The Armour Archive

Koredono

wait, let me see if i understand you.... so if i gently bump him out of the way with my hip, for example, to his hip you call that illegal (based on what law?) As I stated previously, the news from the Society Marshal from August 4 2003, which was decided on by the SEM, but there has not been a rev...

Koredono

you said: It's my impression on reading this that intentional body to body contact is illegal under any combat circumstances so who would you sanction in a greatsword fight if the two fighters closed tight to each other and body contact was made? if, say, they both wanted to fight chest to chest? r...

Koredono

fair enough. given your take on it how do you deal with a spearman in a limited front battle then if you are trying to cover ground / charge? how do you move past or through him? me, i charge him and then open my sheild as i close and try to simply bump him out of the way with my body rather than l...

Koredono

According to the addendum on http://www.sca.org/officers/marshal/news.html , August 4, 2003: Grappling is any intentional or overt contact of hands/feet/appendages to the other fighterÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s person. Pushing, slapping, tripping, knee leverages and falling on, head butting, etc., all apply. Inciden...

Koredono

thank you! clearly a rule that needs to be rewritten as there is no difference between a mace, an ax, and a sword when it comes to thrusting. This was recently brought up to the SEM, since apparently some KEMs thought as you did, or possibly local marshals who'd not been corrected, and had been all...

Koredono

Hey Vitus Ãƒâ€ thelmearc goes with Society standards on shields (Marshal's Handbook, VI.B), so they're not a problem with thickness here (BTW, how thick are the shields?). The only *potential* way it could fail here is if it's deemed that the edge as it stands does not 'minimize the damage to rattan...

Koredono

The material shown in the link above is not foam rubber, it's just rubber - I've inspected a number of those, as well single- and double-bitted axe heads (made by a different merchant) out of the same material. It gives a little, and that's helped by the cutouts in the heads in places It's possible ...

Koredono

I agree with most of what Nissan said - since you have a finite number of shots, making each one count is important. The biggest risk to your person, being behind the melee lines, is opposing archers, so target them first; your next targets should be commanders, since in the end they're most likely ...

Koredono

Guys, I am considering an aluminum shield blank. This is despite the fact that it is in no way correct for my anglo saxon impression. Availabilty of plywood is a big factor. I have some questions. I am mostly considering a mandrake 6061 T-6, aircraft aluminum (.09 inch thickness). I don't really kn...

Koredono

So basically anytime I don't like how the fight is going, I should drop my weapon so we have to reset? Yucko. That is, in fact, the way the rules are written but some (many? most?( kingdoms have rules to the effect of "if you become disarmed [x] times during a bout, you must yield". And it has no e...

Koredono

I, too, was feeling too under-the-weather to go to our local practice Sunday; the past Saturday, however, I went to a regional fighting practice about 90 minutes away (first time in about a month, between the holidays and not having a site for one weekend), and had a blast. Got a number of good sets...

Koredono

I just checked the most recent version of the Society's governing documents; it doesn't say the tourney must be double-elim, it just says that it must be determined by 'individual combat', though a waiver on that could be gotten by petitioning the Board; my kingdom actually has a law in place which...

Koredono

Simple. Let go of it. Under SCA tourney rules, he has to give it back to you. You have just deliberately disarmed yourself. Your options are to draw a backup weapon or yield. Nope, not under SCA rules - if you are unarmed (which, BTW, if you have a sheathed back-up weapon you are *not* unarmed) in ...

Koredono

Ha! I remember this - back from when I was just a bachgen. A fellow named Oberon thrust a halberd at me simultaneously with my thrust of a naginata to him. Both of us parried - don't ask me how. Instantly we were corps-a-corps, nose-a-nose, almost tete-a-tete. I abandoned my naginata and wrapped my...

Koredono

3) Direct succession: King's choice of next King. Doesnt he in effect have this option already? I mean a king can set the rules for his tournament, and is the final authority on who is acceptable to the crown. Could a king not, If he so desired, only let one person take the field? or just his buddi...

Koredono

Maybe I'm just a wussy pencil-neck, but I don't like the added weight of a butted camail. I'm currently using a riveted aluminum one; the weight is nice, but it doesn't stand up well to SCA combat. I'm saving my pennies for one of Master Knuut's titanium ones... I have a good friend who, years ago,...

Koredono

Given my druthers, I might actually prefer a Pabst over a Guinness, OMG. I couldn't read anything past that. Dude. Even if you don't like Guinness why would you drink P****? It's the beer of choice for my favorite uncle. Then again, he prefers to smoke to Rigoletto's to the fine 'real' cigars I've ...

Koredono

Heh. This is almost like second fight brewing (har har). Guinness drinkers vs. unclean heretics. Hey! I'll have you know I'm a very clean heretic, thankyouverymuch. Given my druthers, I might actually prefer a Pabst over a Guinness, but overall I'd rather have good Belgian (one of the upsides to li...

Koredono

My pollaxe can trap your sword arm, and allow me to place it where I want it. Is that illegal? -Aaron generally the marshals see that as grappling/wrestling. If you manipulate the weapon that's attached to the arm, that's fine. jonathan blackbow I have to disagree here - my interpretation of the So...

Koredono

IIRC, Mr. Obata himself (the man who performed the cut) thought that if the helmet's wearer were injured by the stroke, it would have been trauma to the neck, not the head, which suggests that the helmet wasn't cut to any great depth. But I guess in the Middle Ages "as they should have been", sword...

Koredono

How many of us have seen squire <insert name> not take shots repeatedly at fight practice after fight practice from non belts, only to suddenly take those very same shot when a belted fighter comes around. I should mention that I've seen the exact opposite happen perhaps as many times as well - som...

Koredono

What manner of weapons will you be testing? Swords don't have much of an affect on even mild-steel armour other than varying degree's of helm denting and sword breaking Extensive first hand knowledge speaking here Depends on the sword, of course - there is a tradition of Japanese sword making which...

Koredono

Nissan Maxima wrote:Korodono san! You have to beat us first.

Fair enough. I'll be out there for every battle (though I may feel required to marshal some, rather than fight).

Koredono

I wonder how many knights are gonna array themselves in their finest historical armor for this. I also wonder if they're gonna fight with traditional 'knightly' weapons. It's not my personal thing but the pictures from that battle of the thirty where they look so goddam real its amazing just floor ...

Koredono

Nissan Maxima wrote:How about Suzuki Samurai, (rolls over at low speeds)

Hey! That was the (admittedly derogatory, and quite possibly deserved) nickname you guys gave *me* years ago (I think Random or Grettir told me, much after the fact). I guess you could have it now, though

Koredono

Can dogs go to War Practice? If they could that would significantly increase my chances of going. Alaric I don't think so, not any more, unless there's coursing and they're there for that. I haven't autocratted it in 3 years, so the rules may have changed; check m for event info, when they get it o...

Koredono

OK-i know this is an age-old staple question of geekery, but I got to thinking about this question today. I have come to the conclusion that, taking an average knight circa 14th century onwards and an average samurai, the knight would win hands-down. It doesn't have so much to do with armor, though...

Koredono

Heairn wrote:I may be sending you an email then. It will be interesting to see how one of your shields stands up to Andrew...

M.

I'd be interested to see that too.

And as KEM, I get to inspect one for our kingdom without having to travel! Yay!

Koredono

Tennis shoes..... I just don't really understand how people can fight in tennis shoes. I mean. I don't fight in period footwear. (Though I am working on figuring out how to put steel toes into some more period looking boots, no I don't think I will wear sabatons, I tried them once and just couldnt ...

Koredono

Engineer and Biker boots used to (and still do in some places) fall under the "best attempt" category. 15-20 years ago when there really no makers of "period" shoes in the SCA, they were the best all around option. Do you really believe that? Once I knew anything at all about period footwear, I kne...

Koredono

well, late 15th to early 16th century austria (i think that was prussia back than) Nope, that pre-dates Prussia by about 200 years, and Austria was never part of Prussia anyway. No, Austria was Austria then, though that was when the consolidation with Hungary and Bohemia began occurring, as well as...

Koredono

99% of finalists at Crown Tourney's get there with Sword and Shield. Not to pick statistical nits, but this is somewhat hyperbolic; using the East and Ãƒâ€ thelmearc as the examples (because they're the ones I know), the East has had ~75 Crown Tourneys, and Ãƒâ€ thelmearc has had ~30 Coronet/Crown ...

Koredono

I'll agree that making the rule, and the actual physical act of the visual inspection is not difficult, but in many places, there is so much inertia from the kingdom's culture as to make such a rule mostly unenforceable. Being from a place that will almost certainly never enact such limitations, I ...

Koredono

Visual inspection is easily accomplished and some places have done it. Visible plastic and tennis shoes have been banned by fiat (the will of the Crown) or by Kingdom law in many places. These are good examples of putting quantifiable standards in place. A marshal sees visible plastic, the marshal ...

Koredono

Let me clarify my question/statement a bit. I guess what I was asking was really in regards to your first authorization. Usually your first auth you have your own kit. And I really meant visible plastic, not the use of plastic. Now I think the age old fallback on "attempt" isn't supposed to justify...

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