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by Vitus von Atzinger
Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:28 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Aluminum Shields
Replies: 46
Views: 62

Tiny piece of hose, dunk. Tryng to save my shoulders.
-V
by Vitus von Atzinger
Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:12 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Aluminum Shields
Replies: 46
Views: 62

Well it didn't help enough.
by Vitus von Atzinger
Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:52 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Aluminum Shields
Replies: 46
Views: 62

Aluminum Shields

After using one for six months I have decided that I hate them! They vibrate and feel freaky-wierd. Back to wooden shields. Curses! Infinite curses!
-Vitus
by Vitus von Atzinger
Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:47 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How to train for a Tourney
Replies: 11
Views: 13

I have a confession to make. Up until about three weeks ago I only fought about three times a month at best. Yes, from the time I returned to the SCA about four years ago until I was knighted I fought three times a month. Most of the time I was too tired to armour up- I was working at the bookstore ...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Thu Jun 12, 2003 10:53 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Swine and Roses
Replies: 9
Views: 8

Conrad, I expect to see you at Border Raids.
:P
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue Jun 10, 2003 5:09 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: One year to go...
Replies: 13
Views: 6

Tell me now.
Vitus@aye.net
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue Jun 10, 2003 9:49 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Sasuke! Contact me.
Replies: 1
Views: 2

Sasuke! Contact me.

Vitus@aye.net
by Vitus von Atzinger
Fri Jun 06, 2003 8:19 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you train for Crown?
Replies: 30
Views: 28

My allergies and injuries have always kept me from fighting at my full potential. Allergies? I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. Lately I have been trying to fight twice a week- this is a completely new thing for me. Ever since my rotator tear (five years ago?) I had been fighting about three tim...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:54 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Things I need.
Replies: 10
Views: 27

Because this guy is going to gripe about anything that gives him *less* vision than he had before. Very competitive. I need a 14th century open-faced helmet that has no aventail.
Dunk, keep yer damn hands out of my Doritos, ya germy bugger.
-V
by Vitus von Atzinger
Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:33 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Things I need.
Replies: 10
Views: 27

Things I need.

I would put this on the Classified board but I want as many of the armourers as possible to see it. One of my retainers wants to go 14th century so he won't look like a sore thumb standing next to the rest of us. The guy currently wears a nice spangenhelm. I keep telling him that he is going to bitc...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sat May 31, 2003 9:42 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Ealdormere Crown Tourney
Replies: 10
Views: 6

Cennedi was my pick for winner. Were Eduoard's appearance rules enforced?
by Vitus von Atzinger
Thu May 29, 2003 9:40 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Border Raids - What gives?
Replies: 25
Views: 7

Oh yeah- I have heard of Panhandle!! Every year I go down to Grayton Beach for vacation and I simply won't shut up- I am always screaming "They FIGHT down here?"
It must truly suck.
-Vee
by Vitus von Atzinger
Wed May 28, 2003 9:31 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Border Raids - What gives?
Replies: 25
Views: 7

Border Raids is in my backyard. It's popularity and importance comes and goes, based upon numerous factors. Kentucky is a haul if you are from Mississippi, and Kentucky is a haul if you are from Michigan. If a few fighters from the great Northern households show up, the Meridians are usually crushed...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue May 20, 2003 7:57 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Attn Sir Vitus -- Square Shields
Replies: 13
Views: 19

Yes, the picture you speak of has two unarmoured men holding square bucklers and fighting with short-beaked pick-like things. War hammers? One pic does not really change the fact that the square shield is almost non-existant in the iconography of the High Middle Ages. -v I just checked the link post...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Mon May 19, 2003 7:18 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Attn Sir Vitus -- Square Shields
Replies: 13
Views: 19

Sir-
I admit, that is pretty neat.
-V
by Vitus von Atzinger
Wed May 14, 2003 9:43 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Beware of Aethelmearc War Practice!
Replies: 142
Views: 127

Wow- I didn't know there were any Tuchux named Bubba- how appropriate!
You don't play too rough- that's not really the problem. You express open contempt and hatred for your opponents. THAT is the problem. Hate doesn't make for very sound calibration awareness.
by Vitus von Atzinger
Wed May 14, 2003 9:13 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Beware of Aethelmearc War Practice!
Replies: 142
Views: 127

I just can't understand why being a bad little boy remains so appealing- even after the age of 25. I mean, I still have this desire to thumb my nose at Society at Large, laugh in the face of convention and insist on doing it "my way". Why? I don't have any idea. I watch shows like "monster garage" a...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue May 13, 2003 4:47 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Today is Crown day I guess...
Replies: 20
Views: 22

Gareth- Please forgive me if I have offended you by making a public inquiry about what surely is a private matter. But you have to understand something- you are a HERO to many people here. You changed my entire life with one ten-minute teaching session. I absolutely believe if it were not for that s...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue May 13, 2003 9:03 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Beware of Aethelmearc War Practice!
Replies: 142
Views: 127

Ohboy.
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue May 06, 2003 2:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: refusing to fight? a question of honour...(SCA)
Replies: 122
Views: 58

Blackmane is right. Totally. Being killed AFTER you were tired out or injured was probably the most common outcome.
Logan's habit of offering the sword hilt is very, very classy.
by Vitus von Atzinger
Mon May 05, 2003 9:22 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: refusing to fight? a question of honour...(SCA)
Replies: 122
Views: 58

Brother Alaric- The whole idea that we are searching for blows that "would have" been fatal or utterly disabling is screwy. Such a blow would almost always qualify as excessive force, because excessive force is what is required to kill a fully armoured man with medieval hand weapons. Anything less w...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Mon May 05, 2003 6:06 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Today is Crown day I guess...
Replies: 20
Views: 22

Why has Gareth resigned from the Order? What is the word on the street?
What a bummer.
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sun Apr 27, 2003 9:59 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Neoprene pollaxe heads.
Replies: 4
Views: 8

No Dave, I got the impression that Palymar has banned the Rathbone style axe heads on two-hand axes and poleaxes. The striking surface of the axe has to be more than what they afford...
-V
by Vitus von Atzinger
Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:23 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: New Crossguard and pommel.
Replies: 7
Views: 11

When, oh when will somebody make a straight version of this type of crossguard?
-V
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:36 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Strength training advice needed
Replies: 11
Views: 38

If you have any low-level impingement in the shoulders (almost all SCA fighters do), the power snatch could injure you. I am a walking testament to this lift's amazing power, and it's potential destructiveness. Dilan is right- proceed with caution and reap the amazing benefits.
by Vitus von Atzinger
Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:44 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Strength training advice needed
Replies: 11
Views: 38

The Creation and Maintenance of Weapon Speed for SCA combat. -Introductory rant- In my humble and remarkably unbiased opinion, most training that we offer novice combatants is pretty incomplete. Alot of valuable training time is wasted while a reasonable fighting kit is being assembled and this is a...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Tue Apr 15, 2003 8:43 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Breaking an oath
Replies: 47
Views: 35

This guy -through his sinful behavior- has put you in a situation where your own reputation is in jeapordy through your association with him. You cannot seek confession and penance for something he has done, so you have no way to wash away the stain of dishonor. This nullifies any feudal ties that y...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:22 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Square shields
Replies: 12
Views: 19

Dmitri, you are using a square shield? Well, I guess I can still talk to you- your knight uses one as well. Image
-V
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:09 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Inspired Fighting (SCA)
Replies: 11
Views: 12

This is indeed a strange topic. Logan, I think the reason that this language has been adopted is because of this- when a particular fighter goes to fight in a tournament and he acts like an idiot, then weak-minded people will tend to think badly of his lady. "Oh- you are sleeping with/married to a j...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:49 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 14th Century Armour sold at auction
Replies: 18
Views: 28

You want access to private collections? Put an ad in the New York Times, or ask the auction houses if you can place an ad in one of their mail-out catalogues. Be visible in the places where the non-reenactor armour freaks hang out and poke around. Look at what that ad in Military History magazine di...
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:09 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Pics of me in kit.. .kinda distant
Replies: 9
Views: 9

What a cool looking group of blood-drinkers.
-V
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:37 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Pictures! (finally got digi cam)
Replies: 11
Views: 8

You look great, dude- it's like you are a different guy.
Now put down that rapier! Image
-Vee
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sat Apr 05, 2003 4:51 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Rec Practice for Hastings and Faering Boat Display May 3 & 4
Replies: 10
Views: 5

Cool.

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Vitus Litold Von Atzinger, Knight
Q."Hey Rhys, what do you wear for kidney protection?"
A."Virtue."
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sat Apr 05, 2003 1:31 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Thomas Costain's 'The Three Edwards'
Replies: 2
Views: 7

He's a ton of fun to read- don't know how he holds up these days as far as scholarship. many of the stories he relates were researched by others....
by Vitus von Atzinger
Sat Apr 05, 2003 1:20 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Anyone ever heard of Marburg Museum?
Replies: 8
Views: 9

http://www.marburg.de/touristik4_e.asp

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