The Armour Archive

Dmitriy

In case anyone is wondering what I am talking about -- http://www.creative-net.net/~armour/002.html

Dmitriy

Oh man.

Oh man, oh man, oh man.

I love the bazubands.
I mean, I really love the bazubands. I mean, if I had a car, I'd sell it to get the money

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Dmitriy

Oh man there's tea all over the monitor.. and it's not even my computer..

Dmitriy

Bob -- you'd probably be better off e-mailing him, he doesn't read this board much.

-D

Dmitriy

Sir Alail -- I still can't believe I got that helmet from you for $110.. and the more time I spend looking at other armourers, the more I realize just how much of a deal it was! Thank you very much, it's two years later and I still get compliments on it (and I always refer people to you! Don't have ...

Dmitriy

Definately period for various Rus and Steppe people's helms.

Dunno about Europe.

Dmitriy

LR -- but I tink you would agree that to land a blow on a competent fighter with power is harder than to land a blow on the said fighter without power? Further, I think you might agree that if a technique is not *capable* of generating power, it is not a good technique. If, however, the technique *i...

Dmitriy

Oh.. btw.. the idea that there was a Viking group called "Rus" has been debunked fairly severely. Not to say that the Vikings did not have an influence in Kievian Russia, they most certainly did (alhtough, as Norman said, historians get really passionate about how much influence that was). You might...

Dmitriy

Do not take light shots. Explain to them *why* you are not taking them. Show how to throw a powerful shot. Make sure that if you throw light you do not let them take it. This is important -- it's amazing how many people were more willing to go along with my harder-hitting philosophy after I called b...

Dmitriy

Just in case you need anything else -- here's a list of the ones I have:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sca/kateslibrary.html

Can't really scan whole articles, but if there are specific things you want looked up I can do that for you.

Dmitriy

Whoa.. is that just me or is the gent in the chapel du fer using a center-gripped round shield? I mean, I know about the troubles these drawings have with scaling things appropriately, but this just seems way too large to be a buckler.

Dmitriy

So where did that image I used come from?? I pulled it off tgorod's "trash heap" (svalka)

Dmitriy

FrauHirsch -- didn't mean to imply that you personally call us rhinoes, sorry. At GWW the problem definately wasn't just thrusts, though. As for the topic at hand -- well, this has been addressed fairly thoroughly. Unless you are fencing (using civilian weapons, out of armour), chances are you would...

Dmitriy

Completely off-topic, but hit my button -- FrauHirsch: "In many cases people are hitting so light nowadays they might as well consider themselves to be re-enacting unarmored combat. Heck, many of the blows I see lately wouldn't hurt someone though correctly constructed period clothing with live stee...

Dmitriy

Rhys -- I am actually going to start on mine soon. I can show you the pattern I plan to use, but you'll have to punch a 13th hole in every single one of them. After we submitted the order we kinda realized that Norman was right and there should be a hole in the middle of the plates (which Thorderman...

Dmitriy

That's right!

Put em sword nuts in a padded room!

Crazy violent good-for-nothings..

Dmitriy

Hey guys, what's your webpage?

-D
(a bit too old, at 20, but I have a younger brother...)

Dmitriy

BTW -- is the .com ever going to point to this place, or is it gone forever?

Dmitriy

Replacing inappropriate 14th century splinted legs with hidden hardened leather ones.

Kaftan for dress, and a gambeson for armor.

Turnshoes.

Dmitriy

Oh come on, there is a BIG difference between black and blue jeans when it comes to wearing them under armor! Blue jeans can be recognized as such across the field, and black you have to be 10-15 feet to recognize, because they do not have that characteristic color. Not that it's okay to wear them, ...

Dmitriy

Which picture are we talking about again?

Dmitriy

I think it's supposed to be an illustration of how NOT to fight..

Dmitriy

Hah!
They weren't blue! They were black!

Dmitriy

Sorry, Brand did not realize you wanted to fight then and there.. would've been happy to oblige. (And for the record -- not a single Westie wore blue jeans to the field..)

Dmitriy

Sir Aelric, you don't look so bad yourself http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif . Probably the best moment of the war was on Friday (even though generally, the fighting really sucked that day), when I lost my glaive, jumped back so as not to be impaled on a spear, and then heard my name shouted...

Dmitriy

You guys are no fun.. I've got nothing to add

Oh, Oh, I know! What kind of a helm are you planning on using?

Dmitriy

As has been pointed out before, it takes a hell of a lot of force to injure or maim someone wearing a full hauberk over padding, force that most of us are not comfortable using on our friends (cause it would injure or maim them!). So just call blows when they hit with authority, whatever you may be ...

Dmitriy

If the people doing the fighting were all trained in the Fiore school, or even perhaps were simply schooled in sword fighting at all, they probably would not go for a lower leg during foot combat. However, although many trained for combat, there is a snowball's chance in hell that they were all mast...

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The Bellatrix book rocks, as long as you do the excesises all the time. Of course, I have the advantage of actually having the author correct my execution of them every once in a while, so I am not just learning from the book here.. Duuh, forgot the URL: http://www.bellatrix.org/school/default.htm [...

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What's an "A-frame"?

Congrats, Apoc.

Dmitriy

Other than the last one in your list, everything is all right.

The last one is ok by the book, I guess, but I wouldn't fight someone who does it on purpose (I don't much care *which* shield I get hit with!).

Dmitriy

I can't say that I've done business with any of them, though they seem like nice enough folks.. what if they prepay you?

-D

Dmitriy

Bojei -- the problem with that is that unless you read Russian, Hungarian, or Italian, you are unlikely to find good info without doing a lot of legwork first. Unless you are doing Mongols, in which case there's a ton of books out there http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif . Which, of course, ...

Dmitriy

How about "an attempt at.." D'OH!!!!!

Dmitriy

Russ -- would you consider extending the offer to non-archivers? Cause I can forward this to the Slavic Interest Group (which also has a bunch of Magyars on it), you'll probably get some responses.

-D