[Ansteorra-rapier] Proposed revision to rapier rules

[Jhan Knebel]

At Elfsea Baronial last year, we did have an Epee only authorized fighter.
This was not a throwback tournament.

Rixende



On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jay Rudin <rudin at peoplepc.com> wrote:

> Other than the throwback tourney, when was the last tourney this would
> have affected? Is the goal to pass a feel-good anti-epee rule, even if it
> has no effect at all?
>
> Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hertzberg **
> Sent: Oct 10, 2012 3:45 PM
> To: Ansteorra RapierNet **
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-rapier] Proposed revision to rapier rules
>
> Hmmm, so the multiple messages of people saying to keep epees and foils
> seems to have a common thread.  That they are used for training.
>
> Cool.  What about dropping them as a tourney weapon, but keeping them for
> practice?
>
> Just throwing ideas out.
>
> Avery
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Jhan Knebel <rixende at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I agree that is a potential solution, but the wording as proposed
>> makes the epee illegal to anyone except a youth fighter and an authorized
>> youth marshal. There are many adults that will fight a youth, but have no
>> interest in being an authorized marshal for that type of activity.
>>
>> Rixende
>>  On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Cody Hoffman <glowpoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Rixende when I was a youth fighter twe could only use foils and most
>>> fighters at that time only carried epees and heavy. So my solution was to
>>> carry extra foils. With this new rule won't that make more epees floating
>>> around that could be donated to a youth program to help it flourish.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Oct 10, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Jhan Knebel <rixende at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   If you eliminate the epee for all but the youth program, we may
>>> negatively the youth program. Under these proposed rules, the only people
>>> that can fight a youth with epee are the youth and the marshals. As a
>>> former youth marshal (waiting on my background check to clear again) I
>>> personally do NOT want to be the fighter when I am working with youth. I
>>> want to be watching them work with someone else. I can be a much more
>>> effective marshal and teacher when I am not the one fighting. My son gets
>>> much more out of not fighting his Mom.
>>>
>>> Our current program allows any adult to practice with a youth as long as
>>> a youth marshal is present and decides the person is safe to fight the
>>> youth. This law change will remove from play the blade most children start
>>> with. And, while our youth program is tiny, it has a RIDICULOUSLY high
>>> success rate of "graduates." A good portion of that is because they have an
>>> opportunity to fight with adult fighters.
>>>
>>> Daniel is 14 and has since graduated to my husband's ridiculously light
>>> Schlager when he fights heavy rapier, but he really can't fight anything
>>> much heavier.  (And mind you, he does not have weak wrists. He's in his
>>> third year of gymnastics and is much stronger than his size implies)
>>>
>>> Rixende
>>>
>>>
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