The Armour Archive

FrauHirsch

I've made surcoats and 'rocks for people in really high quality velvet that held up well. For SCA fighting, pile protects the woven base from the typical 'crush' and abrasion damage inflicted by rattan swords. My husband's wool mohair velvet waffenrock held up really well for years. Don't use the ac...

FrauHirsch

My husband is an excellent two sword fighter. He fights like Gavin describes - long swords that do not touch ground when freely swung, point back, hilt forward, ready to throw. He is a tall lefty, so usually crossblocks a lot. He will often crossblock the first shot before going into a flurry. He fi...

FrauHirsch

BTW, I was the one who researched double headed eagles and provided documentation that they were to the Germans like Fleur de lis are to the French. I provided an inch thick packet of documentation showing many non-noble and minor nobles with double headed eagles on their devices, often with other o...

FrauHirsch

Mine is conflict with SCA heraldry in Ansteorra. I tried to get permission to conflict from the individuals, but the individuals are not active and only one replied that they were not doing the SCA, but did not grant a waivers either. It was wasn't rude, but it was a clear "don't bother me with...

FrauHirsch

What did you have to do to get color on color registered, Ursula? I had to find a bunch of different examples of black charges on colored fields from period heraldry. This happened occasionally in many places in our period-- my file has examples from Germany, Wales, etc. I see a lot of metal on met...

FrauHirsch

The Company of St Martins will be at our usual spot next to Aten Royal. Feel free to drop by and say hi to Ritter Hirsch and I. We have a good sized period encampment. Ours is a rectangular 20x30 natural canvas with period ball finials and gold/black banners. There is also a huge red and blue twin p...

FrauHirsch

There are also huge variances in local traditions regarding tournament ettiquette, especially when someone looses an arm or leg.

FrauHirsch

I think the most variance is with rules on how thrusts to the head/face are taken/thrown. In Caid and Atenveldt, for example, you can shoot a spear thrust to the side of someone's head (locally called "earholing" by some of our more colorful spearmen). This shot is typically both given or ...

FrauHirsch

I'm only 50 and don't plan on quitting any time soon. I will be able to fight with my oldest son this fall, but it will be 5 yrs before both boys, my husband and I can fight as a family. I empathize with the lack of movement. Since my knee blew out, I find myself being very conscious of footwork and...

FrauHirsch

I'd be interested to see how a kali fighter would do in the SCA . Also thanks for the videos. They are very fast. But I watched a LOT of utube videos and most blows are arm, with occasionally a little bit of shoulder. At least here in So CA, most folks would shrug them off as too light in SCA comba...

FrauHirsch

John, you should consider hooking up with the Renaissance Military Society (RMS). I'm pretty sure their charter covers from about 1450 to 1600 or so, though most are early to late 16th c.

http://snjacobson.com/RMS.htm

They may also have pointers to sites in the Bay area.

- Juliana

FrauHirsch

Most of the Kali I've seen is luckily only arm with a little shoulder. SCA blows using proper technique would probably be a lot harder.

These guys are interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSDSsere ... re=related

FrauHirsch

Our personas are somewhat aging, though more slowly than our period counterparts. My persona is actually younger than I am. In period, it is unlikely a 50 yr old woman would have 15 and 11 yr old sons. As old fashioned country nobles we are not totally unaware of current fashions, but we also rather...

FrauHirsch

What is now Estrella was originally Burro Creek, then it was Great Desert ("affectionately" called "Kitty Box" by those of us who were there) for two years before moving to Estrella Mountain Park; it has continued to be called "Estrella" despite no longer being at Estr...

FrauHirsch

whats neat is that few guys in atlantia wear any kind of vambrace and i know of only one fractured arm in the last five or six years. guess the t-shirt has to be retired and changed to "typical caidian thug" since clearly they are hitting way harder than we are. regards logan Perhaps so T...

FrauHirsch

Sigifrith wrote: I was given a story about how Duke Paul essentially "caused" this convention by breaking people's arms (no one wore vambraces back in the day). I heard a similar story about "and that's why we wear kidney belts" as well.... so possibly apocryphal. Caid has a vamb...

FrauHirsch

I find it interesting that the SCA in the South are wearing T-shirt/tabard armor and complaining about heat, but there is a sizeable group of live steel combatants in South Florida in the Adrian Empire that wear much more armor than the average SCA fighter in any region. There is cultural aspect of ...

FrauHirsch

Oh, absolutely. And it's a bit more than that, really. I am leery of the whole "courtesy shot" thing - because, quite frankly, I was in positions where it was quite questionable whether the person COULD have gotten in a killing shot (for instance, the target is open, but the person is at ...

FrauHirsch

Dmitriy wrote: Any other status changes I need to know about? Is Caid still considered best-dressed, at least?

of course!

J - (Caidan Costume Laurel...)

FrauHirsch

I like war videos:

Potrero War is next weekend!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kre4HwdD4tk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNM-c0OR ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7POnCgz ... re=related

Other interesting SCA videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3MLory ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjh8EQ5 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Qcfrkp ... re=related

What we often show new folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vljdsfp ... re=related

FrauHirsch

Notice the little katzbauger...

FrauHirsch

My oldest, in this picture in yellow, is now wearing this red rock:

[img]http://home.znet.com/savaskan/germans/images/gerry-5.jpg[/img]

A bit long in the waist and the velvet bands have worn most of the pile off, but the wool is fine. Definitely less bright red these days...

FrauHirsch

Gordon, Excellent for you to have access to acquiring Nick's old duds. He certainly qualifies as a 16th c "illuminati" costumer! I recognize the leather doublet. My 15 1/2 yr old son is now wearing some of the clothing I made for my husband 20 yrs ago. Its a bit long in the waist, but he'l...

FrauHirsch

Killian, I designed my husband's pants, and showed Logan how to make the z-twist slashes, but Logan sewed them up for us when he had 6 different leather sewing machines in his shop. Note for Gordon: Logan also had a really cool scalloped punch that also did the perfect scalloped edges for early Cali...

FrauHirsch

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I wanna be Gordon Frye when I grow up. When Gordon, Greg and crew showed up in great Landsknecht stuff in the early 80's in So. CA, he/they inspired many of us. Greg Fors' detail for hilts, scabbards, eating ware, guns and other decorative metal goods was ast...

FrauHirsch

Gordon,

I don't think I've ever seen EP do anything in any period that isn't amazing. Her Burgundians and Houpelands are of course some of the best I've ever seen. And we both know how good she does 16th c...

Are some of the pieces you are wearing some of hers?

-J

FrauHirsch

When machine sewing, I use a technique also used in Victorian costuming, corsets and such, You sew from bottom to top, then spin the gusset around the needle completely to sew the rest of the way.

FrauHirsch

I like this one. Its looks a lot like the local Adrian Empire fights. I'll have to get some videos up sometime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWP8goB ... re=related

FrauHirsch

Very nice!

FrauHirsch

Here are some old ones of us: m Newer pics: <img src="http://home.znet.com/savaskan/stmartins/smimages/ArionandJohan.jpg" border="0"> My husband and boys when they were babies. <img src="http://home.znet.com/savaskan/stmartins/smimages/ArionArmoured2.JPG" border="0"> <br> Breast and tassets by Steve...

FrauHirsch

Some folks do have tells. Then there are others who fake tells.

FrauHirsch

Watching eyes works with new folks, but most of us old and sneaky fighters love to do things like purposefully keep eyeing a leg, dip the shoulder, then go for the head or vice versa.

FrauHirsch

Wow Tessa, it sounds like it was MUCH harder out your way than here on the West Coast for a lady wanting to fight.

FrauHirsch

I had recently seen a slow-motion demonstration of I.33 unarmed sword and buckler by some members of La Belle Compagnie at an LH timeline event. Things that would and wouldn't work for *unarmored* person using a center mount buckler is different than what would or wouldn't work for someone wearing ...

FrauHirsch

he he, that sounds like Bolverk.

I met her after an interesting incident with a drum at one of the Bouse wars.

At least she made the drumming stop for awhile.

-Juliana

Who is going to Potrero?