[MR] Polearms

[Sean D. Sorrentino]

i am not going to make a huge issue of it to them, but
i do wonder why for years it was a safety issue that
Great Swords could only have an 18inch grip, and then
suddenly 7 1/2 foot long sticks (which incedentally do
not handle at all like any medieval weapon) were safe
and legal. it is definately true that we are playing a
sport, and not truly doing re-enactments, but there
should be a line drawn somewhere. i merely applaud
this particular line and express my hope that others
will adopt it. 
humbly submitted
Domenico


--- Siegfried <crossbow at freeshell.org> wrote:

> > this sounds like a great law. now if only we could
> get
> > it passed on a society level and ban the unpadded
> > "polearms" society wide!
> > Domenico
> 
> Domenico ... Please try to take a step back and
> look/understand the 
> bigger picture.   Different Kingdoms play slightly
> different games, and 
> that is their right.  Just like it is our right to
> ban the unpadded 
> polearms from our game.
> 
> Personally, I'm all for standardizing rules across
> the Kingdoms for the 
> point of simplicity and making less issues arise at
> Inter-Kingdom events.
> 
> However, we shouldn't just blatantly wish to impose
> how we want to play 
> the game upon everyone else.
> 
> If that was the case, then some Kingdoms would be
> trying to get us to 
> stop using padded polearms.  Another Kingdom would
> want us to stop doing 
> all Rapier combat.  And yet another would want us to
> make every 
> authorized fighter automatically an authorized
> Combat Archer.
> 
> Each kingdom has played their own game for quite a
> while now, and we 
> need to respect that, just as we expect them to
> respect our feelings.
> 
> Siegfried
> 
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