ES - fighting in the West
Lady Simone
margiejr at sprintmail.com
Thu Apr 15 17:42:15 PDT 1999
That was the way we did a lot of Fighter Practices in Lonely tower before I
moved to ansteorra, so people could train while building thier armor. It
also is a good technique to help learn new weapon styles, and work out
problems with shot mechanics.
> I went to a fighter practice in Santa Clara, CA on Tuesday. It was very
> interesting to watch the fighters from the West practice. They usually
> practice "slow work", walking through a fight at one quarter speed. The
> people I saw practicing were evenly divided between slow work without
armor,
> slow work in armor, and sparring.
>
It's what I was trained in. Getting used to the tigher stance used in in our
dear kingdom at times has been confusing. my body want to thow shots the old
way.
I can say that the way we fight down here is more feirce at times than up
north and out west.
Simone
> The usual style was much more open and flowing than you see in Ansteorra.
> Shields were much smaller, and moved around more. The basic stance seemed
> to be with the shield under the chin and the bottom of the shield at a 45
> degree angle to the body. The sword was held with the hand near the ear,
> and the blade hanging down the back. It looked very strange.
>
> Llywelyn
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