The Armour Archive

Asbjorn Johansen

[b] The problem with Pennsic is that it is not an SCA event. We (the SCA) cannot simply kick another group off the field. Or make the go away, or get rid of the vampires, pixies, elves, Marklanders, etc. Not our event. We are merely guests. Odo This is incorrect. Pennsic is an SCA event that has be...

Asbjorn Johansen

Alaric, Do you do pell work with approximately the same equipment you fight with, and how is your pell set up? I have a heavily padded pell, but it only moves minimally. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve found my elbow gets sore with much over 50 shots a day if IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m using a full weight sword. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve found a PV...

Asbjorn Johansen

I have very bad ankles, but when conditions allow, I wrap my ankles with stretch wraps and fight in leather turn shoes (unfortunately many sites seem to have a lot of asphalt around which is very hard on most turn shoes). IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve twisted ankles in sneakers, combat boots, hiking boots etc. but no...

Asbjorn Johansen

[i] As for the replacement, we almost had one. before the great board crash and the subsequent porn squatter, we had a guy who was like some kind of polymer engineer or some such, and had a good idea/concept for a composite replacement that behaved similarly to rattan, but had the dynamics of steel...

Asbjorn Johansen

I have no riding experience, but have been told that falling off is part of riding. Is falling or being knocked off the horse in armour a significantly worse experience? I wonder because I've fallen a fair distance in plate armour and found it to have protected me fairly well, but I wonder if the ad...

Asbjorn Johansen

I have heard this explanation for the rule. I have also told by a man who was a member since the early 70's that the when he started his area still used whole leg targeting. According to his recollection they adopted upper leg only targeting because when you put someone on their knees they would thr...

Asbjorn Johansen

Solid nylon misses on a basic criteria I laid out, because it has no flex it doesn't have roughly the same performance characteristics. I've tried a couple of other synthetics with little success. I think the trick may be to follow road of siloflex and mix two materials, a hard outer surface with a ...

Asbjorn Johansen

Its been discussed here before... But for the new folks. Fighting from you knees does not closely resemble typical behavior of any form for pre 1600 armoured combat of which I am aware. In most descriptions we have available, combatants would typically continue until they were unable to fight due to...

Asbjorn Johansen

I'd love to see a decent synthetic alternative to rattan that would have roughly the same performance characteristics, but would last longer. I regularly used completely pulped out sticks do to lack of time to make a new one. I gladly pay several hundred $ for a sword whose life expectancy was measu...

Asbjorn Johansen

When it comes to “large shields” in formal single combats and the prevalence of shields in general there are several ways you can address the problem. You can change the rules of how we fight in general, change the rules for the equipment in general, or change the rules for the particula...

Asbjorn Johansen

Within the accounts I have read, having the combatants pick the overall victors is probably the most common method, not the judges. I think I see a particular value to having the combatants do this even within our modern context. It would require a different pacing for our formal combats, because fo...

Asbjorn Johansen

(this is a long post that I started when there were about 7 replies to this topic, some of its already been coverved). I think we have some terminology issues here as well as some cases where practices we thought we correct or common a decade ago, have in been shown to not be so (thanks to the resea...

Asbjorn Johansen

Uileag, First, don't worry about it, even the Society and Kingdom level marshals have made incorrect assumptions about what is in the rules. I do it all the time. I understand your concerns on one level, but I think you over look the opportunities for largess. For example, I have an eager new fighte...

Asbjorn Johansen

Uilleag wrote: You are required to have your own armour before you authorize and you are supposed to be authorized before you fight in a tournement or melee.Uilleag

So as not to confuse folks, I believe this is a kingdom level rule, it is not an SCA wide rule. In most areas loaned armour is fine.

Asbjorn Johansen

InsaneIrish wrote:
The SCA has had a "10 foot" rule for a long time.

As much as I wish there was one, there is no formal SCA wide appearance standard, 10 foot, 5 foot or otherwise, beyond the "reasoable attempt"

"reasonable attempt" is so broad as to be meaningless.

Asbjorn Johansen

I’m not picking on anyone in particular here this is a general complaint against the SCA and against my own past practice (I’m as guilty of this as anyone, and anyone who would care to look at my website can tell). “Tournament” is a word that a specific set of meanings within...

Asbjorn Johansen

It is not a sensible test on either side. You can injure someone, even in armour with most SCA weapons if you are trying to. Unpadded polearms and great swords threaten collar bones, swords are a danger to forearms, spears and any thrusting weapon can give you a nice case of whiplash. A punch weapon...

Asbjorn Johansen

I understand you concern, but its based in SCA custom. It indicates a need for education before a particular action is taken, not that the action should not be taken. For example, in some of the formal combats I have run, its a very common practice to use the haft of a weapon create an opening, beca...

Asbjorn Johansen

The SCA rules set is built around the idea that most offensive motions result in “effective” blows. In other words blows that disable or kill by our standard convention. But many offensive motions with a shield do not result in significant injury or death. I would like to be able to use ...

Asbjorn Johansen

I'm not aware of a large belt from viking era scandinavia, but in the 14th century there are depictions of lamellar abdominal armour. The depiction of the Massacre of the Innocents in Skibby church in denmark is one example. (Wisby pg 271 fig 263).

Medieval Scandinavia has lots of great armour.

Asbjorn Johansen

Under the Corporate level rules offensive shields are legal with approval: m Pg 8 D. A shield may be used to displace, deflect, or immobilize an opponent’s shield or weapon, so long as such use does not endanger the safety of the combatants. Deliberately striking an opponent’s head, limb...

Asbjorn Johansen

I don't know about Joaquin but as long as the dagger is rattan you are more then welcome to try...

Asbjorn Johansen

I have a friend who has offered to make me either a 14th century men's gown or a 15th century doublet if I provide her with a commercial pattern to work from. (She has extensive experience sewing, but doesn't know men's clothing from this period). Any recommendations?

Asbjorn

Asbjorn Johansen

this is a repost of something I sent to the EK marshal's list: Because this being seen through the lens of the Board of Directors minutes (available at www.sca.org) it is quite possible that the wording is not what the Society EM intended. Here is the section of the report that deals with armoured c...

Asbjorn Johansen

jester wrote:Better you than me. I'm not respectable and apparently have the social skills of a mad cow.

I'm not sure I'm a much better candidate. Recall my tournaments drew specific negative feedback from the EM.

Asbjorn

Asbjorn Johansen

Darn, you beat me again to the ancient art of "rules fu". I wondered about this as soon as I read the minutes.

No I don't see it in the Society Regs. Do you want to politely email the EM?

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Asbjorn

In Modo Antiquo
Or, a demi-fleur-de-lis sable
www.historiccombat.org

Asbjorn Johansen

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Irish: Which is why I (and the fighters in my local group) explain our combat as "In the SPORT of SCA combat, this is why we do things this way....." Same way some of our A&...

Asbjorn Johansen

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by dukelogan: but dont forget that we have the shields that can not be destroyed, the arrows that destroy anything they touch, half naked idiots walking around, tuchuxs, wait i...

Asbjorn Johansen

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ulrich: As far as supporting counted blows as a system, for appearance, I just don't agree on a personal level. But thatâ€™s me, and just my opinion. I donâ€™t think that t...

Asbjorn Johansen

Steve,

Its challenging but rewarding. I try to yeild politely. At some point I realized that I'm interested in exploring period combat, not SCA combat and winning from my knees gave no satisfaction.

Asbjorn

Asbjorn Johansen

Out of interest, Do the various reenactment groups shop themselves around at all? Have you sent History Channel productions a fact sheet with the # of folks you can supply given a particular lead time? I wonder how many documentarians are directors looking to get experience so the can do "real" movi...

Asbjorn Johansen

I think we are having some terminology issues here: Once again for clarity, counted blows received (counting how many times you have been struck) is a modern construct used to simulate being struck enough that you either would have been unable or unwilling to continue. It can be applied to almost an...

Asbjorn Johansen

Counted blows received (counting the number of times struck) is a method for recreating being beaten to the point where you cannot continue. Regardless of time period, with hand powered weapons most descriptions of combat seem to indicate folks keep fighting until they bodies cannot continue and the...

Asbjorn Johansen

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by AllenJ: sure does - of course- when you dont even have to worry about flat vs. edge hits then authenticity is already flying out the window! [img]http://forums.armourarchiv...

Asbjorn Johansen

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by D. Sebastian: Other than the occasional "Odd Rules" tourneys, anything done re: List Rules should be on a consistient basis for continuity. One reason why the Tuchux have t...

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