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James Hudec
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Other weapons

Postby James Hudec » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:41 pm

Do any of you practice with other weapons besides swords, and if so, which ones?
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Jaron Bernstein
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Re: Other weapons

Postby Jaron Bernstein » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:53 pm

We are starting to learn Rondel. And ringen if you consider the human body to be a weapon.
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Re: Other weapons

Postby Mike Chidester » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:40 am

In ARMA Provo, we mostly stick to longsword/greatsword and sword & buckler. But we also do dagger work, staff, and grappling.
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Mike Habib
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Re: Other weapons

Postby Mike Habib » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:42 am

I practice with daggers (single or double) and spears quite often. (I also practice with thrown weapons, but that's a separate situation altogether).
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Re: Other weapons

Postby GaryGrzybek » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:58 am

We started some dagger work from the Codex Wallerstein not long ago. I hope to do sword and buckler soon but I only wish I had more experience with it.
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Re: Other weapons

Postby Matthew_Anderson » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:43 am

I've done a bit of dagger work, but not recently. I'm planning to incorporate more of it into our weekly practices.
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David_Knight
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Re: Other weapons

Postby David_Knight » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:41 am

Meyer longsword is the core of the ARMA SoFL curriculum, but over the past year we've expanded our training to include Mair's quarterstaff every week, plus sword & buckler or ringen roughly every other week.
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Re: Other weapons

Postby Brian Hunt » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:42 pm

Mostly we work on longsword plus sword and buckler in Price, Utah because I have mostly beginners here. However, my personal training includes Ringen, dagger, single sword, quarter staff, halberd, pole axe, sword and shield, messer, rapier, and some armoured combat. When I get a couple of side swords put together, I plan to include that as well. I am better at some than others, but I am constantly learning and improving.

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Re: Other weapons

Postby James_Knowles » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:09 pm

Besides longsword we do a lot of dagger, some ringen beyond ringen am schwert that happens in sparring, some poleaxe.

For us I think lack of equipment is an inhibitor.
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Aaron Pynenberg
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Re: Other weapons

Postby Aaron Pynenberg » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:40 pm

ARMA-Appleton primarily sticks to longsword, but the dagger work has become a close second. I have very limited sword and buckler expirence, but in the future we will use that system as well. We toss in a little ringen as well for good measure.
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Re: Other weapons

Postby Jake_Norwood » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:45 pm

Well, I love the messer, but it's still a sword. I do lots and lots of dagger. Some staff. Some ringen.

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