The Armour Archive

Adriano

thursdays ravine did seem to have a few stout spear thrusts. i got hit twice by spears, both times very hard, once to the grille and once to my belly. certainly not excessive in my mind but harder than usual. It's been a few years since I used a spear, but I can remember a few times, in rather inte...

Adriano

Funny -- it does kind of look like a video game. When William drew an arrow back and the camera was looking right through the ABD tube, I almost expected a little circle and crosshairs to appear on the target!

Adriano

but the "knights" i dealt with were loathesome and your king is a coward. Logan, there's not much point in bringing up the subject if you're not going to explain what you're referring to. Also, I assume you called Maximillian a coward to his face? ('Cause if you didn't, and then said it o...

Adriano

Very cool.

Adriano

That's me using a bastard sword one-handed and it looks like I'm about to get hammered (though honestly I don't remember how this one came out). Boy, that tunic is drab. Ugly helm. Hockey gloves. My stuff looks like crap.

Adriano

does nobody understand physics? Every shot I take or don't take is based on the physics of the situation. The guy got hit in the back of the head while he was moving away from the shot. The helmet took the impact but his head jerked forward because all that momentum had to go somewhere, and it wasn...

Adriano

Sounds like a lot of good memories. I forgot to add -- one reason I was so enthused in the Ravine Battle was the wardrums. I can see why armies have had drummers, trumpets, etc. for thousands of years.

Adriano

If I had ever, in my quarter-century of SCA fighting, hit somebody as hard as I possibly could, that would be excessive. When a spearman broke my widdle nose in the Ravine Battle, that was excessive (and 'way beyond what our rules call for). I don't want to hurt people (except for that one time in t...

Adriano

Very nice, Mark. You've done an excellent job of setting forth the principles involved.

Adriano

I wonder how sheepskin would do (with the fleece on).

Adriano

Well, my personal throat contains my trachea, larynx and the various hard and soft structures through which blood and nerve impulses pass between my head and torso. Extremely vulnerable. Fortunately, my gorget does a great deal to protect my throat. I was just wondering if there's anything about the...

Adriano

I remember, when I went to my first big melee event back in the 1980s, I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool to get one of those professional Sports Illustrated photographers out here?" Ursus is just as good -- better, because he's one of us.

Adriano

So glad the lady is recovering. Necks are so vulnerable; hate to think of anybody getting hurt there. The only two serious injuries I've heard of at Gulf Wars (this injury, and the lady fighter breaking her leg a few years ago) were both in the Fort Battle. I had to go home on Friday and missed the ...

Adriano

A literate, civilized Venetian, c. 1300. Like Dante, Adriano pretends to have a lengthy noble lineage, but does not. Pretends his family has title to a Crusader estate and castle in Syria; it does not. Works in family wine, oil and salt trade, dealing impartially with Greeks and Turks; long as it en...

Adriano

Ursus, that is so damn impressive. If I wanted photos to show somebody what the SCA looks like, I'd steer them to your site. Can't wait to see the rest from Gulf Wars.

Adriano

The Ravine Battle on Thursday gave me that feeling that keeps me in the SCA. I remember the little moments of camaraderie -- like reaching out and helping a fighter regain his feet, or standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Baron Borgar. I lost count of my trips to the res point; quite a few, given my h...

Adriano

Lucius -- what sort of padding do you have stuffed into the linen? For years I've been using open-cell foam rubber sewn into an old cotton pillow case; it fits inside the helm without being glued or tied in, so it's easy to take out and wash. The design is basically a hemicylinder around my head, wi...

Adriano

After being one of very few Meridian fighters at Pennsic, I really enjoyed being part of a considerable army that mustered at Gulf Wars. Although he won't say it himself, Sir Morgan did a great job as General, giving clear instructions and leading by example. I know that people who'd been to Gulf Wa...

Adriano

Ah -- yeah, that looks good. Good fighting with you Calontiri guys (until the last run of the Open Field Battle, when y'all changed sides so we could hit you).

Adriano

InsaneIrish wrote:
Krag wrote:I was wearing a purple and gold waffenrock with a yellow long sleeve shirt, open faced sallet and yellow and black torse all war. You probably saw me, just didn't know who I was. :)

Think I saw the torse, Dude -- but a waffenrock? You were wearing a 19th century Prussian uniform?

Adriano

Well the current forecast still looks pretty good, albeit a little warmer, which I don't like. But that's why they make UnderArmor.

I'm all packed, ready to go in the morning. See yez!

Adriano

Icorigas wrote::shock:

I wanna know how they did that...

To get the 360 degree views? I guess they use a catadioptric system with a conical mirror. Pretty cool result, regardless.

Adriano

The current 10-Day Forecast for Lumberton looks bloody fantastic. Let's hope it stays that way.

Adriano

Well, the 10-day forecast shows some cold nights, and a certain amount of rain; not too much, I hope. Good thing I got a new sleeping bag. If you see a guy in a Meridan tabard doing all his fighting with a bastard sword, it's probably me. *Ugly* helm. No idea where I'll be camping; hope I can get so...

Adriano

On the occasions I'm good, it's all instinct. Everything else -- physical conditioning, practicing blocking and throwing blows for kinesthetic memory, humming "Fat Bottomed Girls" to myself to psych up -- is just so nothing gets in the way of my instinct on the field. (Recently I've found ...

Adriano

I'll second the ice hockey gear. Mine has been very protective and lightweight, and stays in place under a tunic.

Adriano

I'll be the heavy-set guy with the beard. Does that help?

Adriano

I've got a question: do you ever see a separate mail fauld before the late 14th century? It seems plausible that in earlier times, a soldier who couldn't afford a full hauberk might be able to afford at least enough for a fauld.

Adriano

I've got pain in both shoulders -- probably not serious, as I've had it a quarter century. Might right quadriceps tendon still aches a bit where it ruptured and was repaired a few years ago.

I'm losing weight, and even a little lightening of the load helps.

Adriano

I just now made a trapezoidal satchel-type purse with tassels, thanks to looking at Karen's pages. I used a brocade remnant with a canvas lining, but I imagine it would work fine in leather. An hour's work (with a sewing machine, anyway).

Adriano

Kinda makes sense to me now. We're not going to accurately reproduce the mass and velocity of real ballista bolts (or catapulted rocks!) because we don't want a lot of people going to the hospital; so we adjust the rules accordingly, like with everything else we do.

Adriano

Eduard wrote:Still trying to understand why the Sun needs saving! It's nigh invulnerable.
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Who am I -- Mr. Wizard? Just set your watch three hours ahead of Phoenix time and you'll be fine. It's not like anything starts on time in the SCA anyway!

Adriano

I keep thinking of that scene in The Two Towers at Helm's Deep, with the giant bolt-throwing ladder-raising machines.

Adriano

Eduard wrote:What is this Daylight Savings Time that you speak of?
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Hehehe.

That's when you have to change your watch after driving north into Utah or east into New Mexico, but not west into California or Nevada. And don't try to sneak any fruits or vegetables across the border, either!

Adriano

Oh, just a reminder for everybody -- thanks to our hard-working Congress, we "spring forward" on Sunday, March 9, turning the clocks ahead an hour for Daylight Saving Time. So we'll have a little more evening light at Gulf Wars.

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