ANST - Better Bannering

[Keith Hood]

>From Tomonaga:

I'm not sure--are you saying that if a man falls and brings down the 
banner he's carrying, it's safer for the people around him to get hit 
with sword-grade material than a light breakaway item?  Let me says this 
again--I have done this for looks in previous tournaments.  No one ever 
got hurt, even when I got clobbered and dropped.  I don't do it now 
because I have replaced my armor over the years; my new armor uses lames 
connected by suspension cords instead of rigid plate.  I don't want to 
have to do constant repair work where the banner rig stretches the cords, 
so I just don't bother anymore.

I honestly don't understand your reference to marshals' staffs; please 
expand on that.

-- 
A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!

	-- Stolen from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers" --
		 by Robert Howard, who should be
		  the patron saint of Ansteorra
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