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Sir William:
Wow, that was awesome!  Sir Wolf, you wouldn't happen to have links to these live steel groups?  I am not sure I could go all the time with something like this, but I'd like to experience it just once.  Besides, if I survive it, it'd make for a helluva fireside tale, no?

In a few years, I'll only be able to dream about such things, as I'm not getting any younger.  lol

Sir Edward:
Markland Medieval Mercenary Militia
http://www.markland.org/

This group has been pretty active in the MD area for a long time, but has evolved a lot. I have no idea what they do these days, but when I was in college, I knew some folks who used to do padded-weapon combat with them. They'd get into whatever gear they could (hockey equipment, for instance), and use home-made padded weapons and just battle it out.

Sir Barchan, one of the jousters at MDRF, was one of the founding members, but their areas of interest diverged if I'm not mistaken.

EDIT: It looks like they still do padded combat in addition to steel, but they're paying more attention to armor these days: http://www.mdmedieval.bravehost.com/frat.html

If you're more interested in learning sword techniques rather than doing a grand melee sort of thing, there's of course the Virginia Academy of Fencing, and I believe there is a MASHS group somewhere in the area as well.

Sir William:
I've already got Das Bill's name written on my list of things to do/see as I'm very interested in the historical swordsmanship classes he teaches; time, money and opportunity have yet to present themselves altogether at once so I can go forward.

I'm interested in all of it, not necessarily participating unless the bug bites me...but at the very least, that was entertaining as hell and they looked like they had a lot of fun.

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