The Armour Archive

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Yah, I got some good padding about an inch and a quarter wide. I'm gonna run it over both cutting edges and up over the tip. No worries.

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Ya know, I can draw my ass off and I wish I could do that. I'm amazed at how good that is. Time to get the pencils back out and start practicing!
Way to go James!

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Freiman it's not a spear like an SCA spear. It's the 'slashing spear' thingy. Picture a boar spear. By SCA parlance I guess it's a polearm.

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I got a spear head from By My Hand and i love it! His stuff is the BEST!. I'm about to mount it on the rattan but before I do I thought I'd ask if y'all had a good way to anchor it. I have gorilla glue or strapping tape, but I didnt know the best way. It's the slashing spear, with the lugs. Any help...

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yup jehan. You're absolutely right. It is your god given right to be an asshole.
Rock on dude.

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"Your assertions don't make it necessarily so, Animal. You're taking peculiar relish in this." Relish? Yah. It's a button of mine I guess. i've never liked peer pressure and I dont mind calling a spade a spade. "You're taking my mocking Promethius on the horsetail (specifically because he was an ass...

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A choice of words doesnt say as much as the fact that berating someone for merely having a different set of tastes than you does. Get the point ASSHOLE. Not everyone plays the game the same way you do. OR WANTS TO. The fact that you and a few others have appointed yourselves the authenticity police ...

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No, it is exactly this: Grow up douchebag. Should you need further clarification email me or something.

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Is there any way to make that a full screen thing instead of a tiny little window?

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you're absolutely right Jehan. You dont care. Whatever dude. It's yor god given right to be a tool. Rock on.

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Ya know, I try real hard to make my stuff right. Look nice, work, be historical. I gotta admit when I see a captain morgan pirate or a poet shirt wearing kilted mcninja running around I die a little inside. But the last thing to do is be an asshole to someone on the internet over a horsetail. Jehan ...

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No worries! I'm glad it helped a bit. Thanks again for the new hammer!

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I learned a long time ago that the things like walls, lines, relics what have you are all just details that get swept away in the carnage that follows the sound of the cannon. That was my first battle back after geting my BP under control and I swear it was blissful. I was chatting with Sarnac befor...

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We have an event, aptly named, "BOOT CAMP" every year before pennsic. It works.

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If you're asked for advice that's one thing. But blasting someone because they wanna buy a horsetail is just being an asshole.

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It's the automatic assumption that something isnt perfectly accurate, and perfectly appropriate because it doesnt conform to someone's perceived tastes that annoys me. And when someone who is otherwise capable of eloquence coming off like such a tool is out of line as well. Why is it that someone ma...

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It strikes me as funny that a group that is formed principally of misfits and outsiders will further segregate themselves by choosing sub groups to shun.

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Wow. Assholes abound.

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It's not strapped, just a center grip. That's my friend Samuel. He uses that pretty well I'd say.

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I use the fingers Clay made me on a gauntlet I put together. With my saber I cant tell you how nice it feels. Ditto on the sting part but so far so good. He makes nice fingers

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I wish I could do that. I really do. That's beautiful.

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From what I understand the nagamaki (long wrap) came about when they gave the front line soldiers swords with longer handles for better leverage. Sometime around the Mongol invasions if I recall correctly. I cant find where I read that but I seem to remember reading it somewhere.

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I'll tell someone they landed, but it didnt cut. That lets them know I'm not ignoring them, but there is a reason I didnt accept the shot. My feeling is, I'm not here to take slop. I dont expect my opponent to either. Like I tell the guys I train: Just because you touch someone doesnt mean you cut s...

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You could use kayak foam and build up the top edge of that to follow the profile of the sword. That would look badass.

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I beg to differ. Lots of our guys use round shields. Big round shields. They work fine

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I love my house of the wolf gauntlets and cant say enough good things about them.

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I dont get why you have such a problem with it, but you do. Get over it. Simply because those quotes are excellent examples of bad (or at least meaningless) fighting instruction. Those quotes convey no information of instructional value. Yet you indict others for being poor instructors. (I agree th...

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The simple truth is most of the people I've ever seen in my life teaching rattan fighting shouldn't even BE fighting, much less teaching it. This from the guy who said "Details suck. Man up and hit him."? Also " Focusing the spirit should be first. Details can come later." Though I do agree that mo...

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The simple truth is most of the people I've ever seen in my life teaching rattan fighting shouldn't even BE fighting, much less teaching it.

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No, I wasnt kidding. I see people get all wrapped up in details and forget the reason they're there. Focusing the spirit should be first. Details can come later.

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Details suck. Man up and hit him.

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There are only so many places a sword can come at you from. I concentrate on killing my opponent and pick up his sword when I have to.

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If it were me I'd stitch them together before I'd glue them.

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I fight in stainless bazubands from AnC. I love them completely.

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We'll see. I dunno what the hell is going on now. They were sure the problem was renal stenosis but the MRA came back normal. I go back monday, we'll see then I suppose.

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