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Kel Rekuta

I made a Wisby type 7 a few years back. Very flat profile considering the roundness of my own.

Kel Rekuta

"It's on google books" = "You can view the book in it's entirety online by going to google and thumbing through the pages." No money is needed, but you do have to go through the effort of clicking on the link that Galfrid gave you. Google books are sometimes a partial view, but ...

Kel Rekuta

E: $10

Kel Rekuta

We should be able to work something out as long as you don't need it this month. PM me.

Kel

Kel Rekuta

My press will form up to 38" height x 29" width with a mild curve. Adding a hollowed gutter shouldn't be much trouble. How much finishing are you willing to do yourself? What's your budget for such a thing? This isn't a $50 project.

Kel Rekuta

Thank you Dr. Rogers. I had hoped you might comment.

Kel Rekuta

Hmm. Seems like a typical Victorian age misinterpretation of armour terminology. I think the ACW buffs in the crowd would have no trouble citing the use of body armour in the style of a coat of plates. Ned Kelly wasn't the only wise-guy to wear pistol proof plate in the 19th C.

Kel Rekuta

Looks like the stake I use for elbow cops and pointy bucklers. Good find.

Kel Rekuta

Seems I'm not the only person interested in reading this. I'll mention it if I find one. Back to the dictionary then...

Kel Rekuta

Good Afternoon, I've been puzzling my way through the biography of Boucicault in the Annals of France from the BNF. Is there an English translation of this work? ie. Le livre des faicts du bon messire Jean le Maingre, dit Boucicaut, mareschal de France et gouverneur de Gennes. PremiÃ¨re partie. 2001...

Kel Rekuta

This post is in response to Jester's post with the images and flow chart above. The images and flow chart are lovely, thanks for posting them! Yes, Jester has made some terrific graphics for I.33 studies over the years. I've pointed many students at them. Good work there! I also believe that halfsh...

Kel Rekuta

Now for the heretical viewpoint: I agree with Jester on the circular motion for falling under. It closes the line of attack to the head from my left. Also note that an alternative translation for the latin "cade" is to set, as in the setting of the sun, which mimics the motion Jester and ...

Kel Rekuta

So how do they keep from killing each other? Limited angle of attack to specific targets. It looks like no thrusts with steel weapons. No face strikes. They have rules, to some small extent. We have local Ukrainian guys that play Viking combat by very similar rules. They don't kill each other doing...

Kel Rekuta

Brandr wrote:Looks like a fun day!

It was. I can't wait to see what it looks like on video.

Kel Rekuta

William Lee wrote:I especially liked the "throw away my sword and run away screaming like a little girl" maneuver at the end.

see Cobb's Traverse in George Silver "Paradoxes of Defense."

Oh yeah - Awesome demo video! Good find.

Kel Rekuta

3 layers of 7 oz. linen should be more than enough. a/s I used this weight, three layers on the torso, two on the arms. My riveted mail has barely marked it in seven years of use. The arms could be firmer though. My arm harness moves around a bit as the coat gets soaked. The coat didn't fit tightly...

Kel Rekuta

So buy the cheapest one you can find! Once layered into fabric shells, the links will have much more longevity. That was the point of the practice, it makes light mail more durable and protective.

Kel Rekuta

You guys are totally missing Westland's responses. He has cotton to work with. He doesn't have linen or wool in his product line. The poor guy has been asked the same question a dozen times since he came here. His response is always the same.

Kel Rekuta

A kilted lap is not a good working surface to open stitching holes in heavy leather. Picking up a piece of scrap wood as a back stop is a worthwhile step and should not be neglected in haste to get back to drinking.

Kel Rekuta

Doug,

On that topic - is there any trick to finding the best pivot point for the hinge plates? Is it trial & error or is there a clever geometrical process to figure it out?

Kel Rekuta

Whonew doesn't armour full time. He's a musician and vintage car restorer. Be patient, he'll get back to a computer soon enough.

Kel Rekuta

Gryndar wrote:Can you get barge cement in Canada?

Yes Tandy sells tubes and quarts. I can get you gallons and pails if you doing a lot.

Frankly for that application, any brand of contact cement will do the trick.

Kel Rekuta

I like battles where there are real winning and losings. It makes the experience of what it was like to be a medieval soldier that much more understandable. Without fear of loss, or death, it is hard to understand, or come to realize what the historical counterparts we emulate endured in their time...

Kel Rekuta

Good point. I am a medievalist by interest. The OP did not specify what period of play studied.

I agree entirely that schulefechten should be studied without hand protection as it is likely they wouldn't have bothered with hand protection. Doesn't seem to fit into the culture of it.

Kel Rekuta

Count Johnathan wrote:It hasn't taken a header.

I did say I don't know about the WMA stuff so I couldn't make a comparison and that's about it.

Then why comment?

Kel Rekuta

Nah, he was saying that SCA and WMA are not real fighting, because they both have rules. Either sport is not the same as a real, honest-to-God fight. Therefore, they're pretty similar. Perhaps there is a misconception that WMA studies are somehow a counterculture to SCA? There isn't a central autho...

Kel Rekuta

Why would you think that? ... All historical fencing books. Once again we have the usual problem: what are we talking about? So-called 'western martial arts' sccording to old fencing books? Or military use of blades? When talking of WMA or "historical european martial arts" I usually thin...

Kel Rekuta

Performing on stage, helping backstage, in the front office and sweeping the audience floor -vs- theatre studies classes with exercises, lectures and home study. Occasionally testing under pressure on stage. Studying and testing, but never performing? Vs. Performing and running the show without men...

Kel Rekuta

...What was used in period for hand protection?... Probably nothing. Why would you think that? Even moderately poor freeholders were required to have "iron gloves" for military service by the late 13thC in England. If someone could afford even a cheap sword, there is no reason to expect t...

Kel Rekuta

What about if I made a design based on wielding gloves? Adding the protection on the outside using heavy leather (and ABS where I can), mouse pad(or cotton batting), and waxed linen thread? Our instructor has complained about being hit on the outer edge of the index finger and thumb I figure I coul...

Kel Rekuta

Performing on stage, helping backstage, in the front office and sweeping the audience floor -vs- theatre studies classes with exercises, lectures and home study. Occasionally testing under pressure on stage. Or for those more sports minded... Playing pickup hockey/soccer/baseball with whomever shows...

Kel Rekuta

EPIC thread. Well, yes. But NO! It's not. This is stuff we should have talked about back in '79, but somehow, we were all too uncomfortable to do it. freiman Maybe you just missed these conversations when they happened? I've been party to more of them than I can count on both hands. This is the fir...

Kel Rekuta

Do you know women that can do a clapping pushup? Yes. Some of them can pull themselves up ropes, walls, cliff faces, etc with the strength of their arms. Some of them do spiffy aerial gymnastics on silk curtains, suspended metal hoops and other shapes - things I couldn't do when I was twenty years ...

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Mac wrote:
schreiber wrote:I'm going to agree with Mac and Sean...

.....The only way you'd get me into finger gauntlets is if they grounded.

Just for the record.....

I consider "grounding" to be neither necessary nor desirable in a gauntlet.

Mac

+1

Kel Rekuta

Fiore, unless I've missed something, seems to keep the same grip for everything. You have. Although Fiore doesn't demonstrate the "thumb on the flat" thing the hands are constantly changing grip, moving up and down the grip et cetera. To the original poster - we (AEMMA) use everything fro...

biography of Jean le Maingre II, Marshal of France

Re: Hand protection question for you hema/wma guy's.

Re: Hand protection question for you hema/wma guy's.

Re: Hand protection question for you hema/wma guy's.