[MR] weapons

[William de Faleston]

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On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:37 AM, "Baron Mungoe" <mungoe1 at msn.com> wrote:

> 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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