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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Loegaire mac Gilray wrote:*EDITED*

LOL Nevermind, I don't want to join the pissing match that badly

Good choice. Better than mine. Guess you didn't go to Panhandle? I had a good excuse, what about you?

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

i wouldnt know. he beat me up at gulf wars III, well he hit me in the arm a bunch of times when i hit his head. then, when i asked him at the hotel that night what he thought i could do to improve he said "stop blocking with your arm". i had been in the sca about three years then. Memory is a funny...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Foam is made from plastic. So no foam is allowed on polearms? Tape does decrease flexibility, but we allow it. Unfortunately our weapons rules are almost always stupid if you try to be too literal. I think common sense needs to be used, but then it's not always available. There used to be a rule tha...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

At Gulf Wars the Meridians were also skeptical because it didn't have enough compression, but I haven't had any trouble in Trimaris. 1/2" of compression sounds good on paper, but what if you only have 1/2" of space between the striking surface and tha rattan? Obviously no material can compress to 0....

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Yeah my mom is in Pensacola and it's still pretty ugly there

I won't be there because I have clinicals all weekend, but I'll be thinking of you.

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Baldar represents everything that is wrong with the SCA. This is the man who once entered a "crested helm" tourney with a plastic soap bottle duct taped to his helm and was pissed when he was turned away from the lists. This is the man who loudly claims to (and I quote) "enjoy making things for the...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Um, you do have blue eyes, don't you? Yeah, at least that part's accurate. You're eloquent string of compliments is all too kind and replaces the pain of your absence from the ether with unbearable embarassment. It's a worthy price to see your shining virtual face once again. Unfortunately, shcool ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

OK, just looked at the video again. It's pretty short. We have a lot more on tape and i'll work on getting some of it up soon....

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I'm a goober, the video was there all along at:

http://houseasgard.com/ipw-web/gallery/albums.php

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

The rules say "yes" but the rule is stupid so I say "no"

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Photos:

http://houseasgard.com/ipw-web/gallery/ ... hotos-2004

I thought we had video up to but I don't see it. We'll have to work on that.

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Duchess Groa wrote:
Yeah....what he said. (Hi Gaston!)

So THATS what it takes to get your attention....

Perhaps we just haven't had enough scandals lately

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

One thing I was always impressed by was the fact that an unbelted, relative unknown could come, fight and win the Crown of the Kingdom, or so I thought. I was that squire. It wasn't THAT long ago. Odo deserves thanks for entering and winning the crown list he just refered to. He might not have been...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

What's wrong with a dagger?

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Personal rant: I think ducal perogative is shite. And I have less respect for any duke who uses it. What you said pretty much summed up the way I used to feel about crown list, though I would not have used those words. It is something I have been thinking about a LOT over the last several years and...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Welcome The SCA is the "Society for Creative Anachronism", a 38+ year old organization which studies various aspects of the medieval period (as defined as "Pre-1600 European Society and those others who came into contact"). Basically it is one of (if not the) largest medieval reinactment groups in ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Don't you just love the SCA? It is so much fun! It has a little bit for everybody to enjoy. Stick-fighting for some, bureaucracy for others, there's politics, history, cliques with infighting, shunning, fantastic displays of Chivalry, some of the best people around, some of the worst...etc. Yup, no...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

sounds like a crock of shit to me too. if its kingdom law the king, by allowing him to fight, has waived it. i know thats what alaric said but i felt it needed to be repeated. ya know what would be very cool, would be every fighter in this new list simply yeild to his grace. anyone that would rob h...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Ahh Gaston, you may be mnaking an error there. if you look at medieval wools you will generally find that at least the early medieval worsted wools are closer in thread count and finess to Armani suit wools than to the coarse "burlap" wools folks think are medieval! Medieval does not mean crude! Th...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I am appalled at how much derision and outright aggression Danial's simple question elicited. He said about three times that he was satisfied and yet the importers just keep insulting and attacking. I stated way back in the beginning of the thread that the armour imports were probably "good" purchas...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

People will work for this kind of wage if they dont have any other choice. By not buying their product you arnt doin them any favors and you will just be costing yourself alot of extra cash. I do appreciate anyone who takes the time to try to find out this sort of thing. I'm a big fan of "voting wi...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I'd like to try to agree with both of you You got it. I said armoured fighter practice. I'm a huge fan of drills and excercises (check out my videos and articles) but I hate it when people try to do that stuff in armour when they should be fighting. Why is it the same people who will never show up ...

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I do think the number of top quality fighters produced is a good criteria for judging the "greatest teachers" Three of Baldar's former squires are dukes. One is a count. 14 (including the dukes and count) are knights. In addition to that, at least one other duke and 4 knights who were never his squi...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I find all this talk of a "mere touch" very silly. A thought experiement. Imagine you are poking at another man in the eye with a sword. Now, you're not at all concerned with power and any touch will suffice. He has an open faced helm. You are using whatever technique seems easiest. He's blocking an...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Freiman, One example would be RenÃƒÂ©. His herald says: "My lords the judges pray and require that none of you gentlemen tourneyers beat another _with_the_point_ or back of the sword, nor below the belt, as you have promised, nor strike nor draw unless it is permitted; and also that none of you att...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Hey Jerry, Thanks for the letter. It's like a little snapsot of a particular point in the history of an SCA newbie. Ya, some people might "look down" on you a bit but try not to take it personally. It's kind of one of the wierd things we have in the SCA in that we do have an institutionalized hiearc...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

My 18 year old sister wants to come with me. She has no interest in fighting, but wants to learn the handicrafts. I don't even know if the SCA offers spinning/weaving/jelly-making kinds of things. (She's such a girl!) Since this list is about armour and such, it's very easy to get the wrong idea ab...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

The green is just to show how the dog toy started out, before thrusting tip, tool dip, and paint pen. Sort of a side by side. The handle works very well. I based the curve off of a practice martial arts sword I bought. Actually the whole shape. The curve of the handle keeps the center of mass from b...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I finally got my wife to help me post the pictures I took last week for the thread about making an SCA falchion... http://vieuxchamps.com/gweapons/CroppedFalcion.jpg I started making that one and then hit the pell with it and decided it was way too stiff and heavy for me to use. I started with a ver...

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Ben Franklin proposed using them for the contenental army. They fired faster, more accurately and were cheaper. He got voted down because it was felt the europeans would never see us as a real army till we had muskets. Ben Franklin's words on the subject are quite interesting. We know firearms were...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

the PELL is designed to do slow work on. I have never had much success working full speed on a pell. It just breaks the pell and your sword. I disagree completely. Make a better pell. Tape up your swords better. Is your pell padded? Would you tell a boxer that a punching bag is for slow work? SCA f...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I remember from when I first started in Trimaris, the K.M. told me that if you are hitting hard enough to break the rattan, then its too hard. I guess he was wrong? Who told you that? What was the context? What were you breaking and how often? Judging "excessive" (whatever that is) by broken rattan...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I'm inclined to believe that the Trimarian convention against non-face head thrusts might not be in the handbook. It's what we were all taught for years but it wasn't in the Gulf Wars conventions at first and it took a few years before we discovered that Trimaris and Ansteorra were doing it differen...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Gaston said: Any scenario that involves a choke point (Hadrian's Wall battle at Pennsic XXXI for example) or mass troop formations in a fairly static position (any castle battle) will give you that "fish in a barrel" problem. -- Marcellus True, but sometimes that's part of the charm When we do a ba...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Back again as if you guys hadn't already heard enough of my big mouth (or is that finger? keyboard?) The issue of game balance has come up a lot on this thread. My suggestion on how to balance missile weapons is just to not allow them in bridge battles at all. I love archery and siege for the most p...

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