de Sens

Rey smoke me pretty good at Gulf Wars... course Patrick Michael tipped him off on a fault of mine

Still, it took a good fighter to be able to exploit the fault...

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Ordered mine today. Most I have ever payed for a single book, including textbooks... freakin ouch...

I hope it's worth it.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

IMO, more than two sparring sessions a week is detrimental. The associated fatigue and brusing hinder learning rather than accelerate it. I would suggest a mixture of ⋅ 1 to 2 sparring sessions a week ⋅ 1 heavy weight training session ⋅ 1 cardio session ⋅ 1 In...

Jean Paul de Sens

dead link?

doesn't seem to work for me.

Jean Paul de Sens

I can't find it, but I recently read an article that discussed how those researching intelligence were looking at chess players. During their study they discovered that those who trained, i.e. work case studies, finished off games half way through, and did focused training techniques, improved much ...

Jean Paul de Sens

Y'know, if y'all really want to do this, my webhosting provider has a one-touch wiki installation package. I could have this set up in about 2 seconds, if all of you want to play. Let me know, I have SO much extra space right now and something like a terabyte of bandwidth a month - and I don't thin...

Jean Paul de Sens

Prefaced with:(I skimmed the posts before this) I would suggest, even with the Wiki, there should be a section where people could post what they updated, so we would not have to read the document all the time, to find changes. I would also limit changes within a timeframe, to stop a feud from erupt...

Jean Paul de Sens

So instead you'd really rather try to make sense of the hash of comments on a forum like the Armour Archive...? nope. Notice I didn't propose that. I had a different proposal. And I'm, betting that once "my" process is complete, a rules re-write wouldn't have to be done again for a long, long time....

Jean Paul de Sens

My point exactly. Which is why I'm emphasizing the efficacy in "properly" using the existing marshallate bureaucracy. That doesn't seem to have happened here. My local KM never asked the local fighters, "Hey, guys, the marshallate is thinking of re-writing the neck padding rule like this. Whadda'ya...

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I don't know. I've been impressed with the quality of the wikipedia enough to give it a try. I think a far better process is to have a small group draft up a copy and then throw it to the wolves for savaging. The group observes the bloodbath and makes changes based on the feedback they see. And tha...

Jean Paul de Sens

That's a sucker bet. I've re-written the rules, twice, on my own. It's bloody hard to do. And when you're doing it by committee everyone starts to bog down in acrimonious discussions of minor details. I'll bet we can't even agree on what SCA armored combat is trying to do without a hundred plus pos...

Jean Paul de Sens

Dante, a couple of reasons via wiki as opposed to a thread, namely 1) Version history. with a Wiki, you can look back and see major and minor changes. 2) On a wiki, an editor can revert history back, and make it so that it requires logon to edit acrimonious threads. Gwydion, we're still gonna do thi...

Jean Paul de Sens

Ok, so I've been reading this thread by many many people, and have been wanting to ask a question. Are you guys willing to put your money where your mouth is? Are you willing to help write rules that are more clear? Then lets give it a shot. I propose this: 1) We'll set up a Wiki somewhere, and put ...

Jean Paul de Sens

"Nope, check my post above. Unless your helm covers your neck, you'll have to have some padding on it. (IE a padded aventail with a gorget with a helmet)" The amount of uneeded redundancy in there staggers the mind. Why not just require everyone to wear a bevor? Or a neck brace? You don't have to w...

Jean Paul de Sens

Murdock, if you have a gorget then you wouldn't have to pad the aventail. Nope, check my post above. Unless your helm covers your neck, you'll have to have some padding on it. I wonder if the padded collar of an arming coat worn under an aventail with a leather piece covering the vertebra will cove...

Re: Question on Old Castle (Hey Corby!!)

Question on Old Castle (Hey Corby!!)

New Society Rules, a proposal