ANST - Boffer guidelines...

[harry billings]

How about shall be covered with duck/duct tape or cloth?
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>Thank you for the clarification, cozyn.  Yes, I saw Plachoya's posting.  
>I still don't think we should mandate the cloth covers.  My primary 
>reason is that the majority of cloth covered boffers I've seen looked 
>like pillows.  True, some were fitted.  I believe we should leave the 
>requirement at tape, which will not prevent those who wish it from 
>making attractive, fitted covers for their children's weapons.

I have see madhu on the list field did not know that they were that new
learned some thing today.
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>See Sir Richard Burton's *Book of the Sword*.  While Burton's methods 
>and sources are often questionable, he provides excellent explanations 
>of the physics of sword travel and details the use of the North 
>African/Middle Eastern madhu, a weapon usually constructed by joining 
>two Ibex horns.  Metal points and shields were only added in the early 
>nineteenth century, and no one has yet demonstrated the existence of 
>madhus *anywhere* prior to the seventeenth century.
Plachoya Sobaka a humble archer in Ravens Fort, Kingdom of Ansteorra; play
nice, have fun

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