The Armour Archive

Leo Medii

Another one I am using for reference.

Leo Medii

I hope the captains ban SCA butt banners for the deed in future.

Look like this-

But not JUST like that cause that is me.

Leo Medii

WOW! You look AWESOME!!!!!

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Mistress Adrielle is the bomb.

+1

Leo Medii

I have decided that I am going to keep the armor as the time/thing I needed the $ for has passed.

Leo Medii

Ah, my leg harness now is one of Valerius' earlier works (early 90's I think). It's a tank, and looks bad as hell to boot! His stuff is sweet.

Leo Medii

Are those heat treated?

And-

Where are you learning to do it!?!?!?!?!

Damn those are fine!

Leo Medii

Wow, your stuff looks GREAT man!

Check your PM's!

Leo Medii

There is more than an armor requirement.

You MUST have the right mindset to fight this deed.

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Will do! Thanks. I'll send it out Monday. It made the rounds at the Darkyard FP, lots of guys interested in the maille.

Leo Medii

Hey Ice, can you contact me about the hauberk you sent me before war? I used it for the first time yesterday at practice and it might be the wrong size. I don't think it's an XXL as it was pretty tight and I'm not near a 66" chest.
Thanks!

Leo Medii

What do you call real combat experience? I don't train to fight SCA. I train to kill people in medieval warfare. In the SCA, I have to turn off things that would kill most "sport" fighters. There is a huge difference between sparring and killing. What I saw in the video was sparring. Call...

Leo Medii

Pic now.

Standard re-enactment Kote. Black laquered.

Leo Medii

have you found the box with the kote yet?

Yes, pics to follow.

PIC-

$125.00

Leo Medii

A lot of people here must have no real combat experience outside the SCA.

From reading all these, that is what I come up with.

Leo Medii

21-23 1/2" length arms would be best.

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After watching the videos I have a question. How much experience do the people doing the test have? I notice that in many parts there is a timidity to the passes, and that the person with the longsword exploits almost no opportunity to close, much less grapple or switch technique. I would like to ad...

Leo Medii

I weight and balance my rattan swords just like the real swords. I even taper the grip in the same way, so there is not difference to me in handing. The real swords seem to fly through the air faster since they cut the air better. In that sense our SCA techniques work better with a real sword. Awes...

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How close you were to me. That's the dilema. In the SCA wrap whots are used to exploit the rule that one can not grapple, grab, or attempt to disarm. The problem with an SCA wrap shot in it's practical use in the SCA is that if I am close enough to you to throw the wide arc to the back of the head ...

Leo Medii

I use PRECISELY the same shot I've seen demonstrated to me by ducal-level SCA guys to describe wrap shots, in order to throw disembowling cuts to the front of my opponent, sufficiently precisely that I've had opponents in Hungary come back to me to find out how it is I kept cutting them in the exac...

Leo Medii

IMHO if over 60 nobles in appropriate kit appear at a CotT we should thank God for the blessing and the Captains for their hard work. Then we have them all participate once we even the numbers. DING! Then, when we have enough...we can have our OWN battles at Pennsic.....muahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa

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Sold....to the first $ I saw my way.

Leo Medii

I know what to do in a sword and buckler fight.

I do! Kick him right squaaar in the nutz!

Leo Medii

I think folks have pretty well trashed the claims that a wrap shot won't cut. Clearly it will. And I can throw the sword at a tatami mat and cut it. I did not say they won't cut. I can make ANY blow with a sword cut. I'm saying that the "wrap shot" is not a widely used or useful technique...

Leo Medii

Your "just for LARP" kit is nicer than 95% of the SCA!

Agreed!

Leo Medii

geometry IS an issue. In my experience in armored steel full contact fighting with grappling, the wrap shot is just too dangerous a technique to apply in a single combat scenario. From that, and 14 years of serious SCA fighting have lead me to believe that the reason that wrap shots work so well in...

Leo Medii

I have to admit a certain smug glee seeing the "wrap shots don't work with real swords, man" get righteously refuted. Am I bad for that? Wrap shots work because the rules of the SCA allow them to function and thrive. I have to say, if the SCA allowed grappling and full body target wrap sh...

Leo Medii

Works for me.

+1

It is now in the hands of those in it for the glory of the combat and the brutality and joy of the deed, and less in the hands of those "the next cool or new thing".

Leo Medii

Ice, do you sell replacement rings, or seperate open rings with rivets?

Leo Medii

Not to give away any secrets to Murdock, but I want to look EXACTLY like those guys. Full armored. Nothing "for less weight, for less heat, for whatever". Nothing plastic. Nothing stainless. I want to stand next to one of them and not look out of place. I finally figured out what I lost in...

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When the 30 started it was such a fresh concept that you had sitting royalty and Super Duke getting harness together to do it...a lot of those folks never came back...why? I can give my brutally honest assessment on this if you would like. And Effingham, that is my new harness. http://img.photobuck...

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On hold. Working out shipping details with buyer.

Leo Medii

It wasn't brutal enough last year I heard. SO, my wife and I would like to fight, and we already permenant markered Pennsic in for 09 since we both had such awful withdrawl being unable to go last year.

And, someone has to wear the most armor....