[Ansteorra] Rita update

[Stefan li Rous]

Probably not if you held your tournament in a concrete pond or a lake.

Stefan

On Sep 24, 2005, at 10:37 PM, medicfem at aol.com wrote:

>  Ah, Hum....
>
> Would Chirurgeons have to be swift-water rescue divers?
>
> Concerned about finding new instructors,
>
> Lady Caley of Lancashire
> DKC - Training
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: davidjhughes.tx at netzero.net <davidjhughes.tx at netzero.net>
> To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> Sent: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:09:02 GMT
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Rita update
>
> Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
>> On Sep 22, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Baronman at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> I may have to scuba dive for my armor in order to fight or  
>>> change  my persona
>>> to begger.
>>> Bors
>>
>> Hey, there you go! A new tournament style. Underwater armored  
>> combat.  A mix
>>
> of the medieval and modern world! Compared to regular scuba   
> diving, you
> wouldn't need a weight belt. Sure would change some SCA  fighting  
> styles,
> though. That extra water resistance would sure slow  things down.  
> Might give a
> big advantage to spears over swords or even  maces.
>
> Short thrusting spears, or thrusting swords like the gladius  
> iberius would be my
> recommendation, longer weapons would suffer a real penalty in  
> lateral or rotary
> movement.
>
>> And no three or four hour courts, since your air wouldn't last  
>> that  long!
>
> With tanks, sure, but some of the new rebreather setups have  
> impressive
> duration.
>
> David Gallowglass
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Stefan
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