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Blaine de Navarre

benz72 wrote:does anybody know of a boot guy (or gal) who will replace soles on combat boots?

Just about any shoe repair place should be able to handle that.

Blaine de Navarre

I was planning on it (even posted on another thread I'd be there), but family stuff has come up. I'm bummed about missing Christian's knighting.

Y'all have fun.

Blaine de Navarre

I'll speak up as a warranted Caidan marshal. Most of us will accept modern shoes of dark leather or canvas with no visible logos, sport-shoe striping, bright white soles, etc. If the Nike swoosh is, say, black-on-black, then it can be a close call whether it's too obvious or not. Lots of guys wear w...

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Sigifrith Hauknefr wrote:Duke Henrik (first King) I have also seen in armor a couple times in the last year, he won the 3rd Tournament in the SCA in 1966.

I know I have seen Henrik post very occasionally on the Archive.

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The only reason Luther isn't in the same league with Mac, Thaden, and those guys is that he still tries to balance high quality and historic accuracy with the needs of SCA fighters. I have no doubt he could produce work of the absolute highest level if he ever focused on it, and what he does produce...

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I'm 57, born in February of 1952. And you, Aaron, can attest to my active status, as can several others on the Archive. I knew of someone out in the western reaches who continued to fight into his 60s, but that was some time ago. One of the Houghtons, as I recall. The last time I saw His Grace Will...

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Baron Conal wrote:Do you include your SCA home kingdom in your persona's story?

In my persona story, "Caid" is the name of a round table, or tournament company, formed in Cyprus between the 2nd and 3rd Crusades.

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Go Chain Gang!

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I live in a fuzzy period somewhere between mid-12C and 1stQ-13C, in a geographical area roughly encompassing Ireland, England, Normandy, the Pyrenees, Champagne, Sicily, Cyprus, the Crusader States, and the Byzantine Empire. I actually have a "persona story" accounting for when I was in ea...

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Steel-Mastery,

What is your turn-around time for clothing items right now?

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Potrero

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Thigvald wrote:What should I recommend to him once I re-dye the damn thing again? lol The guy wants something to keep it clean over time.

Drill Sergeant Rodriquez wrote:Dedication, Kiwi, and a diaper!

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If anyone you don't know hands you something and says, "drink this," either turn them down or expect your immediate future to become somewhat unpredictable. You have been warned.

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Erik D. Schmid

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... Your characterising them as being formed to actively participate in campaigns is incorrect. I made no such characterization. My specific words were, "made knights for service in arms." They served in a military capacity (if only the one time) and were rewarded for it with knighthood. ...

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Ashmole, The Institution, Laws, and Ceremony of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (1672), Ch. 3, sect. 3: "The example is of the Noble Women of Tortosa in Aragon, and recorded by Josef Micheli Marquez, who plainly calls them Cavalleros or Knights, or may I not rather say Cavalleras, seeing I ...

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Can anyone say the same about any of the other examples (or anyone else from a nation or culture where the specific term "knight" can be applied) Order of La Hacha, Tortosa, 1149. Does not address the original question, as these ladies definitely did not engage in tournaments, but they we...

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What is now Estrella was originally Burro Creek, then it was Great Desert ("affectionately" called "Kitty Box" by those of us who were there) for two years before moving to Estrella Mountain Park; it has continued to be called "Estrella" despite no longer being at Estre...

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Only in a few kingdoms. In most of the SCA thrusts on the side or top of the head are good, but must be full force, unlike a face thrust that is lighter.

I'm not sure, but I think Meridies may be one of the no head thrust kingdoms...check with your local Marshal.

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Sigifrith Hauknefr wrote:Uh, sleeves suck. I am going to try to figure out a way to fit it better.

Yeah, the arm holes on the Indian shirts tend to be a little wonky. I bought some extra rings, planning on doing a little tailoring, but then let it slide so long I just got used to fighting with 'em that way.

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I admire the hell out of guys like Leo who wear lots of armour and fight very well, even if they don't quite break into the absolute top echelon of our sport. I admire the hell out of guys who fight at the highest level in a kidney belt. When (not if) someone pushes himself to do both, I will be awe...

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I'd call that helmet right around 1200. By 1250 you'd be wearing a barrel helm.

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Hit it first with "Brasso," then finish with a rouge cloth. That's as clean as you're gonna get it, so if it's not the color you want at that point, it's a different composition alloy and that's that.

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If I focus on anything, it is roughly the hand and ricasso of the sword. But, on a good day, I'm not focused on anything, but rather grokking the whole fight.

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Ingvarr wrote:Definitely not something you want to find out the hard way.

Hell, I don't even want to find it out the light, tippy way

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Jestyr wrote:So, for those who are both a Knight and a Duke, which honor do you most cherish?

I am neither, but I wall pass along something that was told by a Duke of my acquaintance: winning Crown is about what you can do on your best day; knighthood is about what you can do every day, even your worst.

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Dirk in Caid was a Duke before he was a knight. Caid has had 2 other unbelted Kings; both were knighted while Counts.

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I had recently seen a slow-motion demonstration of I.33 unarmed sword and buckler by some members of La Belle Compagnie at an LH timeline event. At my subsequent local practice I was mentally comparing that with what the some of the heavy fighters seemed to be doing with rattan, armor, and big shie...

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Sir Talbot, you do rocketh mightily.

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Although I gather that SCA rattan combat developed before the WMA movement, so it's not that SCA combat is based on period manuals but that SCA fighters independently developed techniques that turned out to be similar to the manuals, because all are based on body mechanics and physics. Is that a mo...

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The masters of the day who were writing about their techniques are pretty clear about the foolhardy nature of excessive force, overcommitment, etc. In fact, Fiore refers to the fully-committed, big arcing, overhead blow as the "peasant's cut." Nothing a trained swordsman would ever do.

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Rhiannon of the Wildflowers Mmmm, one of my first boyhood crushes. One of the reasons I still like chick fighters so much. a top heavy red Norman helm borrowed from then Count Sir Armand de Sevigny He still has that beast sitting on a shelf. You, Igrain, myself, and quite a few other newbies have a...

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Sigifrith Hauknefr wrote:So, that's even weirder.... vendel splints, but then no one uses them for 500 years?... it just seems odd that everyone stopped wearing hard stuff on their shins.

They also stopped wearing hard stuff on their cheeks and back of their heads about the same time. Don't ask me why.

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Me, I like beatin' up chix. 'Specially the cheeky ones who go around flashin' white belts as if they know ehat they were doin'.

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THIS would never happen in the SCA.

Re: your SCA home kingdom and your SCA persona