The Armour Archive

Koredono

It's my beliefÃ¢â‚¬Â that the reasoning behind the lanyard requirement has little to do with the safety of the fighters, and everything to do with the safety of the marshals, spectators, and site; before the lanyard rule was put in to place, I'd seen on more than a few occasions spectators get hit ...

Koredono

A fighter asks a household knight for some last second advice concerning a list fight that he is about to go into. Having never fought his opponant before and wondered if there was anything to look out for. Squire: "I have never fought him, how do you beat him?" Knight: "................hit him, hi...

Koredono

I have one of the red shafts from him that I have literally pole vaulted on, and it is still going strong. curiosly never having fought pole in sca, but having vaulted quite extensively (until breaking myself at practice loosing spot on university team and scholarship{hear the bitter}) what are the...

Koredono

My short answer is "talk to Langdon, Zanetto, Reinhardt, and maybe Grettir" (local armorers - two Laurels in armoring, the other two have been full-time armorers - for those of you not from BMDL) - between them you'll get a good answer on what you'd minimally need, and they'll probably have connecti...

Koredono

The SCA would start looking much better much more quickly if the older members who don't know better would stop teaching bad lessons to new people, like "Of course you can use George Romero's KnightRiders as source material..." I'll have you know that the costumes (not the armor, just the clothing)...

Koredono

I will freely admit that spring steel is probably the optimal material for gauntlets (titanium may be even more effective, but significantly more expensive, from what I'm led to believe); if I could get a good design at a reasonable price, I'd probably go with them myself. As for injuries received i...

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Koredono if you wanna try mine at some point you're more than welcome to. Perhaps at war practise. I may well do that, just so I'm more well-informed; perhaps just a few simple tests, like having someone smack my hands while I'm holding a stick, and control / flexibility while wielding a weapon wit...

Koredono

Dalewyn's leather-articulated HDPE (not Kydex) gaunts seem fairly popular around here. See m If memory serves me, he makes the complex curves with heat, in some kind of metal form, so making a single one-off pair might not be so easy. (Dale - did I get it right?) Those look good too, though as a pe...

Koredono

I'd personally rather trust my water hardened leather gauntlets I got from House of the Wolf. As hard as I've ever been hit I've never been injured while wearing them. I dont block with my hands on purpose but occasionally I get smacked and I cant help but think that a lot of the blows I took would...

Koredono

Active marshalling can be a good thing. Everyone involved has to be open to what the other person expereinced for it to work though. With all due respect, your Excellency, this may be an accepted practice in your kingdom, but it is by no means embraced universally. In fact, the very sense of "activ...

Koredono

*Good* plastic gauntlets are very diificult to make; an armorer friend of mine tried to make E.G.G. knock-offs a few years ago, and they were somewhere near as good (I tried a pair of his for a while, but shortly thereafter just went and bought a new pair of E.G.G.'s). I've seen problems like the on...

Koredono

I wear what I consider reasonable armor ... and that gives me sufficient protection against 99% of incoming arm blows, even against bruising; Sir Magariki, thank you for your comments. I agree that 20 years without a serious injury is a more than reasonable yardstick. All I'll say in response is th...

Koredono

There are so many variations on greatsword in the SCA that it really is what you make of it. I have two-handed swords of three different lengths: 45" (15" grip) which I use for singles in tourney and as a back-up weapon in melee, 60" (18" grip) which I use at pas at a barrier, or to match my opponen...

Koredono

IMO hardened leather with appropriate padding should (under most circumstances) be more than enough; the only significant arm injuries I've ever heard of (discounting things like Morgan's broken arm) have come from people wearing significantly less than that, and often in combination with doing some...

Koredono

Thursday I got to hear my good friend and house-brother tell me all about japanese sword. How a real japanese sword would cut through armout like butter, etc. Now I'm an engineer (GA EIT ) so I know a little about physics and strengths of materials. I tried to point out that steel is steel, etc. I ...

Koredono

FYI this - [img]http://www.intlhorsearchery.org/festival_photos/2004/IMG_0294.jpg[/img] - is Jaap Koppedreyer, known mostly in the SCA as the proprietor of Yumi Archery ( http://www.intlhorsearchery.org/images/ad_yumi.gif ); he doesn't do many events besides Pennsic, but he does do fabulous work, an...

Koredono

I know a couple of people who do good late 11th / early 12th century (during and post-Conquest Normans); unfortuneately I only have a good helmet shots of one of them Sir Graedwyn (another is Sir Mordreth, who is pretty active here, and may be able to provide good pics of his own helmet). In the fir...

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Koredono

While I haven't spoken directly to the MiC about this, I expect that the battles will basically be of about the same mix as you see at Pennsic - about 1/3 of them will include CA and siege (though i don't expect to see many siege engines), and time-wise split about 1::1 or 2::1 between field and bri...

Koredono

I too, would like to know who your local marshal is (you can PM me, or send mail to marshal@aethelmearc.org). Regardless, what His Highness said is correct: CA is just another weapons for in Ãƒâ€ thelmearc, and it was set up that way on purpose; while those who are auth'd in only CA are few, we do h...

Koredono

All right! Enough of this manly talk of beer! Ladies? Hello ladies? [deep, lonely-sounding echo] Oh well, I'm bringing something cheap and fruity. I'll be happy to take a rain check. Who's Yama fighting with at the War of Northern agression this year? I am curious to what you mean, in this sense, b...

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sort of in response to koredono but mostly in response to all those who believe body to body contact is dangerous i really must ask. Let me state that I do not think that body-to-body contact is really that dangerous, under many circumstances; I gave possibility of injury as a guess as to why it's ...

Koredono

Yes, I know it is possible to wear it in combat, but is it really feasable? Depends on exactly what you mean by 'feasible'. Will you be as mobile as someone wearing Society minimums? Of course not. Can you have a enjoyable, productive, and successful fighter experience and career? I would have to s...

Koredono

I really am sorry that you fail to understand my reasoning and interpretation of the rules as written, so I'll try once again, and with some attempts at the explanations behind the rules, where I can. First, let me reiterate what I believe the rules to state in this instance: Body-on-shield (i.e. i...

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i just might have to do that. im just really perplexed at how we all play the same game but we all seem to have different ideas about how that game is played. the rules are too complicated and poorly written. could i rewrite them? sure. would everyone read them the same way? nope. so im not sure ho...

Koredono

wow. glad to see the completely baffling non-logic in that. so, you say its a bad thing to make contact with my shield against your body. gentle, harsh, you dont care. you then say its ok for me to make body to shield contact with your shield. again, gentle harsh whatever. yet you claim that shield...

Koredono

ok let me try this angle to clear up confusion: koredono, is it your contention that i may, or may not, contact your shield with my body? regards loganp IMO, you may contact my shield with your body, so long as you (the body) are the one initiating contact with me (the shield); I (the shield) may n...

Koredono

contact is not striking koredono. you can make contact with a persons body and then shove them out of the way with your shield. the sem even addressed that specifically not to long ago. not sure why there is confusion between striking and contact. regards logan Let me try again, and I'll highlight ...

Koredono

Koredono, Actually, the attitude in the West varies. Some things come up as customs in certain areas, and become "traditions" for some of the fighters, and not for others. The main one that comes to mind is the practice of not taking arms. Some fighters in the West hold that as a tradition, others ...

Koredono

sheild on body contact is perfectly legal koredono. unless that has been changed suddenly. could you please cite the rule that states that supports your claim: all body to shield contact initiated by the 'shield' is illegal, under all circumstances Marshal's Handbook, IV.D - A shield may be used to...

Koredono

Could you explain under what circumstances you consider body to shield contact to be legal? though I don't use this technique I should think using your elbow or knee to move your opponent's shield would qualify. Going the other way. If a shieldman charges a spearman and the spearman purposefully mo...

Koredono

Koredono, I have seen body to body contact many times in singles fights. Albeit most often in Atlantia, and it is not as common as it used to be, but there were the day's of Open shield form (like Oldecastle) fighting, and people's big bellies coming to gether quite often. I had forgotten how popul...

Koredono

What if it is really obvious? Like, two men on a bridge, and one places his basket hilt (of a sword) on the other's chest, and then shoves him back over the hay bales? What about a spearman or glaive man crosschecking an opponent over the side? It depends on what you mean by 'crosschecking' (an arg...

Koredono

IMO weapon on body is kinda grey - it looks like it's legal (how can we tell a shove with a weapon as opposed to just a really poor shot?) What if it is really obvious? Like, two men on a bridge, and one places his basket hilt (of a sword) on the other's chest, and then shoves him back over the hay...

Koredono

Koredono, Could you explain under what circumstances you consider body to shield contact to be legal? Paulb From my interpretation of the rules as written, all body to shield contact that is initiated by the 'body' rather than the 'shield', except for grabbing hold of the shield (specifically prohi...

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