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bloodthorn@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Jennifer Geard) writes:


>As I understand it, in Caid if a blow is intentionally blocked with the hand
>the arm is lost.

The West also outlaws "target substitution"


>I find the wording of the statement that "the hand, knee, and lower leg 
>armour are considered proof against all attack" confusing.  Do they realise 
>that the rules lawyers amongst the fighters have started blocking with their 
>hands because within the terms of the SCA game hands are invulnerable?  I far 
>favour the Caidan version.

As far as I am concerned, the fighters who block with their hands are
not "playing the game", and the other fighters should deal with it in
the same way they deal with rhinohiding: talk to the offenders, if that
doesn't work, involve the marshallate.

Educate, don;t legislate.  That is the key.  And don;t just whinge about
someone, talk to them and if that doesn;t work, escalate it.

And if someone insists on being a bush lawyer, then they have a real
chivalry problem.  Deal with it like any other chivalry problem.

Oddly enough, I haven't seen this problem in S&S fighters much at 
all, but polearm
and greatsword types are incredibly prone to it.  Many times have I been
marshalling a fight and heard the thump of rattan on hockey glove (or
the clunk of ratan on steel) rather than the clack of ratan on rattan.

>there because it looks good and gives better real-life protection, right?  
>And basket hilts weren't found in any significant numbers until late in 
>period?  (I'm waiting to be corrected on this one -- I may well be wrong.)  

Started to appear around 1500, and got quite common as the century
progressed.  BUt usually only found on civilian swords, not military
weapons, as military types were wearing hand armour, and didn;t need the
hilt to provide protection.

Silfren



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