As was the way of things (and a great way it was), the morning on Thursday was devoted to the rapier warpoint battle: The field battle. It was a good set up: say lay-on, and then it’s last man standing, best of five. These are the things the way they should be. For this one, […]
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Pennsic XLI: Part 4 – In which Wistric finds very little to complain about, really 4 comments
Pennsic XLI: Part 3 – Champs fight 3 comments
Since the champions had been rained out on Sunday, it was rescheduled for Wednesday after the 5 Man Tournament (y’all can all chime in on that, but congrats to the Kappellenfechters on making it to the quarters, again, with a team full of blue scarves!) Before I talk about mine, I want to give mad […]
Pennsic XLI: Part 2 – More battles, and more important things 3 comments
Tuesday morning rolled around and brought with it the promise of the Flag Battle for Rapier (seriously, WTF is a “Flag Battle”? One does not battle on or in a flag like on does in a Field, Town, Bridge, Ravine, or Woods Battle) and the Bridge Battle for Armored. Rapier Flag Battle It turns out […]
Pennsic XLI: Part 1 – Towns and Battles, though not necessarily together 4 comments
I guess, since August’s not out yet, I can still sneak in a write-up on Pennsic. ‘cause why not? I’m still Editor in Chief around these parts. Also, there hasn’t been a good top-to-bottom post mortem yet. As has been mentioned before, this was finally the war of the East/Mid (plus allies) vs. Atlantia/Aethelmarc (plus […]
Pennsic 2012: What inspired you? 7 comments
We’ve had a “bad things that happened at Pennsic” discussion. Let’s also talk about the good. So here’s a question that Master Eldrid put to me: What did you see at Pennsic that inspired you?
This Week in German HMA – August 20th to August 26th Leave a comment
Spinning back up here at the Warfare as Pennsic slowly starts to wear off and the work backlog thins to a manageable level. Speaking of Pennsic, this happened at the A&S display: And have I mentioned my plans for a new sickle simulator? Mair’s Sickle fight 9: Alius habitus praecendentis formae – Which provides […]
This Week in German HMA – July 16th-22nd Leave a comment
Week 2 of the New Plan, and so far, three more for the records: Mair’s Sickle fight 6: Gemina incisio contra geminam aversionem – Which inspires little commentary Mair’s Sickle fight 7: Supera et infera incisio cum suis aversionibus – Which makes Wistric swear, SWEAR that he can decode the system, leaving him crouching over […]
This week in German Martial Arts – July 9th-15th Leave a comment
Saturday, hanging out at Letia’s birthday party, Yzra said “I’m almost up to 100 pages translated!” I thought about it, and how I’ve got all of 10 of those pages up for public consumption, and said, “We may need to take a new tack to getting these on the WW.” “How so? Just post one […]
Assessment 2012 2 comments
Speaking of Assessment, how was yours?
Mair’s Sickle fight 3: Incisio Contra Habitum Hostis Vellendi 1 comment
Translation by Rachel Barkley Incision against the Position of an Enemy Pulling Away In this fight, if you will have come up nearer to your enemy than before [1], you will place forward the right foot and you will grasp the sickle in the right hand against him. You will hold the left hand […]