The Armour Archive

dukelogan

its more than fine for sca sport combat. ive been fighting for over 20 years and havent worn any body armour for more than 15 years. regards logan We call that type of armor "LARPandine", and it's cool as hell for LARPs, where there's little or no force being transmitted, and hence, no nee...

dukelogan

i just wantto be able to fight anyone at this time!! the shoulder has had me out for almost three years and im fighting tooth and nail not to rush it and screw up the 5 hours of surgery and the 13 repairs that were done. ive fought most of those considered to be the top of the food chain but ive nev...

dukelogan

perfect!! so long as these are stuck to and no exceptions are handed out. corpora does, afterall, state that participation at any sca event must include pre-17th century attire. a crown list, if nothing else, should honor such a simple demand.

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logan

dukelogan

i get asked a lot of questions on the good old archive but i dont have a forum like duke paul and that silly red ninja fella (whom i love dearly, i just wish he would join the sca). now if i were offered one........ regards logan If it is done, can I suggest the name "Archive's got Armour"...

dukelogan

i do both. i play a lot of mental chess matches when i fight. if my opponent looks at all nervous i will often wait for them to throw, block the shot, relax my guard, and then smile a tiny bit and shake my head a tiny bit. if he looks "hungry" i will often open with a quick flurry and then...

dukelogan

this is spot on. regards logan Also, helmets won in sports (with the exceptions of amature boxing, and MA headgear) are for incidental or accidental contact (regardless of what actually happens). Even football helmets generally are taking glancing shots. Ever see whatt happens to a football player w...

dukelogan

i could not disagree more. a heavier helm, in sca sport combat, is safer than the same design yet lighter weight alternative. ever since i started wearing my 12ga ss helm with ss camaille, which weighs 30+% more than my first two ive never had a blow or thrust cause me any injury or discomfort. my h...

dukelogan

sure if that was what folks did or wanted. the reality, and you know this, is that folks want to bump a guy with a "pommel strike" and call it a kill. thats silly. if you, or anyone else, wishes to allow full force strikes with pommels that actually stun people i am all for it. im also all...

dukelogan

this silliness ends once we demand full force face thrusts which are perfectly safe (they happen all the time with no real injury) and do away with the cancer that is the idea some folks have that touching someones face with a weapon would end a fight. gone too would be this notion that pommel strik...

dukelogan

yep, stabbing through the eye can prove problematic. pretty sure i mentioned that.........

20 stab wounds, one to the eye that penetrated the skull, still takes a considerable amount of force.

logan

Count Johnathan wrote:Say it aint so!

dukelogan

the story give no details on where the weapon entered or what it did. and, as i said, sure it can happen but the numbers are very much in favor that humans simply do not push knives through skulls. and i very much doubt this penetrated her skull. regards logan By Daniel de Vise and Robert Samuels, P...

dukelogan

i doubt any of us is so physically powerful he could stick a horn through a human skull. much less a dagger. folks get stabbed in the face with modern blades all the time, ive yet to find one that ended up in a death from penetrating the skull (ive not found an eye stabbing that ended in death but h...

dukelogan

how about, "verily we will tread on you"?

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logan

dukelogan

"bryce and i was talking about him"? clearly the evil atlantian knight training academy needs more focus on grammar. let me axe you a question brother william....... am you going to fight in a crown soon? congrats to kenric and avelina (if i have that correct). regards logan huh that is in...

dukelogan

sasha is duke alaric

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logan

dukelogan

i hope to be able to be there next year once im all healed up. till then i will keep an internet eye on the fun! good luck team usa!

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logan

dukelogan

not sure how the last dude came across as an "ass". i thought he was pretty entertaining myself and found great interest in both organizations.

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logan

dukelogan

thats what i recall hearing as well. i thought it was odd and questioned the notion.

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logan

Mike England wrote:On the converse I think they said Mayhem give extra points if your opponent get sinjured during the unhorsing and can't continue.

dukelogan

great. again, im sorry if my comments came across in any other way. if there is anything i can do to assist you in driving how important accuracy should be in our media please let me know. regards logan No worries where you're concerned Logan. I just wanted to correct an inaccuracy in the story. I b...

dukelogan

sorry if i was unclear. i did not mean to put you down or what you do. the opposite is true. i look forward to witnessing it first hand and i respect what you guys are doing. ive been "featured" in more than a dozen articles on tv and in magazines. all of them were inaccurate on many point...

dukelogan

you guys were "boring" the next guy was "exciting". the former appeals to those interested in history, the latter to buying tickets. this was clearly exposed when you were quoted as punishing those that excel and dismount their opponents. the former when he said "we arent a ...

dukelogan

i think it as charlie andrews. i found him funny and interesting and look forward to their show on natgeo (if i can even get it thanks to directvs retardedness with dropping fx! ). i was disappointed at how short all of the stoies were. seems like sunday morning used to have fewer stories that were ...

dukelogan

overall it wasnt bad but when we allow shit like mini-pianos to be dropped on folks and a "nasty old viking" in a hospital scrub with a t-shirt to be the norm how could anyone watching not think of us as anything more than the typical fireball larp (and yes, i know the sca is a larp when l...

dukelogan

clearly those arent as cool as pens. regards logan Yes, it was nice that you completed my spaulders order in two days, and yes, it was nice that you didn't charge for the extra lames, and yes, it was nice that you sent it priority mail without charging extra - BUT THERE WAS NO DAMN PEN IN THE BOX!!!...

dukelogan

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now offering pens with every order!!!

logan

ps glad you fellas worked it out.

dukelogan

i made the mistake of wearing egg gauntlets many years ago. ive had both of my thumbs broken (my right one crippled) wearing them. i share blame but their poor design was the failure point. ive also broken many pairs of them when folks have blocked with their hands but i was told the plate that was ...

dukelogan

most of us like cup/basket hilts on our swords. gauntlets, at least good ones, are expensive and do not perform as well as cup/basket hilts. so i dont think we will see the day when fighters are using gauntlets as being the majority. in atlantia, at least, arms rarely get hit. not that they are not ...

dukelogan

hand protection is exempt from materials, but not visually. so, as long as its not some neon color yes it would be fine. not that i buy into any glove providing protection inside a shield basket. i keep hearing folks suggesting that having an elbow behind the shield helps with keeping a fight going ...

dukelogan

my bad. i knew it wasnt right but couldnt recall it was spelled phonetically.

logan

BdeB wrote:piperdoon.

dukelogan

how is it that at 8:50 into that video that 1. im still watching i and 2. freddy mercury (small lightning bolt !) knows about "a secret atlantian prophecy" and ive never heard of it? was that band "piper down"? regards logan No, No, No, everyone knows that DA is the former lead s...

dukelogan

the ever reoccuring problem is when folks suggest that the only way people can get into our sport is to start with plastic. this is patently untrue. this is further complicated when folks suggest that its too expensive to start out in anything but plastic. this is also wholly untrue since either met...

dukelogan

ive worn only linen pants, both on and off th field, for the last 6+ years and love them. every pair of my fighting pants is still in the same shape (well a little faded and a little softer) as when they were first made. no tears, no rips. my legs would get hot when i fought in sweats and had no fas...

dukelogan

if you are talking about the haft of the axe you are incorrect. you only need tape the striking surface of rattan.

regards
logan

hivemind wrote:I have a foam Icefalcon axe here I'm going to PlastiDip this week. Still have to tape the rattan though.

dukelogan

oh, i heard he was in the american southwest working as a pump boy to a zen ninja attack master at night. logan I've heard that Dark Apprentice is deep in the American Southwest, working as a pump boy at an old filling station by day and training under the tutelage of a zen ninja attack master at ni...

dukelogan

pretty sure the poster meant avoid as in you might take a beating. ie dont just worry about the belts.

regards
logan

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