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- Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:55 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
I also thought they still allowed thin shafts of much less than 1 1/4" for both crossbows and bows Steve. Am I mistaken about that? Maybe I misread the posts on that topic. If the arrows now conform to the same standards as other weapons, that eliminates one of my main objections to archery. By the ...
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 2:48 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
Any kingdom still allowing shafted arrows with a diameter less than 1 1/4" in diameter. If my sword blade and quillons have to be big enough not to fit through a grill or occularium, then in my opinion the arrows should have to meet the same requirements. Especially when they are flying around so fa...
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:48 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
Quote: "I would prefer if they just came out and said the words: "I think CA sucks big time. It's not chivalrous. It's not funny and all archers are cowardly nerds that can't take a manly hit with my mighty stick without blubbering like a kicked puppy!" It would be so more.. well, chivalric. Be well...
- Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:55 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
Quote: "In Nordmark/Drachenwaldt (almost) all archers use wooden shafts (wrapped lengthwise and spirally with fibreglass reinforced tape). Sure, they break if someone steps on them but the tape holds the pieces together. Still haven’t seen a single arrow break on impact. Sure, the arrow is the onl...
- Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:00 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
Hi Tessa. I am one of those in favor of banning combat archery as unsafe, ahistorical in its current usage and in conflict with the SCA social structure that defines us as all being nobles acting in a knightly and chivalrous manner; as archery is historically not a weapon of the chivalry in the Euro...
- Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:06 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Boy, did I screw up
- Replies: 31
- Views: 33
If you are a newbie and you wear minimum armour during full contact combat (not practice/training light blows), you are either stupid or whoever is training you is stupid. Or evil. Or putting the newbie at risk. In the East at least, minimum SCA armour standards on a newbie who is not unusually gift...
- Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:21 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How would YOU change the SCA combat rules if you could?
- Replies: 142
- Views: 59
Hmmm. 1) Ban combat archery or change it quite a bit. I lean towards banning it, since our social structure currently dictates that we are all nobles and combat archery is not appropriate for nobles and we are required to fight in a knightly and chivalrous manner (in the East at least) and CA is inh...
- Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:53 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Enclosed thumb gauntlets?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17
Having had by thumb broken in leather protected hockey gloves and in steel gauntlets, I will say no protection is perfect. I like the partially enclosed thumbs on my MacPherson gauntlets. They offer a pretty good amount of protection for the thumb tip while still offering reasonable feel and flexibi...
- Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:46 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Spear stealing & breaking.
- Replies: 98
- Views: 83
Losthelm asked "...there are more icidents that accure every year from spears then combat archery but why are there some many more people aginst combat archery then spear usage?" Because spears (I call them lances most of the time) are a true knightly weapon and bows are not. At least in the Europea...
- Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:55 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Spear stealing & breaking.
- Replies: 98
- Views: 83
The main reason I don't like fiberglass spears, is that after spending a whole bunch of years learning to get past the tip without dying, when I grab the things the user often won't let go and I have broken or damaged a number of spears that way without meaning to. But my attitude about these is pre...
- Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:36 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA) Spin off topic - The worst excuse you have ever heard
- Replies: 144
- Views: 399
In one of my early public demo fights, I fought a two sword fighter with several solid cleanly placed great sword thrusts. Mind you, I had been practicing thrusts specifically so I could beat this individual who generally won the majority of our fights. He proceeded to blow them off, then legged me ...
- Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:30 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Spear stealing & breaking.
- Replies: 98
- Views: 83
- Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:27 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: (SCA) Is there ANY situation where....
- Replies: 153
- Views: 160
My take on plastic is, I don't like it and think we should at a minimum ban the use of exposed plastic in all tournaments and events. I can live with plastic that used as practice only harness or if it is covered up so I don't have to see it at an event, even though I just don't like the concept of ...
- Mon Aug 04, 2003 4:55 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Not participating in Combat Archery Battles
- Replies: 130
- Views: 50
Hi Sarnac. I don't really care if you were trying to make a public statement on CA or not. I do understand your personal choice to stay out of a situation you consider unsafe. This is a huge part of my complaint against CA. The overwhelming majority of CA archers don't seem to care that their equipm...
- Mon Jun 16, 2003 5:52 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Sad News
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14
- Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:15 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How to train for a Tourney
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13
Actually, most fights are lost before they are begun. I would say that about 75% of the time I win a fight when I am in practice, I don't beat my opponent through superior use of a specific shot or technique, he/she defeated themselves by making a mistake that I took advantage of. There are a few fi...
- Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:59 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Aluminum Shields
- Replies: 46
- Views: 62
If your shield vibrates too much, you are probably not bashing your opponent hard enough or you are forgetting to follow through. A sign of inadequate shield bashing force is needed to properly assess the situation. How many times does your opponent bounce after hitting the ground and did his/her he...
- Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:09 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Recapturing the magic...
- Replies: 38
- Views: 29
Hi Alaric. I have pretty much tended to give up and advantage when I thought it was appropriate to do so; to continue a fun fight on a somewhat equal basis, to demonstrate my respect for a noble opponent, etc. I never thought of it as an insult or unchivalrous. On this list and in talking to people ...
- Fri May 16, 2003 7:10 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Beware of Aethelmearc War Practice!
- Replies: 142
- Views: 127
Despite my personal tendancy to like Bedlam (most of the time), I feel that the Tuchux as a group simply violate both the spirit and written guidelines for participation in the SCA with such frequency, that when coupled with the yearly violations of the rules of the list which are simply too frequen...
- Sat Apr 26, 2003 1:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Very Short Fighters
- Replies: 31
- Views: 23
My attitude is, if I post something in a public forum with hints, anybody is free to use them to help others. The only time I see people get annoyed, justifiably so, is if someone takes the time to write a very serious and scholarly piece and someone takes that piece, incorporates it into a formal p...
- Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:57 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Very Short Fighters
- Replies: 31
- Views: 23
With the recent ban on short, left handed fighters because of their tendancy to hit their opponents in the cup, this discussion no longer has any relevancy. Seriously? Talk to Vitus, he is short. Also, if you like to thrust and are good at it, lefty's seem to do better at body thrusts than right han...
- Thu Apr 17, 2003 6:34 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: balfor's chalenge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7
- Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:43 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: [SCA] Request for comments
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9
- Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:33 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Most Dangerous Fighting Situation...
- Replies: 40
- Views: 38
While jousting in public at Sands Point (in MSR), an opponent screwed up and would have hit me dead on in the face with his lance if I had not been able to duck sideways fast. While jousting in practice (in MSR), the same opponent, cleverly failed to hit the edge of my shield and let the blow glance...
- Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:16 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Best/Worse SCA Kingdom Hvy Weapons
- Replies: 58
- Views: 153
- Sat Mar 15, 2003 5:37 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Plastic and Japanese personas
- Replies: 133
- Views: 104
Part of the reason I stopped posting on this topic, is the idiotic suggestion that anybody who posts anti plastic or pro-authenticity writings is doing so out of racism. I live in NY where Al Sharpton, one of the countries premeir racists, does his dirty work. I knew that I would go off on a tirade ...
- Sat Mar 15, 2003 12:06 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: ID of freaky mac bible image
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16
Effingham: "Everyone knows the only functional, listlegal jawbone of an ass is a royal field herald." It has been pointed out to me that even a plastic jaw bone, would have to be wrapped in duct tape to be SCA list legal. I have this great image of grabbing a herald, wrapping him with duct tape and ...
- Thu Mar 13, 2003 8:25 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: ID of freaky mac bible image
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16
Research has shown that the only material suitable for making an SCA list legal ass jawbone, is to make it from plastic. If you use a real asses jawbone, it will deteriorate after just a few practice sessions and the surface will flake. If you use metal, it will bend and the marshals won't let you u...
- Tue Mar 11, 2003 6:40 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Plastic and Japanese personas
- Replies: 133
- Views: 104
Quote: "Is it any less believeable than a King participating in the tourney and getting killed?" What is so unbelievable about that? It happened. King Henri of France I believe, lance splinter though the eye area into the brain I think was the cause of death. And Henry the VIII of England was nearly...
- Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:13 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Win At All Cost (SCA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33
Fearghus. Fighting hard and fighting to win are both very important. I wasn't saying don't fight to win, I am saying don't cheat or otherwise sully your honor by seeking an unfairly achieved victory. By fighting as hard as you can and giving your opponent your best fight, you are giving them an oppo...
- Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:46 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What's the secret to being a squire?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 55
1. Knights, do you want a fighter to approach you or do you pick your own squires? I want to pick my own squires. But I would expect anyone who aspires to the order of chivalry, to approach both myself and other knights, get to know them better, seek counsel and generally interact with members of th...
- Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:04 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA - blocking with baskethilts
- Replies: 135
- Views: 429
If you all hate hand blocking and some of you hate plastic gauntlets, I wonder what you think of Bear Claws. These are popular in the Northern Region of the East Kingdom. Basically, they are huge plastic gauntlets that protect the hand, wrist and sometimes go partway over the forearm by the wrist. T...
- Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:39 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Win At All Cost (SCA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33
Hi Vitus. I agree Pennsic sometimes brings out the worst in people. But regardless of the setting, I find it harder to walk away from the idiots than I used to. Why? Because I realized that while most of the idiots are not likely to hurt me and I have a thick skin when it comes to insults from their...
- Mon Mar 10, 2003 8:21 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Win At All Cost (SCA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33
By the way, I do agree with Logan that the bulk of the SCA fighters are good people. It is unfortunately the nature of SCA combat, that if you have 2 complete morons or 2 decent people having a bad day that misbehave or create a commotion out of a field of 60 fighters, those 2 morons really catch pe...
- Mon Mar 10, 2003 8:04 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Win At All Cost (SCA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33
Over the years I have seen plenty of people who want to win so badly, that they do things that are inappropriate or downright illegal under our rules. Sometimes it is a decent human being having a bad day or doing something wrong by accident and not realizing it (shrugging off blows by not paying en...