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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Dmitriy wrote:Gaston, didn't you have asgard drills webbed?

Someone listed it earlier:

http://houseasgard.com/files.php

Near the bottom of the page. I just realized the newest stuff is 5 years old now so I guess we are overdue for some shooting....

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Access all the videos from TDU (1-10 I think) on youtube here....

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p ... s72&page=2

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I use "thumb lead" the way Atlantians do to refer to an offside false-edge shot that has a similar arc to a pendulum. Learned that definition from Duke Martin. before him everyone used pendulums instead and he has been championning the switch to thumb lead since he got here way back when. ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

To summarize then, and make certain I have it all correct. ⋅ Punch -> no real rotation, just linear motion ⋅ Cut -> Linear motion and rotation in the same direction of travel. Center of rotation somewhere between the body of the fighter and the pommel end of the sword. ⋅&nb...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Incidentally "pendulum" is the name of another shot in the torque category.

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

pretty much it. The moulinet is a good example though most have a tiny bit of cut. The achetypal torque is the broken-wristed moulinet (watch Baldar fight and you're bound to see it). A retique as we Asgardians throw it is also a "pure" torque. The defining characteristic is the rotation o...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

You I was afraid it was going to be one of those things where I publish it later and get told I copied it from someone else. That's happenned a couple of times already. I use the four classes you list plus one more I call "torque" but you might be able to leave that one off if you never u...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Jean Paul de Sens wrote:Cut, snap, punch, thrust.

Where did you get that from?

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I believe that the BOD outlawed the concept of war crown after HG Aveloc ran the An-Tir war crown. You are incorrect. No such law existed prior to Aveloc. When they heard about it they asked him to ask them to make a ruling on it (that whole idea of being invited in) and he declined to do so. They ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

what about kneeling shieldwall guys that get pulled over. I ran into a couple at GW we couldn't kil because they were kneeling behind shields. We pulled them over on their bellies but then they were imune because they were "on the ground" until they got back behind their shields where they...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I wonder if she's OK. I had an order going right before Gulf Wars and now no response.

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Foil has been banned for years. Some people still do epee but all the major events use schager/rapier blades nowadays.

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Back when Duke Baldar and Sir Trinculo did the original testing and campaigning for fiberglass spears as a replacement for the hardwood that had been banned a little earlier they put the 3" tips on in order to help allay marshal concerns. Their idea was that getting them passed was the importan...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Can I get the higher res version?

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To reply to various sub-threads at once... I hope no one took my physics statements to imply I supported the idea that Lucan's glaive blow was excessive. I see no indication that it was. Furthermore as Sinclair pointed out, if HG had intended to be "excessive" he had more effective options...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I'm a fan of finger gauntlets but for total thumb protection you really can't beat box or clamshell gauntlets with a solid (not articulated) thumb.

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I have no doubt it will pass the relevant tests, just wondering if there was a specific rule.

The linenarmour link is cool.

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Your bell analogy is good but that's the opposite of what's in the video you posted. Perhaps you should watch the video again as I don't think you understod what it was demonstrating when you posted it.

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The choices are (a) let the fallen fighter rise and continue (b) where "Dead on the ground" applies, declare the fallen fighter "dead". There is no choice under the SCA's rules for combat of (c) hit the person while they are lying on the ground. All of that is true but it's not ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Guillaume Beauvin wins the prize for understanding physics (6-8 weeks for delivery, other restrictions apply). Johnathon is sorta right. I doubt the fighter actually experienced a coup-countercoup injury which is where the skull is accellerated fast enough that the "padding" of the cerebro...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

The balloon experiment has nothing to do with this. In order for for the human head to be subject to that kind of bouancy it would have have unusually low bouancy, in fact to be lighter than air. I guess a skull with a hard vacuum inside might work. I think the solution is quite simple. At first the...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I read somewhere a long time ago that any sort of mail or metal mesh was forbidden for us as protection in SCA light weapons regardless of other factors. In the ravine battle at Gulf Wars there was a guy with the welded stainless butchers mail like azon sells as his only "inpenetrable material&...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Uh, you should have waited a bit.....
generally a good idea to give an auction at least 24 hours.

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I'm interested. Have to do some math before bidding....

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Back when I was younger and fought Japanese Full-Contact I got punched really hard in the throat and had enough swelling I nearly lost my airway. I was unable to speak for 2 days, coughed blood for three months, and my voice was permanently changed. I survived. That was a bare-knuckle, intentional r...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

did Marcus make those?

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7075 is markedly better than 6061. It's tougher, harder, and even gets scratched less easily. It's also harder to form and more brittle. 6061 is the wimpiest of the "aircraft grade" aluminums, but it's widely available in part because it's so often used for street signs. Street signs tend ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

What's the closest major airport?

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I don't know anything about their business and haven't dealt with them but they clearly have two different kinds of armour---stuff they made and stuff they had made in India or where ever. One likely doesn't compare well to the other. Most of the armour they make lacks shaping but that's largely bec...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I'm still hoping to get a 6 footer. Let me know if you need any more information for design purposes.

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

The only time I ever have trouble with the heel plate is when the bottom part of the greave works its way underneath it (instead of the other way around... Maybe that's my problem. I don't have case greaves so my greave did work it's way under quite a bit before I got rid of the heel plate altogeth...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Check this out coolminiornot.com Take a look around and see what you think matches your quality and see how much they are getting. you gotta be either really fast or really good to make money at it. Nowadays Sri Lankans do all the low and mid-level painting and maybe 10 people in the world get top d...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Did you get either of the PMs I tried to send? Not showing up in my sent box. Not sure why.

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

How much without the decoration?

Could I buy one of those in a basic single-color and have it for Gulf Wars?

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Nice Sabs Josh. I made mine out of aluminum years ago to wear over athletic shoes and they are great protection against toe-stompers. I plan to make a more-form-fitting pair to go over my new, less bulky period shoes. Josh, does the heel plate ever get in the way or dig in? I ditched my heel plate b...

Re: What are basic blows at your practice?

Re: What are basic blows at your practice?

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