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James,

Please do. Busy few weeks coming up so I may not be able to make it right away, but I'm definitely interested.

Glad to hear things are going in Tidewater again. I'm in Chesapeake and I've never actually managed to get involved. Maybe it's time I fix that.

Thanks Brian. I've got it on my wish list, I'm sure I'll pick it up now that I know a bit more about it... only question is, paperback or hardcover?

Apparently this book was just released and I was a bit surprised not to see a thread about it here. What do we know about it? Anyone pick it up and have a review?

Hey Shane,

I know I've contacted you in the past about coming out to ARMA VB. Unfortunately, I celebrated the new year by injuring my back (oops!) and so I'm probably limited in what I can do. Definitely still interested, just have to be cautious going forward.

--Mike

Hello Michael: We here in Virginia Beach all have both. While we like wood better for such things as drills, exercises, and study, we now use the plastic almost exclusively for free-play and sparring since it seems to hit less harder than wood, but with more realism and play than the padded weapons...

Thanks for all the insights everybody. Since I'm in Virginia Beach, sounds like a question to ask Shane when I get in touch with him. Seems pretty certain that eventually I'll end up with both, though.

I'm going to buy a waster and I need to make a decision on wood or plastic. I've read a lot here about both and I'm down to either the New Stirling Perfect hand and a half or the With Intent longsword with round pommel. Weights are similar, lengths are similar, I just don't know which is the "b...

I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to this one, but out of curiosity... what would someone brand new to all of this need to bring to an NTP 1.0?

To an extent it seems like she makes a point. There is no way to perfectly reconstruct the actions depicted in the manuals because the manuals are stills. As opposed to eastern martial arts that have been passed down in a living form (although over generations I'm sure those have changed significant...

I've been lurking for a couple days after re-discovering the site, and I finally went ahead and signed up. I stumbled across the site back in 2003 after first discovering SwordForum and falling in love with Angus's EKS (although I still haven't purchased one, I've been considering it). I bought a fe...