Any brave Scots in Wellington?

[Colin]

Next October (2011), we the Wellington School of European Martial Arts, will be running a Scottish broadsword tournament. This will be held at Harcourt Park in Upper Hutt.

It will involve using the Scottish broadsword, backsword or military saber. Bias will hopefully be on the Scottish broadsword. You will also need a fencing mask, throat protection and wearing a Scottish regimental uniform (or redcoat).

You will need to know 18th, 19th century military saber/broadsword to enter (e.g Thomas Page, Henry Angelo and so forth).

If there is enough interest, we could also look at running a smallsword (or courtsword) tournament. If there is spectacular interest, we could also explore bayonet fencing.

If you are interested, please let me know. You can get in contact with me via www.swordsmanship.co.nz

For those that weren't aware, we the Wellington School of European Martial Arts, run classes on Scottish broadsword et al on Wednesday nights.

Tallyho,

[Callum]

This event is another long-standing event at Harcourt Park. I am thinking about offering a border reiver display as my own personal kit will be completed before then. However I am not that interested in Highland Broadsword (just too many systems to learn competently and so little time ) but I am interested in late 16th C sword - maybe Silver as you suggested?

[Colin]

George Silver would probably be the closest we currently have to what the Reivers would have used.

[Freebooter]

[Colin]

If you want to identify yourself as a Jacobite, I don't really care. It's not a re-enactment event. However it will still be sword alone.

I will point out that I'm really only promoting this to the Wellington region as there will be no offer of support for 'out of towners'. That's not to say that 'out of towners' aren't welcome, but you'll need to provide your own way.

As for Silver versus Swetnam: under Elizabeth I the Reivers were still going strong (on both sides of the borders). Not so under James VI/I who encouraged them to emigrate to Northern Ireland. Hence my recommendation for Silver and not Swetnam.

[Freebooter]

Merely questioning the original post. Thank you for your clarifications.

Re: Silver. You cannot seriously be suggesting such a pedestrian system for use as a Reiver. It makes no sense. Sweetnam's book is current within a generation's historiography of the time in question and is therefore more than valid. Especially as it as an ACTIVE fencing system, as opposed to "time of the yawn".

Thanks, I doubt I'll come down for the event, but it is nice to know that others are doing later period stuff.


bye.

Nic

[Colin]

[Callum]

The period I am portaying is late 16th C - circa 1590 - with my Reiver Kit.

This will dictate the sword style. But as the Reivers served a mercanaries all over Europe at the time, I don't think they would have been limited to just a local regional system.

I am hoping that other members of the Order of the Boarand also other people from either inside or outside of the wider re-enactment scene want to get involved too. We have brought in people from the "outside" into our WW1 NZMR team for example and who have since become invloved in the medieval side as well, e.g. we had 3 people along with their families who would not have been there othewise at Taupo earlier this year.

Trentham Race Course has a new management team who want to engage more with the local community and as part of that have asked if we could put on regular events there. This provides a ready market for the multi-period shows as I doubt if they would want us to put on just jousting displays for them.

As part of the multi-period direction, I am inviting anybody who may be interested in one or more of the 3 periods we are now portraying to get involved. My only requirement - leave your baggage at the door

[Callum]

The period I am portaying is late 16th C - circa 1590 - with my Reiver Kit.

This will dictate the sword style. But as the Reivers served a mercanaries all over Europe at the time, I don't think they would have been limited to just a local regional system.

I am hoping that other members of the Order of the Boar and also other people from either inside or outside of the wider re-enactment scene want to get involved too. We have brought in people from the "outside" into our WW1 NZMR team for example and who have since become invloved in the medieval side as well, e.g. we had 3 people along with their families who would not have been there othewise at Taupo earlier this year.

Trentham Race Course has a new management team who want to engage more with the local community and as part of that have asked if we could put on regular events there. This provides a ready market for the multi-period shows as I doubt if they would want us to put on just jousting displays for them.

As part of the multi-period direction, I am inviting anybody who may be interested in one or more of the 3 periods we are now portraying to get involved. My only requirement (other than having good kit) - leave your baggage at the door

[Freebooter]

[Callum]

Simple and effective works for me