[MR] Zen armory's generosity

[David Chessler]

At 03:51 PM 10/19/2007, Wayne Remes wrote:
>I am remiss in letting everyone know of Zen armory's donation of the 
>youth combat tourney prizes at War of the Wings II. The tourney 
>prizes were every bit a sharp as a top of the line adult tourneys. 
>The prizes for divison 2 and 3 were open face bascinets, and divison 
>1 was a 21' aluminum round. I would expressly like to thank Walter 
>for donating them.

Despite some of the reservations expressed in atlantia rapiernet, 
Storvik recently bought several new practice rapiers and schlagers 
from Zen Warrior. I helped set some of them up, installing the tips, 
etc. They were workmanlike weapons. Moreover, they had a new version 
of the quillions with false ricasso (what Triplette calls his SPQR) 
which has the little finger rings that make it more like an italian 
hilt. (Triplette lists something similar with the R-2 rapier, but 
doesn't seem to have a picture of it, and I couldn't find the exact 
model on the web site. There's something similar in the AFS 
catalog--306/3 or 361/3.)

Anyhow, thanks to Triplette/Zen Warrier for their support of our programs.


>The youth combat events went really well. While Black Diamond was 
>outnumbered 2 to one in the youth field battle, The 3 or 4 Open 
>field Melee's and 3 or 4 forcing the door fights fought after the 
>youth field battles allowed some more evenly ballanced melees to be 
>fought as well.
>
>The Divison 2 and and Division 3 tournaments had about 6 kids in 
>each list and the Division 1 had 2. All in all it was a good turnout.
>
>
>
>Axel
>PS:  for those interested, the Link to Scanfest is:
>http://www.scandinavianconnection.org/
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