The Armour Archive

Dmitriy

Brodir, uh... don't know how to say this, but I've been doing Rus Viking since I joined

The helmet isn't for me, and it's a surprise, so hush, all of you.

-D

Dmitriy

Make a closed helmet; weld a plate into the eyeslot so that you can't see. Put it on, and grab a sword. Have a floating thing shoot lasers at you. Try to block. Use the force. -Dmitriy (seriously? learn technique, adapt it to yourself, practice like crazy, and eventually you will reach the state of ...

Dmitriy

Hal, you posted on the authenticity forum iirc..

Dmitriy

My copy stands proudly on my bookshelf right next to Christian's "Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship". Since "K-punt" is a much shorter work, I often use it to introduce friends to world of fechtbooks. It never ceases to elicit wonder and amazement. I highly reccomend this manual.

Dmitriy

Order placed.

Dmitriy
book addict

Dmitriy

Here are mine:
14th century (minus the helmet by Patrick Thaden, it's a bascinet with a klapvisor, with a riveted aventail)
<img src=http://history.westkingdom.org/Year37/Photos/OC37.jpg>

And the 10th century Rus:
<img src=http://history.westkingdom.org/Year37/Photos/GWW09.jpg>

-Dmitriy

Dmitriy

Adam -- breathe, my friend..
http://history.westkingdom.org/Year36/Photos/MC04.htm

That's finals..

Kind of a standard shield size out here.

Dmitriy

Gilbert -- I have samples of riveted and welded stuff she can use, assuming I get it back eventually..
Shoot me an e-mail before the next Mission practice.

-Dmitriy

Dmitriy

No one's mentioned fabric scissors yet.. fabric stores really like to have someone do that sort of thing for their customers.

Dmitriy

Wow

Dmitriy

I don't suppose she might have better luck fighting left-handed? Put something in her right that doesn't require much shoulder (Duke Radnor uses a "broken lance")?

-Dmitriy

Dmitriy

Or a real samurai katana, those things cut machine gun barrels, a bit of stainless should be a walk in the park!

-Dmitriy
feeling silly today

Dmitriy

There might be folks who can help her on the Slavic Interest Group.. groups.yahoo.com/groups/sig if I recall correctly.

Dmitriy

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Broadway: How did you start out? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> A guy wearing garb and carrying a sword passed me on campus. Chased after him, grabbed his shoulder, jumped in front o...

Dmitriy

Not exactly a problem I've had -- but try not cutting as far "through" the surface. Keep everything the same, just aim two inches past the target instead of 4, or whatever.

-D

Dmitriy

There's a Gyldenholdt practice in Costa Mesa.. pretty far from you, but drivable.

I am sure there is a Los Angeles practice as well.

-Dmitriy

Dmitriy

Mrks, Pacific Time zone is -8 GMT

Dmitriy

Xgnome -- the SCA allows pretty much everything .. but I wouldn't wear it. You'll have plastic rings flying all over the place every time someone hits you.

Dmitriy

Count Alaric -- I think we may have already talked about this at the Pennsic where you were king, but maybe it was your squire -- I really think that although this overlap idea makes perfect sense to us intellectually, it wasn't actually done that way. Too many exceptions to the rule for it to be a ...

Dmitriy

JP -- yep, absolutely. Watch the bottom corner when you punch block at close range -- beginners sometimes jam that corner into the opponent's body, which is bad. Not beginnig fighters, I mean, beginners with the shield shape. The square lets you be a whole lot lasier than a round, which is both good...

Dmitriy

One of his sons (the Viscount) fights with a heater, so I guess that it works http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif . The key is not to make the heater too big so that it's still maneuverable, and not so small that you have to use it as a buckler instead of a regular shield. Also, use a flat he...

Dmitriy

The maille they had looks just like the flat welded shirt that I wear. That plastic stuff is good.

Dmitriy

Up, generally.
Never really paid any attention to sides.. couldn't tell you. I think I saw some ilustrations where lamellar appeared to alternate (one row left, the next right, and so on), but not sure.

Uh, this isn't as informative as I would like.

Dmitriy

Toss the sword and shield stuff.

The rest might be usable.

Dmitriy

Xander, This is boxing by mail. It's fruitless. There's a counter to everything; the trick is in doing thigns when the counter isn't likely. (for your example -- ok, you throw at my side, I cross-block, now your off-side head and your sword arm are open. Then you do something else, and I react...we ...

Dmitriy

Mandrake is usually there.

Dmitriy

Yeah, ig you are interested, pick up a book of Russian legends (byliny or biliny) -- he's probably the most famous hero of the bunch, so at least a few of the stories about him are bound to show up.

Dmitriy

Ethelrist -- yes, he was made a Laurel.

-Dmitriy

Dmitriy

These are for SCA, and while I would love to own some of Mr Hedgecock's armour, it's way out of my price range at the moment.

Dmitriy

Actually, I'd like to see a padded medieval polearm, Hjalmr
Last I checked they were all unpadded.. steel, even

Dmitriy

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by widow montoya: Waah! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/frown.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That's my consort.. dignified as ever..

Dmitriy

Who has quality leg armour in stock?
Not for a huge guy (5'9", 160 lb, fit).

-Dmitriy

Dmitriy

Have yet to break someone with a thrust, btw. Then again, the definition of touch seems to vary. A friend of mine spent an evening arguing this same point with someone (her insisting on power in face thrusts, him saying he'll take the lightest touch), and couldn't get him to even acknowledge anythin...

Dmitriy

Fair enough, Owen. I know what your armour looks like, I'll lighten the shot to your liking if I ever come across you. You know what mine looks like, please put some extra into it to make me happy. Agreed? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Logan -- I was at first as bemused by your anti-thr...

Dmitriy

Russ, I think the footman/horseman overlap is a myth. Norman has the detailed documentation, and all my books are packed away (moving), but basically lamellar almost always overlaps upwards -- among nomadic cultures as well as others -- and scale almost always overpaps downwards. I do not know why t...

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