The sport should be the ideal of swordfighting and we shouldn’t count blows that might have incapacitated someone in real life combat, we should recognize great technique that would have devastated an opponent in real life.
Thrusts should land and show the potential for penetration, cuts should be controlled hits that demonstrate accuracy and targeting.
Harder more important targets should be scored higher and a skilled fighter should choose to attack these targets to demonstrate his skill.
We made it back from the Great Pennsic War at last. 2 weeks of camping can make a man long for the luxuries of home. Darkwood Armory did well. I had a chance to meet with a number of friends throughout the week, and to talk about many of the things that interest me … Continue reading
A few pics of stuff I want to outfit my company with.
An early 15th century hurlbat. Solid iron with steel edges it was for throwing at an opponent. It always stuck and even had a belt hook (shown broken off in the picture)
Rondel and ballock daggers as well as some late basilards.
Flails are cool! Be neat to make as well. Very authoritative weapon.
These Knights have a couple of different style of fauld that our new guys should look to make. The company is providing the breastplates, but our new guys will need to purchase or construct their own fauld.
Probably not a bad thing to have in any fight. A hammer like this: I really consider this weapon to be the ultimate self defense tool. Armed with this hammer I would be willing to face any form of unarmed, knife or stick wielding opponent. I suspect that I would be … Continue reading
I am very interested in getting a response to this question. The helmets are German, from around 1430, and consistant with drawing of helmets from other books, but to my knowledge there are none of these in any museum I know of. I can see an armet, there is one with … Continue reading
Folks,
I hate this guy. Every time I get an idea about something to write, Will has done it better, it better researched, and more complete than I can hope to achieve. One particular example of stuff of his that is cool, the deeds of arms, I particlarly like the 15th century ones.
Check his stuff out. It will take you a year to get caught up, and by that time I might have written something worth writing.
Gregor Medvesek, has released an English translation of Andres Lignitzer’s wresting treatise. Gregor is an instructor of the Schola Pugnatoria along with Igor Sancin, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in Dijon in 2011. Gregor says that there is really no information on Lignitzer’s life or death but that he is … Continue reading
It would be hard to determine if the stick or the rock was man’s first weapon, but it is apparent that the stick is still used as a weapon today. Similarly it was used in medieval Italy. Fiore shows a few plates where he explains the use of a stick … Continue reading
Self defense is about psychology, as much as training. Once you know what the attacker wants, you have time, and time is your friend. With time comes the possibility of taking initiative. With initiative come the possibility of success.
Thursday I received a new hammer from Tinman Technologies I haven’t gotten it all working as well as I’d like, Kent says I will need to shim it a bit, but it is amazing the power that it possesses. I can’t wait to try some of my idea with it. It has enough power to raise 12 gauge cold. I am planning on trying to make some of the elbow and gauntlet parts by raising rather than cut and weld. We will see if that can save me some time.
I will be rebuilding my armorers-supply.com website as soon as Pennsic is over with, in an attempt to offer the armoring world a place to buys tools and cut parts, patterns and such, This is for guys getting into armoring as well as experienced armorers who need to get parts cut and shaped. By using both the Pullmax and the Air hammers, I will be able to supply basically shaped parts for people to finish on their own. With the new battle of Nations thing going on, I expect it will increase the interest in real armor throughout the US.
Hope so, the hammer was expensive.