The Armour Archive

St. George

As funny as it might sound I skipped practice on Sunday because of the chance it might rain, and gas would've cost me like $60 or more for the round trip.

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St. George

In short, do fighters make better Marshals? No. In shorter rebuttal- wrong. It has been my experience that marshals who were not fighters are the most troublemaking. Rather than allowing the fighters to fight, or basing experience on their own empirical evidence, rather than viewed evidence, they t...

St. George

We get what we pay for. I've had complaints about marshalls but my standard is, "Are they SO bad I'd like to give up my weekend to marshal instead of them?" The answer is always, "No way! They're doing a great job! Nobody is dead for real and I'm having much more fun than taking a st...

St. George

I know that we are a disposable society and realize that many of the items I have will need to be replaced and or repaired from time to time but 6 months for a $280.00 Item is a little bit much for me. Especially if I can purchase a similar item at 1/3 the cost with 5 x durability. I like Zoom bang...

St. George

This is one of those products that I really like in theory but in practical application it's utter garbage. My son bought one of their football shirts with his own money he had saved and it started to fall apart after 6 months of football and SCA combat. When we contacted the manufacture the respon...

St. George

That's one of the fundamental problems with Spring Steel to begin with. A bad temper job will ruin hours or days of work in seconds. I once picked up part of a segmented chestplate that I had been working on, and thought we had already tempered it, but we had only hardened it, and when I went to fle...

St. George

if you look at their kneepads, you can see that they have padding on the sides, something that most kneepads don't but which always seems pretty necessary to me. I've tried to contact a few companies about modifying their hockey/lacrosse gear to offer an extended vambrace on their elbow/forearm prot...

St. George

Nor could HRH Arch, as he is an unbelt.

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St. George

Sir Afshin is the closest knight to me. (geographically) He ALWAYS shows me a new hole in my defenses, usually after planting a multi colored bruise. HRM Bryan of Sacred Stone is always a fun fight too. He is the closest to my size high level fighter I have encountered as of yet. I see my fighting ...

St. George

The guy shows up here, perhaps imperfectly and gets his ass handed to him. For what? Trying to sell something? I donâ€™t know the guy from Adam, but I do know how much effort he put into that harness and considering he is apparently out side of any community and there for without direction I think ...

St. George

Congrats!!!

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St. George

And what, by the light of Apollo, is the accepted distance of a spear throw? Go stand over there and I'll show you. Like this, Sir Diomedes, or should I stand while holding it...? http://www.cybersalt.org/images/funnypictures/m/militarycomplaining.jpg Would probably look more like this... m BTW,if ...

St. George

Hogfather wrote:In Atlantia:

Prince Micheal of Bedford: Able to to stand toe to toe with men 1/2 his age and show that fighting is skill not force.

Are we talking about the same Michael?

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PS- Logan, nope you didn't send pix.

St. George

interesting. sorry to hear you forgot how to fight george. but dont worry, if you work reeeeeeal hard at it you might be ok someday. maybe even pretty good. regards logan ps i dont rate in my kingdom either bro, so i guess you and i will have to figure it all out again. we could start an old dukes ...

St. George

Consider a few things though, 1) 6 months to make a new kit is plenty of time, 2) many people "time jump" and don't care about having any one persona (for instance, I've given up the idea of "persona" myself, and now work on making individual kits better), 3) why would anyone hol...

St. George

I'd suggest a rewording, to allow a fighter of any period to use a document-able appropriate shield for their persona. For example, as written (assuming by some miracle I was a belted figher), my modestly sized (30" there are significantly bigger period examples) LH Viking round would be too b...

St. George

It's clearly obvious that a rectangle over the face was what was being thought of, they just were too close to the rule when writing it, and "over thought it" while working on it. So, like so many other rules, they had a failure in generating the proper verbiage.

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St. George

Just 5? That's tough to narrow down! Here is my take on Atlantia, in no particular order: King Bryan of Sacred Stone --Odd, incredibly-efficient and explosive counterpunch-based fighting style that has been very effective for him Prince Michael of Bedford --Pure efficiency and refined destructive p...

St. George

Two weeks back, I took a shot just like this. Sir Donas threw a shot that I read as a fake and put no strength behind my sword which was sitting there. He hit my sword, hard. My sword hit me in the head, hard. I took it. Myself, I really hate that old school of thought where if the weapon hits anyt...

St. George

not long enough. the rule is: 2. In Trimaris, protection for the outside edge (the ulna) of the foreman is required and must be made of rigid material. It must extend from the wrist to the elbow. not that ive seen anyone with armour that actually meets this rule as most vambraces stop some distance...

St. George

Logan,

Get a couple of these slash guards:

http://warrior.com/hockey/gear/accessor ... ash+Guards

They have plastic in them, and are made to work in conjunction with your hockey elbows to cover the area of the forearm in question. They should pass the letter of the law and not impede your fighting at all.

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St. George

Whether or not the Archive represents a proper sampling of SCA armoured combat participants or not is a moot point when the safety factor for the shafted combat arrows that the SCA uses make, In my and many other's opinions, patently unsafe. As long as shafted arrows made at home by people I don't ...

St. George

Whether or not the Archive represents a proper sampling of SCA armoured combat participants or not is a moot point when the safety factor for the shafted combat arrows that the SCA uses make, In my and many other's opinions, patently unsafe. As long as shafted arrows made at home by people I don't t...

St. George

The SCA is a game, and we should consider it so. Either use thrusts to the body (which likely would have to be much harder than we take on average) because they make the game better or not, but stop arguing it on a re-creative basis. Because, for some people, the re-creative game is the game they a...

St. George

Perhaps, but dismissing contemporary accounts because they are too sensational to your modern eye still does not prove your negative. Certainly, having little or no evidence of something doesn't mean it didn't happen, but it should inform the recreation until we have better information. On the cont...

St. George

The question of old or new styles really needs to be measured within the larger context at hand of fighting in the SCA: in effect why do styles change, and why do they work/become prevalent in certain areas or not? There are any number of things that need to be considered from the average hit power ...

St. George

Lot's of offside hits on the madu user... not to mention that he should be able to to about that well with just a buckler of that size, let alone need the extra point of the madu for defense/offense.

St. George

This issue raised by Nissan is one of the reasons I started the contact sport vs non thread. I think that most contact sport guys would probably have just said, "nice combo- got me off balance and won. Neat." Not, "Jerk you moved my bodily with your pole." In some places I have b...

St. George

The one handed ax in single combat rarely gives an opportunity that a single handed sword would not as well. The "hook" aspect, and the "get over the shield" aren't so good that I would trade for them. Most importantly, though, sword and shieldmen generally don't get hit in the s...

St. George

I guess the thing I see the most is that the people who complain, or cause issues about "contact" or rougher fighting are those people who are a) small, or b) don't have a contact sports background. This is not a 100% thing on either end, but just an observation that I have made over the y...

St. George

I always find that people who have a background in contact sports- especially football or hockey) or trained with people who did, have a very different attitude and outlook on how to "play" SCA fighting than those who don't have such a background. As often as not when I hear about a confli...

St. George

A helpless opponent is not struck. So ... my view: If he's pinwheeling his arms and trying not to fall, no, don't hit him. If he's still blocking and/or swinging, sure. Well Ok then. I guess I did wrong. I gotta apologise. NO WAY. If I throw a good fake, one that leaves my opponent dumbfounded, and...

St. George

The technique you describe is one I use a few times a year- I have never thought of the push with the tip to the edge of a shield as a "feint" or "false thrust" because as far as I can tell, my opponent couldn't even see my sword while I'm performing the technique. Consider that ...

St. George

Brother Vitus- I think that one of the issues at hand is not simply the culture of accountability, but rather that the entire culture of the SCA has seriously changed int he last 15 years. The average fighter of today is not the average fighter of 1990. In fact, I think the average fighter today wou...

St. George

Get mega rich, and support my SCA hobby (and that of my friends) in a totally new way

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Re: Rough Draft Crown Tournament Shield Law

Contact sports vs non