The Armour Archive

Koredono

I got to thinking about the "explaining SCA blow calling" thread, and got to wondering, aside from my good intentions and honor, what would stop me from entering crown list and just shucking blows till i got a crown on my head? Now I have to be able to throw a blow that wont be shucked, which I'm c...

Koredono

If someone enters Crown, and is blatantly cheating, it is within the Crown's right to throw them out on the spot (actually they can throw anyone out for anything they like pretty much). And yet, I've never heard of this being done, let alone seen it done; perhaps banning them in future Crowns, but ...

Koredono

Two Words: Ducal Perogative I'm curious - what does 'Ducal Prerogative' mean in your neck of the woods? I know what it meant originally and know what it means in 'Eastern Rite' kingdoms (East, Ãƒâ€ thelmearc, I'm pretty sure Atlantia and the Middle as well), and neither of those definitions seem to...

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So now rather than dodging out of a thrust, I just start turning my head sideways so you don't hit me in the face, but rather the ear. Now your butterfly kiss is no good. So next time you gank me, and wether I turn my head or not, I still have whiplash. The way that some kingdoms (including my own)...

Koredono

Sooo..... Thrusts to the face are supposed to be much lighter. General consensus seems to be that this was done because when you gank a chap in the face with a 9' spear you knock his head backwards giving him whiplash. OK. So... Assume everyone jumps on the bandwaggon and now all face thrusts are b...

Koredono

wow. That's a long list. Are Atlantian lists typically so...=gulp= big? Or is it just because this list is for War King? I don't know how big your Crown Tourneys are, but that's right about average for a (recent) AEthelmearc Crown, regardless of if it's for a summer or winter reign - low-/mid-20s, ...

Koredono

As was posted previously, there is no Society standard for blade length, either independent of or related to overall weapon length. Ãƒâ€ thelmearc has a maximum blade length of 1/3 of the overall length of the weapon, but that's only been in place the past 5 years or so, and could be changed at the ...

Koredono

There is the weapon issue as well. Greatweapon or polearm and I'm keeping my distance. Sword and board . . . I'm not agressive enough to do like Leif and maul him with sword in hand and your knee to his breastplate. Huh. When I've got greatsword or polearm against a legged opponent (in single comba...

Koredono

Greetings! I myself have never been to Meridies, but I do have a few friends for that area (HUA Shadow Legion!!!) From my observance at Pennsic and Talking to those I know from the area. Yes Calibration is lighter in Meridies than in pretty much any other Kingdom. Just as Calibration in Atlantia is...

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egregious btw. (it's a great word, and I'd like to encourage the use thereof) I don't think he was impugning the East Kingdom there, btw. But I'd bet we could all come up with examples of people we've seen to this from all kingdoms. A question for all... how about this: I get hit in the sword a lot...

Koredono

http://rhinohide.cx/tousando/yoriaku/img/figures/fig18.png m -> hachimaki I don't wear a hachimaki, but I do wear an eboshi [img]http://yamakaminari.com/PennsicXXXIV-34/field_procession3-800.JPG[/img] as does most of Yama Kaminari at this point, which does an excellent job of the same thing

Koredono

In An Tir, where our Crown Lists are generally 100+ a list would be impractical. Are we putting odds on the names? I always wondered why someone with sort of a rogue persona didn't do that. Not encouraging or discouraging, just always seemed like a natural thing to happen though... For every AEthel...

Koredono

Years ago Brian Price sold solid fiberglass shield blanks- they weighed a TON. You don't need to edge a fiberglass-covered wooden shield. Just round the edges of the shield a bit with a file. Resulting edge is not damaging to our weapons. Looks much more period. That is the method my squire Ingram ...

Koredono

AFAIK, no, he's not talking about a completely fiberglass shield, and knowing Vitus, I can't really imagine him using one, unless it doesn't look at all like fiberglass.

Koredono

The method that I was taught, lo many years ago, goes something like this: 1. get plywood of half the end result thickness you want 2. epoxy / glue / whatever two pieces of said plywood, such that the grains are at right angles to each other, and making sure the resulting piece will be of the approp...

Koredono

......until the mindset of meridies joins the rest of the sca it will have to live with the court of public opinion. Your Grace, this sword slices both ways. By replacing Meridies with Atlantia the very same statement could be applied. Atlantia is known world wide as "Atlantian Thugs". I am not try...

Koredono

I am a bit curious as to opinions from the older SCA members. I was taught to fight by 2 old time Ansteorian Knights. They hit hard, and so I learned to hit like they did. As many of the early fighters came from there, I am curious how Meridies at the least got the reputation as light hitters, if n...

Koredono

Without too much 'Me too'ism, I must agree with everyone else here, in that a) you did nothing wrong or even borderline illegal, and b) with the weapons available to you in yoru situation, you probably did the tactically wisest maneuever. To illustrate another effective method one can use that same ...

Koredono

One of my dog brothers had the marshal tell him that he had to mark the striking surfaces on a tetsubo! To make it worse, he wanted it marked with tape like you would a sword. B Well, but you do have to mark the striking surface(s) of all weapons, regardless of whether that weapon is supposed to be...

Koredono

One of my dog brothers had the marshal tell him that he had to mark the striking surfaces on a tetsubo! To make it worse, he wanted it marked with tape like you would a sword. B Well, but you do have to mark the striking surface(s) of all weapons, regardless of whether that weapon is supposed to be...

Koredono

Yup. The guy on the far left. m When I was first starting fighting, almost 20 years ago, Random was the big dog in a barony with about 100 fighters (our baronial unit at Pennsic my first year had 70 combattants!); the only guys locally (which in those days meant all of western PA) who were even in ...

Koredono

IMnsHO, killing the same guy four times just adds to the "bad press" combat archers enjoy in general. I guess I should just be glad that I'm not in this for the body count... AoC Only 4 times? That's nothing. At last year's Gulf Wars, in the ravine, I got shot at least 30 times (it's usually about ...

Koredono

The best protection you can get as a spearfighter is a great big goon with a pole axe standing just behind you to discourage rushers. from ursus: m The scary part is he's not even your biggest goon with a poleaxe; from Dater's site: m (for reference, the 'little guy' on the right is more than 6' ta...

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Ave Blaine, No specific trainer yet. I am not very consistent with my practices yet and until I show the local fighters of my committment I don't expect any specific person to work with me. And I've been told more than once since I'm a girl the ability for me to Squire to one of the Knights wasn't ...

Koredono

I disagree on the concept of wearing a heavier helm. The reason is that people generally flinch there head and neck when a shot comes in. The more mass your head and neck have to maintain while off center will cause greater strain and potential injury. A lighter helm will reduce the strain on the n...

Koredono

As always, there were bad folks on both sides; things that some folks on the Eastern side did that either I saw personally, or happened to fighters in my unit (who are not given to hyperbole) included: :arrow: resurrections in non-res battles I wasnt keeping track of that so I cant comment. I didn'...

Koredono

The division, good Sir, comes from the law of diminishing returns. If one is subject to disc compression issues, a heavier helm is problematic. I was fighting in a 12 pound close helm until recently. I had a strange incident where I ended up with whiplash, and I've had to move to a 9 pound helm to ...

Koredono

Thanks Theodoric. This one comes in 13/15 and 16. Then comes the dilemma of is heavier better which many here seemed divided on... Livia Tasia I'm surprised that there's a division (in general) on this issue: the heavier the helmet, the more mass on your head, the less your head will move with a gi...

Koredono

Caid, An Tir, West, and Atenveldt functioned as a single "army" at the war, as our stand-alone numbers were so low.. the Trimarian knights missing from the fold does explain a lot. Any chance you could get that video posted? I second that! I'd love to try and see what happened (esp. to me personall...

Koredono

Interesting you put it that way. They certainly did whatever it took to win this year including shrugging blows that staggered a few of them. I was pretty amazed by what I saw a few times. As always, there were bad folks on both sides; things that some folks on the Eastern side did that either I sa...

Koredono

Nope... looked at that forum's photos and I'm not in there. Actually, none of Darter's photos from this year are online yet - m I'm sure there'll be a 'feeding frenzy' when they are, since I'm pretty sure he took *thousands* of photos, of all kinds of pennsic scenes, and we'll all want to see them....

Koredono

sarnac wrote:Domo Origato Koredono-san

you honour me with your stalwart service.

You are quite welcome; as for the 'stalwartness' of my service, well, I do as I can, and did such as was done by all others there on the field.

Koredono

It was a very fine tournament; IIRC, there were 68 entrants, and would have had at least a half-dozen more if novice squires had been allowed to enter. Except for the whole monsoon thing in the middle of it (it rained so heavy and so hard that my pant leg on the windward side - I kept facing mostly ...

Koredono

I have heard of no meeting scheduled at Pennsic in any forum that I am a part of including the Standardization Committee. It would be completely within his current MO to post for comments during Pennsic to minimize responses from people who disagree. FYI, as of yesterday, the SEM was not coming to ...

Koredono

I agree that this 'yielding' is potentially very dangerous, to both those to who it *and* those who do otherwise, as well as being completely dishonorable. I can say that the method that I urge CAs in AEthelmearc to do when they wish to yield is to 1. Drop to the ground, assuming the 'dying defensiv...

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