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ARMA Twin Cities meets in White Bear Lake (NE suburb of St. Paul) on Saturday mornings at 6:30. PM me or contact Steve Pangerl at the e-mail on the Practice Partners page for details.

I borrowed someone's (Jaron?) helmet/mask made by Brian Hunt at the 2006 Columbus Study Day and I thought it was absolutely wonderful. However, if you absolutely must use a hockey helmet, I would strongly recommend fitting it with something like the Itech ringette cage/visor combos instead of a hock...

A couple of years ago, we got a ski/snowboarding bag to carry the wasters to large group practices or events we drove to. It was clearanced at the local sporting goods store for about $30. This worked just fine to carry longsword wasters, helmets, and shoes for two people. When we went to the '07 IG...

Just to echo everyone else - thank you so much to all of those who organized and attended the IG - especially the guys who drove us back and forth to the hotel. It was so much fun to meet so many people with a common interest and the demonstrated ability to kick my butt. Thanks for the added motivat...

Steve & I had a homemade wooden pell with a concrete base padded with closed & open cell foam. It split my first waster. We now have what looks like a punching bag on a stick in our garage. It's held up pretty well against both wooden and plastic wasters. One of our group members has brought...

I am not necessarily advocating gelatin as the most economic, easy, or accurate option for test-cutting, but I had to look into this for work and thought I'd share the info with the group: http://www.ballisticgelatin.net/pages/ballistic.html It's $80/10 lb gelatin now. We previously had a 50# pail f...

Our first ARMA-Twin Cities seminar happened this weekend. We had a tour of Arms & Armor on Friday night, and then a full day and a half of instruction from John Clements over Saturday and Sunday. Thank you especially to all the Twin Cities members who pulled together and went the extra mile to p...

John Clements will be instructing at our event in South Saint Paul on Feb 17-18. This event features an exclusive tour of Arms & Armor with an opportunity to examine pieces from the Oakeshott Collection. For more information and to registration information, please visit: http://home.comcast.net/...

...you've celebrated your last two wedding anniversaries with trips to ARMA events ...upon returning, you've had to explain to your coworkers that your bumps and bruises were inflicted by several other gentlemen and not your husband ...then you had to explain that the bumps and bruises are not from ...

This was a great event - PM me if you want me to e-mail the group pic to you. I'll get to it and the Blackwell requests when we get back to MN. We spent the day hiking the Indiana Dunes and next we're doing some parks in Wisconsin on the way. My female aggression was definitely nurtured on several l...

Forgive me if my original post went through and I misinterpreted its apparent absence. This event at Arms & Armor on Stinson & Broadway was attended by I think more than forty people. I was able to meet up with Bob Ferdinand again and meet his daughter. Unfortunately, my husband Steve was un...

[quote="Ignatios"]Greetings, 1. How family oriented does ARMA tend to be? 2. Are there women who participate? Her main concern being is she going to be running into the testosterone wall, or is it accepted that women do this, with most of the traditional "hang-ups" concerning gen...

I received the following e-mail from Craig Johnson of Arms & Armor and the Oakeshott Institute and he requested that I extend the invitation to other ARMA members: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Craig Johnson [mailto:cj@armor.com] >> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 7:02 PM >> Subject: Invi...

This whole conversation has been nothing but redundant remarks made off the cuff by a whole lot of folks. Can we all just agree that we all have diffrent ideas about training, muscle size and growth etc, etc, ad nauseum. People approach this subject from diffrent angles. This argument is almost get...

Public awareness of edged weapon attacks may be increased because of the internet as well as the existing news agencies catering to the public's fascination with violence and terror. All the more reason to learn to properly handle them though we may not carry them. One of the masters had it right wh...