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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:22 am
by Count Johnathan
Pain sucks so I wear plate. I don't care if it's 115F outside. Better hot than hurt.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:53 am
by Ewen MacSuibhne
Count Johnathan wrote:Pain sucks so I wear plate. I don't care if it's 115F outside. Better hot than hurt.
Properly covered from the sun, plate can be cooler than layers of foam and plastic from sport armour of comparable protection.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:57 am
by Aaron
Count Johnathan wrote:Pain sucks so I wear plate. I don't care if it's 115F outside. Better hot than hurt.
I found wearing mail in the armpits, neck and waist (where blood comes to the surface) caused a "radiator effect" and I was actually cooler with the mail. Now that is only two data points of Pennsic and Japan, but in the spring I'll roll out to practice in my cap-a-pie suit and test it again in a climate with a much lower humidity. It might be a "swamp cooler" effect in a way so it might not work at lower humidity.
You can be quite cool (temp) in plate and mail.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:06 am
by Aaron
Ewen MacSuibhne wrote:Count Johnathan wrote:Pain sucks so I wear plate. I don't care if it's 115F outside. Better hot than hurt.
Properly covered from the sun, plate can be cooler than layers of foam and plastic from sport armour of comparable protection.
Foam and plastic make a cooler or insulator. IMO it's not good. The only foam and plastic I've got in my suit right now is the knee pads, helmet padding and cup. IF I had a better method to pad the helmet or knees, I would consdier it. Those regions get a bit hot sometimes.
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:52 am
by Giraut
Minimum? => 8
Reasonable => 7
I had to visit hospital as a result from rattan fighting just once (some 20 or so years ago) and didn't change my armour. S*it happens.
8 is a useful minimum.