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Ewan

Hey Freiman, Thanks for the input! Savaric and I both tend to be cautious snipers, so when we fight each other you see a lot of what you see on the tape. Later, I changed up quite a lot and started throwing deep earth wraps to the inside thigh, face thrusts, more movement etc. We reularily have 10-2...

Ewan

The shield manipulation thing is something I know I need to do, I find it hard with the curve on my heater to scoop and hook or even press (it slides instead of pushing). Having said that I still need to make a conscious effort to incorporate into my fighting. Thanks! Try with a larger traversing s...

Ewan

Ewan, please receive my $0.21 pesos. 1) On your fight with Sir Ieun both of you got legged. He reacted offensively when legged (IMHO he practically sprang at you and started whacking away, I can't say if thats legal or honourable, but he did) yet when you got legged you just let yourself fall to yo...

Ewan

Good points Allen. I have been making a conscious effort to re-introduce thrusting into my game and did a couple of kills with face thrusts that night. The shield manipulation thing is something I know I need to do, I find it hard with the curve on my heater to scoop and hook or even press (it slide...

Ewan

m Small local practice/tourney. Had a great helper take some pics and videos. The guy in the phyrgian beat me twice with the same shot. He waited until I threw, I dropped my shield and then he slot shotted me. I corrected for our bouts later, but he had me in tourney. Any input would be very welcome...

Ewan

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Lots of good fighting!

Sir Owain was the victor.

Ewan

Enjoy!

I hope it lasts for you. I've heard Animal uses silk, and that would work great too.

Ewan

First, while you have the leather off, tape your foam (next time roll about 1" of the blue stuff up, instead of cutting discs...way easier) to the top of the sword with strapping tape ran in the same fashion as your current leather strips (only more!) Find some seat belt material or the blue plastic...

Ewan

Wouldn't it be fair to state that each fighter has thier own definition of "excessive"? If they haven't accepted your blows doesn't that mean that your definition of excessive isn't the same as thiers? Yes, that could be true. It could also be true that their definition of excessive might lead to i...

Ewan

Personally, I won't escalate the power of my blows beyond what I think is safe, regardless of whether or not my opponent decides to accept them. I've dropped enough heavies to know I could knock someone's block off with a spear shot to the face, or leave them gasping for air, but the rules are clea...

Ewan

Russ,

I will gladly concede that point to you, as your experience is much greater than mine. The comment stemmed from the early days of the UFC ... before it went to rounds, time limits etc.

Ewan

hmmmm Shane I will concede that, based on your dictionary defintion of "martial art", SCA combat does not meet those definitions. Having said that, my experiences with eastern martial arts bear much similarity to my experiences with SCA combat. ie: "This is how to throw a flat snap" "Good" "Now do t...

Ewan

*****snip***** EDIT: P.S.--Captain Sascha, if you haven't been made a knight yet, it's a wonder. Maybe we could make a dark deal with the Devil to trade some ingredients? engage good natured ribbing mode You might as well, if Logan is attending, your trade vendor will be there!

Ewan

Dmitriy wrote:Ewan -- HRH Ulf? I thought he was prince of Tir Righ??

Whoops!

Should have been HH. Yes, he is Prince of Tir Righ.

Thanks for the catch!

Ewan

norsemaille, who are you at Monday practice?

I agree Paddy is a hard/fun fight.

See you tonight?

Ewan

At Daffodil tourney this past weekend Sigurd went to the finals, defeating HG Duke Davin in semi finals only to lose to HRH Sir Ulf Bloodfoot in the finals. m Also Savaric did very well, his only losses being to the two finalists: m I would add that Sigurd had one victory against HRH Ulf and in the ...

Ewan

I believe that SCA combat and WMA are not complimentary of one another whatsoever. The SCA combat I have seen involved armoured men fighting as if they were unarmoured, men kneeling on their knee's as they hid behind shields and a very real exhibition of folks that were willing to take a hit to giv...

Ewan

"Put your big girl panties on and get your ass in there!" Or (Only funny if you are a Rutger Hauer fan...) "We are fighting like old women! We should be F*cking and Drinking by now!" Oh, and one time at band camp (estrella) a certain principality (i'm not going to say which one but thier initials a...

Ewan

Your shield is for blocking and your sword.for hitting. Don't get them mixed up!

Ewan

I would be remiss if I didn't mention my squire brother Hrogn,as one of top Avacalian squires. He is pretty busy right with a new baby, another soon to be born and a job transfer/move too cope with. When he gets back to it again, he is a force to be reconed with.

Ewan

Whoops!
Bad squire, going from memory after too many blows to the head!
Aleksii is formidable, for sure!
I meant Squire Viktor, the tall madu maniac squire of Sir Hathawulf's.
I would also add Squire Roland and Squire Thorin to this list.

Ewan

In Avacal: HH Prince Kvigr Ivarson, Squire. In An-Tir: Squire Savaric Squire Sigurd Squire Aleksi - Sir Hathawulf's Squire pictures can be found on www.antirfighters.com in the squires database No bias here, but my Knight Sir Gunther Rorikson just placed second in the Outlands Tourney at Estrella. I...

Ewan

Okay, I still haven't got to the library but I did manage to get my hands on some wild Canada goose feathers. Unfortunately they were still attached to a piece of the gooses anatomy that had been defunct for quite a long time. I pulled the biggest flight feathers I could (the very biggest wouldn't b...

Ewan

Aaron,
send your video to me and I'll host it for you.
tcanevaro at qccsystems.com

Ewan

When we build them we use a piece of seatbelt or a piece of blue pump discharge hose around the top two inches or so of the sword and build our discs so that they are far enough above that material to still provide adequate compression. This style of construction seems to last waaaaayyyyyy longer th...

Ewan

cool!
I just (sort of, kind of) wrote my SCA name in a (kinda, sorta) gothic hand with a quill pen (close anyhow) that I cut myself.

Frankly, I didn't expect this level of excitement over "writing"

Thanks to all

really.

Ewan

Okay, I went out and got some supplies today.

Now I can't wait to try and make a mess. Before I get my books from the library would these examples work to start with for simple gothic and carolingian?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... 0rText.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... nglish.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gebr ... riften.png

Ewan

Sir Markus is doing something in Seattle soon that will allow and expect people to play at whatever level they feel comfortable with. [quote] Please come to a "free" fighting event in the Barony of Madrone held by a fighter for fighters. Darienne de Navarre and Anne Rose Smith are the autocrats. As ...

Ewan

Wow!

Thanks for all the help folks!

(Mord, I usually start here to narrow the field and then get the recommended books

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How hard is it to learn to use/cut a quill? The more I think about this the more I'm leaning towards trying to do it closer to "right".

Ewan

Thanks for all the tips folks! To answer a few questions etc. 1) 1345-1360 Central Scotland is the time and place for me. 2) I'm just a simple(ton?) squire whose main love is fighting. So, to my mind and my time commitment level I am really looking to do a "Medieval looking" calligraphy for challeng...

Ewan

Title pretty much says it all.

I am green as grass when it comes to this but think I should know how to do basic calligraphy at least and would like to extend this to illumination as well.

Ewan

Bamos,

You Nailed it!

Was it nasty hard or just a nuisance?

Ewan

Here is a pic of my helmet: [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/ewan/Pictures/ewhat.jpg[/img] and me wearing it: http://home.armourarchive.org/members/ewan/Pictures/Ewan%20in%20armour.jpg [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/ewan/Pictures/Ewan%20in%20Helm%20Left%20View.jpg[/img] Would a...

Ewan

A long time ago, my lovely wife tried to buy me a copy of AAoMK from Ebay. She won the auction but missed that the seller would only ship to the US.

I posted a frustrated "ARRGH" here.

You sent me a copy of the book just for the shipping costs.

I will never forget. Thank - you.

Ewan

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My pleasure Stephen. I still owe you a debt of gratitude that this trifle will not repay.

New pics and video's of us fighting - critique pls

Eisenmarche Shire Bear pit tourney pictures

14th C calligraphy & illumination - Where/how to start?