The Armour Archive

Nissan Maxima

The point of a heavy helmet is to reduce the acceleration of your head subsequent to impact and therefore keep your brain from bouncing off the inside of your skull. Too much of that and you will have trouble finding your bus.

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period japanese helmets often weigh as much as 20 lbs. They balance towards the rear due to the weight of the shikoro, which are those plates that go aroud the back and protect the neck. There is a lot of variation, but most japanese helmets are quite heavy. Logan, not quite sure why you needed to a...

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helmet: 20 lb
(New one may be heavier)
armour: 30 lb
shortsword: 3 lb
longsword 4.5 lb

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Jehan, Its not so bad. I fight in exactly the same gauntlets you use. One of the two existing pairs of John Gruber finger gauntlets. I fight every week against unpadded polearms and in addition, I am apparantly a moron as I cannot consistently stop blocking on my hands. Sir bryce de Byram smashed me...

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It is my understanding that subsequent to the 1700's due to the lack of large field battles a lot of naginata were cut down and remounted as wakazashi(shortswords) and nagamaki cut down to katana.

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Archery in the woods battle sounds like I should set up a tree stand overlooking a banner.

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For the most grins per minute, challenge up. Knights wear that bling so that people who want a good fight know where to find one. Goes double for pointy hats.

If you want to be a dude of arms you can ask em all high speechy. They eat that shit up.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlam_3UN750

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I don't take clean but light.
I don't let my opponents take clean but light.

This is a full contact game.

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The tuchux charity tournament supports research for a cure for breast cancer. If you like boobs you should fight in this tourny. it works like this: You pay 5 bucks and get assigned to one of four lists. there is a big pile of weapons in the center. It is a bear pit and when you are up you draw a ca...

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Elias, You may as well leave your sword and dagger on the side lines as you must take your bow there before you can use them. With Siloflex you can use a 45 lb bow. With shafted arrows only 30. If you hit people anywhere other than the face 90% of your shots will probably be ignored, so work on accu...

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Sir Corby, As to your technical objections, reasonable people may disagree, but your points are not without merit. In terms of aesthetics I believe we are of one mind. Your sticks should go with your suit. And you should make weapons that look cool. Pros:I get to use a polearm with a four foot blade...

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Sir Corby opined: I usually start with the bit about those freaky poles that are 6'+ long with 3 feet of blade. Dumb etc Well that describes every nagamaki ever made both real and SCA representation. Those Japanese fellows sure did make a lot of them. I suppose they found them useful. There are exta...

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Ok Sir Corby, I'll bite. If the weapon you are recreating is as the nagamaki in the attached photo, an unpadded stick feels more like the real article. As to safety, it depends where you get hit. The kinetic energy density of the weight of the padded head will be more prone to result in neck injury ...

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Get a big sheild. You will be more help to your team and keep the guy next to you alive longer. Get an axe, and hook spear shafts so your team can kill them. Do not take risks, you are of no use dead.

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I need it like a drug. Hello, my name is Nissan and I am a fightaholic. (hello Nissan) If I don't fight for a while I become even more of an asshole than usual. My wife tells me to go fight. The focus and clarity it brings are a joy. No thoughts of work, mortgage, family responsibility can intrude. ...

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but you could pick her up by the ankles and hit people with her.

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I too had my initial training from Cariodoc. He showed me that power can be generated even by a short guy hitting you while he is jumping into the air.

(And I sure remember you when you were a big goofy teenager, Gavin)

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I give a yell sometimes in mid beat to distract my opponent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it dont. I also talk to my opponent and frequently make fun of the way they are dressed, or tell them their heraldry makes them look stupid. But I get all my chops from watching anime. I soon as I get that fly...

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I fight that way (lower leg target) with my tuchuk buddies all the time and no one seems to get hurt. greaves rule.

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I think they are there to keep a strap from getting cut. Both on the armet position and the lower back.

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Brother, you have too much time on your hands. "What Do You Call Someone Who Sells What Others Give Out Of Love?" John Jehan de Pelham, your squire www.mron.org Sir V, when these come out, put me down for (1) 3XXXL and (2) XXL I can think of another Sir Morgan that would love this, don't you HrÃƒÂ³...

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Ha! I see both my boy Kevin the Kind's device and my own battle standard! What a nice surprise. I can't wait to see these.

Bart, what do you charge for these? I think I need more.

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All I know is any knight turns his back on me and thirty of my friends, he's looking for a dry gulching...

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Greadwinne, Don't be too quick to ascribe our brave behavior to honour. I waited till the end to have my boy count because those are the guys who got paid. A villinous days work for a villinous days pay. Also, men who quit before the day is done get jeered at and insulted without mercy by their fell...

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"My goal is to raise an evil army, use it to despoil the land and then to listen to the sweet music of the weeping of the righteous."

Ok, I did mine. How bout you guys?

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Darter took some at AWP and when he posts em I will direct attention there.

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Thats one of Clovenshield's best marketing points. "We provide the undying loyalty that only money can buy."

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double post

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Theyr'e like idiot mittens so you dont lose your sword and helmet.

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Yeah.
I assigned a guy to count and thats the way it went Royalists 155-Mercs 75. We had 2 guys drop out due to injuries (neck,knee), every one else stayed.

At AWP last year there were approx 80 per side.

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Thank you very much Geoffrey.
But don't quit your day job.
(Have I mentioned I hate singing?)

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I thought they were all comedy.

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heres a little tale of royalist perfidy to chill your heart: I put prizes on the heads of a select few royalists in the last feild battle, Felix, Malcolm, Darius, Straum, Vitus, and Valhalric. Only one bounty was collected. Valhalric was slain by his countyman Michael of Bedford to collect the prize...

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I hate singing. I'd kill them for free.

SCA fighting video

rising to the bait