The Armour Archive

thanks dudes i gave me dad a talk using your info you gave me and we went to fighter practice.... and so he is letting me make me sca boffer armour so im pritty sure im in

congrats on getting in.
i'm sure you'll love it and welcom to the family i supose
though ya know, i still havent figured out why exactly they make you use armour for boffer combat.

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What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:

How old are you?

i am 14 and hating my age

Well, Tybolt, they make you use armour for two reason.

1) Even tho they're boffers, they're not exactly pool noodles. I could jack someone pretty good with a boffer, were I to choose to do so. But then, I'm a 250 pound adult.

2) LOOKS MAN!!!! Sheesh! We're a medieval society. It just wouldn't LOOK right to see kids in Keds, jeans and a t-shirt out there boffering away.

Congratulations Nim, and welcome.

...14 and hating my age..."

14 is a problem that cures itself.

40 is a problem which nothing cures.

boffers still have a hard core (PVC) so they still can pack a wallop - especially when a mutant freak boy 7 foot tall 15 yr old is fighting one of my puny kids...LOL

plus, as was said, you can't have fighting without armour.

The sca has a history of "colorful" armour, and many people are really realizing the relavance. I see the sca as growing. I don't see a lot of the bad armour that I hear so many stories about. So, by encouraging our youth combatants to strive for period armour, we are encouraging our future crowns to have period armour - those kids gotta grow up.

I really have a lot of hope for the youth combat program and what it will do for the society as a whole in about 5 years.

In Service,
Aidan

Welcome gode gentle Nim! Watch, Listen, and Learn. Most of all....HAVE FUN!!

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They call me Ned. It's medievally short for Edward (and it's my real name)

ive been talking to people on the chat and man im scared of turning 16

Lord Nug is one of the people in the local group I play with. He is an adult, and was playing with boffers, with another adult. He took a thrust to the face and the PVC core slid inside the boffer hitting him in the front tooth. Broke the tooth off. He is now active in the youth fighter program, and has used his errr... knowledge? to help prevent this from happening in the youth program. (Please note the tooth was damaged before.)

The image of a 300# man getting his tooth knocked out with a boffer is still kinda funny. He even came back after that. That is why you wear armour with boffers.

Magnus Jager

Aidan Cambel, who's kid you calling a mutant freak? hehehe

My son does Whale-Bone (PVC), but when we fight he used full heavy armor (we have found that head shots break the PVC, so "don't aim for the head".

Master Nim, are you fighting Boffer foam style or PVC style?

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boffer foam ... and yeas i kicked butt yesterday.... well only kicked butt once and got me butt kicked the rest of the time

i understand armour for looks, just didnt enderstand why it was mandatory. i supose i do now.
also i wa sunder the impression that boffers were like pool noodle things with a handle and that the padded pvc core was something else again. i know how hard those can hit, fight my little bro with em all the time, he likes to aim for the cup. nuff said.


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What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:

We have Boffer and Whale-Bone. Boffer is pool noodle with PVC handle..fight without armor.

Whale-Bone is PVC (up to 6 foot long) capped at both ends, strapping tape, 3/8" foam insulation around that. AMROR IS REQUIRED. Full armor, cause those things can put a hurting on you....BUT

at An Tir/West War my son went to camps to fight with other kids, they fought with Whale-Bone weapons, but didn't wear armor. Touch and dead, no head shots. Still lots of fun to be had by all.