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Blaine de Navarre

Mark a pell into 6 parts roughly corresponding to knee-to-hip, hip-to-shoulder, and head levels, right and left. Number them. Throw 1-1, 1-2, 1-3â€¦, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3â€¦, and so on. If you want to build on it add in wrap shots at the 3 levels and a vertical shot to the center line. Throw in thrusts if ...

Blaine de Navarre

Damn, why you got to be so skinny...

Blaine de Navarre

Here's my current plan. I haven't got it up and running yet, so I'll have to let you know how it works. I want to take our regular Tues night practice "on the road" once a month, holding it at local colleges and universities. We have just enough schools in the Barony that hitting one a mon...

Blaine de Navarre

The rules and conventions of SCA fighting heavily favor sword and shield. Anyone who choses any other form as his/her primary is choosing to do things the hard way. This is not intended to discourage you. There are awesome fighters in just about any weapons form. But be realistic about how much hard...

Blaine de Navarre

If you have access to archaic technology, practice reading the label on a spinning LP. I've yet to hear of anyone who can do a 45, my own goal is to be the first. If you can do a 78, you are the Archangel Michael and end times are at hand.

Blaine de Navarre

the current Prince and Princess of Caid are both knights... how do they handle what are traditionally considered the Queen's (non-martial) duties? In Caid, battlefield command is by the Captain General, with the Royalty and their household typically deployed as DECOYS, which works just as well with...

Blaine de Navarre

Donal Mac Ruiseart wrote:
Dmitriy wrote:[Y]ou should hear of the kinds of shenenigans a bachelor King who's not at Pennsic can get up to at Pennsic..

How can a King who's not at Pennsic get into any shennanigans at Pennsic?

OUTLANDS!

Blaine de Navarre

How do you accidentally win crown? Well, the fast track would be to: 1. Have your wife be pregnant and due 1 week after you step up. 2. Have your car's transmission go out on your way to Crown Tournament 3. Have no job or have a good chance of loosing your job prior to fighting Crown 4. convince yo...

Blaine de Navarre

There is a very fine line between caring too little for one's own renown and caring too much. It is well for any of us to seek the guidance of our betters in this matter, and it is especially important that men defer to the opinions of the fairer sex.

Blaine de Navarre

Paging Brother Amos.

Blaine de Navarre

Here's how I learned to hang a heater: 1. Dangle the shield and a plumb bob by the right corner and draw a line. 2. Do the same from the left corner. 3. You now have an "X" marking the exact center of balance. 4. Align the enarmes along one of the 2 axes (depending on whether you are a pro...

Blaine de Navarre

I fight in it, and have no complaints.

Blaine de Navarre

College of San Ambrogio Champion Tourney, many, MANY years ago now. Wasn't anything special, just standard double-elim, but it was my first time to the final 4, besting several knights on the way, and the day I realized I might not totally suck at this. And, this may be a bit of oversharing, but lat...

Blaine de Navarre

Ceddie wrote:You know, more injuries, in SCA combat, can be attributed to the use of rattan than anything else.

I beg to differ. The overwhelming majority of SCA injuries are caused directly by fat, out-of-shape guys running balls-out on uneven ground.

Blaine de Navarre

Steel.

Blaine de Navarre

I'd be really happy if they put Mediaval European Jewellery back in print.

Blaine de Navarre

Eirk D Schmid makes hands-down the best mail, and he's in Minnesota. Last I checked he was very expensive and had a long waiting list, and even he was working on a deal to have some of his work done in India.

No one in the US or Canada can really compete with the Indians on price.

Blaine de Navarre

Somewhere either here or on Swordforum there was a set of instructions to make one much like the ones Aaron posted, but I'm too lazy to search for it right now...anyone else remember the link?

Blaine de Navarre

It's for everyone who wants it . Other than genuine disabilities, anyone who is basically physically and mentally functional can do it, and even some people with some real disabilities have done OK. I have personally seen people from unhealthily skinny to morbidly obese, in decent shape to wheezing ...

Blaine de Navarre

Thanks!

Blaine de Navarre

I am looking for any and all representations of birds in any medium from Western/Northern Europe (Germanic/Nordic/Celtic) from the Late Migration to Early High Middle ages (maybe 900-1200 or so). I have already found a number of them googling, but would love it if anyone has some links I have missed...

Blaine de Navarre

Tally, As Audax mentioned, I fight with a shield not too different from the one in your picture. Mine is 20"W x 40"L, and I have the grip at the exact center of balance (from eyeballing it, it looks to me like the one in your picture may have the grip higher, causing more weight below the ...

Blaine de Navarre

Congratuations to Sven & Kolfinna, Caid's new Crown Prince & Princess! Count Sven overcame Duke Dietrich von Vogelsang, fighting for the honor of Duchess Adriana von Vogelsang, in a 2 out of 3 final. Rounding out the final four were Sir Mons von Gorshausen(sp?) and Sir Wilhelm Skalla Grim.

Blaine de Navarre

Here are the things I would emphasize with a potentially interested look-e-loo: 1) If all they've seen so far is a demo or practice, they need to get to an actual event to see if the SCA really interests them beyond the stick-swinging part. 2) Despite appearances, SCA fighting is actually very safe;...

Blaine de Navarre

Overall, this kit is pretty well above average for the SCA already. I agree with everyone on the helmet. The modern boots aren't exactly horrible with the schynbalds covering a lot of them, but they would be the next thing I'd change after the helmet. Either Revival low boots or some "cover-ups...

Blaine de Navarre

Definitely non-SCA...

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Blaine de Navarre

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:I say that the East and Midrealm should gather all applicable allies and we should invade the Known World West of the Mississippi.

Hmm, seems we have an available date for this encounter some time in February. We'll look forward to seeing y'all.

Blaine de Navarre

Tally wrote:Here's Gunther of House Bloodguard. Anyone know who his opponent is?

The shield is that of the Prince of the Mists. I don't know the gent personally, but a quick look at the Mists web site says his name is Sigfrith. I have seen him post here on the Archive.

Blaine de Navarre

I first joined the SCA in AS 13, and have heard the oral history and seen the pictures going back into the low single digits, though not quite to the absolute beginning. From what I have seen, Cavaliers/Musketeers, Classical Greeks, Samurai, and Robert E. Howard types have always been with us. In th...

Blaine de Navarre

Your go-to guys for Byzantine will be D. Sebastian and Egfroth. You may want to PM them if they don't poke their heads into this thread.

Blaine de Navarre

The only thing I disagree with you on in this post is that people tend to fight the same way that they train. I once saw a 2nd Dan blackbelt who did a lot of point tournies front snap kick a guy in a fight with a pulled kick and then set his foot back and freeze for a moment. I assume he was reflex...

Blaine de Navarre

In my estimation, a martial art is whatever training that teaches how to defeat a violent, uncooperative opponent. Boxing does that, rattan stick fighting does that, ARMA training does that. These guys do that. m Are they a martial art? I took my first judo class at age 6, and I can tell you a bunc...

Blaine de Navarre

I think Blaine meant more that SCA fighting had prepared him for all the tiny variables of a real fight more than practicing kata did, since he had the chance to move at full speed with an opponent who wasn't trying to demonstrate or work on the same techniques he was. Which would give you a better...

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Wow blaine, does this mean you are angry or constipated... When I joined the SCA 29 years ago, all the training anyone got, or gave, was "hold it by this end, hit with that end, try to block with this thing, if you hit too light they won't take it, if you hit too hard thay won't like you, and ...

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It is perhaps well to remember that for all of our chest-thumping, any of us can still be brought low by fate in the form of the tiniest things.

Best wishes to your man for a full and quick recovery.

Request: Bird Motif

Sven & Kolfinna Win Caid Crown

Re: Pennsic Unbelted Champions Videos