The Armour Archive

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I am very much in favor of allowing open hand push against arms, weapons, shields, etc. I think the added risk is miniscule. If you allow pushing the torso, I think the risk goes up a little more, but probably not that significantly. Allowing a hand on the elbow (used extensively in SCA combat in ye...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Ceddie wrote:I could be wrong but I thik this was made up by the same people who use their farspeaker to see if they need to put the bard in a box in their dragon to go to the event to sit at troll.

Yes, this practice was most certainly began by those people.

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Ceddie wrote:
Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:
As a matter of fact, I frequently say "no" three or four times in a row.

No argument there.

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How often can people hit you 3 or 4 times in a row ?!?
I haven't seen it in a while... Your Grace...

No, not me. I was agreeing that he often says "No" 3 or 4 times in a row.

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Like I said, I'm not saying don't hit the arm if it's offered, what I'm saying is don't make that the centerpiece of your skill-set. If you strike at the arm 5 times every fight people will eventually take umbrage. Not where I'm from they won't. They'll just try to protect the arm a lot better. G

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

As a matter of fact, I frequently say "no" three or four times in a row.

No argument there.

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Some good points and discussions about telling blows and what SCA fighting is and isn't BUT that should be a different thread. We shouldn't have to deconstruct the entire game to see that allowing halfswording WITHOUT pommel strikes or crosschecks is not a safety issue and is only illegal because of...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I did once have a very distinct experience of this. I was fighting pickups at a major war against another fighter and we were both king at the time. He didn't have any thigh armour as is common with his countrymen. I hit him in the thigh quite a bit but none of the blows were called so I kept amping...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

The whole halfswording thing as written in the decision to allow it for experimental use in the SCA could have been done a lot better. OK, pommel strikes are a potential problem and safety issue, crosschecking should not be a valid blow (never defeat armour), but a lot of other halfswording should n...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

"Are we fated to do no more than mimic our betters from the shadows of centuries past?" Hell we havn't even done that yet. Exactly right. We can hope to one day exceed the ancient masters at least in the context of what we do which is not life and death and therefore different from what they did. W...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Prowess is that virtue so prized by our ancestors yet so often trod upon today when we do not owe our safety an fortunes to it. I remember a discussion with a knight of my kingdom about the the knight to whom I was a squire at the time (Baldar) The knight was complainning about Baldar's fighting. I ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Of course it's good if it hits with force (exception for flexible hafts as logan said)

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Asbjorn Johansen wrote:Like many things in our rules it comes down to semantics.

Or we can all agree to be grownups and not sweat silly semantics. I think it's embarassing to have a ruleset so convoluted and absurd that we have to sneak in a perfectly good spear by pretending it's something much sillier.

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Ulrich wrote:Dmitriy,

This is where our philosophies diverge, no offense just different schools of training.

Again I think Ulrich said it nicely. You owe it to your opponent to say something. On the other hand, it's their decision and you shouldn't argue with them if they want to take it.

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And speaking of debatable, let's talk about blow mechanics. Again. There are two components to a cut... (SNIP) My point being that we are comparing the effectiveness of specific blow techniques in what might be very different environments. Good point, but speaking of points: I suspect a "wrap" of t...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I've been seriously thinking about hiring a local seamstress to make me a thrusting tip out of ballistic nylon fabric in the Mandrake design and sending it in to Roderick to consider producing as an "ultra-lightweight" lifetime tip. I've been toying with similar ideas for years, mostly involving se...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Iain, The engineer recommends the following for glueing the rubber to plastic: 3M Pronto Instant Adhesive CA-4 Did you happen to mention to them that you wanted to attach it to crosslinked polyethylene (siloflex)? That stuff is notoriously hard to bond so if the recommened adhesive actually works o...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

" but we dont have a 'body' that makes up rules. Now I'm jealous For those that are listing how long the tips have lasted for them, could you also say how long a typical thrusting tip lasts for you? There is so much variation that saying "it lasted six months" hardly seems informative. That's not i...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

light So many people hit so light here to begin with... And is it me or is there a shift to even lighter here in Meridies? I know i haven't been to many events lately but i'm seeing people take stuff that barely moves cloth. If we go even lighter whats gonna happen when we fight OOK? I haven't been...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

But Ulrich, you have it backwards! You say: "If my opponenet disagree's with my assesment then, I must trust him to tell me so. otherwise he must have believed himself that it was good. If he didn't believe it good and doesn't speak up then thats his issue. " He is not the one whose place it is to ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Only if you call it a one handed sword. Semantic difference. I'd do it (and considered suggesting it), but I don't know how his local marshal's would respond. I think Folcric is a newer fighter, and wouldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t want him to get a lot of flack for it. If you do it, its a sword with no edge not a ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

1) While studying Fiore today, I was thinking about one move in terms of SCA combat. You both have longswords. Your opponent throws an overhead at 12:00. You parry him to 1:00, and reach in and grab his pommel continuing the momentium from your parry, and putting his blade down to 5:00 (grounding i...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Sir Daniel wrote:I think we should start checking armour for armpits, and the inner crooks of elbows, and the back of knees and ....

Oh wait, no, those are stupid rules too.

Heh, you said it all. Has anyone been injured? Not "Ouch" but "Now I need medical care."?????

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Until I strap a helm on. I kinda start to foam at the mouth. That should subside a bit as you gain experience. Fighters always have a lot of adrenaline when they are new and different people manifest that differently. If it doesn't subside a bit, then you might have a problem as your ability to hit...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Anyone want to report on how long they last compared to "old fashioned" tips?

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I too have been on both sides of the "aura trap". Though I have never been able to be intimidating on purpose. I'm not a very scary person by nature but there are times when i'm thinking of nothing other than the fight that I've been told there is a palpable message: One friend said it used to piss ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I do 1370's for everything but armour. I hate the armour for that time so I pushed my fighting forward to roughly 1440s. Good armour doesn't have to hurt your fighting at all and can actually help (less fear of damage means better training). The problem is that "good" armour that's also authentic is...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Whoa, I've been off the board for a while and have way too much to do but otherwise I would administer that crown list 5 kingdoms idea. It sounds awesome. A formal league where you get one pick from each of five kingdoms but not everyone has to have the same kingdoms. It would really be a test of wh...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Crap! I've been asleep since round 1. And I was SO hoping to pick up Christopher in the second round (good pick Your Maj) Can I pick up scraps for 2nd-4th round? I got Ice first. #2 Sir Craven #3 Sir Balen #4 Sir Maximillian (Meridies) I'm assuming that this is like fanatsy footbal where it's THIS s...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

As far as I know, there has only ever been one death attributed to SCA fighting and heat was a prime factor. It was a big guy with asthma in a lot of armour fighting in Florida in midsummer at a practice on a very hot day. I'm told HRM(at the time) Wulfhere made heroic efforts at emergency lifesavin...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Has a date been picked for the first coronation? I want to start planning ahead.

On a related note, Trimaris's 20th anniversary is coming up. The 10th was a huge sucess....

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Good Sir Alaric Drake, Since you started this, would you be so kind as to make sumary of who has been picked by whom when you take into acount only one pick per round (second round not having started yet). I call dibs on Baldar -L Grrr! Until you showed up I figured I could save all the Trimarians f...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I don't fight any two people the same way. Everyone is different and different still in a tourney. If I notice someone lacks what I consider to be an important piece of armour (like thighs), then I will usually ask them why. If the answer is that they are being remade, or they broke, or "I"m working...

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This might be fun but I'm totaly lost. With everyone listing a bunch of picks I can't begin to know trhe standings....

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I don't remember the weight of your swords but I do remember that power didn't seem to be a problem for you. Most of the guys at Ragnaroc though, some seriously heavy swords. Of course Davin hits like a ton of bricks, but most of the rest don't seem to necessarily be getting much payoff for the extr...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

One of the problems with discussions of speed "vs" power is that the word "speed" is sometimes ambiguous in our usage. "Speed" can mean how long it takes the blow to land from the moment you begin to throw it or it can mean velocity of the stick when it hits. The former adds nothing to power but the...

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