From: grs07071@runt.appstate.edu
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Light Blows, and What Next
Date: 13 Apr 92 05:51:54 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University

Hi again, sports fans.  this time we're going to take a look at how light blow
calling and other things related to it would affect the world at large.
First: I don't remember the name of the gentle who suggested the differnt armor
types theory...
BUT I LOVE THE IDEA!!!!!!!
I seem to remember a fast and furious discussion here in Atlantia that ended to
something to the effect that the older fighters with real armor 'read
non-plastic' or Kevlar...
were a bit annoyed.  I thought that they were justifiably annoyed; but then, I
can carry my share of armor, weapon and shield. for extended periods of time.
It seems to me that if [nice segue, huh?] people were judged based on the TYPE
of armor they were wearing, then there would be a bit more in the way of rule
complications...BUT THERRE WOULD ALSO BE a severe upswing in interest in PERIOD
ARMORING  since you HAVE TO HAVE PERIOD ARMOR FOR THIS ARGUMENT...
my lord! can you imagine a hundred fighters, all wearing VERY CLOSE TO PERIOD
ARMOR?
religious reference deleted.  a hundred poeple wearing chain mail haubergions
or whatever they chose to wear...
and no more plastic.  or, if we did allow plastic, as the gentle said, consider
it whalebone.
What about the Aztecs? they used fish bones periodically...[heh]
fish bone armor.  the mind boggles...
msg but the fact is, anybody who wants to put in the effort can have very
reasonable splint mail, banded, or scale in a short amount of time, and chain
is a bitch but COOL to wear ...
anyway. enough ranting on that...it'll never happen. expletive deleted.
Folks, believe me when I say this...I KNOW ALL ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH BLOW
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT>
and I DON'T LIKE IT!
further explanations might be unnecessary when you catch my former SCA name at
the end of this missive.
stupid typo. Unneccessary... anyway.
To whoever said that we were trying to recreate period fighting: Sir, I
earnestly enjoin you to quit the SCA at once and join the Historical Armed
Combat Association, a group headed by one Hans Reinhardt.  you know, the one in
th eMuseum replicas limited catalogs?
They don't believe in using hand protection.  
Have a blast.
I am sorry to say, if we really want to recreate period combat then what is
this CRAP about WOUNDS to the LEG? or ARM?
Does anybody here really think that a hit to your arm wouldn't cause such blood
loss that you'd either pass out and die quickly or at least lose ALL interest
in fighting? 
or was that rule put in to extend the combats and make them interesting?
gentles, if I'm a fighter and you're a fighter and you hit me in the leg, I'm
not too concerned with continuing the fight...I"m concerned with living to
fight another day. which involves getting my tender person out of your way.
only if I cannot do that will I turn and fight, like a wolf at bay.
There ARE problems within the structure of the fighting as I see it and as
other have indicated they agree.  
They do not agree with my solution , some of them, and some of them do.
Personally, I think I'm going to be a combat archer until this gets sorted
out...
I enjoy putting on armor and whacking at you.
But when I can't do that do
due to some set of rules that have turned people into thinking I'm not safe on
the field with a sword in my hand...
I'm sorry.  and I would like to take this space to apologize YET AGAIN to those
Atlantians who firmly believe I don't belong on a fighting field.
and to you also I say, that if there had been anyone who had taken the serious
time to train me in the way I should have gone, we wouldn't be having this
argument.
But no one did.  and we are.
Thus, I repeat...Anybody need a strong, naive squire who DESPERATELY WANTS
INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO FIGHT PROPER SCA STYLE, SINCE THAT STYLE ISN'T LIKELY TO
CHANGE?
hell... I don't have to even be a squire. 
But I WILL NOT be shoved into thinking that because I SCREWED UP IN PRACTIVE
AGAINST SOMEONE WHO HAD IT IN FOR ME MEANS I'M a BAD FIGHTER.
Sorry...this one went a little astray. 
Jonathan Blackbow
formerly AKA Losobal d'Ivester
Formerly AKA Sansetrier d'Ivester
no one in particular
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