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Sir Brian:
We could always do Medieval times wearing armor!  :D

Dragonlover:
I discovered the best way to "get back" at the fighter ignoring your well-placed blows was to tell them you yield the field this day since you obviously cannot vanquish them. It meant you lost a bout or maybe even a tourney, but when you have all the pointy hats sitting around witnessing said fact, it stands for itself....

Sir William:

--- Quote from: Sir Brian on 2010-09-13, 22:25:34 ---We could always do Medieval times wearing armor!  :D

--- End quote ---

My man, you let me know if you do that because I'll join you!  I've flirted with the idea of doing it...even imagined them letting me up on a horse to joust with them.  Does anyone here ride?  I miss it.

Thanks for the rundown, Sir Edward...what you've said mirrors what I'd heard in the past and I know some people who truly love it.  When it comes to playing the role, I'm more of a casual one...I take knighthood seriously but I can't devote but so much time to it; for me its more of a state of mind.  I sometimes tell myself that I was probably born a few centuries too late but then I think of running water, indoor plumbing, electricity....see, I could do w/out a/c or elaborate homes and cars even, but that indoor plumbing is what really sets us apart from the old days, don't you think? 

Yet and still...it'd be cool if there were such a place, like a living history exhibit, where you could armor up, take up a sword, enter a joust if you wanted to.  Yea, there's some danger involved- but I've always found that anything really worth doing is going to involve danger of some sort...even if its dinner with the in-laws.  ;)

Sir Edward:

Oh, I very much agree. Running water and indoor plumbing, antibiotics, and antihistamines! :) Modern medicine, rights and freedoms... there is much in modern society that I would not want to give up. That's why I look at our historical interests as a way to revive them in the modern day, so we can have our cake and eat it too. :)

As for going to Medieval Times in armor, I think that would be a blast. I heard somewhere that they either frown on people showing up in garb, or at least want a head's up in advance. I'm not sure what their policy is. But just from the standpoint of liability and insurance, they certainly won't let patrons anywhere near their horses and equipment.

But that does bring up the idea of tournaments that folks such as ourselves could attend and participate in. A few other forums (most notably swordform) are currently undergoing huge arguments about such tournaments, whether they have any value, how they could be fair to different types of training and background, rule systems, whether it dilutes martial training or whether martial training makes you dangerous in sparring, etc, etc. I'm curious to see what they come up with. But at least it is being discussed.

I do miss riding. I used to take lessons and go riding when I was a teen. I've only been on a horse a couple of times since then.

Once again, the things I'd do if I won the lottery... build a castle, keep horses, hire someone full time to care for the animals... :)

Sir William:
So it is being discussed...that's good; obviously being horseless I'd be fighting on foot but I still think it'd be cool if we could stage a mock battle of some sort...and here's where it'll get bogged down because you'd have to be pretty armored up to participate if the media being used are blunt steel swords...w/out that though, its just another LARP get together (which are fun too, don't get me wrong).

I imagine there'd be some injuries sustained but that's a risk I'd be willing to take for my part.  I never thought of a tournament as something that'd dilute martial training- I mean, these things used to be relatively brutal affairs until it became somewhat civilized and they started jousting one on one.  I bet during the melee days, it was chaos on the field and probably a lot more entertaining (and dangerous).

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