The Armour Archive

Cunian

Wavering focus is probably a given. Sword is about 33 - 34". - just about the standard nose to cupped fingers on me. I do have a low profile thrusty added on the end. Usually I make them out of 1.75" rattan, shaved to 1.25" on the flats. Currently I am experimenting with a minimum diameter rattan sw...

Cunian

Hi - I'm playing in Ponte Alto - northern Atlantia - really there are plenty of good people about. My knight is Sir Strykar, who is retired but regularly present at practice. But I have never managed to get him to tell me anything beyond "Hit 'em again, harder.", which doesn't address the mechanics....

Cunian

So how? I dunno. I get told these stories, but not how. I have had good training. I have dented good helms. But it isn't consistant - it's maybe 50%, and I can tell people would often prefer to be hit harder. I'm not saying it's not possible so you should take my lousy blows. But it should be a trai...

Cunian

Okay, assuming that taking "light but clean" is a disservice to a fellow fighter since it encourages badness - which seems to be the general concensus on the other page....... How do you help the fighter who is hitting lightly? What if their form is okay but they are just a smaller and/or weaker per...

Cunian

I'd like the viking book. Can you pm me and let me know how you want to be paid?

Cunian

Robyn - It's okay. Anybody can get hurt. Even big guys. I have an old buddy - He's moved away and is a duke now - but he's a big guy - used to work construction and built like a Neanderthal. Anyhow, he died and got fallen on by a couple other big guys and did something hideous to his knee. Took medi...

Cunian

Hey Freiman, you're under a massive amount of stress just now - and over-worrying is understandable. I doubt anything will go wrong. And the chirurgeon's set up at Pennsic is truly amazing. I am sure everyone here would chip in and see that she got the care she needed if she did need to go in to the...

Cunian

Friederich - I'm not actually sure I said it was a "good" practice. All else being equal, I'd rather go to Monday, but all else isn't equal. Sunday is a growing, but underutilized practice. There are enough times I have wished there was "more" there for me. But this is precisely why the "time" that ...

Cunian

But I can assure you that if you attend the Sunday Ponte Alto practice as Cunian suggested, you or anyone else will receive all the instruction that you could want from some top level knights. Heck, there are practices that I don't even fight my own knight because he's busy teaching an improptu cla...

Cunian

Specifically as to the Washington DC metro area - I recommend the Sunday Ponte Alto practice. It is a quieter practice with a long time frame during the warmer months: 12 or 1 until 6ish. Because people are not there to work out with the big dogs as they are at Monday, there is a lot more time and a...

Cunian

Maelgwyn - It's Tuesday - how was your week? Mine was spotty - did okay Tuesday and Wednesday: 6/6 Tuesday Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 75 situps, 30 easy push ups, elbow rehab, 30 min aerobic heavyhands/footwork, 10 burpees 6/7 Wednesday Ã¢â‚¬â€œ50 situps, 20 V-ups, 30 easy push ups, elbow rehab, some random stuff and...

Cunian

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Cunian

So - the thigh armor is proof, but not the helm? I don't get it. Extending the target area down some generally would be okay, but a relatively huge "no target" zone around the knee would lead to a lot of abuse, I think. And on me the valid lower leg target zone would be 8 inches or so in a fairly fa...

Cunian

This is great for me. I am trying to do the comeback thing, and fitness is the worst limiting factor for me. I am about 6 weeks into my program, but going light on some stuff now due to some mild tennis elbow issues. 5/29 Memday Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 3K pig run - slow 5/30 Tuesday Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 50 crunches, some pell...

Cunian

Yeah - I had fun fighting with you too. Had a hot puppy that needed to get into A/C rather suddenly after the melees, though, so couldn't stay for the fight the chivalry practice. (And I really wanted to stay for that.) I am only about 2 miles into West Virginia, (Between Stierbach and Highland Foor...

Cunian

Ack - Umm. I'm a shy person, and actually asking someone who/where you are is a hard thing. And it seemed like between autocratting and upping your peer-evilness by another 100%, you were probably a busy person. And I was a bit overwhelmed by new names and faces, trying not to have to ask people hit...

Cunian

I had fun Sunday too, though there were those deer in the headlights moments - Sorry Hamish.

Thanks BdB et al for running stuff and letting me reauth Sunday am.

Cunian

Dredge - Cops are pretty cheap, and are the only part of DV armor you can't easily do yourself without a lot of equipment or space. A coat of plates that does fit you is a pretty good first project. You can use plastic for the plates, or aluminum - it should be possible to obtain very cheaply. Padde...

Cunian

Actually I didn't put the door in the center of a trapezoid - just thought about it. So I used a bit more fabric. Anyhow - here are a couple pictures of it put up rather sloppily - there was rain threatening. It has a few awkwardnesses and issues, but for a $20 prototype made from $!/yd specials, I ...

Cunian

Thanks. It would be a huge help for me. All this having children gets in the way of my spectacular fighting career, and I end up being one of those horrible squires without even an authorization to their name. I would figure it could be fairly of the "Yah, she still has a clue" variety.

Cunian

It looks from the schedule like it would be a reasonable thing to go after work Saturday and re-authorize Sunday am and fight that day? Hoping.

Cunian

I made one a few years back that I have been very happy with. A single center pole pavillion using 60" fabric as the height of the walls and then the height of the top triangles. Was very fabric efficient, and because of the fairly steep walls, sheds water very well despite having no special treatme...

Cunian

If you change the language=0 to language=1 at the end of the URL you can get it in German. That should help some people. Mostly I can only pick out words here and there, but I like looking at the pretty pictures anyway.

And - in the Article section - a couple of the PDFs are in English.

Cunian

Connor -

Suzanna Grey - who fights locally, and quite well - has asthma. She will occasionally ask for a breathing break, but seems to manage fine. Perhaps your friend can talk to her and get some encouragement and advice.

Cunian

Abeka stuff should not cost all that much. Have you looked on EBay? There's a lot of it there, and there are various boards for selling and reselling homeschool materials. Try a local support group or email list. They are good to know for a lot of reasons, but there are also often people who can sel...

Cunian

"Don't just move to move. Move to a purpose. But always move." - Sir Strykar

Cunian

I have a memory - a 20 year old memory, mind - of a Byzantine lamellar that was enamelled blue and yellow in a spiral pattern. I think it was from the Oriental Armor book mentioned above. But I suppose it could have been an interpretation of a painting of the afore-mentioned steel and bronze or some...

Cunian

Things I learned the hard way that are at least somewhat funny in retrospect: -Just because cuisses aren't required doesn't mean they aren't a GOOD THING. -8 ounce leather isn't actually rigid, even when it is defined as such. -Just because you are smaller than the other guys, you should not make a ...

Cunian

I don't have any nice new "secrets revealed" pictures. Wish I did. My current, purely provisional interpretation of the mantle/poncho type garment is a length of fabric approximately 30" x 8 or 9 feet, folded in half and with one long side mostly seamed together to create a cone-shaped poncho with t...

Cunian

What a cool 'B'! It certainly seems to have been influenced by the beautiful Carolingian knotwork - but not so austere. This is why I have a hard time thinking of an 'end' to celtic knotwork. It seems more like it picked up more foliate elements during the romanesque period and was subsumed into the...

Cunian

Had meant to add this in to this thread at some point. I don't really disagree with the general premise - but one could certainly "trickle on" for a century perhaps. This is copied from Irish Art and Architecture, by Peter Harbison, Homan Potterton and Jeanne Sheehy, Thames & Hudson, 1978. It is fro...

Cunian

Sounds happy. I believe the next time we'll be up to Storvik practice is the 23rd. Life happens, and pianos are good.

Cunian

So - didja make it? I was there - girl in ancient/grungy lammellar - trying desperately to fight a fair bit and not pass out for lack of fitness. I got a couple of bruises for my efforts, though the worst by far was from being stupid earlier in the day and falling off a stump. LOT of people there la...

Cunian

Ultra-high density polyethylene is pretty indestructable. Strykar has/had some waster shaped things carved out of 1/2"(or 3/4?) thick sheet that were way cool, aside from looking like polyethylene. The main issue being, as I recall, the expense of the stuff.

Cunian

We may make it, at least one week. We are trying to get there regularly, given that hubby has to get up at 3am Tuesday am and it is about an hour and a half drive. Got there 2 weeks before Christmas and hoping to make it on the second. Although I am sure we are at least as rusty as you. - It's been ...

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