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Cedric

An Tir's rules specifically stated something to the effect of: "Placing your shield in such that your opponent must hit in order to throw a normal blow is forbidden". I used to do this a lot with a strap on round shield, I would get in real close plant my chest against my opponents shield, stick the...

Cedric

The rope on the blade thing seemed to hit as hard if not harder then just plain rattan.

I didnt have any problems hitting hard enough with it, although it did lose the Clack sound that rattan makes when it hits metal...

Cedric

Cedric

I would say around 450-500 should be enough for that. I made a chest piece out of the last aluminum order and only used 300 (Im a little bigger than you too).

Aluminum seems to be holding up so far.

Cedric

Cedric

Hahaha.. that looks COOL! At an event last year some of us got together and made two "horses" out of hay bails (take two hay bails, put on one top of the other). We then sat on the horses and fought, if you're foot touched the ground you had been knocked off your horse and you lost the match. Lots o...

Cedric

Nope, Im from An Tir, specifically the shire of Mountain's Edge, which is near Portland Oregon.

Cedric

So I will be at the Outlands tourney on Thursday.

I wear aluminum birka lamellar and a stainless steel and brass spangenhelm with a maroonish gambeson.

I would love to cross swords with any of you that are there.

Cedric Helmbreaker

Cedric

If you dont have chainmail to drape off of it I have also it done with suede or other light leather type stuff.

Cedric

Hey! I know some of those guys!

Woot!

Cedric

One thing you can do if you cant get the thickness of rattan you want: Take a length of rope, fold it over. Wrap this in duct tape. Lay this along both edges of the sword and then tape it on. If you use 2" rattan and 1/2" rope you will now have a blade that is 3" wide and about 1" thick on the edges...

Cedric

email sent.

Cedric

Yeah, me too...

I need a good seax.. say in the 12" range or so. Any idea on pricing???

Cedric
(hard to be a Saxon without a seax)

Cedric

Well, thats good enough for me.

Thank you, Sir.

Cedric

Funny thing... Im pretty sure that our Kingdom rules allowed these things on a case by case basis. I was told by the marshalls that the punch buckler was a very dangerous weapon (I agree) and that the one guy that I had fought who was using one (in conjuction with a greatsword) was the only fighter ...

Cedric

Actually I believe they did kind of exist in period.. ever see a lantern shield? I will not argue with you that they are MORE effective in SCA style fighting then they would be were we really fighting with real weapons... I totally agree. I also agree that we should be using weapons and armor approp...

Cedric

waaahhhh the picture wont show up for me

Cedric

hahahahahaha

Cedric

Actually some times I zone out so much that I can hardly remember any of my fights. Many times my friends have been doing the blow by blow account of fighter practice and I'm sitting there thinking "ok, if you say so...". Course, maybe I should have partied less after High School (before and during ...

Cedric

I think that HH Perkins carries 3" rattan sticks. www.hhperkins.com

Cedric

Actually, I did pretty much exactly what you have described. I always called it "Using the Force". Back when I did more traditional Martial Arts I used to work on de-focusing a lot, basically I would "look" at the middle of my opponents torso and try to see everything at once. As for what has change...

Cedric

Well, its been over 10 days since I mailed him my letter, still no armor.

Since Akiyo is his girlfriend, does anybody know HIS name? (Mundane and SCA).

Someone here mentioned he has a knight, does anybody know what his knights name is?

I appreciate any assistance,

Cedric

Cedric

Wrong. It is NOT totally ineffective.. quite the opposite in fact, if you know what you are doing. I have fought against one of these, used with a greatsword and let me tell you.. ineffective is not a word that I would use to describe it. I think the legality question is one for your particular king...

Cedric

So, I have been fighting in the SCA for the last ten or so years... For a vast majority of that time I have been doing it pretty much blind. My vision uncorrected is around 20/200. I can see fairly well within about three feet, but outside of that things get really blurry. In the past I didnt really...

Cedric

Samuel,

what does your banner look like?

Cedric

Well, that is good to hear. The stuff that my friend has from them is really good quality. He just wasnt happy with the run-around it took to get it.

Like I said, that was at least 2-3 years ago... its quite possible that they have turned things around since then.

Cedric

I have a friend who bought an entire suit from them a couple three years ago.

He says the "Illusion" in Illusion Armory is that you will actually get your armor from them before you die.

Cedric

Very nice, really like the visor...

Cedric

Cedric

Yeah, somehow I thought you would say that http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Personally I think anyone who WOULD want or consider getting knighted in this way is unqualified for the recognition... But then Im not a Knight so I guess no-one really asked me, did they? Cedric

Cedric

Definitely cool. Someday I gotta try the pierced-brass thing...

Cedric

You can order them to do anything you want... they can also tell you pack sand if they dont want to do it.

One question, is that how you would really want to be knighted? Personally, I would rather I was recognized on my own, without me pulling a power trip to get it.

Cedric

Cedric

Im assuming that he is having computer problems again... thats why I sent a letter through the regular Snail-Mail. I sent it last week, so assuming three days either way Im expecting that my armor should be here sometime around the end of the week. I will let you all know if this works or not. Cedric

Cedric

I have found that the best exercise for me to do to get ready for fighting is, well, FIGHTING. Cant motivate myself to much else (besides the making love thing). Oh, and Mike, if you REALLY want to piss the old lady off while you are having sex, why not just call her and tell her what you are doing?...

Cedric

I will be there.. fighting with either Rolling Thunder or An Tir.

Cedric

Cedric

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gethin: Originally posted by Cedric: Had the cops shut us down one time at a practice in Santa Cruz... his reply was "this is a parking garage, not a fighting garage". ...

Cedric

Had the cops shut us down one time at a practice in Santa Cruz... Far as I know they had been having practice in the same parking garage for a number of years, the local group had permission from the owner to practice there. One night a new cop shows up and asks us what we are doing. We tried to exp...

Cedric

Ok, look at Sir Oak in this picture http://www.antir.sca.org/WhosWho/p034.htm I could be wrong, but I am almost 100% positive that that is plastic armor covered with some form of leather and edged the way I described above. I will get some pictures before covering and a close up of the covered stuff...

What do you look at???