The Armour Archive

Morgan

I personally believe that strapped round, while certainly a do-able style, is about the weakest of the shield forms. You have none of the advantages of the center boss round and none of the corner advantages of a heater or kite. I'm not saying you can't be good with one. I know Duke Paul is good wit...

Morgan

'a big part' doesn't equate to a few individuals in my estimation, but I could be wrong. Jon You're really good at misquoting. I never used the word "few." And "a big part" doesn't equate to "the rest". One titanic indivudual who's regarded by a large number of people to be "the shiz" but who's a j...

Morgan

I don't think he was suggesting ignoring "the rest" of the WMA community. I think he was just kind enough to not name names or give examples.

Morgan

I'm a cardio junkie... iPod, and eliptical and I'm a happy guy.

Morgan

I figure he got the info he wants, and hijacking the thread only bumps it at this point.

Morgan

Well, as they stated it that 99 pence was still a profite, I'd imagine something like that. LOL

I know a guy who did some really neat wall art with AOL discs.

Morgan

/engage humour

6th Level of Hell! Pedophiles, homophobes, chiggers, spun domes, ring belts, fascist dictators and those little Brazillian fish that swim up your pee-pee! Next Stop, 7th Level of Hell!

/humour may be disengaged at this time

Morgan

No doubt! It's a monster from a VEEEEE EEEEEEEE EEEEEE EEEERY low budget horror movie.

Morgan

I tried to allude to this myself, but it was said so much more clearly by Brother Alfred. In the future if I see a fighter who appears to be a bit shy, I'll just strike a conversation and gain an introduction and give that fighter a better context with which to offer to fight me, if his countenance,...

Morgan

Yeah, I had a "second chance" offer on a motorcycle. "I'm out of the country currently but the bike is ready to go, just send me a deposit to this address..."

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Morgan

Should be able to put you up in Dallas, TX if you happen to be in this neck of the woods. We have Brian Price's Schola classes and his private practices should you secure an invitation to that about 15 minutes from my house.

Morgan

Tool dip makes for a MUCH better look than the bare red or duct tape, IMO, but it does wear off and leaves the mace looking a little piebald. But it's RED bits, so maybe it just looks like blood! LOL

Morgan

Everyone I know has cored the small end out and then secured it on the top as William's picture illustrates.

The smaller kong, as he uses, is superior to the larger one. The larger one hits like a ton of bricks.

Morgan

Malcolm_Mor... I don't think you're really disagreeing with Justus. He's just saying that culturally, he feels that in his area there is an unwritten rule FOR KNIGHTS to not challenge "down" as it were. This "down" isn't necessarily a suggestion that knights are automatically better fighters than un...

Morgan

I'd really like to get to this some year, but it keeps falling opposite Ansteorran Coronation.

Morgan

Congrats!

Morgan

Has anyone RECENTLY made an online or long distance purchase from Sir Waldryk? I heard that he cleared up his backlog and is doing quite well with internet orders and the like at this point. I have a new guy who's gung-ho and wants to buy armour (he fought in amtgaard for a long time, so he knows hi...

Morgan

If you've got experience doing ebay auctions of your artistic goods, please ignore this advice. Don't use a high starting bid. Use a $.01 starting bid and set a reserve price. This is a fantastic strategy if you are unsure of what the market will actually bear on your item, and doesn't obligate you ...

Morgan

Yeah, that's one of the few things likely to get me into a heated discussion in armour...I'm with you Odo. I don't care WHAT you got on it, if you didn't get enough OFF of it by the time it hit you, it's good.

Morgan

I always thought there should be a desiginated spot where those too shy/embarrassed to approach others to fight could congregate. Then others could say hey, lets go fight those guys, they'll like it. And the shy guys would know the others round them do want to fight and it would help getting more a...

Morgan

Counted blows are generally regular calibration, just no acting out of wounds. So if you hit my leg, I don't drop to my knees, I just say ONE. Or more likely, "OUCH! ONE! DAMN YOU LOGAN, I'LL GET YOU FOR THAT!" LOL honestly ive never done the counted blow thing. i assume its just blows to contact an...

Morgan

I've fenced. I even like it. That being said, I'm curious why we're railing on this guy. I mean, first of all, I'd NEVER do what he did. I like Sarnac's approach...this game is for everyone, and everyone should be supported by the crown regardless of their opinion. However, it's not like he banned f...

Morgan

Not at all. You can't even BEGIN to have a 4th peerage discussion until an activity is SCA wide, which fencing isn't.

I won't go into everything else either. LOL

Morgan

I agree with Jester on telling new fighters to err on the side of caution and take a shot you have to think about..... however as time goes by and you spend time and gain experience you start to narrow the range of calibration that you feel is good. So you have the exact effect. If a shot hits you ...

Morgan

temazur....I just want to say that I commend you for wanting to spend time on the pickup field. I believe that I wouldn't be a knight today if it wasn't for pickups at Gulf Wars, Estrella and Pennsic. Those pickup fields accelerate your learned to a degree that's nearly unbelieveable versus what you...

Morgan

In other kingdoms such a demand would take 6 months to get thru their Stallari or whatever it's called...the board of officers that reviews kingdom law and the like. Such as Rev suggested would certainly cause phone calls to the BoD, and either a stern "stop it" phone call or an "we're having an eme...

Morgan

Anyone who passes up a fight against Scott because they're "only fighitng knights" is a fool.

Morgan

I'm afraid, good squire Euric, that I will be unable to attend Pennsic War this year. My attendance at Estrella and Gulf, a 5 star cruise, being royal Herald, getting knighted, buying a house and motorcycle has left me a little short on time off and money to do anything WITH the time off. BUT DAMN h...

Morgan

If you happen to fight someone who seems to know what they're doing.... Knights, royal peers, squires who seem to know which end of the stick to hit you with, guys like Nissan Maxima.... Basically anyone who whups your butt if you're not particularily good, be sure to thank them when you're done and...

Morgan

There are two schools of thought as we've discovered in this thread. I think that these two schools of thought may be at the root of most inter-kingdom war problems. These philosophies are 180 degrees different than each other, but few people play them ENTIRELY to their utmost extreme. But that mean...

Morgan

I'm with Odo on this. If a shot was darn clean it usually means I THINK they had me dead-to-rights and I'll ask "did you pull that?" And if they say "no" then I assume they got lucky to get the shot there, were in the wrong position to deliver power, and say, "then it was light" and continue. If the...

Morgan

Winterfell wrote:That may have been what I had misread before. i thought it said staves were illegal.

There is actually no reference to the word "quarter" anywhere in SCA rules, so it may be a kingdom thing. My kingdom's rules say no quarterstaffing.

Morgan

Disagree all you want. The problem lies in your lack of understanding of the rules. The rules don't state that a quarterstaff is illegal. They state that quarterstaffING is illegal. That's a verb, not a noun. You can't quarterstaff (v.) with a glaive, a pole arm, a great sword...nothing.

Morgan

I haven't read this whole thread and I doubt I will. I'll say first, I like unpadded poles. I'll say I agree with all of your initial points EXCEPT for the safety issue. I agree with Ceddie... PEOPLE hurt people, not weapons. HOWEVER, some weapons make it a lot easier. I've not seen most unpadded po...

Morgan

Personally, I never want to hear you say, "I'll never be a knight" ever again. You're YOUNG. You have YEARS to perfect technique. Power generation is the least of your problems at this point, I assure you. You can fix that.

RECENT reviews of Waldryk???