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Blaine de Navarre

If he's intentionally trapping your weapon, then you are justified in doing whater it takes to get him off, up to and including tossing him across the field (assuming you're that strong).

If he's accidentally got your weapon tangled up in his gear somehow, then you stop the fight and untangle.

Blaine de Navarre

Yep, you want Milanese to be as close as possible to that fantasy kit with a real period style.

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Ciar had a bum wrist last time I saw her, so my guess is she's sitting this one out.

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This is gonna be a tough one; usually I can call the final 4 with some degree of accuracy, but I can't narrow this one down to fewer than 6 strong contenders.

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OK, since we've drifted away from fighting pics - this one includes a pretty high percentage of my favorite people in the world:

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Leo Medii wrote:Can a madu have blades going up and down like Darth Maul's lightsaber?

Only if you make the "waaanh, waaanh" light saber sound when using it.

Blaine de Navarre

I didn't think there would be any "chaise longue"'s in medieval Europe but I just had to check. Bear in mind that it was considered entirely proper to receive guests while lying in your bed. (Which, BTW, is still more modest than the Romans, who were known to conduct business while sittin...

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Sean Powell wrote:(I hope I'm spelling that right)

It's "chaise longue." It's French for "long chair."

Blaine de Navarre

Don't mess with historical fiction, just go to the source. Pick up the Eddas and sagas for Norse, Ulrich von Lichtenstein and Wulfram von Eshenbach (sp?) for High Middle Ages German. Supplement with just about any basic history textbook on the periods in question.

Blaine de Navarre

Except the titles are switched on the "gauntlets" and "mail standard" pics, so he's not actually wearing it yet in the one that says it...

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Do you have a power drill? If so, you can find buffing wheels that fit it.

It really is a lot easier with power tools than elbow grease. Really.

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Mail rox.

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Dayumn

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Yeah, I fought with a heater for years, then switched to a center grip kite. It took me over a year with the new shield before I stopped feeling like a total retard. I wasn't at what you'd call the peak of my fighting ability when I made the switch, though, so hopefully you'll pick it up quicker tha...

Blaine de Navarre

Your Grace,

Do yours work with wedge-rivets or just dome-rivets?

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OK, sorry I mis-read your first post. 1) The leg shot - hips and upper thighs are notoriously hard to arm well and still be able to move, and polearms hit hard, so a polearm shot above the cuisse giving you a 2-day limp is within the normal range of bad things that can happen in SCA fighting. The go...

Blaine de Navarre

4 Vicodin?!?!?!?!? Dude, if you get that sore from one fighting practice, you are in such poor condition it is a wonder you can even stand up under your own power. And, trust me, riding a bicycle in SF will likely kill you. Or else, you may want to take a look at your drug habit. Either problem wil...

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Snort

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Start here:

http://medieval.webcon.net.au/extant_insignia_holy_roman.html

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On another thread, JT mentioned that he is uber-busy and won't have as much time to focus on the Archive as usual until next week. I'm guessing he'll get it all sorted out then.

Considering how much he does for us for free, I'm OK with some issues not being fixed instantaneously.

Blaine de Navarre

$325 or less for an Icefalcon is very reasonable.

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$150 is kind of low unless someone has some used gear they're looking to unload.

Best deal I'm aware of on "starter kits" is Stonekeep.

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With that outfit, you wouldn't need to bring your own tent, food, or alcohol, either.

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As with many other trick shots, once you're familiar with it, it's not actually that hard to shut down.

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My guess is the game designers will not have designed them to reward actual good body mechanics, so for physical training they will not be very good and possibly even counterproductive. On the other hand, I know of one Duke who swears by "shoot 'em up" video games for improving your visual...

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I haven't made up my mind whether this diagram is quite right, but it is roughly what we seem to all be saying...

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As long as the skinniest "edge" is equivalent to 1-1/4" diameter, it's good.

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I was recently regaled with the story of a bar-b-q that started with supper on the hoof and a little test-cutting. I'm told with proper technique one can take a head clean off with one cut.

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Bastior wrote:
Konstantin the Red wrote:
HDPE bucket plastic, preferably 90-100 mil thickness

25.4mm = 1"

'nuff said ..?

B

He didn't say anything about millimeters. 1 mil = 1/1000"

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MJBlazek wrote:now here's a follow up question.

After you have de-greased it, how do you clean off the de-greaser/keep it from rusting immediately!

In Vitus's case, it is stainless, so no worries.

If you have mild steel mail like I do, Evapo-Rust is your friend.

Blaine de Navarre

BTW, in case you were wondering, you won't find a helmet exactly like your picture in any time or place prior to the late 20th century.

That is a heavily SCAified helmet meant to more or less resemble the type of helmet Gregory posted.

Blaine de Navarre

I wear a kidney belt and a tunic under my mail.

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Unless the mail were an extremely fine weave, making fingered gloves out of it would render your hand all but useless. Not that a weave that fine was necessarily beyond the abilities of the period, but I'd really want to see a lot clearer evidence before I'd buy it.

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if you haven't tried mixing a bit of sekanjabin into seltzer, I recommend giving it a go. Really wonderful the way it expands the flavors and aroma. Damn, that sounds really, really good. Gonna hafta try that one. BTW, Halbrust, experiment a lot with exactly how much mint and exactly how much to di...

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