[MR] 4th Peerage

[Duane Moore]

Two gentle points:

1. Rapier is not practiced in all kingdoms, and is hardly practiced with the same level of skill and talent as our fencing community from realm to realm. Peerages should be universal. While rapier has been a part of our Kingdom's culture for about 16 or so years, it is not that ancient an art in other Kingdoms. Other martial arts mentioned in this '4th peerage' have been practiced even less that has rapier. Equistrian, for instance, the Sport of Kings, is widely varingly from kingdom to kingdom. It still amazes me that Central Virginia, prmie horse country, is also entirely with out SCA esquistrian activity.
2. Who said life was Fair? :-)

Kind regards, 

Sir Bryce de Byram,OL,OP (Duane M. Moore) 300%Peer-Evil
Baron Caer Mear


--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Lady Rhiannon of Berra <ladyrhi at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lady Rhiannon of Berra <ladyrhi at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] 4th Peerage
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 10:25 AM
> I've not fought heavy and only fought rapier for a short
> time; but here are
> my thoughts.
> 
> It takes years of skill and practice to achieve a
> Knighthood.  The Rapier
> community also puts in the same amount of practice and
> skill in their craft
> as well.  It's a fighting style, and as such while the
> research and skill in
> creating the armor for rapier fighting can be considered an
> Art; the same
> "argument" can be made for heavy fighting.  The
> fighting aspect of what they
> do doesn't fit into the other peerages and they should
> be recognized for
> their skill the same as A&S, Service and Heavy fighters
> are.  To give them
> any less is not fair nor equitable.  Everyone should be
> able to aspire to a
> Peerage someday if that's their wish; to impose limits
> on a group based
> solely on their choice of fighting (heavy vs. rapier) in
> unfair.
> 
> I don't think the creation of a fourth peerage takes
> anything away from the
> other three, if anything, it adds to them.
> 
> 
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