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Sir Wolf:
ya i know things happen. 2 friends were spear sparing and one hit the breastplate and he blocked upwards, it slid up and hit his eye. was ok after the hospital check but was scary

Sir Edward:

Then of course there was a jousting fatality over in Europe a few years back. Same thing. Lance through the eye into the brain.

Sir Brian:
True but I heard they violated a few of the essential safety precautions when that occurred.  ???

Thorsteinn:
In this case it was a Rawlings Synthetic sword that did the damage.... and a helm that had eye slits that were too big. Even though I hear they may not allow face thrusts it's still true that shite happens.

Makes me glad for the SCA regs about 1" slits and 1.25" weapons. I actually won a Crown fight by stabbing a guy in the eye slot.

Sir Edward:

Holy crap, I didn't notice it was a Rawlings sword. They're actually pretty soft plastic (too soft for actions in the bind, but very safe). I'm actually pretty surprised now. That's a pretty good thrust to get a fairly flexible plastic blade all the way into someone's brain.

But yeah, the eye slots are really too big for this. If you're using untipped trainers, there really needs to be a perf-plate or something.

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