Prova Dura Results

Artus_Quintus · Post by **Artus_Quintus** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:23 pm

And more Pictures

http://picasaweb.google.com/spartan.mom/Prova42008

Eduard · Post by **Eduard** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:35 pm

Gunthar wrote:
Woot. This one has some of my fights!

And you looked damned good in them.

Thanks Gunthar! Appreciate that.

Powder blue, yellow, and white makes a nice mixture of colours I think. *-)

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:56 pm

Ther are now some videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/Aeschine. MOre to come as my wife gets them converted and uploaded.

Dan

Eduard · Post by **Eduard** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:06 pm

DanNV wrote:Ther are now some videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/Aeschine. MOre to come as my wife gets them converted and uploaded.

Dan

Did you get any of the Vert field perhaps?

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:20 pm

There were 6 cameras in use for most of the day (until batteries died, anyway). My wife was coordinating the volunteers on the other 5 fields as well as filming one for most of the day. I'm not sure what other fields she has video from, but all of the video has been sent to TRM West. I assume there will be DVDs available eventually. We have also requested that we get back the dozen tapes we provided, with the video still on them, after the video has been copied off so we can upload those videos, too. So there will be another field or two on those. It may be a while before we get those, though.

Dan

Ceddie · Post by **Ceddie** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:39 am

it looks like more video is up.

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:25 am

Sir Cedric,

Yes, my lady has Azure filed through round 3 up. She'll start on round 4 tonight.

It was nice to meet you. I hope the rest of your trip went well.

Dan

carlyle · Post by **carlyle** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:50 am

Geez, Dan, Vail makes you look 8' tall! Didn't your momma teach you to pick on kids your own size :twisted:

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Brekke · Post by **Brekke** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:53 am

Don't remind him, poor Ceddie was stuck on a four hour flight next to an annoying drunk guy. I think our Cedric has the patience of a saint, I'd have konked the guy with a stale bagel an hour in.
brekke

David Edwinson · Post by **David Edwinson** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:58 am

Brekke wrote:Don't remind him, poor Ceddie was stuck on a four hour flight next to an annoying drunk guy. I think our Cedric has the patience of a saint, I'd have konked the guy with a stale bagel an hour in.
brekke

When I get to see him, Ceddie IS the annoying drunk guy... Something about Colobus monkeys that fling poo, right boss?

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:12 am

carlyle wrote:Geez, Dan, Vail makes you look 8' tall! Didn't your momma teach you to pick on kids your own size ??

The helmet is tall enough it helps that impression of height.

If I only picked on people my size, I wouldn't have half the number of losses I've wracked up over time. Those little guys (and gals) and dangerous.

Dan

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:16 am

Brekke wrote:Don't remind him, poor Ceddie was stuck on a four hour flight next to an annoying drunk guy. I think our Cedric has the patience of a saint, I'd have konked the guy with a stale bagel an hour in.
brekke

The airlines need to go back to using the old trick of giving the drunk an extra drink and then depressurizing the cabin another thousand feet or two. The drunks go right to sleep and leave everyone else alone. :twisted:

Dan

Brekke · Post by **Brekke** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:57 am

yeah, they might have tried that, but this guy was on his sixth (or so) half-liter(?) bottle and still going strong. I was impressed, Ceddie was annoyed, and William was amused. Typical for our kind of trip.
brekke

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:03 pm

Brekke wrote:yeah, they might have tried that, but this guy was on his sixth (or so) half-liter(?) bottle and still going strong. I was impressed, Ceddie was annoyed, and William was amused. Typical for our kind of trip.
brekke

Sounds like an overly interesting sort of flight...

I'm sorry I didn't get to meet the rest of you. I enjoyed sitting with Sir Cedric and Duke Paul all afternoon.

Dan

Brekke · Post by **Brekke** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:07 pm

Me too, we were over on Vert Field laughing it up with the clowns over there...oh, sorry Eduard, are you still here? I wasn't calling you a clown....really...
brekke

Eduard · Post by **Eduard** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:03 pm

Brekke wrote:Me too, we were over on Vert Field laughing it up with the clowns over there...oh, sorry Eduard, are you still here? I wasn't calling you a clown....really...
brekke

Hehehe. Yeah. We were all having a little bit TOO much fun over on the Vert Field there. *-)

Ceddie · Post by **Ceddie** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:16 pm

Brekke wrote:Don't remind him, poor Ceddie was stuck on a four hour flight next to an annoying drunk guy. I think our Cedric has the patience of a saint, I'd have konked the guy with a stale bagel an hour in.
brekke

and the best part? the fine, upstanding young man use to be in the SCA!!!
Not a fighter mind you, "cause them guys is wacked!"
Nope. he was just here to "get his drink on and kick it wit the hotties."
...
...
:roll:

I want my 4 hours back.

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:10 am

For anyone interested, my wife now has 4th round on Azure filed up and has started on 5th. The link to her website, indexed by round is http://www.meowzettes.com/movies_laprovadura08.html and the direct link to youtube is http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Aeschine&p=r .

Enjoy.

Dan

Dmitriy · Post by **Dmitriy** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:41 pm

Photos from Martin of Rivenstar -- mostly finals, great shots.
http://martinorivenstar.smugmug.com/gal ... 0419_gKLVz

Skutai · Post by **Skutai** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:50 am

So, what's the story behind shields out west? I see lots of flat, square shields, wankels, and tiny heaters. I'm not so bemused by their size and their shape. Is there some historical presedence I'm unaware of? Or is it a matter of western knights passing their styles down through the generations?

Eduard · Post by **Eduard** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:01 am

DanNV wrote:For anyone interested, my wife now has 4th round on Azure filed up and has started on 5th. The link to her website, indexed by round is http://www.meowzettes.com/movies_laprovadura08.html and the direct link to youtube is http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Aeschine&p=r .

Enjoy.

Dan

Looking forward to seeing the other ones!

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:20 am

[quote="Eduard]Looking forward to seeing the other ones![/quote]

There are now a few fights from Argent up. Her camera swapped places so it could be plugged into the only extension cord handy to recharge the battery for a while.

Dan

Dmitriy · Post by **Dmitriy** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:02 pm

Skutai --
Historically, West has had a cultural preference for smallish shields; there is a commonly held belief that a smaller shield requires more technique to fight with, and leads to a more challenging and elegant fight. Like in other places, specific shield styles go in waves -- we were all about heaters in the 90s, then there was a wave of squares, followed by a recent emergence of center-gripped kites. Recently, shields have been getting bigger, as well. Just a cultural thing.

David Edwinson · Post by **David Edwinson** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:08 pm

I met Hauek Duke Bender a few weeks ago, and when I faced him on the field I noticed his tiny heater, so I grabbed my buckler. BIG mistake. :shock:

Next time, I switched to my shield and had a bit better time of it.

Sigifrith Hauknefr · Post by **Sigifrith Hauknefr** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:09 pm

Skutai wrote:So, what's the story behind shields out west? I see lots of flat, square shields, wankels, and tiny heaters. I'm not so bemused by their size and their shape. Is there some historical presedence I'm unaware of? Or is it a matter of western knights passing their styles down through the generations?

I think it sort of goes like this:

Duke Paul: Flat strapped round
Duke Radnor: Flat strapped "half round" aka bunny round
Dukes Uther and Jade: Flat strapped square.

(all these shields are based on the 24" round with 2-4 corners added)

That many crowns (40 ish) won will set up a whole passel of tradition and dogma (right or wrong)

HRM Gemini is a fan of the wankel shaped heater, with curved sides (he straps it uniquely as well).

Duke Hauoc had his own "tiny kite" - maybe 18" wide, but long enough to block your leg - and there are a few others who still fight with shields like that. He has been fighting with the "tortilla chip" for a couple of years now.

Recently there has been a trend to go with centergrip rounds and kites... and Titus recently won crown with a centergrip kite.

One interesting effect of "small tourney shields" is that because they are mostly useless for war fighting (at least forming shield walls), many westerners have an extra large war shield, rather than fighting with their tournament shields.

I think "historicity" of shield shapes is a tricky subject, because the effectiveness of shield shape is so tailored to the game you are playing - and in fact heavily influenced by the blow counting system, knee fighting, no grappling, etc.

Gaston de Vieuxchamps · Sat May 03, 2008 9:00 am

DanNV wrote:For anyone interested, my wife now has 4th round on Azure filed up and has started on 5th. The link to her website, indexed by round is http://www.meowzettes.com/movies_laprovadura08.html and the direct link to youtube is http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Aeschine&p=r .

Enjoy.

Dan

I get "server not found" when I click the vids on meowzettes.com

Any chance I could buy a DVD or three of the whole thing? I'd love to have better than youtube quality vids.

Gaston

Nuada · Post by **Nuada** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:36 am

DVD's will be offered as soon as they are edited and ready for production at least that is my understanding from TRH Gemini king of the West, at least for a few more hours.

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:13 am

Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:I get "server not found" when I click the vids on meowzettes.com

Any chance I could buy a DVD or three of the whole thing? I'd love to have better than youtube quality vids.

Gaston

Everything is coming up ok, now. Must have been a problem with teh hosting company last night.

I believe TRM are planning to release a DVD of Prova. I don't know how many fights will actually be on it, as ther were over 800 for the day, and something like 30+ hours of video taken. Now, 1/2 or so of that can be editted out if all someone wants is stick swinging, but that's still a lot of video.

The editting of TRM's project won't start until after today (when they step down). I expect it will take a while to complete. Once iot's done, we should get back another 12 hours of video that we'll also edit and put up on YouTube. I'll talk to my wife and see if she has any plans to do higher res copies of everything. I know she has a request or two for higher res copies of a specific person's fights.

Dan

Gaston de Vieuxchamps · Sun May 04, 2008 11:12 am

I'd be happy to sit through the raw footage if someone wants to save time editing ;-)

I'm such a geek. I'd love to have fighting I haven'y already seen in the background on my big HD set while I sit on the couch posting from my laptop. 30 hours would last me like 2 months or more :twisted:

Gaston

laprovadura · Post by **laprovadura** » Mon May 05, 2008 11:55 am

We appreciate your flexibility, but this is La Prova Dura - we do have some standards to up hold

The Shire of Canale (with assistance from lots of folk - thank you Aeschine, Dan, et al) is working on the videos and plans to make the DVD available. We did however just complete a rather large event and if some of us don't spend some time on our day jobs we are going to have more time on our hands than we planned on. :oops:

It's coming, we promise. It won't be ready next week.

Else (but the website with the lists of who was on which field might be ready next week)

DanNV · Post by **DanNV** » Mon May 05, 2008 12:07 pm

We're happy to help out.

We also found anotehr DVD with some of finals on it, so we'll get that mailed off as soon as I can get a copy of it made.

For those enjoying the videos Aeschine has put up, it takes time to edit and upload, but she's adding to it every day and has also gone back and corrected name spellings and so on as well as what fights were in which round where we couldn't tell from what the heralds were saying. Thanks to Duke Paul and Else who provided the lists of fighters and round pairings.

Dan

Castus_valerius · Post by **Castus_valerius** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:09 am

Pictures from Sable Field

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25940248@N ... 011606365/

Prova Dura Results

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