[Ansteorra] Questions regarding slings & Tavern Fights

Doug Copley doug.copley at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 06:07:13 PDT 2011


I love the idea of the boffer cat! That would be hilarious to watch:-)

Vincenti

On 7/29/2011 7:47 AM, Chris Zakes wrote:
> At 03:18 AM 7/29/2011, you wrote:
>>>> How does one determine what is a SCA Tavern Fight Legal Weapon?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by SCA Tavern Fight Legal Weapon. This is
>> probably something okay'ed for a specific event.
>>
>> Are you speaking of what I call SPDs (Silly Parrying Devices)? Often
>> used in special rapier scenarios? I think these may be restricted to
>> being defensive only weapons. But again ratan(?) daggers that are
>> similar, used to be allowed in SCA rapier as secondary weapons but are
>> now not allowed while flexi-daggers are now allowed. Maybe someone
>> from the rapier community can add to this or tell where I am wrong.
>> SPD-msg (14K) 12/ 6/95 Silly Parrying Devices for SCA rapier combat
>>
>> http://www.florilegium.org/files/COMBAT-RAPIER/SPD-msg.html
>
> As a broad generalization, if you make the "weapon" out of soft
> materials--typically foam and duct tape, maybe a golf tube for
> stiffening--then the only limits would be your own imagination, and the
> only restriction is that you want something that will kill your friends,
> not hurt them. They'll still need to be inspected by a marshal.
>
> Things I've seen specifically for tavern fights:
>
> boffer bottles (easy to make from carved-down pool noodles) including a
> few "breakaway" bottles with jagged edges.
> Boffer mugs (made from a beer coozie, or the connecting tubes for pool
> noodles.)
> Boffer fish (including the notorious Halibut Nevilsbane.)
> Boffer cheese.
> Two or three day old French bread (so it's nice and stiff.) Be aware
> that using bread leaves crumbs *everywhere* so you'd want to do this
> outdoors, and that bread against a fencing mask gives a cheese grater
> effect which is not much fun for the person inside the mask.
> A parrying lobster (this was made from wood, leather and some metal and
> was *not* designed for offensive use.)
> A tablecloth that could be pulled off the table and used like a cloak.
> A boffer bar stool (made from foam and golf tubes.)
>
> Other boffer weapons I've seen:
>
> Boffer torch.
> A long, skinny fish with holes in it (billed as a "Swiss pike.")
> Boffer arms and legs (I made a set of these for Bryn Gwlad's annual
> pre-Halloween Zombie Tourney. They also got used in the zombie scenarios
> at Gothic War last year. http://kelly.dwarfworks.com/lj/GothicWarXIX/ )
>
> Someday I'm going to make a boffer cat, with magnets in the paws, so
> it'll hang off my opponent's mask.
>
> -Tivar Moondragon
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