Combat

So, you'd like to know more about medieval combat? Great! Here is some info to get you started.

Currently, the Barony hosts this activity every week. This allows some workshops for fighters' needs, including armoring workshops (creating pieces of armor).

Check out the Fighter Practice page on the Barony's website for more specifics on when and where practices are held:

Fighter Practice

There are two styles of fighting you'll see at practices - heavy weapons, and rapier. The heavy "Swords" are fashioned from a rattan wood, and the rapiers' tips are protected. But fighters must still be absolutely certain to wear appropriate armor to protect them. Though they never aim to "Kill", fighters do aim to land a blow that would be killing if this were real medieval times! This fighting style is NOT a scripted reconstruction performance. It is live art, reconstructed from actual timeless techniques. But we want to be able to come back next week to play again, so fighters will always be properly protected.

In order to be authorized as a participant, combatant, or marshal in any other form of Society combat-related activity, except Youth Combat, an individual must have attained his or her fourteenth (14th) birthday. The release forms, for both adult and youth combats, are found online on this webpage: http://kingdom.meridies.org/marshal.htm

Cut and Thrust is another style of combat that is being ventured into. There are some videos at this page which you can watch to see more --

http://sbgswordforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=swordtraining&action=display&thread=6687

Related Interest Groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_Chivalry

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-Jousting

Arms n Armor guild - http://www.facebook.com/groups/246784515382604/

People I want to hit in the head with a stick! https://www.facebook.com/groups/126649837390179/

A group for SCA heavy combat culture and discussions.

Every fighter will want to know a few things about armoring. Here is a great site called The Arador Armour Library which houses such info online:

http://www.arador.com/construction/index.html

Arms and Armor Questions -- see the files section in the Artisans Collaboration of Meridies facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/314196732021880/files

Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts http://www.aemma.org/

The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts http://www.thehaca.com/masters.htm

A collection of related emails -- http://www.florilegium.org/files/COMBAT/idxcombat.html

Some information on Marshals and Tournaments - http://sandradodd.com/ideas/tourney.html

Online book - The Gods of War: Sacred Imagery and the Decoration of Arms and Armor

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/The_Gods_of_War_Sacred_Imagery_and_the_Decoration_of_Arms_and_Armor?Tag=&title=&author=&pt=&tc=&dept=

Online book - European Helmets, 1450–1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/European_Helmets_1450_1650_Treasures_from_the_Reserve_Collection?Tag=&title=&author=&pt=&tc=&dept=