[Ansteorra-rapier] Proposed revision to rapier rules

[Katy Hendrick]

I had mine filtered down to current authorizations, which may be why our
numbers are off but I agree that its broken.

Another project to work on in the future! :)

--Dena

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Pug Bainter <pug at pug.net> wrote:

> As for needing something for “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, that is
> not something the SCA has ever worked on. Otherwise we wouldn’t have
> improved in technique, weapons styles, etc. It worked just fine when it was
> first used, just there are better options commonly available now to be used
> instead.****
>
> ** **
>
> Dena, I hate to argue with the Marshal Secretary in front of everyone, but
> I think that you and I aren’t generating the numbers the same way. Maybe we
> need to look into that. When I re-wrote the reporting script I added a
> numbers report for participants and got the following counts with valid
> expiration dates:****
>
> ** **
>
> **·         **Light Rapier Combatants: 270 ****
>
> **·         **Heavy Rapier Combatants: 293 ****
>
> **·         **Rapier Marshals: 181 ****
>
> ** **
>
> Unfortunately I haven’t had time to relook at the script to figure out to
> generate how many light or heavy only combatants. I will see if I can get
> that done in the next day or so.****
>
> ** **
>
> I do agree that it is broke because the enforcement of the rules doesn’t
> appear to be happening with regards to authorizing rapier marshals and
> light rapier combatants.****
>
> ** **
>
> For everyone out there, “real soon now” we’ll have some canned reports to
> look up data from the database with a goal of eventually printing your own
> authorization card.****
>
> ** **
>
> Ciao,****
>
> Pug****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* ansteorra-rapier-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:
> ansteorra-rapier-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] *On Behalf Of *Katy Hendrick
> *Sent:* Monday, October 15, 2012 7:45 AM
> *To:* Ansteorra RapierNet
> *Subject:* Re: [Ansteorra-rapier] Proposed revision to rapier rules****
>
> ** **
>
> I think the fact that people are authorized to marshal a blade they have
> no clue about is a huge "broken" point. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Speaking from a simple numbers perspective, there really aren't that many
> fighters that fight F/E. Out of 500+ fencers, less than 20 of those are
> even authorized and of those 20, I know of at least 10 personally that
> don't fight F/E so I am not even sure why or how they got authorized.****
>
> ** **
>
> --Dena****
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Elisabeth B. Zakes <kitharis at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Working from the statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," what is
> broken that we're trying to fix here? I've seen several solutions proposed,
> but I still haven't seen what we're proposing solutions FOR.
>
> Aethelyan
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