As some of you are no doubt aware, I’m in the SCA, a medieval re-creation group, which simulates a number of activities, such as cooking, calligraphy, garb, and medieval combat<\/p>\n
For the past 5 years, between the kids, and my involvement in other aspect of the SCA, most notably cooking, and I haven’t put my armor on at all.<\/p>\n
I put my armor and re-authorized (qualified to be a safe fighter) yesterday.<\/p>\n
The combat is full contact, with rattan (a sort of solid bamboo) weapons, and we wear armor (16 gauge steel on the head, minimum).<\/p>\n
I did OK, though after qualification, I laid down, and put my hand on a hornet, with the expected results, so I spent the next half hour getting Benadryl\u00ae<\/sup> on that the sting, and I decided not to fight after that, because the (admittedly minor, I’m not that allergic) swelling looked like a blister just waiting to happen.<\/p>\n When all is said and done, I did OK in the authorization bout. I actually “killed” my opponent from my knees after my legs were taken (think Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/span>), which I almost never do.<\/p>\n I’ve got to get back into my “getting hit over the head lessons”. <\/p>\n Unfortunately, fighter practice here is Friday night, which is right out because it’s Shabbos, so I can’t show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As some of you are no doubt aware, I’m in the SCA, a medieval re-creation group, which simulates a number of activities, such as cooking, calligraphy, garb, and medieval combat For the past 5 years, between the kids, and my involvement in other aspect of the SCA, most notably cooking, and I haven’t put my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-medieval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}