[MR] weapons

[Baron Mungoe]

Greetings
    I picked up two of the Gladius type plastic swords and have been using 
them in Kali class, and have used them with SCA armor in my yard, found this
1. They are too thin, easily go through the grill of a helm or a gape in the 
neck.
2. With practice they hit very hard, you have too use them like a real sword 
to hit edge on. Had to grip differantly due to that fact. On body 
armor-aluminum lamellar over a padded gambeson I could feel the blow, felt 
funny on the head. Thrusting was felt very easily.
3. Very durable, my nephew Nick and I hit sword to sword as hard as we could 
repeatedly  and did not damage the sword, did make some divots in the rattan 
when we used them on SCA type swords. Been using them for drills for about a 
month and they are holding up better then rattan.
4. Real cool at demos as the kids at schools cannot cut themselves on them.
May be on to something with this material and design, thicker edges would 
work but they lose the cosmetic aspect if they are thicker. Also got the 
machette  gladius,   evil, evil, evil toy.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Charles Rowe
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:09 PM
To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [MR] weapons

I know I've been out of the fighting loop for awhile and haven't kept up 
with the ruling of the marshals but has anyone every thought of using things 
like these in SCA 
combat?http://www.ltspecpro.com/products/317-medieval-training-sword.aspx

Fergus MacDair
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