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Aneirin -> RE: what is SCA? (1/17/2008 7:29:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado
Seriously, compared to a metal sword (or even a bokken), the SCA weapons are not even close to real, nor were they ever meant to be. They are made out of rattan and restricted in their design and usage, for the sake of safety - not realism.
That is I think where SCA differs from what most of us do in the UK, Here, we use replica steel weaponry, my own sword is 27 inch long by 2 inch wide and made out of tempered and case hardened steel with a eigth inch 'edge'.Basically an Iron Age hacking sword, but mine has a point too, it being what is considered a 'safe' half inch round.
Here, we can if offered a weapon or shield to hit, can give it full welly and use the sword.If a strike to a person, then we learn to as actors, 'pull' blows, a hit that looks forceful, but is'nt. Even with all the safety rules, there are injuries, I myself have broken knuckles and fingers by being hit, that was before I went for a maille encrusted welders glove, not quite authentic, but definately safer!
Fighting in this manner as doing battle re-enactment, we get a full realisation of what it was to wield weapons without the killing, swords, spears and shields are bloody heavy and we can see why fights, battles etc were short events, even given our ancestors were a lot stronger than our present race.
Some people play squash to vent feelings, I can tell you, a cold winter's morning dressed in archaic attire with a length of cold steel clutched in your mit, you soon warm up and the after result, is a wonderful feeling of release. Thinking of the past weeks difficulties, they all dissolve in hitting something, a something which has the ability to hit back and there making you think how to better the opponent.
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