The Armour Archive

BdeB

Holy Spit!

BdeB

I didn't read the OP as "I want the laurels to fix this for me," as much as "This person is acting in a way unbecoming a peer and I want their order to be aware of it." I seem to be pretty outnumbered in my interpretation so I may be dead wrong. The problem is that I, as an SCA ...

BdeB

I don't disagree with anything you have said, Your Grace. I also think we need to consider the role that genetics plays in this. Some people, perhaps Thorsten as an example (perhaps not he hasn't said) are more likely to concuss than others. Then again, some folks are also more likley to do silly da...

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In general our equipment and weapons are very, very safe. I've only had one real brown out from SCA fighting and that was early on when I was struck with a VERY illegal polearm by a Bog Trooper. (BTW, just for those that are curious, making a 'hammer' out of a steel, foam lined thermos covered with ...

BdeB

1250 is early period? Really? Half way through the High Middle Ages????

You are right. Who on earth would want to study the chivalric culture of those panties like William the Marshall, Saladin and Richard the Lionheart?

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Her knight's chains are dead sexy. If I didn't already have some many I would have snapped on up last year when I saw them. Highest marks for quality.

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i woul much rather take a thrusting tip to the throat than have the thrusts force delivered via a metal plate. ive done both and much prefer the latter. now if the throat/neck were weak and in great danger i would probably put a mile of padding around it but since its not i prefer the nice soft tip...

BdeB

nice as always!

BdeB

In that case has anyone figured out any nifty taping method to eliminate some of the wobble? I really didn't like the way it felt when I was hitting my pell. Maybe cutting one down to a 34" length would help some but any other ideas? The only tapping suggestion I think would help with the vibr...

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I'd love to see how these cuts are being made. I can't quite picture it yet.

BdeB

Reviewing our lists from time to time makes me rather sad, because there are always people on there that have left the game, and the paperwork side of things just hasn't caught up. Of Atlantia's 818 we usually field less than 150 at Pennsic. (Not counting all the mercs and bog troopers that fight wi...

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Thanks Drogo, that is just the way I was fitting a knutt camail to a sugarloaf for a friend of mine a while back. Glad to know it will work.

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I'm curious, what work was done to attach the aventail?

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Here is the helm Njal is talking about in use from a few years ago:

http://www.bogpages.com/SCA-photographs ... jhDc2-A-LB

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This should shock no one that knows me and how I fight, but I put a rather impressive crease (maybe two inches in length) into a 13g mild steel helm, throwing an offside against a left handed fighter. The shot landed near the forte of the sword. Not that I haven't dented metal with rattan but to be ...

BdeB

sent.

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A friend of mine showed up at practice last night and we started working on Greatsword stuff. He pulled out the gauntlets he got at pennsic and has barely fought in. Why? The spring steel was totally destroyed, they had holes in the damn thing. Oh Boy. I said, "Oh no, you got them from Chivalry...

BdeB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT3XVnKcl2Y

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DukeAlaric (George S.) wrote:I figured that skeleton fingers would be right up your alley, Dark Apprentice.

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Oh you dirty, dirty dog you!

Do not sully the name of the Great One. I am but a poor imitator, like in that 70's ballad "Leader of the Band".

BdeB

Any chance of them making them in all black. Those are just SOOOO UGLY. They look like skeleton fingers!

BdeB

I hit hard too. And train to hit accurately. Sometimes I do miss and hit a knee, then I apoligize and we continue. Why on earth when I have tried hard to get my kit to look as medieval as possible should I alter it just because you can't throw a legal blow without a visual sign? Do you also suggest ...

BdeB

I'm trusted to call all my other blows, why not my knee?

I don't bitch either.

BdeB

I like a smooth spear shaft, but a lot of guys just duct tape the whole thing one or two colors.

BdeB

3x then. I'll paypal you in a second.

BdeB

I'll take a XXL if you have any left. I'll PM you tonight.

BdeB

However, although I enjoy the battles, I LOVE the pick-up fight "atmosphere" that Bryce comments on. I have made a huge amount of long-lasting friendships on that fighting field... from spending entire days hanging out, talking to terrific people and fighting my butt off against such high...

BdeB

Not so fast Bryce. I never mistook nor misidentified Duke Ronald's style as Iron Chicken. Iron Chicken is where you wrap your sword arm over top of your head with the tip of the blade hanging down across the front of the shield in either the hope that your opponent will not hit you in the arm or in...

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I think everyone from the Right Coast has issues at Gulf Wars at some point. I remember one of the most passionate anti-GW rants I have ever heard from Duke Cuan after a particularly fighting year. It happens. Like he said now, he enjoys it for different reasons. Every year in the winter it is cold ...

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""Iron Chicken" we are referring more to the Wilmot Style, as has been discussed by others. (High Guard, sword tip down over the front of a Closed Shield.) " That is not how I fight so since as far as I can remember we never fought I think you have a bad source. Duke Ronald Well...

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I am, btw, terrified of Horses. Bastards want to eat me, I KNOW IT!!!

BdeB

The guy on the right in this picture is in what I would call true "iron chicken": http://www.duncarraig.net/images/faq_fight1.JPG I disagree. That style seen on the right is informally called "pillbox" amoung other things. At least on the Right Coast, when we speak of "Iron...

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Isn't that the same deal as the book about Duke Paul that never materialized?

http://www.amazon.com/Masters-SCA-Comba ... 663&sr=8-1

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Yes there are three things wrong with that picture that I see at a glance.

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Still going strong. Took it to Bloodbath this weekend and some of the fighters played with it. Complaints were that it felt weird (vibration maybe?) hitting steel targets. No problems at all though with safety or acknowledgement issues. I suppose at some point I am going to have to replace my tourne...

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Corby is good. Vlad is better. If you are a polearm fighter on the East Coast, they should always be on your dance card.

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