We use a 1600 something-pressure-messurment fencingmask, and sometimes a birdcage-hockeyhelmet. But with the waistrs the Hockeyhelmet is not to recomend. We have had a few near eye-out incidents.
Ouch! I´ve seen something simillar happen to one of the boys here to. He took a pommelstrike in the forhead and the mesch was pressed into his skin. Lookt nasty at first but was only a suoerficial wound. But at least the fencingmask spreads the impact and the eyes are safe from gouging(sp?). just my...
Well the problems with hockey masks is that they don´t protect against trusts. Espessially as we do most of our sparring with waisters and steelblunts.
One thing I have thought of is knuckleprotection when we sparr in all weapons and it ends in ringen am swerde/degen/messer. The mesch of the fencingmasks has a tendency to scratch or seriously harm the hand if one hit a more glancing strike against the face of your opponent. How has you guys solved ...
Argh! Too short notice... I´ll be shure to come to the next event just put it up with a few more moth of notice... I really want to be at a event like this.
One of the members of my group, Adrian Hudson, is probally moving back to Eelie in England and wants to know where groups are located who do what we do or simmilar!
I contest the illiterate statment! Resentresearch shows that many knew runes (at least in the fighting upperklasses) and that the so called illittrate mass continued this practis into the 17th c. On topic though just myth and sagas is left to us so the reconstruction here is much harder. One way cou...
To the first question I say the area fleshy hard heavy area that is composed of the "bottom" of your hand and your pinkyfinger. And to the second statment my answer is indeed yes!
