[Ansteorra] Results of Vambrace Poll

[Jean Paul de Sens]

Burke, can you point out to me who is pushing to make us clones?  I for one
am not.  I'm soliciting information from the kingdom in the most apropros
manner I can within the restraints of time, geography, and timeliness.  I
have the job of amending, enforcing, and providing feedback from the kingdom
to the SEM about rule changes so that we *CAN* continue to fight in the
manner in which we desire.

Jean Paul

On 11/6/06, Burke McCrory <bmccrory at tax.ok.gov> wrote:
>
> You know I have watched this from the sidelines now for over a month
> (on this list and others) and there is one thing that bothers me.  I
> understand the attempts to push the rules and see if we can add
> additional styles and approaches to our fighting, this has been done
> for years and is a good thing as it forces us to look at new things.
>
> But why all of a sudden the want to make us good little clones of
> every other kingdom?
>
> Ansteorra has had its little idiosyncrasies in our armor requirements
> and fighting styles for over a quarter of a century.  Yes, we use
> larger shields and require vambraces, we tend to offer a person a
> chance to yield when legged or armed and do not allow killing from
> behind because it is against our code of honor.  How does this hurt
> anyone?  I have never heard a single person complain that having
> vambraces is a burden on getting their armor together and know of a
> number of people that were very happy when they only got a mild
> bruise from a blow that would have otherwise blasted their arm.  I
> personally feel (based on my experience) that vambraces help to
> reduce long term accumulative injures to people's forearms caused by
> continuously getting them hit.   But the real question here is why
> the want to do away with our personal flavor?  I know that some will
> raise the specter that the changes are needed to make us more period
> in our fighting approach or that some obscure period fighting manual
> never showed fighting the way we do it.  Other will point out that we
> need to come exactly into line with the SCA standards because that is
> what everyone else has done.  Well I have a surprise for those
> people,  SCA fighting is not an attempt to reenact fighting in a
> purely historical approach.  Ever since the first tourneys with
> swords made from cut down brooms, shields from trash cans, and armor
> that included shag carpet and freon cans, SCA fighting has been about
> having fun. Whether we are in it for the thrill of the fight,the
> chance to do honor to out Lady (or Lord), or what ever the reason it
> is suppose to be fun.  Also SCA standards are the minimum level that
> we can drop down to not a defato complete standard.
>
> As I said before testing the limits and pushing new ideas is a good
> thing but I do not want to do this at the expense of what we are.
>
> Burke
>
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