The Armour Archive

One cracked wrist (least I think it was.. didnt go to dr, got a lump on the joint and it hurt for about a year at least), couple of sprained ankles, lots of bruises, at least one minor concussion and a very badly tweaked neck when someone stepped on my head while I was laying on top of a dead guy at 3YC.

Say it isn't so, Ron! How long are you out of the game? This bites; I was looking forward to fighting with you here in a couple of weeks.

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The defining characteristic of fanaticism is the inability to understand why everyone else is not a fanatic.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Noe:
<B> How long are you out of the game? This bites; I was looking forward to fighting with you here in a couple of weeks.
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Ha, who said I couldn't fight?, I just said it was broken. Kind of the exact same thing that happened this summer when I got rear ended on my motorcycle and thrown a few meters. It was broken and I still fought. Hurry up and get back here, I need to fill out my fighter tree before too long.

Ahh, hardcore fanaticism... I've missed that.

My evil plan:

1) Get back to Japan
2) Get back into fighter practice
3) (If folks are interested) move fighter practice back to Kodaira.
4) Get Tada-san -- who is ready to rock -- and another Japanese guy who has been wanting to play for month into the game.
5) Reestablish monthly Armour day.
6) Show up at Pennsic as part of a column of samurai and asian men-at-arms.
7) And then... the world!

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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The defining characteristic of fanaticism is the inability to understand why everyone else is not a fanatic.

One broken bone in shield hand - This happened before hand protection inside of sheilds was required, but many current shield baskets still would not help, it was the bone from the wrist to the base of the thumb and hit with a backswing by a crazed giant guy crashing through our shieldwall. This was about 1981ish.

One broken wrist bone (navicular) - Was broken without being struck. I threw a leg shot and was twisting it back to block a cross shot on a recovery when it popped. This happened a year and a half ago.

Other than that I've just had armour bites, occasional bruises and occasional knee problems that get aggrevated (original injury was from jumping off of a horse), and occasionally some tendonitis in my wrist if I try to fight pole weapons or mass weapons.

Not bad I think for a 23/24 year time period where at least 1/2 of those years I was fighting at least twice a week. (now I'm about 3 - 5 times a month)..

Juliana

A quote from Mr Kenworthy (Australian re-enactor) on another list:

"Table of injuries.

1984 - Spear enters below knee-cap, still makes odd clicking noise
1985 - Spear strikes left eye-socket, missing eye, but bruising nerve which
serves left-scalp rendering it numb for some weeks (odd feeling)
1986 - Spear enters left thigh, 2" scar (cant remember who or how)
1991 - Shot to death by ramrod - scars all over body, including surgery and
entry and exit wounds, vertebrae-chipped, aorta cut(but not punctured or
severed), diaphraigm punctured twice, liver partially removed, collapsed
lung, blah-blah,blah. 10 days intensive care, 2.5 weeks hospital, 3 months
off work and I still can't smell unleaded exhaust without blanching.

However, the most serious injury that I have ever incurred was being
verbally abused by Tim Dawson at Gundaroo in 1983 or 1984 for jumping up and
down upon his banner like a child without the sense it was born with, after
we had stormed and taken the great straw-bale fortress."

Holy Cr@%!!!...Someone get that man a beer!

- Kyle

Ive broken most of my fingers from the bad gauntlet days. I broke my ribs three times from when I just wore a (heavy) cotten tunic as body armour. I broke my big toe from having an armoured knee drop on it. I have notches in both elbows. Ive cut my brow too many times to count before I finally gave away the too small helm. Not too bad for ten+ years most of it wearing near SCA minimum armour.

Aelric

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Richard Blackmoore:
Quite frankly, I don't know why you think that armouring a weakness equates to cheating. I never said people should not take blows...</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

What I said was basically that armoring a weakness in order to cheat, is BS. We are actually in agreement on the subject... I was just expounding a little.

Chazz

Shoot I just get bruised and cut. No 'real' injuries yet. Oh I do have 'trauma-induced tendonitis' from a sword blow to my elbow that pushed my cop up and landed directly on skin. And a permanent small bump on my left eyebrow from several spear shots driving my helm into my head.
But still nothing near what ya'll have had.

yet




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Leah of Newcastle
Man-at-Arms to Syr Malcolm MacEoghainn

wow. im glad i didn't fight in the old days.

i have been fighting heavy for aobut 18 months and mostly just picked up bumps and bruises and the occasional hard lump on a bony spot that hurts for a week or so.

i had one bruise on the inside of my thigh that covered most of my thigh and turned about every color imaginable and hurt for 2 weeks.

and ive had the occasional sore elbow at the end of the day.

my worst combat related injury was a sprained ankle while i was fighting rapier

So what you are saying if we break are fingers we should not find better gountlets to where because that would be cheating? Do we all not strive for better armor that protects and moves better?

After reading the replies and noting some of the more gruesome injuries, I almost hesitate to mention the broken thumb (from wearing hockey gloves for gauntlets - I'll never do THAT again), inumerable bruises and welts, and one armor bite (from a poorly designed/built breastplate) that left a scar on my left pec.
A buddy of mine had his forehead cut by his helm after a hit rocked it under the padding. He left the field with blood running into his eyes, very authentic.

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Long live the Prince and Princess of Cynagua!

Well since 1975 (AS X (?))
Damaged left knee from repeated trauma
(artho next year)
Broken bones in left ankle ("tip" shot)
Broken fingers, dislocated thumb, wrist damage (from the era of cheap gauntlets, and hockey gloves)
The only case of "cavalrymans thigh" my doctor had seen - cartilaginous (sp?) deposits in the muscles of the leg
Cracked ribs at the sternum
Some overuse damage to the right sholder - nothing that stretching can't take care of



[This message has been edited by mordreth (edited 01-03-2002).]

All my fingers broken except left thumb,some more than once ,fractured jaw and breast bone,that was all playing with my brothers,in the backyard early 60s with wooden swords and axes,Ive learned to duck&dodge since then and get them afore they get me ,Blackmoors right,aggressive ability cuts down on injuries,not much more than than smashed pinkies since those days,except for a dented helm and a good sized goose egg knot on the noggin in Oct.(one of my Monsters-I taught him too well ) Michael B sounds like you play ,my kind of game

Lessee;

Over 14 years of fighting-

right thumb broken 3 times(in spite of my gauntlets){I don't fight greatsword anymore}.

1 concussion from a combination of my helm padding having slipped and my opponant taking a 180 degree swing with a halberd(you get the picture).

nearly all of the ribs on my right side broken(this from a period of giving up body armour to force an improvement in my shieldwork, painfull but ultimately it worked).

severe bone bruise on my right wrist(due to a near deaf opponant)

right elbow craked (weird, very weird; and worse yet, recieved in the worse ass-kicking I have yet recieved in combat and by a 79 year old knight at 3yc).

I won't even go into the ugly cup shots...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mike Odea:
... Michael B sounds like you play ,my kind of game</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sorry, wasn't me who was shot to death etc - was another chap I know.

My significant injuries are relatively minor:

- spear to the eye, cutting above and below the socket (luckily, it was only the butt rather than the metal head - spears were reversed as they were being thrust through a wall. Otherwise, I'd probably have a patch ...)

- nine or so stitches to the scalp (sparring without a helmet - never again). Lots of blood. Doctor had no sense of humour whatsoever.