Armored and Rapier Combat
James Crouchet
jtc at io.com
Wed Jul 31 19:00:39 PDT 1996
> The Complete Participant's Handbook states that "At no time shall
> Armored Combat and Rapier Combat be conducted on the same field at
> the same time."
>
> How is this rule applied when at fighter practice? Is one group
> supposed (required) to wait while the other practices? Is it
> sufficient to divide the field with some kind of physical barrier?
>
> Larkin
The intent of this rule is to keep fencers (and foils/epees)
from being hit with ratan and armored fighters form being poked
in the eye with a foil. As long as you keep them far enough away
from each other that this won't happen, they are effectivly on
seperate "fields".
This virtual limit is a good thing here in Ansteorra because
otherwise you could consider the entire Gulf Plains one big
"field". ;-)
Savein
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