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SCA Culture Question
Lord Dane:
Is it Wisby or Visby??? Because I see both in different references. ???
Sir Edward:
--- Quote from: Lord Dane on 2013-05-24, 16:11:24 ---Is it Wisby or Visby??? Because I see both in different references. ???
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Both. They're just alternate spellings for the same thing. It's pronounced like "Visby" though.
B. Patricius:
I've seen it both ways too. I think it has to do with our lettered language back then wasn't as cut and dry as it is now. Chaucer spelled the same word three different ways in his "Cantebury Tales." I can try to find the word too, I just remember that from junior year English.
Hrolfr, and Thorstein as well, and any other SCAdians
I have a question in regards to the SCA culture and their
--- Quote from: Hrolfr on 2013-05-24, 08:48:24 ---Also falling into this is a doubt in some people's mind on whether a blow was well struck or not, relying on sound because
of the protection rather than felling the blow
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I had a TON of people tell me I can't do a Samurai kit, not because it's Samurai but because it's so armoured 8) My response was "that's my point." I'm very competitive when I choose to be, and the SCA isn't one of those situations. Basically for me, if a hit hits, I call it. It doesn't matter if it hit me like a ton of bricks, or was a light tap like rapier's draw cut. But, maybe it's this very concept of me taking light hits that may have made me become a kind of outcast. My samurai kit is because in the Western United States, the SCA is by far the best place to have the opportunity to wear all that cool gear and fight in it.
I'm just wondering about the SCA and its "hits" as a whole. I used to run a WMA club for a short bit, and we prided ourselves on the ability to move exceptionally quick, and stop before even coming in contact with the other person. We spent 45 minutes a day practicing that drill to "attain control." Then, in my time in the SCA, most everyone agreed I was fast, but "not aggressive enough, and not hard enough." I'm just kind of wondering where this came from?
Ian:
--- Quote from: B. Patricius on 2013-05-24, 20:41:49 ---I had a TON of people tell me I can't do a Samurai kit, not because it's Samurai but because it's so armoured 8) My response was "that's my point." I'm very competitive when I choose to be, and the SCA isn't one of those situations. Basically for me, if a hit hits, I call it. It doesn't matter if it hit me like a ton of bricks, or was a light tap like rapier's draw cut. But, maybe it's this very concept of me taking light hits that may have made me become a kind of outcast. My samurai kit is because in the Western United States, the SCA is by far the best place to have the opportunity to wear all that cool gear and fight in it.
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Here's Nissan from the AA's sweet SCA heavy samurai kit:
Sir William:
Nissan's kit is bananas!
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