On medical needs. We want to be as inclusive as possible BUT there will always be a point when a persons medical condition makes it difficult to participate in a sport. <div><br></div><div>Orlando<span></span><br><br>On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, David Cordes wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">While I think the idea is in general a good one, there are a couple of<br>
specific issues that I have with it.<br>
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The first of these is cost-based. Yes, heavy rapiers are relatively<br>
cheap and readily available today, but particularly for someone with<br>
little disposable income (people like students, at least in theory!),<br>
a light blade is potentially a more practical investment.<br>
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The second concern is more fundamental, I think. If or when this<br>
measure goes through, what happens to those who for medical reasons<br>
(generally problems of some sort in the arm) cannot use a heavy blade<br>
(or at least cannot use it for any useful amount of time)? Yes, the<br>
proposed change allows for variances from it, but by the current<br>
wording, this is only for individual events. This change would mean<br>
that those fencers could only fence at events where they notified the<br>
marshal in charge that they were going to be attending and wanting to<br>
fence with light blade more than a month in advance, and that said<br>
marshal in charge got the appropriate permission, more than a month<br>
before the event. The other question with respect to this, is what<br>
happens at practices? If its an official practice, would we still be<br>
able to give people who come up and express an interest the chance to<br>
try fencing with a light blade?<br>
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In service<br>
Asbiorn<br>
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On 10 October 2012 09:04, Pug Bainter <<a>pug@pug.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Good Morning,<br>
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> As some folks know, we are working on reducing the Kingdom Rapier rules<br>
> down to match the other marshal areas by simply being statements of where we<br>
> differ from Society. This greatly reduces the complexity while improving the<br>
> clarify of our rules. It also allows for less churn when Society makes<br>
> changes.<br>
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> When discussing this recently with the Don Iago (KRM), Sir John (KEM),<br>
> Duke Ulsted (KSen) and Their August Majesties, I made a proposal which<br>
> generated a concern there may be some pushback based on earlier discussions.<br>
> Because of this concern, I asked permission to socialize this item with the<br>
> community to see if the concerns are still warranted.<br>
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> First, and foremost, we are a historical recreation group. This means we<br>
> need to be able to remember our history from time to time. Because of that,<br>
> the wording on this was very specific.<br>
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> It has come to pass that the evolution of our fencing blades has been<br>
> successful and the fading out of light rapier blades has succeeded. As part<br>
> of our rules simplification, there is one item I would like to propose<br>
> because it is in reality but not in law.<br>
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> Ansteorra convention: Except under the Youth Rapier Program, Light Rapier is<br>
> to be eliminated within the borders of Ansteorra effective March 17th, 2013.<br>
> After that date, Light Rapier blades can only be used with variances<br>
> obtained in writing from the Kingdom Rapier Marshal at least 30 days in<br>
> advance such as for historical SCA theme events. Ansteorra’s Rapier<br>
> authorizations permit use of Light Rapier blades at out of Kingdom events<br>
> where allowed.<br>
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> In order to make sure we don’t cause any knee jerk reactions, the date<br>
> suggested here is to ensure that it will be published in the BlackStar and<br>
> socialized at Gulf Wars with our rapier community before going into effect.<br>
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> When first thinking through the elimination of light rapier blades (foils<br>
> & epees), it concerned me a great bit because of Bryn Gwlad just recently<br>
> having an anniversary event where some of the older equipment was not only<br>
> displayed for viewing, but also used in a tournament. The wording was<br>
> selected to allow for that in case others were interested in these types of<br>
> nostalgic events as well.<br>
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> Going back to us being a historical recreation group, the styles of weapon<br>
> we call a foil and epee today were created in the late 17th to 19th century<br>
> replacing the blades that we are commonly using within our heavy rapier<br>
> program. So while we may be taking a step back from our origins as an<br>
> organization, we are taking a step forward by disallowing historically<br>
> inaccurate weapons.<br>
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> There are some other arguments that could be used to counter this that<br>
> have show> _______________________________________________<br>
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