[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Good training and great food. I’ve never had grits. They look like cream of wheat.[/quote]
Oh they are soooo much better than Cream of Wheat.
Another picture from fighting this weekend. All you can see of me in this one is my sword hand coming around to hit the guy in the foreground.
I see a nice walking lunge there. 
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
I see a nice walking lunge there. :)[/quote]
Yeah I do my walking lunges with 35lbs of armor on.
35lbs of armor, nice. Do you have a group you belong to? If so, do you guys/gals stage fights etc…? It looks mighty fun.
That looks like an awful lot of fun. How did you get involved and how long have you been doing it?
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
35lbs of armor, nice. Do you have a group you belong to? If so, do you guys/gals stage fights etc…? It looks mighty fun.[/quote]
Its not actually staged, its a sport with rules and ways to determine the winner etc. but yeah its a blast.
Its called the Society for Creative Anachronism and its world wide.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
That looks like an awful lot of fun. How did you get involved and how long have you been doing it?[/quote]
I got started in college, and I’ve been doing it for 25 years with a couple of breaks due to work etc.
I like it because its historical reenactment but unlike other types theres a competitive sport at the heart of it. The fights are just that, fights, where one person tries to defeat the other using a defined set of predeterminied rules.
No part of it is staged like Ren Faires.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
35lbs of armor, nice. Do you have a group you belong to? If so, do you guys/gals stage fights etc…? It looks mighty fun.[/quote]
Its not actually staged, its a sport with rules and ways to determine the winner etc. but yeah its a blast.[/quote]
Oh cool. Probably a dumb question but is the sword/shield real ? If so, that plus the armour makes for a great cardio workout, haha. I’d be afraid I’d be too competitive and try and chop a limb off.
I’m no deadlifting expert and I don’t throw that kind of weight around but isn’t your back getting pretty rounded there? I hate to see you hurt yourself!
[quote]3djedi wrote:
I’m no deadlifting expert and I don’t throw that kind of weight around but isn’t your back getting pretty rounded there? I hate to see you hurt yourself! [/quote]
I’ll take a look at it from the side if I can this weekend and see if its rounding.
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
35lbs of armor, nice. Do you have a group you belong to? If so, do you guys/gals stage fights etc…? It looks mighty fun.[/quote]
Its not actually staged, its a sport with rules and ways to determine the winner etc. but yeah its a blast.[/quote]
Oh cool. Probably a dumb question but is the sword/shield real ? If so, that plus the armour makes for a great cardio workout, haha. I’d be afraid I’d be too competitive and try and chop a limb off.[/quote]
Well the shield is wood and metal, the sword is actually made of rattan. In the real Middle Ages squires trained with wodden swords called wasters. So we use rattan swords because the weight at certain thickness mimics the weight of swords found in the Middle Ages and yet is much safer. So far only one guy has died from fighting injuries.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Good training and great food. I’ve never had grits. They look like cream of wheat.[/quote]
That must be a typo. Surely you have indulged in the ecstasy known as “grits”!
Assuming it isn’t a typo…bite you tongue! Grits and cream o’ wheat are worlds apart.
That’s what the whole “War of Northern Aggression” was about. We had grits and the North didn’t. They saw how much we loved them. And they coveted them.
In the end, they won and took grits for themselves. But we never told them the secret of how to make them taste good. So they ended up abandoning them. Kind of like BBQ. We kept that secret too.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
35lbs of armor, nice. Do you have a group you belong to? If so, do you guys/gals stage fights etc…? It looks mighty fun.[/quote]
Its not actually staged, its a sport with rules and ways to determine the winner etc. but yeah its a blast.[/quote]
Oh cool. Probably a dumb question but is the sword/shield real ? If so, that plus the armour makes for a great cardio workout, haha. I’d be afraid I’d be too competitive and try and chop a limb off.[/quote]
Well the shield is wood and metal, the sword is actually made of rattan. In the real Middle Ages squires trained with wodden swords called wasters. So we use rattan swords because the weight at certain thickness mimics the weight of swords found in the Middle Ages and yet is much safer. So far only one guy has died from fighting injuries.[/quote]
Joe, I never did any of the SCA stuff, but I did play a lot of D&D
When I was a cop, back in Athens, I used to watch the local SCA do their practicing, in the student union parking lot, late at night. Looked like a lot of fun.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
35lbs of armor, nice. Do you have a group you belong to? If so, do you guys/gals stage fights etc…? It looks mighty fun.[/quote]
Its not actually staged, its a sport with rules and ways to determine the winner etc. but yeah its a blast.[/quote]
Oh cool. Probably a dumb question but is the sword/shield real ? If so, that plus the armour makes for a great cardio workout, haha. I’d be afraid I’d be too competitive and try and chop a limb off.[/quote]
Well the shield is wood and metal, the sword is actually made of rattan. In the real Middle Ages squires trained with wodden swords called wasters. So we use rattan swords because the weight at certain thickness mimics the weight of swords found in the Middle Ages and yet is much safer. So far only one guy has died from fighting injuries.[/quote]
Joe, I never did any of the SCA stuff, but I did play a lot of D&D
When I was a cop, back in Athens, I used to watch the local SCA do their practicing, in the student union parking lot, late at night. Looked like a lot of fun.
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Its a small world Strick because I bet I know a lot of the people you were watching.
Wave 1-Cycle 2-Week4-Day 1
Milies
5x60
5x70
5x85
3x10x95
Kroc Rows
3x19x80 (+1 rep PR)
CGB
5x205
4x215 (+1 rep PR)
3x225
Face Pulls
3x10x65
easey peasy…still a little tired from fighting yesterday.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Good training and great food. I’ve never had grits. They look like cream of wheat.[/quote]
That must be a typo. Surely you have indulged in the ecstasy known as “grits”!
Assuming it isn’t a typo…bite you tongue! Grits and cream o’ wheat are worlds apart.
That’s what the whole “War of Northern Aggression” was about. We had grits and the North didn’t. They saw how much we loved them. And they coveted them.
In the end, they won and took grits for themselves. But we never told them the secret of how to make them taste good. So they ended up abandoning them. Kind of like BBQ. We kept that secret too.[/quote]
That’s the way I learned it in my history class.
Good lifting as usual Joe. An rattan hurts like hell.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Good training and great food. I’ve never had grits. They look like cream of wheat.[/quote]
Oh they are soooo much better than Cream of Wheat.[/quote]
Wait, are you serious? No way. Cream of Wheat is the family treat!
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]scottgomez wrote:
35lbs of armor, nice. Do you have a group you belong to? If so, do you guys/gals stage fights etc…? It looks mighty fun.[/quote]
Its not actually staged, its a sport with rules and ways to determine the winner etc. but yeah its a blast.[/quote]
Oh cool. Probably a dumb question but is the sword/shield real ? If so, that plus the armour makes for a great cardio workout, haha. I’d be afraid I’d be too competitive and try and chop a limb off.[/quote]
Well the shield is wood and metal, the sword is actually made of rattan. In the real Middle Ages squires trained with wodden swords called wasters. So we use rattan swords because the weight at certain thickness mimics the weight of swords found in the Middle Ages and yet is much safer. So far only one guy has died from fighting injuries.[/quote]
Joe, I never did any of the SCA stuff, but I did play a lot of D&D
When I was a cop, back in Athens, I used to watch the local SCA do their practicing, in the student union parking lot, late at night. Looked like a lot of fun.
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Looks like a whole lot of fun. I was reading recently where, despite most everyone’s notions that medieval swords weight 30-40 pounds, they typically weighed only a couple. Still, I have to imagine that with swinging them around at high speed, the torque alone would really make swordfighting a great wrist/forearm workout.