The Armour Archive

FrauHirsch

Gwen, thanks a lot for the good encouragement. This was going to be my plan, in essence. Gradual starts are always best I think. Tom, I am not familar with those sites, I'll start looking through them. Thanks for the tip! I am in communication with folks who have Friesians, Morgans, and Tennessee W...

FrauHirsch

Just a few quick points - 1. I'm male, and certainly not buxom, but the best I can manage is to get my elbows to within about 8 - 10 inches in front of my chest. If this causes you a problem, then you're using too much arm, and not enough body. 3. For the lady who is having trouble with power when ...

FrauHirsch

It must fit YOU. Neither my high-waisted male friend nor I could use body armor designed for the "average" male. I totally agree. The problem is that most men's breastplates are not constructed to stop at the waist either. They just often are using more arm strength to get around the problem. Women...

FrauHirsch

How would one go about this? In period I don't even know how it worked. At what point in the process of trying to kill someone do you broach the subject of a business relationship? In SCA fighting I can see disarming someone by mobbing them with numbers, and then making an offer. But perhaps I am m...

FrauHirsch

We have about 50% lefties in our canton, several of which are virtually ambidextrous.

Including my sinister lefty kinght husband,

Juliana

FrauHirsch

Limewire is a free sharing program. You can type in something in teh search area and download it when they pop it up. I can not see there being more than one "BoyntonFight1" on there. Like I said it is too large to try and send it to people individually. If anyone has a way of doing this let me kno...

FrauHirsch

[Another reason to prioritize power? Besides the fact that it is possible to injure a man through his maille with enough power (and repetition), but not at all with light strokes, there's what *they* prioritized.. Interesting enough, in doing rebated steel combat, I was surprised at how effective m...

FrauHirsch

I think it is important to keep in mind that we have no extant manuals on armored shield and sword or shield and mace combat, however there is extant art showing plenty of examples of people using this combination. The deep false edge blow (aka a deep wrap) would not be particularly useful in long s...

FrauHirsch

I disagree about the solid chest protection. <snip> I am not one to wear clothes that I can't move in, let alone armour. You may not want to hear this, but your breastplate very likely to be inhibiting your movement to some degree. I am a costuming Laurel, so I can tell that you unlikely to be able...

FrauHirsch

I was directed to this site a few weeks ago... m They look really thick and not very heat dissipating, and the back isn't protected. Kidney protection is required. I prefer some rigid or semi rigid material and padding over the back and spine - (having been hit in the back with a full force swing w...

FrauHirsch

I was wondering if any of the lady fighters her might be able to point us in the correct direction as I have no idea how to protect a ladies tender bits. She is looking for something of a bra with protective cups??? This is the best she can explain to me and the groin protection has her and myselft...

FrauHirsch

I play in both SCA and the Adrian Empire. The Adrian Empire has a war format that includes archery and arts points as well as combat points. There tends to only be 2-3 sets of contenders because the Adrian Crown positions are the combination of Seneschal and Crown in the SCA. At the Imperial level, ...

FrauHirsch

I recently got a job in Bullhead City, Arizona. I'm from Gyldenholt in Caid, and as such am unfamiliar with the area. The closest fighter practice I could find was in Las Vegas, but that's an 80 mile drive from where I'm at. So, does anyone know of any practices in the Bullhead-Laughlin area? There...

FrauHirsch

Lets run with this...what makes it less fun? Let me clear. I find the SCA to be PLENTY of fun, especially the big wars like Pennsic where there is a "festival" atmosphere. The fighting is fun, the shopping is fun, the chatting is fun, the carousing is fun. Heck...getting prepared for the events, yo...

FrauHirsch

[quote="Jason Grimes"]No I don't, sorry. I have read or heard about one instance of flag twirling, but I can't remember where I heard that. The only thing I could find is from "Landsknechte und Reislaufer" where Matthias Rogg quotes from period writings that Ã¢â‚¬Å“The FÃƒÂ¤hnrich is enclo...

FrauHirsch

brookswift wrote:well, you see, with a polearm in the SCA, you're just not allowed to use up close defenses. ...

This must be a regional thing. People do a lot of inside work around here.

Juliana

FrauHirsch

The people we have waterbearing at wars are usually the ones that are getting armor together. The other non-fighters do their own thing. We bring our own water with us. At tournies, normally we don't have waterbearers around here. People just go back to their pavilion and get a drink. A support staf...

FrauHirsch

"cycling together"? I've been on bicycle teams before, and as long as your seat has enough padding and well designed, I don't see any problem. Or was there another meaning? -Aaron I don't know much about it, but a friend who had tryed them a long time ago said that you have to ramp down on steroids...

FrauHirsch

Aaron wrote:
FrauHirsch wrote:There is known to be steroid use amongst certain Caidan fighters.

This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke and you forgot the :):);););) ?

Please?

-Aaron

Sadly no. I've even heard jokes about trying to get them to stop cycling together.

J

FrauHirsch

Why do baseball players openly admit that steroid use is rampant because the edge it gives creates a "situation" that clean players find almost intolerable. Jobs and EGOS depend upon the Edge. There is known to be steroid use amongst certain Caidan fighters. A friend of mine was at a practice, and ...

FrauHirsch

I kind of like the concept of planting one's foot of a leg that was hit. The other addition could be to make a second shot to a planted leg a "kill".

Overall I've noticed a higher degree of micromanagement lately from all levels of SCA "government".

Juliana

FrauHirsch

I can adjust, but to what am I adjusting? If there's a uniform standard definition of how hard a blow must be, where is it? If there's not, then why not? Without a written, level-playing-field definition of how hard "sufficient force" is, we're left with just a social convention - which is fine exc...

FrauHirsch

its slander in that it implies that some of the former kings of the sca were kings because they cheated. by not naming a specific name he allows the implication to extend to all former kings. I don't agree he implied that all former kings cheated, but that there have been *some* who have. I persona...

FrauHirsch

Wood Burning Stove!! . That is what we use. Its pretty small and has a stovepipe that goes through the asbestos lined hole in a special panel bought from Panther. Breaking up small chunks of duraflame log also lasts a long time. This has been very helpful at cold wars such as Estrella or other wint...

FrauHirsch

SInce we don't really know the context this is out of, hell, it could have been a depiction of a fancy dress tourney! This could be some Frenchman's interpretation of of a completely different period. As to your 15 yards statement.. that's totally new to me.. (and I have two rocks). Even organ-plea...

FrauHirsch

But I understand, seven children is a lot of shoes. We have two boys and its hard to keep track of shoes for different periods. It didn't help to have some housekeepers who I believe managed to toss out several pair of my kids period shoes and boots. The shoe issue is one of the reasons we haven't ...

FrauHirsch

Interesting discussion. Some of the issues are exactly why we created the Company of St. Martin de Tours m If you read our statutes, one of our main goals is helping new members and existing members improve their authenticity over time. It is not about being one period, but improving the personal ki...

FrauHirsch

As a rapier fighter I would not like to see a fighter knighted primarally for his skill in rapier. A knight is someone who has sworn to defend his king/kingdom in war. He/she needs to practice and to demonstrate prowess with the weopons of war. ..snip.. As a Laurel of Caid, our order does not typic...

FrauHirsch

A possibility... Sometime in the early 17th century there was a rise in the idea of creating "National costumes", and the "kilt" was created as a national "costume" for those rebelling against the English rule. In the 16th c, there is art showing Irish wearing trews and skirted coats over loose shir...

FrauHirsch

Also there were some Webley pistols in use in this era. I have a beautiful double action stamped '69, but it requires a special custom load as I haven't found a bullet mold just right. I had a Spencer for awhile but could not find bullet molds or cartridges for it, so I sold it. The yellow boys were...

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Book Title:

Graviert, Gemalt, Gepresst, SpÃƒÂ¤tgohtische Retabelverzierungun in Schwaben

Published by WÃƒÂ¼rttembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart

Bearbeitet von Hans Westhoff, Roland Hahn, Annette Kollman, Anette KlÃƒÂ¶pfer

mit BeitrÃƒÂ¤ngen von Anke Koch und Heribert Meurer

FrauHirsch

Hi all, I've been meaning to post for awhile about my recent trip to Stuttgart. Stuttgart is a very modern city and had not been on my list of places to visit when last I was in Germany, but I went there on business trip to the Photogrammetry Conference at the University of Stuttgart, so the trip wa...

FrauHirsch

Hello Juliana, Are you sure the extant one has a leather shell, or is it a flax shell? (Flax being a strong canvas like fabric made from the short fibers produced from the flax plant when making linen. It can look leather like in photos or period art.) If you do make one with leather, don't use a s...

FrauHirsch

it looks really cool, but being Laureled specifically in Costume and Research, it kinda' frowns on me to not get something concrete before making it And you know someone's going to copy it and start telling everyone its period because "Mistress Joleicia did it" Juliana (also a costuming OL)

FrauHirsch

A lady I know got KO'd at a Great Western war a few years go really bad. She was out for a few minutes. The scary thing is that there was a metal on metal scrape where the spear hit her. Back in AnTir an armorer told me about a guy at a war that misunderstood the whole trailer hitch cover spear tip...

Re: Ransom in mellee (SCA)

Re: Female Chest Protection

Re: Female chest and groin protection.SCA

Re: Local Fighter Practices

Re: What's Good?

Re: Kilt evolution or what the Scots and Irish wore

Stuttgart Trip Report - Museums