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Ingvarr

I will give you everything I own to sleep with your armor bag for one night.

Ingvarr

I'm disappointed by the whole thing personally. Not because it's being done but because I have no family on that list. I have sent some messages to some people telling them that they need to rectify the situation.

Ingvarr

Windrose

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My three:

1) Have fun.
2) Don't break your toys.
3) Don't be a dick.

Ingvarr

He posted here a few days ago.

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... t=#1661248

Ingvarr

I'll also have 24, 30, 48, 60 and 72 inch lengths available... I know I would be interested, but I would have to buy a 48" and throw away 10" to build a sword (my end-to-end blanks are consistently 38" long). You'ld pick up a bigger area under the "curve" if you offered a 3...

Ingvarr

Note that I said "in my experience". I'm sure there are TONS of great Chirurgeons out there.. I've actually met a few! But the majority I have met I wouldn't let trim a toenail, let alone go at my armor with a set of leather shears. Broad brush much, Maeryk? I've personally seen someone w...

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I'm not sure that's what it is. The Chiurgeanate(sp?) as a whole seems to be pretty serious about reporting injuries that they know about, but they have to know about it. I think that the vast majority of the time, people get hurt on the field and don't figure out that they are injured until they ar...

Ingvarr

Losing by being forced out of the area is the way these often go down but is actually a corruption of the intent of the holmgang. Losing by leaving the designated area happened because the person showed cowardice in running off. Losing because you have less body mass and can be shoved isn't the same...

Ingvarr

Mac wrote:I have not yet found Waldo. Have You?

Bottom left corner.

He's partially obscured so it's tricky.

Ingvarr

Interesting that no one is wearing gauntlets... :shock: Gregoir, I hate to be known as the sort of guy who shouts the battle cry of the Laurel ("No! You're wrong!"), but you might have another look at that image. Although most of them have bare hands; I count four men wearing gauntlets. T...

Ingvarr

But if it's not a shield but a basket on a weapon, blocking with the basket (hand, illegal target) would be target substitution and it should be taken as an arm. There's a slippery slope. I see basket blocks made all the time. Not so much a slippery slope, but possibly a grey area. Never seen it ob...

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Diglach mac Cein wrote:Perhaps the bards will recall it to others - but what story will they tell?

Historically, they most likely would. In the SCA, there's not a bard alive who is going to write The Ballad of King Uberthug the Horn Nose.

Ingvarr

I continue to throw the best shots I can and continue to wait for him to land a good shot on me. I think that in a tourney fight, any tourney, conversation is and should be conducted with weapons not mouths. I would be more than happy to discuss it with him after the round if he wanted to. Whn it al...

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Out of curiousity. I assume that the shield part of the madu is fixed to the weapon part, so... is it considered to be a shield with "elongated" thrusting tips or is it a stick with two points, with a big cup hilt in the middle? If the shield and the double-pointed-stick were separate ite...

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I still dont understand why some object to a Norseman using an axe in his left hand. I mean, look at this quite obviously genuine primary source illumination... http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2009/242/7/3/Viking_vs__Shark_by_SharpWriter.jpg I'm calling bullshit on this one. He is obviously an ev...

Ingvarr

I thought he answered that pretty clearly.

Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote: So what happens is the locals start calling lighter, then shortly thereafter they start throwing lighter.

Ingvarr

Moral dilemmas, fun. Unless I was in that situation, I can't be completely sure what I would do. What I would like to think that I would do, and what I hope that I would do though are to do my best to deliver a telling blow to Lord Uberthug but acknowledging and yielding any good blows that he lands...

Ingvarr

Move to Atenveldt. We fight outside year round.

Ingvarr

So, MY PERSONAL FLAVOUR will be: This is the big problem that you are going to have in getting a wide range of acceptance in this. Just right here on the archive, in less than a week, we have at least three different flavors and at least two different names. I'm a CAD Monkey for a living and someth...

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The argument is that it has nothing speaking for it except sentiment. That and fewer injuries possible. Aaron said that he believed that knee fighting had a chance of causing damage but a smaller chance than every aspect of our fighting from our feet. Perhaps we should ban everything but knee fight...

Ingvarr

Aaron, Banning knee fighting for a reign would probably get some whining and bitching, kinda like the thrust ban, but people would deal with it. Plate and mail requirement for crown might get you lynched. There are a whole lot more people in the SCA, many with awesome and historically accurate kits,...

Ingvarr

I would do some serious testing with various sized rubber bands before finalizing your design. In my rubber band experience which has nothing at all to do with RBGs, larger rubber bands often lose energy really fast and don't do well over distance. There are some rubber bands that are made for file ...

Ingvarr

The fish is a pike isn't it? That means you can thrust with it. Repeated head thrusts is the only thing missing from Nissan's picture.

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Gee, not a loaded poll for the Archive at all! What's next? "Should we allow exposed blue plastic armor on the field?" or "Do Scottish fighters with katans and scutums add anything to our game?" . OMG my dreams would be fulfilled if I could tell everyone my scottish blue plastic...

Ingvarr

It's still the fighter who received the blow who makes the final call on it. I have had people tell me not to take a blow because of X and I have thanked them and continued, I've also had people tell me about X and I mention Y which was the reason i felt it to be good regardless of X. I was intendin...

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I have no idea what you are completely disagreeing with? I said ONLY those two fighters can call the shot!!! I am disagreeing with this JB, And you assume to much by saying the shots are no good. He's not assuming anything. The shots were not taken so the shots were not good. No assumption required...

Ingvarr

JB, And you assume to much by saying the shots are no good. Your not in his armor ether. Those two fighter get to say "yes, or, no" What you are doing is no better than the comments on youtube. I disagree completely. One person and one person only can decide if the shots are good or not. ...

Ingvarr

Here's one on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/MEDIEVAL-BATTLE-Eur ... 0413121520

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http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... ght=pavise

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We may spend LESS time on our knees than say a plumber, tilesetter or electrician... but WHILE we're on our knees, we are orders of magnitude more abusive to them. I'm calling bullshit on this one. m My knees suck, hell, my general fitness sucks. For quite a while after my knee surgery, I took legs...

Ingvarr

You may be right, I'll have to look into it some more. I was under the impression that the AS futhark post-dated the VA in quite a few of its unique runes. I may be misremembering.

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I can seriously see marshals trying to bounce that. It doesn't look like rattan. Bacon looks at this axe and says "DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!"

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The Anglo-Saxon futhark is later than the viking age.

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Windrose does.

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