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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:42:19 EST
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In a message dated 3/24/2002 10:53:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Stratokles1 at cs.com writes:


> >    In light of the numerous injuries and complaints I was told
> > of envoliving spears, I think it might be wise if we spearmen
> > place our weapons down, go back over the basics, and try again
> > with a clean slate. >>
>
> We, (the Spartans) also had a fighter knocked out by a heavy spear thrust.
>
> But I think that the problem is not the training of the givers of thrusts
> ...
> It is the Convention of calling thrusts, and training of those receiving
> the
> thrusts.
>
> It is my belief that we call our blows in reverse of the medieval reality.
>
> We call the cuts lighter than it would have taken to penetrate mail.  We
> call
> the thrusts MUCH harder than it would have taken to penetrate mail.
>
> We are consistently not calling body thrusts that would have counted in
> reality.  This causes the spearmen to up their power until the thrusts are
> consistently called by everyone that the meet.  This means it has to be
> hard
> enough to "move" 300 pound Billie Breast Plate.  This means it cracks the
> ribs of 150 pound Kenny Kidney Belt.
>
> The SCA never changes any Convention of calibration that does not make it
> easier to kill duke.  This convention does not have that effect, and
> changeing it would...  So the change would never pass...
>
> So tell your buddies to armor up those ribs, because the spear men will hit
>
> as hard as necessary to get their blows called!
>
> --Stratokles
>