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Sword and heater shield.
Thorsteinn:
--- Quote from: Lord Tristin on 2013-04-10, 21:43:12 ---Sword and Shield is one of the styles of combat I feel truly comfortable with. I have practiced on my own and with anyone I can find for years. Heater shields make excellent offensive weapons, I have used two and no weapons per se on several occasions. Shields on an edge hit are formidable attacks. try blocking an attack with your sword, stepping in and striking the edge to your opponents forearm holding their weapon. follow with a shield bash and downward shoulder strike.
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Now you can't say that and then say you aren't heading to BotN or the Lauren Tourney some day. :)
Lord Tristin:
I am new to tourneys and re enactment, however Ihave trained formally as in martial arts and medieval sword training with others in sparrign and whatnot. I love the idea of tourneys, just never been to one. I live in southern Wisconsin near the Illinois border, where is a close one? I guess Iwould need to buy or build armor and whatnot.
Thorsteinn:
--- Quote from: Lord Tristin on 2013-04-10, 22:24:32 ---I am new to tourneys and re enactment, however I have trained formally as in martial arts and medieval sword training with others in sparring and what not. I love the idea of tourneys, just never been to one. I live in southern Wisconsin near the Illinois border, where is a close one? I guess I would need to buy or build armor and what not.
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Your local SCA group can be found here: http://www.northshield.org/Branches/Search.aspx?new
HEMA Alliance: http://www.communitywalk.com/THE-HEMA-ALLIANCE-Training-Partner-Finder
ACL/BOTN: http://usaknights.org/
Lord Tristin:
Thank you Thorsteinn. Very helpful
B. Patricius:
Lord Tristan,
after reading your post about the moves you've made with your shield, oh man, you're going to love SCA tournaments. However, on a note of "safety" shield bashing, or for that matter anything offensive with a shield, is not really allowed on the tournament field. On melee battles, pretty much anything is fair. All I can see is someone who thinks the "wrap" is the end-all-be-all move getting handed in a melee by your shield techniques!
www.armourarchive.org (if it's okay to post a link to them) is a great group of die-hard SCAdians who strive to "get it right" within the sport of the SCA. Most SCAdians I've met have called them a bit "extreme" but that's part of the fun of it, SCA caters to a large variety of people's interests from Genericelt/vikings to people who go way in depth in their persona and garb down to a decade with only extant examples via museum and effigies.
Beyond that, the Codex Manesse source is EPIC! I've been primarily studying I:33 as that's the closest to what I'm trying to learn, crusades techniques with a kite or at the most advanced, a heater and transitional armor.
here's something else I've found. It's SCA based, and definitely tertiary although most of their references seem to be quite good: http://www.threeriver.org/marshal/tourney_1.shtml pretty good starting point for anyone interested in 12th century, but beyond that, it's the illuminations they use that I wish I could find elsewhere...
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