you might be an ARMAteer if...

[Brian Hunt]

...You've ever had trouble getting a date because some guys don't want to go out with women who wield weapons.

LOL,

I have had the reverse problem, women not wanting to go out because they think I am too violent and dangerous due to my interest in weapons and martial arts. <img src="/forum/images/icons/confused.gif" alt="" />

Now if there was only a nice weapon wielding woman in my neck of the woods. <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

The world is a crazy place.

Brian Hunt
GFS

[Aaron Pynenberg]

Want Ads:

Wanted one single female to spend quite evenings with sparring and swordfighting----send picture of sword-----

[Gene Tausk]

You get smacked on the hand on which you wear your wedding band and the fingers swell to three times the normal size. This precludes you from being able to wear said wedding band until the swelling goes down and the finger returns to normal size........

..........and your wife berates you not because you are not wearing your wedding band, but because you got smacked!


---------------&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;gene tausk
SFS
Study Group Leader - Houston ARMA Southside

[jeremy pace]

........ you go on vacation and your wife asks, "why so sad?". You dont tell her but you wish you would have packed your sword. Or maybe you do tell her and hear, "I think you love that thing more than you do me!." which again you should not reply to...

[GaryGrzybek]

you use appropriate footwork to avoid being trampled in a crowd.

run out of space in your spare bedroom because of all your training gear.

[Mike Chidester]

you use appropriate footwork to avoid being trampled in a crowd.

And to pick things up off the floor, and to move around obstacles when you aren't watching where you're going, and ...

[Travis Beamon]

...After a long and fulfilling day at ARMA you go to school the next day forgetting to replace the books with your school books and are left only to study Lindholm's Ringeck book much to your english professor's dismay...

[Matt Bryant]

When asked to hold a ten foot 1.5 inch closet dowl for an old lady while she pays for it (at The Home Depot), you cannot help but to step aside and do some quick tipogressions through Silver's gaurds.

[Rod-Thornton]

Gene wrote > "and your wife berates you not because you are not wearing your wedding band, but because you got smacked!"

Oh yeah man. I spent a week in "the plummer" cuz that same wedding band spent a week at the jeweler's...getting the horrid oval out of it after a nice smack down.

You might be an armateer if...
"...your wardrobe is now all colored with a shade of red from laundering all those new red tee-shirts together."

[Rod-Thornton]

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you use appropriate footwork to avoid being trampled in a crowd.


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And to pick things up off the floor, and to move around obstacles when you aren't watching where you're going, and ...


YEP....and you now hand everything you grab to others with a passing step.

(You know, until I started fencing actively here, it was amazing just how lazy on the feet I was. Fencing certainly does teach you to move the body more as a whole).

[Stacy Clifford]

...you practice a rapier lunge to punch the elevator button.

[Hugh Long]

Your wife finally concedes to having swords in the bedroom and replies: they're in every other room the house already, whats one more?

[ElizabethPangerl]

...both you and your spouse have traded in your LotR "One Ring" wedding bands for cheap plain rings so you don't care if they get scratched/dented in sparring
...you did hit your spouse in the hand with a Zornhaw yesterday
...he kept right on with practicing that move with you

and
...wasters are kept in a (spare) bedroom and the entire basement has a decidedly combative theme

[Travis Beamon]

...while bored at work (Home Depot), a bunch of employees get together swinging scrap lumber and trying to break them on the yellow concrete poles in the parking lot, and you lead a quick lesson on proper stances, footwork, extension and torque...then going into Ringen am Schwert in front of managment...
...while at work (Home Depot) managers have gotten on to you more than once for using scrap lumber for counters with other ARMA members who might work there as well, and pushbrooms for basic polearm techniques (also being caught while in deep discussion of Liechtenhauer's teachings)...

[Neil Bockus]

...you've ever made an effort to spar in your dorm because it's about 30 degrees without windchill outside and you haven't brought your winter clothing to college...

...you bring up sword weight issues with a professor in class...

...you get all of your theater-major roomies to tell you to suspend belief when watching LOTR because you get frustrated at the edge-parrying, combat systems, and uselessness of armor in the movie...