The Armour Archive

St. George

I don't fight in holmgang style tournies, or any other tourney where the object is to shove your opponent out of a ring. I don't find thosse fun at all, because they rarely have anything to do with skill, and are all about size. I like pas style tournies, and bear pit (when there are enough pits for...

St. George

Stefan is just a Knight, neither Count nor Duke, but then again he has never fought in Crown.

I would add Duke Tomiki to the list of greats (I think he might be able to take Stefan).

Alaric

St. George

I would say that locally, Killian Frederick, who is on the Mid Realm Unbelted team, is starting to look hot.

If you see him running around, you should fight him now and put some fear in him, cause he is going to explode onto the scene in the next year or two.

Alaric

St. George

I think that you also need to add in hand/wrist strength, and mass of arm and body into the equation, as the ability to transfer that force need to be added intothe discussion- not to mention the density and flex of the stick itself. I think that we all know that a good new stick will "hit harder" t...

St. George

Lutr is certainly hot right now! I think we need to define a difference between hot right now and just plain damn good. Usually a guy who is hot has found a shot that is working, or is doing something differently from what everyone else is, and it is working really well for them right now. Then the ...

St. George

So are East, Atlantia, and Aethelmearc going to camp together this year? Don't Michael, Brion, and Malcom camp together usually?

Alaric

St. George

Boy was I lead to believe otherwise-

My apoligies.

Alaric

St. George

JP, I have never heard that Brion actually won the tournament by his own hand. Maybe all I ever heard was Caidan scuttlebutt, but his/your version is totally different from the version from what I heard. In fact what I was told was that in the three way final that Brion had already lost his fights a...

St. George

Kings will throw combattants out of Crown. In Caid, Duke Edward and Duke Avery were having such an atrocious final round that King Dietrich threw them both out of Crown, and crowned the third place entrant, Brion Thornbird as his successor.

Alaric

St. George

If someone enters Crown, and is blatantly cheating, it is within the Crown's right to throw them out on the spot (actually they can throw anyone out for anything they like pretty much). The real problem arises when a really skilled fighter uses a "get out of jail free card," and shucks off one good ...

St. George

Come on Gaston, it's Halloween time... Here are some great Halloween jokes! Why do vampires need mouthwash? They have bat breath... What do ghouls eat at the beach? Sand witches. How do witches keep their hair in place while flying? With scare spray... What type of dog do vampire's like the best? Bl...

St. George

I fail to see the problem of choosing how we will calibrate in our own Kingdoms, provided we are willing to adjust to other Kingdom's standards when we travel. And, by and large, those Meridians who do travel outside the borders (admittedly few) don't seem to have a problem with that. Nor do I see ...

St. George

Duke Hans is recently of the West and now lives in Colorado.

Alaric

St. George

I am new to this site and wanted to find out from others through out the Kingdoms of their standards. I would like some input about Box Tourneys .. Weapons against Weapons, what is and what isn't allowed, who determines what is fair? And then, lets talk about battle stratagies for the Heavy Archer ...

St. George

Mac, I guess we will have to disagree on who gets to choose our rulers. Although you don't have problems with other people choosing sovereigns, I do, as do many other people. There is already enough political claptrap in the SCA, and too many claims of cheating and the like to have to throw that int...

St. George

They produce subjective winners, not clear winners (yes sometimes the skill of a master might be clearly higher than that of a beginner, but we are speaking in generalities). There are ways of reducing subjectivity, but arts contests,specifically by having a judged winner, place the choice of a vict...

St. George

Mac, I believe the nullified Crown that you referred to was fought in An Tir. The issues with it are that it takes the winning of Crown out of the hands of the individual, and places it onto less responsible heads. Where each of the "finalists" may be virtuous, their "followers" may not be. I see th...

St. George

Gregoire, Let me first say that I am sorry for the loss of your friend. I am goign to take this opportunity to jump on a soapbox for a moment though- The SCA should seriously begin to consider prevention as a course of action. The average member of the SCA is getting older, and if visual evidence is...

St. George

Lothar the Wanderer wrote:It would almost (ALMOST) worthwhile to create a fencing peer just for pictures of the buffet. Don't hold back Alaric, treasure the moment

Lothar,

I hadn't even thought about it like that- that would be a moment to treasure!

Alaric

St. George

a King knighted someone primarily for their fencing ability, not their heavy weapons skill? Also, do you have any other ideas on a peerage for fencing, and on the White Scarves and Treaty? I have my own personal thoughts one, and on the White Scarves, but I will hold them for later. My lady and I we...

St. George

Here's me and Phia

St. George

Guy, Every time fighter practice has been cancelled because fighters didn't show up, it is because they were off doing something else they thought was more fun. Fighting in Chicago has been difficult, and not fun for many years (from what I have been told). As such, fighters (and fighting interested...

St. George

David,

I'm surprised that you haven't run into that out in CAiD, as that is where most of my experiences running into exclusionary behavior in the SCA came from.

Alaric

St. George

The SCA is turning into a world of minorities outweighing the fighters and fighter support. An analogous situation is that there are more caucasians in the United States than any other group, but no one is in the majority (over 50%) anymore. Guy, I am sorry to say that I believe you are wrong. In th...

St. George

David, I don't think that the number of people attending each class was great, but I thin kthat the numebr of clases as a whole, as well as the number of arts and non-heavy fighting actvities at Pennsic are indicative of a major turn in what happens there as a microcosm of SCA activity as a whole. T...

St. George

David, The problem, as I see it, is that there is no end to interest groups in the SCA, and they all feel like they should get some attention. Try being King in Caid and setting a schedule to deal with all their nincompoopery. It's a pain. There does come a point at which you have to say, "no, I rea...

St. George

Josh,

What you describe is endemic of how all minority groups within the Sca are forcing fighting out. Not all are as rude as the group you decide, but all the "little things" are squeezing out the fighting.

Alaric

St. George

not ruling them out all together, just the relevance and prevalence past the 4th century declines very quickly. Also the length seems to drop rather quickly as well.

Certainly those of northern climes, or as late as Normans didn't wear any.

Alaric

St. George

Just a note on Pteruges-

I wore mine for a long time, until I realized that most armors if not all , epsecially post 300AD or so, with a lamellar body armor didn't use them. I still neet to modify my shoulder armor to get them off of there as well.

Alaric

St. George

HI,

I wear gamboissed cuisses under pants for my early re-creations. I think that the padding combined with your pteruges might give you the protection level that you are looking for without having to add in extra plastic.

Alaric

St. George

Baby...bathwater...baby....bathwater. KWH is, undeniably, badly out of date. So update it. The very fact that people are showing up having used it as a resource demonstrates the continuing need for such a handbook. A very great deal of work went into putting that thing together, back in the days wh...

St. George

hey Frankenstein

how's that arm holding up?

g-

St. George

They both sound like a couple of FARBS to me, one who has the limit of everything must be as close to period as possible, the other who has the limit of I must provide the outward appearance of being period. Personally, on the SCA continuum I think these people as described are actually pretty close...

St. George

Vebrand- it is not any joke in a newsletter, but in the official notes from a corporate officer.

Alaric

St. George

OK I disagree. I know Artos and he has a wicked sense of humor. Not on the same level as Duke Kane Redfeather but close One of my favorite people in the SCA to hang around for this reason. He also has one of the best kits on the field. Nuff on that. Artos made a joke, Ulrich, myself and probably 90...

Re: Combat Archery

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