The Armour Archive

Animal

Wow! Heavens be praised! The schedule has worked out so I can go down to the monday night fight! I'm gonna get my ass handed to me but I dont care. This is gonna be good!
I'll let you know how it went.

Animal

Are you talking about a tetsubo? Very cool weapons indeed.

Animal

We are concentrated in the US. Pittsburgh mostlyh, neighboring states a little. We have a few far flung members, but nothing overseas. It's a real face to face thing though, so youd have to be here to experience it. Writing about it sorta falls short. WAY short.

Animal

I'm looking for some factual information regarding the Tuchux - as I know there are at least three of them here in the Archive." Yah, we're like termites. We get in everywhere "Before you ask: yes, I have visited tuchux.org but even though the music is nice, there is little info in that page. Oh wel...

Animal

Animal

Grettir chipped a bone in my neck with an axe at a cave event a long time ago. Came up behind me in a warlord fight and drilled me twice in the back of the head. I was out on my feet. Oh, but did he pay for that one later! heheh

Animal

Fighting me.

Animal

"sucks being an anti sca tuchux in an sca wordl huh. thats why i would never assume my sca persona at a tuchux event. of course ive asked many many times about tuchux events to come out and try it for myself but ive only ever been told that they are rare, and far between. then told to go to the webs...

Animal

"being an actual member of the chivalry types i disagree strongly. i actually find the chivalry to be very tolerant of the uneducated. and, i find almost all of the chivalry very excited about educating those that are unaware of what the sca is supposed to be, or, more importantly, the middle ages i...

Animal

"but in reality animal it is more because of ignorance and far too much tolerance." one thing I've noticed that really stands out harshly in the SCA is the very real separation between the chivalry types ( defined as either knights or on their way) and the rest of the fighters. The tolerance part is...

Animal

See, change never comes easy. It's always met with resistance especially by those that perceive themselves as at an advantage under the current and at a disadvantage if it were to change. Again, the SCA is a living thing and as such constantly evolving. Even if the written does not change in practis...

Animal

LOL D I had to try I tell you what though, after seeing all the great stuff you guys are making I decided to get off my ass and hit some metal. The leather bazubands worked fine for a prototype, but after seeing the ones you made D I have to have metal ones now. So this local armourer has graciously...

Animal

Ok Dmitriy, who would you suggest I ask?

Animal

Hi Dmitriy!
Was that a madu in that guy's mitt?
The buckler part was bad ass! Did that guy make it himself? Where do I get one?? That rocked!

Animal

Hi Trevor.
I'll bring my madu. Give it your best shot.

Animal

"The reason you did not see 'a word' about a rock thrown from out of bounds 'attackers' that you can't strike back at, is that I did not think that was what we were discussing." You're right. I was still surprised it hadnt been mentioned at least. "From my perspective, that is an absolutely disgusti...

Animal

The thing that I notice here whenever someone trots out the 'bylaws' to hide behind when it comes to medieval europe/anywhere else is that these bylaws were written how long ago? From what I've read here the original people that wrote those laws were knights, ladies and Tolkein elves. Somewhat of a ...

Animal

um, isnt there already a strap of some sort there?
Those are beautiful, seriously.If they dont fit you, well gee. I've got these puny little arms. I could give them a home

Animal

http://www.capnmac.com/archery/maille/Chapter3.htm

I think y'all over looked this when I posted it before. It was very interesting.

Animal

I also reccomend 'photobucket.com'. If you put your photo on there you can simply cut and past the 'img' url they give you on the archive and it will put your picture there. So simple even I can do it.

Animal

Yes they did. Rather well in fact. In fact Russia ( which by the way, spans TWO continents, both Asia AND Europe) had a period of a few hundred years they called the Mongol Yoke. Alexander Nevsky and all that. They conquered the largest land mass empire ever and they were primarily archers. I'd like...

Animal

For years I fought in essentially vambraces and greaves and a helmet. As I've gotten more of a taste for the finer things in life I've gone to a full coat of Mongol heavy cavalry lamellar, bazubands and hidden legs. Trying very hard to look like what I think I wolda looked like. I havent noticed it ...

Animal

If I go to two practices a week and an event or two my sabers tend to last me about 3 uses. I make them long then trim them down as they die. Hey Ice, what's shipping to a 21163 zip? I need me some of them 36" sticks you carry

Animal

Yah, Wulf the Mighty. He's who I want to be when I grow up. I've had the immense honor of training with him as a kenjutsuka in his dojo as well as being welcomed into his home to do cool things like assist in the wrapping of a wakizashi. It was very cool in sword class as well because he would often...

Animal

Alaric there was nothing wrong with your first response. I appreciate you taking the time. I noticed when I moved close to baltimore and started going to the friday night fights people didnt much like me either until I toned the aggression WAY down so I see your point entirely. Cuan I would be honor...

Animal

Junior once again I have to say how impressed I am by your skill. Now get busy finishing up so you can make ME cool shit!

Animal

Yah, that's what I find to be so ironic in this case. It seems that it's mostly the knightly types that have the biggest problem with CA yet not a word about a 'rock' that kills no matter where it hits on your body, thrown by a TOTAL non-combattant from out of bounds. Yet thread after threat about a...

Animal

Yup. Taken from the 'peasant' battle at Pennsic. There goes the whole 'we're all nobility and no one would be otherwise thing. You wanna complain about nuclear arrows, ( which are stupid) then deal with a duct taped roll of toilet paper thrown at you from outside the bounds of the combat field by a ...

Animal

We sorta already did a Tuchux version of that. It was called the field battle last Pennsic

Animal

Well said Logan. I accept. No hard feelings.

Animal

Probably because of axes, maces, lances and the understanding of glancing surfaces and the like. However arrows were definitely a factor in the rise of plate.

Animal

This is a question I would like to pose to those of you that have excelled at fighting. Can the false modesty, you know who you are. At what point did you seperate yourself from the pack? What did you do to elevate your fighting to the realm of the dukes and counts and the like? Was it a conscious d...

Animal

Eat yer wheaties Billyboy!

Animal

http://www.capnmac.com/archery/maille/Chapter3.htm

I found this to be somewhat interesting.

Animal

Heheh ok so when you're healthy and in your pads we'll match maces and see

Re: Question about the Tuchux (Animal et al, I mean you)

(Rattan Fighting) Taking that step