ES - Elfsea Defender/rules/soccer/etc etc etc

[Arabella de Montacute]

Ya know Sfi,
     You are doing an awful lot of complaining about issues that concerns an 
event you're not even going to be at!  - Arabella



----Original Message Follows----
From: Matthew Saroff <saroff at poseidon.vs.lmco.com>
Reply-To: elfsea at Ansteorra.ORG
To: elfsea at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject: Re: ES - Elfsea Defender/rules/soccer/etc etc etc
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 10:14:58 -0500

On Aug 4,  9:55am, Bill Derby wrote:
 > 4.  As to soccer cleats - I think that can be covered by the Kingdom
 > Knights Marshall, it is after all their office (Come to think of it, I
 > can think of quite a few lists I have been it that it would have been
 > nice to not slip, but then, I also had honorable opponents when I did
 > slip...)
Hi,
	The shoes really aren't about competitive advantage, notwithstanding
the ads, Michael Jordan would still be Michael Jordan if he were wearing 
"Bear
Feet" slippers (If it happens, I want a copy of the tape).  The reason that
people buy expensive running shoes (I'm speaking mundanely) is to prevent 
shin
splints, knee problems, etc.
	Foot gear in the SCA serves the same purpose, and injuries to the legs
in the sca frequently come from people slipping and falling (witness Almar's
broken leg last year).  If someone wants to wear cleats it's not for
competitive advantage, it's to avoid tearing up a knee by falling badly.
	Pistol grips on rapiers in the SCA are banned not for period issues,
but for safety issues (higher calibration than strip fencing too much force 
on
a thrust, and wrist injuries when Thrud the Barbarian parries too hard).
	Certainly we should encourage someone who wears modern shoes to
color/cover up (I have finally got the monochrome (all black) version of my
Chuck Tailors, they had been on order for 4 weeks).  But the motivation 
should
not be prohibiting people to play, but the reason that we all do this: to
impress real and potential snuggle bunnies.
	It should be noted that I subscribe to the theory that all advances in
humanity come down to three things: fear of death, the need for food, and 
the
need to impress real and potential snuggle bunnies, but I digress.

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