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- Sat Mar 23, 2002 7:14 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Metaphors and analogies in fighting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10
we have lots of little sayings and visuals around here; "make the noise"-the involuntary hhhnnhhhugghhh sound when you cut someones gutty-works. IE, he made the noise that time "spanked"- wrap shot to the ass "wading in like Mechagodzilla"- cutting a swath through a line in a melee, comes from watch...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 10:07 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foot vs. Mounted combat
- Replies: 81
- Views: 157
- Sat Mar 09, 2002 7:03 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foot vs. Mounted combat
- Replies: 81
- Views: 157
kind of forgot one thing here. after having all ranks on both sides broken, I would ride away form yon single footman, and find a bunch of my buds on their horses, and come back and ride his silly ass down. after all, my job is to destroy the other armay, right? not fiddle around in single combat. W...
- Sat Mar 09, 2002 6:42 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foot vs. Mounted combat
- Replies: 81
- Views: 157
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Aelric: <B>Although I agree with this I have afunny story bout this. How many of you "heros" really think you'd have the balls to stand there with 1500 lbs barreling down on yo...
- Fri Mar 08, 2002 7:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foot vs. Mounted combat
- Replies: 81
- Views: 157
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SyrRhys: <B> LOL! You've never ridden, have you? You don't *outrun* a horse; you stand your ground and dodge aside at the last minute. A human can do that move more quickly tha...
- Fri Mar 08, 2002 7:07 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foot vs. Mounted combat
- Replies: 81
- Views: 157
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SyrRhys: <B> One technique that's missing from the manuals, and I don't know why, is to simply step to the rider's off side and cut hard into the forleg of the horse. You can d...
- Sat Feb 23, 2002 10:21 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Do I have to Fight this guy???!!!!!! (spin-off from CA threa
- Replies: 91
- Views: 56
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hushgirl: <B>So you'll only hit me if I don't move fast enough and shout loudly enough to suit you? Then it's honorable?</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> yep, thats the skinny on it...
- Fri Jan 04, 2002 8:42 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: I really hate SCA
- Replies: 26
- Views: 44
hey clay, I play in a ska band. Matter o fact, I'm even in the horn section. Trumpet even. what's wrong with horns with guitars? loosen up a bit and expand your horizons a bit, dude! anyone ever in the cleveland area, let me know and ill hook you up on the band list for free beers if you help carry ...
- Mon Dec 31, 2001 10:31 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Complaining!!!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5
- Mon Dec 31, 2001 10:28 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: shears
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8
think B3. you cant go wrong. of course you are talking about a couple of dollars wqith the B3. Check auctions that have tools and stuff like that. I live in Amish country and picked up a B3 at a Amish tool auction for $105.00 American. You can all feel jealous now. The same auction a three months la...
- Wed Dec 26, 2001 6:07 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: What do you people want?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 21
- Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:29 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Cranking it to ten
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15
I think that the poster who said "you really should take that shot. you don't want to make your opponant throw any harder than that" is pretty much right on the money. Usually I ask them something like "what about that one??" and if they still shrug it off, I just kind of raise one eyebrow and conti...
- Mon Nov 12, 2001 6:27 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: !4nth Cent Boots
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10
- Sun Oct 21, 2001 4:35 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Selling my Stallari Celata
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7
- Mon Oct 08, 2001 7:10 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Calling Light
- Replies: 34
- Views: 20
ok, just my two cents on the calibration thing. as for myself, you gotta hit me so that i feel dead. when i feel dead, i fall down. if i don't feel dead, i swing at your head. once in a great while, an opponant, usually a newer fighter, will say something like "how about those wraps/head shots/legs ...
- Wed Sep 05, 2001 3:35 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: force levels at pennsic 30 (long, sorry)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20
not step on a poisenous snake? of course you do. I didnt mean to imply that at all. what i meant was the problems ive been reading about are problems with individuals, not the system. it just seems to me that there are some people who dont assume their opponant is as honorable as they themselves are...
- Sat Sep 01, 2001 6:14 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: force levels at pennsic 30 (long, sorry)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20
force levels at pennsic 30 (long, sorry)
not many of you know me on sight, but I fight with Darkyard for the Midrealm. I've been reading alot of posts on this and other boards about "disturbing trends" involving force levels at sca wars. I've really not noticed anything at pennsic 30 to say that I can see any kind of trend to escalation of...
- Sat Sep 01, 2001 4:46 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pics: Milanese bucket, barbute in progress
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15
- Tue Jul 31, 2001 6:08 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: petranella, you need pattens?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2
petranella, you need pattens?
hey, if you need pattens, I'm making myself a new pair for pensic this weekend, if you can get me a tracing of your feet, one left and one right, I can do two pair with not much more sweat. I do the late fourteenth century thing, so if your interested, email me or something quick. ------------------...
- Wed Jul 25, 2001 3:32 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Pavilions for Pennsic
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2
- Fri Jul 20, 2001 8:11 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Arming coat for sale, excellent condition
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5
- Mon Jul 09, 2001 5:23 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Eagles-Talon Armory - any comments?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3
- Mon Jul 02, 2001 2:53 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: sca spear construction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7
- Sun Jul 01, 2001 6:51 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: sca spear construction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7
sca spear construction
anyone have any new bright ideas on spear construction? I've made a few of the things and have never been truely satisfied with any of the construction methods I've used. Either a bit tip heavy or too stiff or just "not right". I'm finally going to make spears out of the fiberglass shafts I have lef...
- Mon Jun 25, 2001 8:34 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Stakes and stakeplates
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10
if the stake doesnt match the hole in the plte really well, make sure that the stake bears on the top of the hole rather than the bottom, otherwise you are askin g to blow the bottom out of the plate. Never happened to me, but a friend who was working in my shop did just that with a stake/plate hole...
- Mon Jun 11, 2001 8:17 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Full plate: possible for sca combat?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 688
My 14 guage butted suit with coif, haulberk, chausses and mittens, with steel greaves, knees, rondels and barrel helm, shield, sword and spear buried the scale at 300 lbs, [/B][/QUOTE] Is the 300lbs. a typo or are you just really really sick? 300 sounds high but I dont wear much maille and cant reca...
- Wed Jun 06, 2001 8:33 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: This somewhat like SCA combat....has anyone ever worked riot
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28
done quite a bit of crowd control. primarily from horseback. I work for the lake county metroparks mounted unit and we render mutual aid for the surounding departments. crowd control is alot easier with horses. when you think about it, mounted plice are ten feet tall. ------------------ Johnathon pa...
- Mon Jun 04, 2001 8:39 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Attn: Egg Armoury
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10
- Mon Jun 04, 2001 8:34 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Gambeson materials
- Replies: 12
- Views: 26
seems to me the felt would be restrictive a bit and hot hot hot besides. as for felt being period, put a couple layers of wool in a gambeson, sweat in it as you fight a couple of times and walla, felt. ok, so its not quite as simple as that, but the end result is the same. wool+wet+pressure makes fe...
- Sun Jun 03, 2001 9:48 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Doppelsoldnering ain't easy(the return)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 559
- Tue May 29, 2001 5:07 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: HtB: Clarification requested
- Replies: 47
- Views: 21
harold, will you please delete this thread NOW? this is getting stupid and is wasting alot of bandwidth. just say that you have no documentation and were talking out the wrong end again. please stop this thread, it is doing uyou no good service to continue ------------------ Johnathon pax, pax, est ...
- Sun May 27, 2001 7:07 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I need help with measurements
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3
- Sat May 26, 2001 9:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Are Warhammers Legal in SCA?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20
yep, come to the cleftlands fight practice on wednesday nights. let me know if you need directions. couple of guys have used hammers in the past, and i've been using one as a sidearm the last couple of events. emailing me is best, i check that most days, but dont get to surf the archive much lately,...
- Sat May 26, 2001 8:57 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I need help with measurements
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3
- Fri Apr 13, 2001 8:44 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Shop Safety
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7
never thought about dissimalar metals, but then i dont let piles of dust build up. I'm a steel fabricator by trade, and we once had a small fire in the dust collector of our shot blaster. Nasty little bugger, wouldnt go out for hours. got the fd in to handle it, didnt want to be responsible for a bi...