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by Saritor
Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:15 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Cut and Thrust/ Rapier helmets
Replies: 32
Views: 909

If you are just looking to be legal, and not worried about aesthetics, what I have seen done is to take the face grill off a hockey helmet and attach it to the back of a regular fencing mask. Ugly, but dirt cheap. Two youth soccer shinguards can be tied together to act the same. Or a piece of wet l...
by Saritor
Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:35 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: I got what I asked for
Replies: 12
Views: 1216

DeCalmont wrote:Hey, I thought BA was a "poof"?

:twisted:


But he's a Calontiri poof now! :twisted:
by Saritor
Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:56 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Landsknecht Armor NEEDED
Replies: 4
Views: 318

Horsefriend Armory threw together some stuff for me on short notice before Estrella War in stainless, but I don't have pictures of it yet. I ordered the tassets later in the process, and they should arrive uhm...today! Total cost of SCA-legal helm, gorget, munions, Almaine rivet breast & back an...
by Saritor
Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:26 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Fighting Boot Advise
Replies: 46
Views: 1462

With respect, I'm skeptical of these "period/non-vibram turn shoes are better" claims - I'm perfectly willing to be wrong however. Anyone youtube videos out there that supports it? There are some things that may change parts of your fighting style, depending on how you stand and move. Ste...
by Saritor
Mon May 31, 2010 5:38 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: NEW STUFF from Reconstructing History!
Replies: 16
Views: 833

So, wait...RH is offering sponge baths just in time for Pennsic?
by Saritor
Wed May 26, 2010 9:07 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Workouts that work with your fighting.
Replies: 26
Views: 1207

UPDATE - 3 weeks from completion of the 90 days program and I am at a total loss of 32 lbs of fat. I have gone from a 37 waist to 33 waist. I feel better, I am stronger and faster and HIGHLY recommend this program to anyone. I do suggest starting slow, unless you are already used to working out. Th...
by Saritor
Tue May 25, 2010 5:21 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Feast photos?
Replies: 14
Views: 700

Ask one of the Atenveldt Eberhauer landsknecht guys that visit here regularly (Balin50, lochinvar76) for the pics they have from their encampment at Estrella a year or three ago. I can't seem to find them on the Archive anywhere, but they're some awesome pics to show new folks, especially since you ...
by Saritor
Fri May 14, 2010 2:35 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Battlemoor
Replies: 16
Views: 595

lochinvar76 wrote:Is that enough to qualify for the term 'Landsknecth infection'?


We'll just mark the campsite and sterilize it during the post-event "cleanup". ;)
by Saritor
Thu May 13, 2010 4:54 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Only in Kentucky
Replies: 7
Views: 614

If only they'd had longbows! ;)
by Saritor
Thu May 13, 2010 1:09 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Combat of the Thirty?
Replies: 251
Views: 11371

Heath B fraychef wrote:dont forget to attach the fox tails


...are you terribly concerned about identifying whether other combatants are single or available? :D
by Saritor
Thu May 13, 2010 11:42 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Battlemoor
Replies: 16
Views: 595

Yep! It'll be my last "serious" event for a while.
by Saritor
Mon May 10, 2010 7:03 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: What drives the size of Crown Lists?
Replies: 33
Views: 1349

El Paso only accounts for 750-800K. Close to your million, but not quite there. The Outlands portion of Wyoming is maybe 300K, tops. Major populated areas that also have SCA groups are only ~190K. (Rounded up.) We also lose a bit of Colorado, but only Vail, and parts west of the Rockies in that pock...
by Saritor
Mon May 10, 2010 10:54 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Upholstery leather sale
Replies: 8
Views: 395

!!

Awesome! Been looking for an excuse to make a period fencing jacket.
by Saritor
Tue May 04, 2010 5:51 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Can you document your armour (SCA)?
Replies: 64
Views: 2065

Blackoak wrote:Yup, easily.

Late 11th century Italo-Norman.


I dunno. That knot on your right leg looks awfully suspicious for authenticity level... :P
by Saritor
Tue May 04, 2010 2:16 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: The Midrealm Royal Navy
Replies: 22
Views: 910

Guy Dawkins wrote:Pirates wouldn't be carrying letters of marque. That's why the Midrealm Royal Navy would hunt them down.


One man's pirate is another's privateer, whether he bears a letter of marque and reprisal or not. ;)
by Saritor
Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:51 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Exposed Plastic?
Replies: 84
Views: 2357

Diglach mac Cein wrote:Baskethilts aren't historically ACCURATE, but they don't exactly fit as "modern" looking either, IMO.


Speak for yourself. My basket hilts are period for my persona. :D ;)
by Saritor
Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:47 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How to train a two stick fighter
Replies: 67
Views: 1482

Yup. But try to block Gavin or Balfar with a blade sometime.. good chance you'll be on the ground going "WTF just happened?" (and then you get to explain that even if it DID hit your sword first, if it still hit you in the head with sufficient power, it's a kill. period. I've had that arg...
by Saritor
Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:32 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Rough Draft Crown Tournament Shield Law
Replies: 143
Views: 4351

Re: Rough Draft Crown Tournament Shield Law

Historial Exception - For heavily armored living history quality kits without bar grills these restrictions can be waived at the discretion of the Crown. Approval prior to the tournament is strongly recommended. I'd remove the bar-grill requirement. There are examples of cultures in period that wou...
by Saritor
Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:14 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How to train a two stick fighter
Replies: 67
Views: 1482

1) A shield will stop a shot from a determined polearmer.. a single sword often won't.. I can't tell you how many kills I've gotten cause they "blocked with the blade" and I just blew through it and noggin clocked em anyway. If they're just blocking with the blade and not moving their fee...
by Saritor
Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:33 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: In stock for immediate sale *DISCOUNTED*
Replies: 15
Views: 1513

I've got one of the full-size splinted kidney belts, and if you've got the money to pick one up, they're worth it.

I've taken some shots that have dented the belt without me feeling anything other than a standard good shot. (The dents come out fairly easily, too. :))
by Saritor
Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:41 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: training books
Replies: 4
Views: 176

Meyer's Art of Combat, translated by Forgeng. m Marc de Arundel has used it as somewhat of a basis for his longsword combat style, and the dussack section contains at least one example of pretty much every "standard" SCA shot or combo I've seen so far. (Admittedly, my experience is limited.)
by Saritor
Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:10 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 16th century "bowler" hat
Replies: 29
Views: 905

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by Saritor
Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:55 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Started working out tonight.
Replies: 23
Views: 467

keep hearing a bout p90x....is this something you can do at home? on the road (i travel 90% of time for work)...or do you need a gym? You don't need a gym, but you'll need some resistance bands and some creative rigging skills to be able to do the band-version of the pull-ups/chin-ups. Aside from t...
by Saritor
Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:53 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Started working out tonight.
Replies: 23
Views: 467

Steve -SoFC- wrote:Is the P90X workout information available for free somewhere?


Not without engaging in software piracy, though you can often find the DVDs on craigslist for ~$50.
by Saritor
Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:24 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Is SCA "Combat" a martial art (however impractical
Replies: 112
Views: 2791

Nissan, you're only a helmet and a green miniskirt away from being dressed like Marvin...
by Saritor
Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:19 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Is SCA "Combat" a martial art (however impractical
Replies: 112
Views: 2791

James B. wrote:I disagree, with a small sword strip fencing could kill no problem, the same is true with clubbing someone SCA style, I would say they are quite equal in that regard.


Foil or saber, perhaps, but epee?
by Saritor
Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:53 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Is SCA "Combat" a martial art (however impractical
Replies: 112
Views: 2791

The youth are trained in the style in a safe manner. That style being based on what is viewed as pragmatic for the time. It took it's field level technique and codified it and educated it in a safe way. Certainly Meyer's ideal, but if he's writing that specifically, it means that the majority of th...
by Saritor
Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:28 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Is SCA "Combat" a martial art (however impractical
Replies: 112
Views: 2791

...however silat grew from the field vs SCA growing from our play. I have discussed this weapon so extensively because commonly youths are led to skill in it, and if something is not properly presented to them, it will be hard to understand, particularly in this art; also some techniques cannot be ...
by Saritor
Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:24 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Is SCA "Combat" a martial art (however impractical
Replies: 112
Views: 2791

The techniques vary for region to region and are not something we would have seen on the battlefield of the ancients. I disagree with this, Li. Catch me at an event some time, and I'll talk about Meyer's dussack, and the movements we have in the SCA that parallel Meyer's fechtbuch. It's not 100%, b...
by Saritor
Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:38 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Flat-Sided Rattan Sword Blanks
Replies: 104
Views: 3107

Re: Flat-Sided Rattan Sword Blanks

Or left over with a dagger. Possible, but not with a 48" blank -- I'd only have 10" of scrap, and even allowing only 6" for hilt and 1" for guard, that only leaves me with 3" of blade. Somehow, I suspect that wouldn't look like a particularly well-balanced weapon ... AoC Ca...
by Saritor
Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:44 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Sword thoughts
Replies: 3
Views: 354

Darkwood's broadsword/backsword blanks are the same blank (#7), with some slight differences, but are approved for C&T at the Society level. Mine is the mid-16th C basket, with the backsword blade, and has been used for C&T and WMA both without any real problems other than needing a leather ...
by Saritor
Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:37 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Cup de Charney
Replies: 41
Views: 1209

brewer wrote:Isn't that how NASCAR does it?


NASCAR tracks something other than spectacular accidents at high speed?

It's a neat idea -- one of the guys here has done something similar with rapier, and given points for going to practices, tournaments, and bonus points for how far you traveled to do so.
by Saritor
Tue Apr 06, 2010 3:28 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: HIT HARD TAKE LIGHT
Replies: 188
Views: 3692

Ingvarr wrote:Historically, they most likely would. In the SCA, there's not a bard alive who is going to write The Ballad of King Uberthug the Horn Nose.


If they aren't willing to do it, they're not much in the way of bards, are they? :D
by Saritor
Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:26 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Help finding a quote in the west's history
Replies: 7
Views: 230

No, I recall this story, as well. It was early on, and there was a great deal of dissatisfaction with the concept of being judged.

Ah, here: http://history.westkingdom.org/Year1/Fi ... nation.htm
by Saritor
Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:18 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Madu thread
Replies: 141
Views: 3074

Nissan Maxima wrote:Fought a few knights with em pick ups at Gulf wars. Frankly, didn't have much trouble killing them.


They're still pretty "common" here in the Outlands. Not everyone uses them, but you can expect to see a couple at every event/tournament, including Crown.

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