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Kilkenny

"Dude, go some place where they do what you want to do, instead of trying to change the4 SCA game of 40 plus years to be something it was never meant to be." Wait, what? You got that all wrong. Everyone has the right to jockey for their own position, in any circumstance, for whatever reason. There ...

Kilkenny

... We currently train to an abstract and entirely subjective standard. Works amazingly well, all told. Were we to have a quantified standard that we could train to, it would still work in pretty much the same way, with some areas trending higher and some lower. ... We wouldn't be changing anything...

Kilkenny

Actually if you want your investment of time and materials to last longer, use the lightest painters' canvas as a base, leather on top. Use an awl to drive your holes not a punch. Small sheets of canvas are available dirt cheap at most paint stores and even at big box builders' supply. It doesn't a...

Kilkenny

I didn't think he looked that big. ;-) Moose All a matter of perspective ;) And personally, I've only ever seen one guy I had to admit was bigger than I was - at least until I took his leg. And no, I'm not a big guy - but part of my fighting mindset is that I am bigger than you, whoever "you" may b...

Kilkenny

http://www.woodenswords.com/WMA/singlest.htm This is what I am thinking of, maybe a little lower near the pommel and possibly some tooling to pretty them up. The thread they use seems similar to the waxed line that "trot-line fishermen" use here in Louisiana to set their lines for catfish, it's 600...

Kilkenny

Be sensible. Have the rules in your belt pouch. Have a couple of spare marshal's staves for the folks who will volunteer to help but didn't bring any gear. Have appropriate gauges for checking all the measurements on armour and weapons. Enforce the rules equitably and without regard to station. Don'...

Kilkenny

Aaron - I am still one of the top 5 madu fighters around. I can kill well over 95% of people who bring a madu out against me

Kilkenny

Master of the Laurel, Elric of Erewhon. To the best of my knowledge the only person to receive a Laurel for their "voice heraldry". Been off the radar for a number of years now.

And Donal - do you recal TJ being heralded in as Degeneratum ?

Kilkenny

From Mac's post up the thread: The painting Dimitri means is this one. It Hugo van der Goes' St. Maurice, or perhaps St victor. I think you're mistaken in your conviction that it is a fantasy design. Lord Dimitri stated it as Fantasy from the get go. Only after he was shown a similar period illustr...

Kilkenny

I would go with 4-5 oz, personally. You want the leather to hold the plates but aren't asking it to provide protection, so the lighter range should be plenty for the job.

And as Irish said, with a COP the leather/fabric is on the outside, over the plates.

Kilkenny

So.... I watched alll the fights on the live stream, and I lost a lot of sleep over it, so maybe that scued my thoughts and opinions on all of this, but here me out anyway. The grappling, while I would personally LOVE it, I agree, would be a bad idea. The SCA has some pretty young, up to pretty old...

Kilkenny

I didn't think he looked that big. ;-) Moose All a matter of perspective ;) And personally, I've only ever seen one guy I had to admit was bigger than I was - at least until I took his leg. And no, I'm not a big guy - but part of my fighting mindset is that I am bigger than you, whoever "you" may b...

Kilkenny

A fine plan, Gavin. Except it will turn out that no matter what your force measurements, Kingdom X won't want to hit that hard and Kingdom Y won't take that light. It's not enforceable at the Kingdom level. Well, I guess it is, in principle. You could add it to the Society wide Marshal's Handbook a...

Kilkenny

Clubs wouldn't be unheard of IMO I would bet they would have been plentiful among the peasant levy (and I know that isn't what we are talking about here) Sorta cheap, easy to make and even easier to come by on the fly:) Interesting finds though! One has to wonder why Gram didn't know steel though. ...

Kilkenny

It may not be completely clear, or even concise as "just whack 'em til they say good!", but it's better than being given force figures, equipping your weapon tip with accelerometers, and stopping every hit to go to a notebook on the sidelines and figure the exact joules of the shot and comparing to...

Kilkenny

I am not looking foward to anyone running up behind me with an unpadded polearm or a great sword and cracking one off across my back. Sorry but I dont give a hot damn what kind of armour I am wearing that is going to suck and I would honestly lose my cool long before I called it good. I have had it...

Kilkenny

While I agree the wording should be changed, I dont think the intent should be. It was mainly set to keep the SCA from turning into a money game. And it has done an adaquate job of that. But if the rules arent written in a clear and concise manner, then it leads to confusion and interpretation. We ...

Kilkenny

Mac, While I do agree that nothing can be gained by putting down an individual who has invested either time or money into a fine presentation, no matter what his role in our hobby. Perhaps that individual should make better use of his time & knowledge helping others improve their presentation rathe...

Kilkenny

So, your aesthetic senses should trump historical practice ? ;) What historical practice? Sure, it's different - but why should he make armour to your tastes, or mine? ;) Not our tastes, the governing rules of the Society would be nice though. As stated Dimitri has the skill. I just disagree with t...

Kilkenny

PatternWeld wrote:Aaron,

Mild isn't spring... its carbon content that makes it hardenable. I think most folks are using 1050.

Grimr

I am sure that the distinction the OP is making is between spring stainless and spring that is not stainless

Kilkenny

Count Johnathan wrote:
Kilkenny wrote: Thanks... dali llama would be one odd looking animal, wouldn't it ?

Isn't that "Nude having fallen down a staircase" ?

Kilkenny

I was not referring to performance enhancement with the use of Amino Acids, it is to help with repair of muscles following a hard workout. If taken within 30 minutes after your final workout, Amino acids are then able to get into your system faster because the body does not need to utilize addition...

Kilkenny

Steven - If you aren't fighting hard enough to burn a bunch of energy and you aren't working at it enough to be sore after (from the exertion, not the beating :twisted: ) then you are not playing hard enough. ;) I do agree that what you eat during the course of the day's fighting is all about keepin...

Kilkenny

I'd echo the sentiment of InsaneIrish. You have an amazing talent, putting together these kits, I particularly like the nipple rings on the right. Something about lamellar + breastplate just jars me though. Have you considered a different abdomen armor such as a brig, CoP or even scales? So, your a...

Kilkenny

How many times have you been hit from behind? And I mean with the same sort of force you would expect for a "good" blow from the front? Dunno. Many times? It's kind of annoying. I would say that MOST of the time in a melee I am hit by someone because I am unawares. I mean, if I was aware, I'da bloc...

Kilkenny

Question for you fighters: What meal best helps you recuperate after fighting at an event? Scenario 1) Assume fighting in the morning, a luncheon meal, and no fighting planned for the rest of the day. Scenario 2) Assume fighting in the morning, a luncheon meal, followed by fighting in the afternoon...

Kilkenny

I'd like to see two things come out of the BoTN experience. 360 degree engagement and better helmet set up understanding. As for the engagement, I don't think BoTN style take downs are in order, but dead from behind, strikes from behind should be fine. Eastern style engagement rules have always bee...

Kilkenny

I can't possibly count how often I've died making a lovely spear thrust - while someone else did the same to me That's not a fault of offense, it's a fault of situational awareness, of which I have been deficient as often as the next man - probably the ten next men. Now you're just dividing things ...

Kilkenny

I'd be wary of making a cup hilt from leather, hardened or otherwise I have a 14g stainless basket that is really warped. And while I bear some of that responsibility by blocking with my cuphilt more often than I should, the reality is that people block with their cuphilts a lot in many of the styl...

Kilkenny

Firstly, "Two sword" is an awful sca creation, with no real historic provenance. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13510 Every time you Fight Two sword, a little bit of medieval dies... :P The SCA isn't just Medieval ;) Though there is documentation of Masters teaching two ...

Kilkenny

Wrong wrong wrong. Aaron. I *AM* for keeping it like it is. I am just for calling it like we actually play it. Which would be what I was talking about, and why I urged that we drop the distraction of what would work through what and all that and just go for the syntactic shift. We do fight "to sati...

Kilkenny

Aside from equipment upgrades, training techniques or devising new strategy for winning the games themselves have gone virtually unchanged for a hundred years or more. Aside from all the changes nothing has changed? :wink: I'm not saying something should be changed just so you can point at the chan...

Kilkenny

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:As long as they meet the requirement for rigid protection for the hands, just like gauntlets or steel basket hilts do, yes.

Or not, if your hand protection would be legal without the basket hilt.

Kilkenny

VIssevald gave me an instant headache once - I consider that was probably a mild concussion.

I think it's the only one I've received (knock on wood).

Kilkenny

Terminology:
Longhorn - the two sword style Duke Paul of Belatrix invented in the West Kingdom when rocks were soft

Gunslinger- the two sword style Gavin Kilkenny invented in the East Kingdom, when rocks were soft.

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