[Ansteorra-rapier] LMOD tourney (was: Looking for.....)

[Charlie Cain / Larkin O'Kane]

Sounds to me a bit like a bear-pit tourney with various weapons styles.

Larkin

Chris Zakes wrote:
>
> At 09:46 AM 2/8/02 -0600, you wrote:
> >Good idea to try and get the heavy fighters and spectators involved in
> >rapier fighting. But I'm not to sure about getting the heavy fighters to
> >fight rapier or rapier fighters to fight heavy.
>
> Actually, there's no reason the fighters *have* to "cross over" if they
> don't want to.
>
> The London Masters had no set formats for their Prizes, beyond the fact
> that they were expected to use a variety of weapons (anything from two to
> five or six) and play against a number of opponents (anywhere from three to
> nine). For example:
>
> "Gregorye Greene played his scholars prize at Chensforde in Essex under
> Richard Donne at two weapons: the two hand sword and the back sword, with
> eight at two hand sword and seven at back sword. He played the 18th of April."
>
> and
>
> "William Mathews played his master's prize at Canterbury the 5th day of
> June at four kinds of weapons. That is to say the long sword, the back
> sword, the sword and buckler and the rapier and dagger. There played with
> him eight masters viz. Francis Calvert John Blinkinsop, John Goodwin, Izake
> Kennard, Gregorye Grene, John Evans, Richard Smith and Henry Naylor..."
>
> The problem that *I* see is that while one or two fighters could "play the
> prize" by holding the field against all comers in a variety of weapons, it
> would be much more difficult to have thirty or forty fighters trying to
> play their prizes simultaneously.
>
>         -Tivar Moondragon
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