Saturday Friday I looked at the schedule and thought “Huh, I don’t have to be anywhere until noon. Cool.” So Saturday morning did not start particularly early or particularly quickly. Sweetums arrived on site, and we got Livia bundled off to the “Combat Archery Tournament” which, it turned out, was more of a combat archery […]
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War of the Wings 2012, the One the Mayans Said Would be the Last – Part 2 5 comments
War of the Wings 2012, the One the Mayans Said Would be the Last – Part 1 12 comments
Friday Two years back, when I was RMiC, Sacred Stone wanted to have rapier war points on Friday. I borrowed a phrase I’d learned in French class (“Tu m’en fou!”) and helpfully declined to interpret. But, boiled down, it meant I didn’t think there’d be anybody on site on Friday of War of the Wings […]
OT: A note on moderating a blog 4 comments
On any given day ~100 spam messages get posted to this thing. Wordpress does a great job of dumping them straight to the Spam or the Pending Approval folders. For the Pending Approval messages, I end up going through and looking at each one before deleting it at some point. Some of them make me […]
Coronation of Vlad and Kalisa, 2012 2 comments
Most of the Kappellenfechters headed up to Jamaica (no, Letia stayed home), VA this past weekend. Vlad is a big fan of the melee training, so his coronation was a five man melee tourney. It had originally been planned to be a “bring a team of up to 8 fighters. You can field no more […]
This week in German HMA – October 1st to October 7th Leave a comment
We wrap up the sickle fight translations here, a little older, a little wiser, and in many cases having received a sickle shot to the taint. Wear protection. Mair’s Sickle fight 15: Duae Incisiones Mediae Unde Habitus Sternendi Hostis Formatur – Mair says “When it doubt, choke ’em out” Mair’s Sickle fight 16: Modus Per […]
Question from/for the Audience: Thinking your way through a fight 6 comments
How do you interpret and incorporate the mental aspects of fighting? How conscious are you of reading opponents’ body language, selling a bait or a feint, working through your decision tree before getting to measure, etc.? How has that aspect of your fight developed over time? (I’ve got an answer in the cooker, but […]
This Week in German HMA – September 10th to September 16th Leave a comment
Five more to go, I wonder if we can squeeze them out in one week. Then we can move on to tree branches! In the meantime, definitely time to get on those metal simulators… Mair’s Sickle fight 12: Incisio supera contra eam qua latus impetitur – Pay no attention to the deviation from the system, […]
Question from the Audience: Competitiveness 16 comments
To the main point: would you be willing to start a discussion topic on the pitfalls of excessive competitiveness? I admire your self-awareness of your problems with pride and anger, as mentioned in prior postings. It sounds like you had a really bad reaction to the rules of the rapier battle. I admire your wisdom […]
Pennsic XLI: Epilogue 5 comments
Well then, Atlantia finally got our Atlantia/Aethelmarc vs. East/Mid war. We could have done better with it, I’m slightly annoyed that we turned away a few ally requests with “Wait until the war and let’s balance out the sides.” The sides weren’t balanced, and we were still screwed out of some strong allies. But it’s […]
Pennsic XLI: Part 5 – Big morning woods Leave a comment
Really, if you’ve got any idea of my mental age by now, that title should not surprise. And as it might suggest, the next morning (that would be Friday for those of you following along at home) brought a woods battle. Though not, technically, so big as the Armored Woods Battle. As with last year, […]