ANST - Boffer Combat Thoughts
CADET1313 at aol.com
CADET1313 at aol.com
Tue Mar 9 16:11:05 PST 1999
The blades that I am working on are boffer rapiers. there will be NO size 0
foils used for "ultra-light weapons". So worry not about that :o)
Pieter
PS I think that your right. Starting rapier fighting with real blades (foils)
so your underwear can fight will never pass. ( "Smalls" is an Elizabethen word
for underware, the term for children was ...... children :o) ) That was a
joke but a joke about a pet peev of mine.
In a message dated 99-03-09 18:30:54 EST, you write:
<<
>
>Shouldn't we have a second track that gradually leads to rapier if
we're
>going to have one that leads to chiv.? [This would be possible to do
since
>shorter blades and smaller masks are made for children as young as age
5.
>And afterall, a little kid is going to want to do what mommy or daddy
is
>doing.]
I wouldn't advocate, nor would I think any one else would, want to
consider the use of fencing for young children. Which I have experience
on as well. But with all of the problems the SCA has had trying to get
Rapier combat standardized, and approved...it would be a hell of a fight
to get it done for smalls.
As for a 'rapier' track. I'm sure a sutable boffer like 'rapier' could
be constructed for certain youths to experience that form of fighting.
Yours in service,
Sabishii Okami
(Steppes)
>>
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