[Hellsgate] Light Gear

[Magdalena "Dena" Cortez]

While I can't help with funds or equipment, I'd love to be able to come and
poke people once in awhile for practice. :)

--Dena

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:34 PM, SoldierGrrrl <soldier.grrrl at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't think we'll spend that much.  If we can get more interest in
> rapier, we can justify it, although to have more interest, we'd need
> more gear...it's a cranky cycle.
>
> Perhaps we can talk to BG about a long-term loan of a blade.  Ioannes
> is willing to loan his gear when he's not fencing, so that's a start.
>
> The rapier Brandubh found is about $100, so that's certainly an idea.
>
> I'm not sure exactly how much we have in the bank, but remind me and
> we'll talk about it in December.  We have a great rapier resource in
> BG, so let me talk to them.
>
> Helene
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM, ken riley <armympriley at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I think it all depends on how much we have in the groups account.  Do we
> really want to spend half or more of what the group has to purchase more
> loaner gear or can the purchase wait until later, when we have a chance to
> do some fund raising first to get the coffers up.
> >
> > On Wed Nov 10th, 2010 9:59 AM EST Liam Gordon wrote:
> >
> >>Lucas,
> >>
> >>And if we end up having two people show who want to fight rapier and
> Brandu
> >>nor Adrian show up, what happens then?
> >>
> >>Liam
> >>
> >>On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:57 AM, <dramascout at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I would think the loner gear should work for now. Especially if brandu
> and
> >>> adrian bring there gear out we can "hot seat" the loaner gear if there
> is
> >>> more then just me wanting to learn that way of fighting.
> >>>
> >>> Lucas
> >>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Liam Gordon <cenliamgordon2005 at gmail.com>
> >>> Sender: hellsgate-bounces at lists.ansteorra.orgDate: Wed, 10 Nov 2010
> >>> 08:08:52
> >>> To: Stronghold of Hellsgate<Hellsgate at lists.ansteorra.org>
> >>> Reply-To: Stronghold of Hellsgate <hellsgate at lists.ansteorra.org>
> >>> Subject: [Hellsgate] Light Gear
> >>>
> >>> Good Morning to the List,
> >>>
> >>> Just want to let everyone know about last night.
> >>>
> >>> I took all of the light gear that the group owns (6 jackets, 2 masks
> along
> >>> with my own mask) to Bryn Gwlads PiP last night to get punch tested.
> >>>
> >>> Out of the 6 jackets, 3 passed and 3 failed.  Out of 2 masks, 1 passed
> and
> >>> 1
> >>> failed. 1 hood passed.
> >>>
> >>> The three jackets that failed were the two white ones that Adrian
> brought
> >>> out last Sunday.  The fronts of the jackets were fine.  The backs were
> only
> >>> one layer of cloth and the punch tester went right through.  The third
> >>> jacket that failed did so because it doesn't cover the boby
> appropriately.
> >>> It's just too dang small.
> >>>
> >>> The mask that failed did so because the mask tester pushed all the way
> >>> through the mesh to the fail line.
> >>>
> >>> So, jacket wise, we're still good.  We do need to look into purchasing
> >>> another mask or two, making or purchasing at least one more hood, and
> >>> making
> >>> or purchasing at least two metal gorgets.
> >>>
> >>> We can bring this up at next populace.
> >>>
> >>> In Service to the Dream,
> >>>
> >>> Liam Gordon
> >>>
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