[Namron] sidesword experiment.

[sirocco]

  greetings,
 well we have always made them nervous when we have
just too much fun....oh well.....if you want to show
your support and put your .2 cents in heres the
info....its not over yet so be nice.............and
try to be constructive
  things like this take time....

The Sidesword experiment that our kingdom has been
participating in for 
the past
3+ years is now halted.  The SEM has called a halt to
the Sidesword 
Experiment
Society wide.


This does not necessarily mean an end to Sidesword. 
The experiment is 
currently
undergoing an re-evaluation period that will last
somewhere between 90 
and 180
days.

The Sidesword experiment was an experiment designed to
try and allow 
feasible
research and study into historically documentable
civilian combat 
within an SCA
context.  Many of the period manuals include the use
of percussive cuts 
and the
Sidesword experiment did have a focus to develop
armouring, weapon, and
authorization standards needed to accomplish this.

We have had a good core group participating in this
experiment in 
Ansteorra.
Several demos have been held over the past few years
within the 
kingdom.  The
response that we have seen seems to indicate that
there is a 
significant amount
of interest in this sort of active research.

During the re-evaluation period, commentary has been
requested from all 
the
kingdoms that have been involved in the experiment.

If you have any comments, either favorable and
supportive of continuing 
this
sort of program, or even if you have concerns or
issues, please take 
this time
to write and let your voice be heard.

Comments should be addressed to Baron Aedan Aylwyn,
the Society Rapier 
Marshal
at : rapier at sca.org

and/or Sir Robert Glendon of Auk, the Society Earl
Marshal at : 
marshal at sca.org

Thank you,

Don Ansgar von Aachen
Kingdom Rapier Marshal


		
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