The Armour Archive

Morgan

In Ansteorra, in melee, if you are legged, you can drag yourself around. Slower than knee walking, but faster than not moving at all. In tourney, you cannot move, other than to briefly reposition.

Morgan

Always wondered what happened to Marty's helm after the estate sale...

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Morgan

Depends on if you do strange things to the shell before painting, mostly. You'd have to use a pretty strange paint to cause a problem for MOST helmets. But depending on the plastic in the helm and the kind of paint, it's theoretically possible to create a problem. It's just not very likely.

Morgan

Or hairy man butt. Or hairy man chest. Or really, hairy man ANYTHING not mention it. LOL

Morgan

Sweet! I wish I could get something exactly like that in like 18 or so gauge spring.

Morgan

Bartok wrote:
SCA: Lord Gilbert the Short

And now there will be photographic proof....

I like it, pretty neat idea, this calendar.

Morgan

Just use steel pipe. Much sturdier.

Morgan

I don't know about bag balm, but never, ever put tiger balm on an open wound. Mord. Or on a freshly shaved scrotum... Oh wait, what were we talking about again? Nice bruise. Welcome! I haven't had one like that in a while, but I'm sure after Sarnac reads my comment on the "ages" thread he'll be com...

Morgan

Couldn't agree more. We usually do it fully in armour, but that's likely because we usually do it at practice! If I may add to this slightly. I use the same technique. The only thing I do differently (or maybe this is obvious) is that Man1, the shield holder himself, should be wearing any armor that...

Morgan

I'll grab this one too. LOL The basic thought is that you don't change your stance so your shield sits right to defend you, you hang your shield so that in your best stance, the sheild is correct. SO many folks are told "you just put the shield straps here and here on the back of the shield." This i...

Morgan

I'll handle this one. LOL I'm one of Dunk's squires. Hammer Grip doesn't really refer to the fact that the sword rests in your palm like a hammer, but more specifically, refers to the fact that so many fighters grip the sword like they're holding on for dear life, gripping as tightly as possible. Yo...

Morgan

Excellent! I look forward to hearing tales of this deed!

Morgan

While I knew this protocol change was coming and know that it's not just a specious news story, I agree, the lay person should not change to a new protocol until being trained in said protocol. That being said, I'm trying to organize a new CPR training at my building asap, because we only have 2 CPR...

Morgan

My pleasure.

The joke, not the activity mentioned.

Morgan

It's tough. But he's quite correct, you significantly increase the damage you do to your shoulder by load bearing with your elbows higher than your shoulders. Look at the classic military press if you want a recipe for disaster. At least this is what my physical therapists and docs told me after I h...

Morgan

Been waiting for that for a while now. Eventually they'll get rid of rescue breaths entirely. There's enough oxygen pulled in with the negative chest pressure...just keep the blood flowing.

Morgan

Cultural question... Do you call holds during melees when you break or lose your own weapon normally? I can see calling hold when you see someone about to strike with say a spear that has it's head ripped off, but if it's your own weapon and you notice it, why don't you just quit hitting with it and...

Morgan

I'm not sure if Corwin is being redundant or didn't read the thread, but the issue was never with the width of a chinstrap. The worry was that the SEM was going to, by fiat, change the ruling to require that all chin straps be basically hard-mounted to the helm. LOTS of people in the SCA have uses n...

Morgan

I have heard them telling folks at events that the grills are mild steel, but interestingly there isn't a reference to it on their website. They should fix that, unless I'm missing a reference somewhere.

Morgan

Not a workable solution. People might stumble and scrape the floor with metal armour. Better to protect the floor and fight as normal than to hope nobody falls on an expensive floor with armour that will damage it. Add to that the fact that knee fighting is a currently necessary evil, some folks do ...

Morgan

I agree, he wasnt' being malicious. I just said he wasn't being funny either. Do or do not, is no try. LOL

Morgan

I like to make French jokes. But the best comedy FIRST and FOREMOST has some element of HUMOR. "Never Trust the French" without any context other than a discussion about whether a legitimate businessman is trustworhty, isn't really very funny at all. Now, if this businessman was a swordmaker and the...

Morgan

Nobody is advocating cutting her off and never speaking to her again. I'm sure every single person who's given "cut her loose" advise knows that Frieman would be considerate and open. However on your second statement.... You first say "she might want to do it" and then say "...but is afraid of getti...

Morgan

SU-WEET piece of work!

Morgan

poorly executed salt shaker helm?

Morgan

What a cute puppy!

Morgan

My college fraternity flag...but I like suns more than mullets.

Morgan

If you got offended by that, I'm not sure how you stay around here at all. Neutral third party, I didn't think that was rude at ALL. Patric, The images only expired this morning, after I made my last post. Chill. If I remember correctly, it was you who came to the forums some number of months ago an...

Morgan

If it's 100% accurate, I wouldn't hold the fact that the wearer is losing against the armour, as he's being struck in an area NOT armoured thusly, and is outnumbered over 2 to 1.

Morgan

Ansteorra is too big geographically for a top 10. I think Cathal had the right of it, doing it regionally. Not that I agree or disagree that I belong in it! LOL My Ansteorran top list, in no particular order: HRH Mahdi Duke Ulsted Duke Drake Earl Aaron Earl Duncan Jarl Timo After that I have a jumbl...

Morgan

I don't think losthelm is really advocating anything different. I don't think anyone is advocating cutting all ties with her and never speaking to her again, just saying that he ought to stop wasting so much time on her. What I used to have was an email list of "people who haven't told me they're do...

Morgan

You might want to re-think that statement. They quite plainly tell their customers that their grill work is painted mild steel, so they know up front. Take it or leave it, but that's the product they sell. (It's actually part of the reason i didn't buy one of their helms, but hey, they make their de...

Morgan

Every time I see those people who are always talking about fighting, I put on my polite face that says, "He's being really nice to you but doesn't believe you very much." LOL Some of them get it. Most of them don't. All I ever say is, "Well, we're always here and would love to have you in armour reg...

Morgan

She doesn't want to fight. She may not even WANT to want to fight. A large round rock at the top of a smooth hill represents a great deal of potential energy. The sand grain on to top of a small ant hill has far less. (edit to put in the line that's important) Sometimes we're too close to something ...

Morgan

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