[Ansteorra-rapier] Rapier Melee practice
Theron Bretz
tbretz at montroseclinic.org
Fri Sep 7 07:50:28 PDT 2001
[Quoting No One]
Hey folks. Etienne here. The guy who started all this. Look, I was trying
to make a joke, poking fun at what I see as an over-emphasis on rapier
melees and our war efforts. I was not trying to start a religious war, even
if I am a Huguenot rabble-rouser by trade.
Are rapier wars/rapier melees period? Not as we practice them. So be it.
Are rapier wars/rapier melees fun? So I'm told. Perhaps if I didn't have a
congenital defect that only seems to manifest in my inability to stay alive
during a rapier melee I might feel otherwise. As it is, I find them
tedious, and drilling to get good at them even moreso.
In short, do what you want. As someone pointed out here, the SCA is not a
hard-core re-enactment group. To me, it's a celebration of the spirit of an
age:
the 1960s...
Actually, I feel it's a celebration of the best of the period. So let's not
over-analyze things here, and let's remember we're all Ansteorrans here
(well, most of us are).
So, could we all just take a couple of steps back and let this topic go?
I'm sure we all have bigger fish to fry.
Etienne
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