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I use a hard golf case, but just like Stacy said, it gets complicated when you have to carry a lot of stuff and want to put things other than weapons in there. I had some pretty good success with carrying my stuff in a military duffel bag and letting the points stick out of the top. You can get a co...

I was in the airport in Cincinati coming back from a training weekend. Two older women were staring at me. One of them walked to the side of me, and said "excuse me are you Aaron Pynenberg from ARMA?" I was shocked! She and her sister were from the SCA and are fans of ARMA's videos. They ...

Yeah, they're so much more comfortable than green, white, or even muave.

I could have spent an entire week in the British Museum in London. York has a fun Viking museum. If you go to Scotland, Sterling is the place to go.

Because we have no need to train horses to behave in such manners often there's a perception that they cannot do so but any stock man (or quite a few people in rural areas) could easily tell of the more obnoxious tendencies inherent in horses. I grew up on a farm and I can tell you for a fact that ...

Or you could duck next time!

I'm gonna pay for that comment at IG09.

The mask should be fairly snug, but remember that they're not designed for the kind of abuse that we put them through.

What are y'all using...baseball bats?

I have heard a lot of people theorize that sword and buckler probably has some relationship to the use of larger heater type shields and I think that makes sense on a basic level. And they would be very wrong IMHO. Just try holding, nevermind moving efficiently, even the smallest of heater shields ...

There are some excellent examples of this at the Met in New York.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/09/eus ... 30a-p.htm#

Hi Will, The Albrecht Durer book is (according to our very own Bart W.) a better illustrated (duh!, given the artist :) )version of Wallerstein. Just match up the pictures from CW to the Durer ones and keep the same text. But that would require work Jaron! :wink: Thanks, I'll give it a whirl.

To tell you the truth, I'm finding some pretty basic material in the Codex Wallerstein right now. I've only glossed over the first few plates in the past, but my study group has started a more systematic approach and it is already opening up to us in ways that I hadn't imagined. This is a pretty slo...

I have one of Brian Hunt's and one from Martello Nero. Both have pretty wide grips that handle pretty well. Brian's is better in this respect because it is smaller and lighter. The Martello Nero is made of wood and leather, so is closer to being historically accurate at least as far as materials are...

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You ain't in Cuba man!

It is something I have wondered about and I suspect that perhaps it was simply too basic for people to bother to put to text. Kind of like finding a cookbook on frying eggs. I suspect that Sword and Shield is what the general army was taught and sent out to die on the front lines with. Longsword on...

Here's another direction to think about regardless of the outcome of the bouts, but especially since you did so well, and were able to cut. Why do we not see much sword and large shield in the historical literature?

Just throwin' it out there.