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Count Johnathan

To crush da tax loopholes,

To marry a woman who looks like skelator,

And to hear the lamentations of da liberals LAAAWWWLL!

Count Johnathan

I echo Nissan on that. I didn't use post it notes but just practiced targeting individual bricks. It gets your arm and wrist used to the impact. A mix of drills hitting a solid stationary object for power and a swinging ball for targeting moving objects are both good. Hitting helmets on a shieldwall...

Count Johnathan

Eat a banana either before or just after you fight or both! No more painful cramping!

Count Johnathan

I think it's because most peoples idea of a short slashing spear and shield looks something like this. <a href="http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m214/johno1count/?action=view&current=Shaka.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m214/johno1count/Shaka.jpg" border="0" ...

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Particularily any advice on defeating that really tight centergrip defense Murchad uses. Sir Stein uses a similar style that I also find frustrating. Thanks all! Need to throw more combos. 5 to 7 shots at a time instead of 1 or two. He sword blocks his head so use that to tie up his sword in a defe...

Count Johnathan

honestly, I just want to fight like my persona would have. There is no way ANYbodys persona would Armour up and fight like the SCA tourney masters do. No way in hell. But the thing I am still learning is. The SCA is not in any way shape or form supposed to have even the slightest hint of realism or...

Count Johnathan

Hmmm certain cultures used certain weapons with frequency because they were effective. I don't see how someone could look at a functional weapon and say "that wouldn't work" Obviously it would and did which is why they had them. As far as winning vs losing I mean really the point of puttin...

Count Johnathan

Hey Guys, A lot of you have enjoyed the "All right you Nellies" thread. It was very useful to me, as it kept me working out, and gave me accountability. But now it's over. I WONT be doing more of those insult posts in the foreseeable future. Those were undignified, and embarrassing. But I...

Count Johnathan

Sounds like the best scenario I have ever heard. Would have to be done "privately" due to marshall considerations. Uhhmm aren't most of us authorized marshals? I mean if we aren't then we should be and it is easy to become one so why not do that and then there is no more problem getting e...

Count Johnathan

I'll speak my mind as I please, although I am sure that infuriates you to no end. Only when you are making things up and insulting people in an organization that I care about. Excepting everyone in that orginization that dissagrees with your opinion. Yes you are incredible Bob. How did you know. Ev...

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chef de chambre wrote:I'll speak my mind as I please, although I am sure that infuriates you to no end.

Only when you are making things up and insulting people in an organization that I care about.

Count Johnathan

Aaaand you post something that undermines your "opinion" at every turn. Brilliant. You are naught more than a crank troll. Go win some tournaments so people can continue to kiss your ass. While wearing plastic. And fighting with taped grass. And this above shite is acceptable Decalmont? 1...

Count Johnathan

I am so tired of those who misunderstand what I say and why that I am going to ignore all the lame bashing of my opinion and attitude above that I only slightly skimmed through. "The Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA, is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creat...

Count Johnathan

Someone who thinks that getting to be scum or shooting a bow at fighters is important but respect for the crowns and the structure of the organization is not needs to be re educated about what the SCA is all about and how it came to be. Do you think that people who do not wish to play noble are &qu...

Count Johnathan

No, not at all Jonathan YOU are self-absorbed to the point where you do not understand chivalric individual combat, is primarly undertaken as a mounted activity. You seeming cannot understand that chivalry is a historic concept, with the horse, and mounted combat being its absolute root and foundat...

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Uhh. I'm a parent. That's how it's possible. I know who they are right now. And I know who the prince and princess are. But I don't *always* know and why on earth should that be impossible? What's more important, that I'm buds with the people on the throne, or try to keep up with who is doing work ...

Count Johnathan

You have to forgive me, I really don't mean anything bad by it, but I find it hysterically funny when I see someone with a medieval noblemans title, complaining about how horses are detracting from proper chivalric activity. There is a certain irony in that, that any student of Medieval histroy can...

Count Johnathan

Well, guilty as charged. There are times when I donâ€™t know or really care who the crown is. Iâ€™m a peer, but Iâ€™m also a parent, and I am also an artisan. First priority is to my family. The next (in this particular list) is to my art. Because the first keeps me so very busy, I donâ€™t have nea...

Count Johnathan

Well we have a structure in place that was originally the focus of the entire organization. Now we have people go to crown lists and don't want to watch the tournament, don't give a shit who wins and are upset because horses weren't there for them to focus on. At one time in the SCA everybody knew w...

Count Johnathan

It' not an attitude Chef. It's an observation over the past 34 years. People who are accepted into the SCA who don't like what the SCA is and want it to be something different doom the organization. We can cater to so many activities that eventually nobody will be there for the same reason and nobod...

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I happen to strongly believe that horses should be involved wherever it can possibly be accomplished if the SCA is ever to evolve.~dev~ All I can say is that the SCA is not a progressive organization and was never intended to "evolve" It is what it is and sometimes horses are welcome and ...

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No actually it does not diminish my 34 years of SCA experience. It might diminish yours though because you would come to the SCA expecting a period reenactment and you would not get it. That's why you do what you do and we do what we do. Different strokes for different folks Chef.

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I happen to strongly believe that horses should be involved wherever it can possibly be accomplished if the SCA is ever to evolve.~dev~ All I can say is that the SCA is not a progressive organization and was never intended to "evolve" It is what it is and sometimes horses are welcome and ...

Count Johnathan

Mmmm How bout the "Vitus Endlos Krieg"

German for Endless War

Count Johnathan

I like it.

Count Johnathan

...that is why we have engagement rules - to delineate who is fighting whom. That distinctly sounds like a rule for Grand Melee not "war" I don't mind the idea I just thought I would point that out to all of the "this is war damnit" folks out there who seem to think this engagem...

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Do or do not. There is no try.

Count Johnathan

...Now, though, I am still paying the price. Once I pass I certain point of anger, it actually seems to cost me something to get it under control. I can -- as a matter of fact, suppressing my feelings to get the job done is one of my best skills -- but it seems to cost me something. I today I just ...

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Very well said Sigifrith! I can say that in the East and Atlantia, I have never had an issue getting engagement when I have ended up in the backfield, and I can say that it would be impossible for me to to ignore engagement in either Kingdom. The guys in your backfield just really make them selves ...

Count Johnathan

Many knights across the SCA are the ones who have the biggest issue with DFB actually. The main argument against it seems to be lack of chivalry and realism in battle. I contest that viewpoint by suggesting that DFB is a courtesy to an unaware opponent yet it does not interrupt the flow of battle. I...

Count Johnathan

I don't really understand the idea behind a split rattan glaive as opposed to just a taped up stick.

Any particular benefit?

Count Johnathan

6. Any behavior that takes deliberate advantage of an opponentâ€™s chivalry or safety-consciousness, or that takes deliberate unfair advantage of an opponent, is prohibited.

Hey that sounds a lot like combat archery

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This is why DFB actually works. It eliminates the ability of any fighter to "pretend" that they didn't see a unit flanking around behind them and avoid looking to keep from being engaged. What it results in is people actually reacting to a flanking maneuver by turning to face rather than j...

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I am not a fan of DFB, but if you must have it, then it should be DECLARED killed from behind. Ie, you walk up to a guy, put you weapon around infront of his EYES and declare loudly DEAD FROM BEHIND! I would even go so far as a gentle bear hug to get their attention. Actually we place the weapon in...

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It takes a special kind of ASS to do such a thing. Someone who's callous disregard for the personal feelings of an individual because of a ficitious office they hold is quite telling on the mental disability of said person. I am totally appaled that this was done to ANYONE. Obviously we disagree, b...

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