Great axe

Donnal · Post by **Donnal** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 4:57 pm

I was told that I should try to find great axe manuals online to help me improve my head breaking... But none of the names I was told to try produced much result. Anyone know where I might be able to find something??

Prince Of Darkmoor · Post by **Prince Of Darkmoor** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:29 pm

Start by going to www.aemma.com (I think its .com, might be .org) and look in their publications section. I think the historical great axe techniques would be found in La Jeu de la Hache (probably butchered the spelling of that one) and I think there are some plates of the Talhoffer fectbuch that show axes.

You should quite playing with axes and learn Fiore!

Good luck.

Norman · Post by **Norman** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:52 pm

I got AEMMA, HACA and AGFI (I think that's the right acronym) listed in the Resource Links section of the Red Kaganate (under "Martial Arts").

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Donnal · Post by **Donnal** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 8:00 pm

Quit axes?? But it's fun smashing little heads with big weapons.

Vebrand · Post by **Vebrand** » Thu Oct 18, 2001 1:18 pm

As an "Old School" great ax fighter here is some advice. Ax is it's own beast. Do not try and fight it like an SCA polearm. Great Axes are in your face mugging weapons that require you to an exploit or make a quick, fast, and hard opening. Ax is my favorite weapon style and I have three great axes right now I fight wih. Different lengths for different jobs :-)

As a Viking persona I have developed working on great ax over the years an find if you read some of the old viking sagas and tales from Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Also some of the writings in England and Ireland of that time period gives a good idea of how the ax was used by those cultures in the Viking times. I almost hate fighting a standard SCA polearm because they are nothing like real historical polearms. Unless you are a Japanese persona.
Sir Vebrand

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Thu Oct 18, 2001 3:42 pm

Vebrand... you aren't by chance the knight with the axe who whomped the piss outta me in the Castle Tower at Pennsic were you?

It felt like Custers Last Stand in there...

Vebrand · Post by **Vebrand** » Sat Oct 20, 2001 6:30 am

No Olaf I did not make it tp Pensic. However if you were ever womped at Gulf Wars the last couple of years then look me up :-)

Vebrand

chef de chambre · Post by **chef de chambre** » Sat Oct 20, 2001 9:13 am

Hi Guys,

Le Jeu won't help you with a regular axe - it is a manual for a pollaxe. The weapon intended needs to be at least 6' in length, and presumes a complex head as in a pollaxe or bec de corbin, and a haft shod with a spike. Most of the time you are leading with the buttspike (guard of the queue) to stab.

Hope this helps.

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Bob R.

Dmitriy · Post by **Dmitriy** » Sat Oct 20, 2001 2:04 pm

Olaf -- is this they guy (in red)? http://history.westkingdom.org/Year36/Photos/PN10.htm

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:11 am

Nope... woulda remembered that helm.

Jean Louis · Post by **Jean Louis** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 8:11 pm

Sir Vebrand,

Perhaps you might wanna change the name of your Barony to something like....uh...Axemoore maybe?

Jean Louis

Hope to see you at Sir Connor and Baroness Gabriel's Investature

Vebrand · Post by **Vebrand** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 3:04 pm

No JL my cousin is handling Axemoor just fine. I am happy with Small Gray Bear as my Barony and Axe as my favorite weapon. I should be there with armor. Might even get a chance to fight :-)

Vebrand