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Ewan

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Ewan

Ewan... your shield description sounds like something i should try... i fight with a heather too... and i just normally hold it in the vertical position... perhaps i should move my handle so i could easier hold my shield like you say... Look at the video for Duke Thorin @ www.antirfighters.com for ...

Ewan

Email received. Much clearer now.

Thanks!

Ewan

PS the right trapezoid has always been a problem after fighting. I get serious neck cramps/tightness that really never goes away. Hoping to discover some muscle specific stretches to incorporate into my pre/post fighting routine. Do you grind your teeth ? After you fight is your jaw sore too ? I fo...

Ewan

I don't know if it is a "belatrix" thing or not. It is a Duke Thorin Njalsson thing. Ewan, Yes, it is. Thorin, when he was a squire, and his knight took lessons from me. Whenever he's around when I'm teaching, he helps out. Here's a suggestion for a stretch for your trapezius: 1. Stand against a wa...

Ewan

Sir Daniel wrote:Come to the dark side Logan.

Move to An Tir.

I'm just sayin...

Ewan

Doug Confere wrote:
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I like how this thread turned into attacking me because you guys think SCA is more period than period combat I'll be back to defend myself later this evening.

sorry dante Doug, I don't think anyone here has stated that SCA is more "period" than "period combat".

Ewan

Doug, you would be crazy not to take Cuan up on his offer.

insert jealous emoticon here

Ewan

As Tony pointed out (and I thank him for giving me this much credit) I would not actually strike Doug with a steel sword to his 16ga. helmet just to prove a point. What I will do is offer Doug the hospitality of my home for the weekend. If you are grown and free to travel, Doug, I invite you to com...

Ewan

Doug, dude. You do not want someone like Cuan hitting you in that helm with a sword. Seriouly.

REALLY!

I doubt that someone with HG Cuans reputation would actually do something like that, though. The man knows what he could do.

Ewan

I think this has turned into an SCA vs. WMA war that really isn't necessary. No one is saying SCA isn't valid or that you can't hurt people with it, just that it is different from WMA and period combat as we understand it. I agree completley Doug. Both are important and valuable. Your opening state...

Ewan

I re-iterate again: How many medieval knights would have been concerned with cutting their armoured opponents. As many as would have been interested in bashing them. In an armoured bout with bladed weapons such as longswords, there would not likely be very much bashing the armour with the blade, as...

Ewan

How many medieval knights would have been concerned with cutting their armoured opponents. All of them. And you think so too, if you think about it: ...don't most of the chronicles discuss victory due to submission from blows to the head, damage to the joint of the armour (from blows), thrusts (usu...

Ewan

I re-iterate again: How many medieval knights would have been concerned with cutting their armoured opponents. Vitus, Jehan, Chef etc please correct me if I am wrong but don't most of the chronicles discuss victory due to submission from blows to the head, damage to the joint of the armour (from blo...

Ewan

copied from my response to Doug. Medieval combat among armoured fighters seems to be less about cutting and more about battering/grappling your opponent into a position to ransom or kill. Maces, warhammers espescially would translate into very poor weapons indeed, if we are concerned only with cutti...

Ewan

I don't know if it is a "belatrix" thing or not. It is a Duke Thorin Njalsson thing. if you go here: m and download his video you can see what I mean. Basically, with a heater, it means you keep your front corner up and across your body somewhat, your point slightly planed to your offbody and out an...

Ewan

Gawd, I love this game.

Had a great practice tonight. Went with predominatly "Duke Paul" style like I had been doing before I quit. Remembered to look over the back of my shield not the front and things went muuuuuuccccccchhhhh better.

My trapezoid hurts like a S.O.B. though.

Ewan

Edric,

I can't speak for Sir Ivar, but cross border mail can be stupidly slow one time and then suprisingly quick, the next.

Ewan

Yoy know, I rerally have to think about this. I spent the last couple of years of my fighting learning to do just what you stated Sir Mord. After I really felt like I had the shield defense programmed and my snap pretty close to being thrown properly (Duke Skapti once remarked that "You really do a ...

Ewan

What Dante said. Sir Ivar is a great guy (my knights former squire brother) his stuff was specifically developed by vikings for vikings.

Look up the lost vikings, pretty much everyone of them uses this style of hidden armour.

Ewan

Murdock wrote:
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This was the guy that was palm striking people to check chinstraps

He has just passed a guy wearing unhardened leather knees taped to his bear legs a jock with cup, tennis shoes and NO PANTS!

Ewan

Well, I couldn;t stay away from SCA heavy fighting. I sold all my stuff a year ago to focus on building/starting a new business. A year later, I was going crazy and realized I needed this crazy game. Turns out, the guy who bought my stuff, Michael of Brecon (OP), kept it all for me, knowing I would ...

Ewan

Yep used them today. Worked great. More comfy than the old legs and with the addition of some foam, the were more protective as well. The old legs were just sole leather waxed, and were older than dirt. They were originally made for a much, much taller man and I inherited them when I started fightin...

Ewan

Here are the old legs.
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/e ... wanLeg.jpg

Here are the new and improved legs:

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/e ... 0front.jpg

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/e ... 20left.jpg

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/e ... 20legs.jpg

What do you think?
I will be replacing the cops pictured with crusader style stainless cops soon.

Ewan

Guys, be very, very careful heating anything that MAY have zinc on it. Nail, bolts etc.

People have DIED from it. People who have been working steel thier whole lives.

Ewan

How bout a pembridge?

Ewan

I am a bastard son of a minor noble who has returned from mercenary duty. I guess my question is : would it be reasonable for some as poor as me to have a klappvisor or would it have been more likely that I bought/inheritef a sugarloaf? I realize that the sugarloaf is much earlier than my period, bu...

Ewan

OK, My SCA persona is scot, 1360 ish. My kit will be kettle hat, gambeson with hidden arm defenses, re-inforced padded cuisse, simple polyens and hidden greaves. I want a closed face helm for a few special events though. Assuming, that as a Scot, my armour would be behind my english friends, would a...

Ewan

I can't belive I didn't put HRH Duke Sven on my list from An-Tir!

Ewan

I am out of the loop but here would be my top ten for An-Tir 1) Duke Davin 2) Duke Thorin 3) Duke Skapti 4) Duke Sven 5) Viscount Sir Ulf Bloodfoot 6) Viscount Sir Einar 7) Viscount Sir Vik Vikingson Sir Hathawulfe 9) Sir Kjartan 10) Duke Rorik (he isn't really active but we was darn near unbeatable...

Ewan

Sir Einar Vikingson
Borealis, Avacal, An-Tir.

Runner up in Best of the best @ Estrella. Lost to Uther in Crown, and they were not "blow outs" but really close fights.

Duke Uther. Closest thing we have to a professional athelete.

Ewan

Hmmmm This convention, or tradtion, would also cause eastern "infighters" a challenge: 3. Do not hold your shield in such a way that the opponentÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s body must strike the edge of your shield while attempting to throw a legal blow. For example: a fighter holds his shield rim so close to his knee...

Ewan

Tom, You are in An-Tir Go here: m And read the ABCs. From An-Tir Book of fighting "Traditions" 8. When you take your opponents legs and he is forced to continue to fight from his knees, many fighters apply one of the knee/shoulder line conventions: a) Keep directly in front of the opponent without c...

Ewan

Hrogn, you know how much I have travelled. I've fought people from Alaska to New Foundland, Vegas, Orlando, Toronto, Hamilton, Detroit, Seattle, Vancouver and point in between. Other than one incident, I have never found anything other than would very much within the norm at home. (And crosing the p...

Ewan

Wouldn't have it any other way.

(Note to self....train like a b$%ch before fighting again.)

Back in the saddle again!

Before and after... ugly legs to not so ugly legs.

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