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Tristan
Location: Auckland
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conal
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 Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:36 pm |
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| Had a look and commented. |
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Tristan
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:52 am |
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Thanks for the comment Conal. I've been trying to more than a handful of people interested in LJH for about a year now, so interclub sparring may have to wait for a while 
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conal
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:24 am Repost after authentication bounce |
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Tristan,
See if you can get to a tourney or Naama this year.
The advantage of interclub is essentially one of sparring experience. When you spar frequently against a common pool you do develop but in a larger college there's more potential for innovation and development of personal style.
Don't be afraid of the SCAdians either. They have some good safety proceedures and styles. If you can wade through the courtly dross to the fight scene.
Three of so weeks of Aikido would help your chaps in the 'close and grapple' too.
If your getting beaten you're learning. That's the way I try to look at it anyways. Stick at it.
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Callum
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Location: Upper Hutt
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:40 pm Re: Repost after authentication bounce |
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| conal wrote: | | See if you can get to a tourney or Naama this year. |
I would second that. Fungus and Kath have been particularly pro-active and accommodating in ensuring that a wide range of activities are represented at year's NAAMA.
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Colin
Location: Wellington
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:52 am Re: Repost after authentication bounce |
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| conal wrote: | The advantage of interclub is essentially one of sparring experience. When you spar frequently against a common pool you do develop but in a larger college there's more potential for innovation and development of personal style.
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The one caveat there though is other clubs have to be prepared to 'spar' in the style of Le Jeu de la hache. Something at odds with any NZ reenactment rule system that I'm aware of.
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Inigo
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:34 am Re: Le Jeu de la hache Tournament |
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| Tristan wrote: | | There was some curiosity about the tournament I will be running at this years convention. |
Can you please post photos of the axes you use?
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Tristan
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:17 am |
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Will do tonight from home where I have the pics.
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Colin
Location: Wellington
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:30 pm |
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Which reminds me, do you want to still run this at the convention? I am anticipating you did 
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Tristan
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:04 pm |
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Yes, I had forgotten I was going to do that 
Yes, I would like to run a LJH tournament at the convention, if there is enough interest.
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Tristan
Location: Auckland
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Inigo
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:39 pm |
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Thanks for that. Am I correct that you're using about 30mm pine dowel? What length?
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Tristan
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:50 pm |
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Sorry, meant to mention the dowel. 25-28mm is usual, it's pine, but not the usual crap stuff you get. It's a much denser grain, and I've only seen it at Hammer Hardware. It's then rubbed liberally with linseed oil (after taping etc, of course)
May I inquire as to your interest?
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Inigo
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:19 am |
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| Tristan wrote: | | May I inquire as to your interest? |
I was thinking that fighting with pole axes looks like fun and that I'd like to do some. I'm not sure when / where you're planning the next tournament, but if it's convenient (i.e. Auckland) and I'm able to make it, I'd like to.
Having said that, I'm not really interested in doing any WMA lessons beforehand  unless I have to to be authorised. I have armour etc and can build easily build a boffer axe to your specifications
EDIT: Further Questions...
1. How long is the dowel?
2. Do you break between points being scored?
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Tristan
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:21 am |
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We don't have an authorisation process as such. I'm not aware of any particular policy of what to do with people outside the school who wish to assault with those inside the school, but having played with the SCA at St Johns before I don't forsee any safety/authorisation issues.
Sorry, still forgot details on the haft! Length is about 5'8" or so, but it's not really specified, just what is convenient. Longer/shorter would not be a problem, though historically they ranged from 5 to 8 feet, getting longer later in the period. This was, I believe, mainly due to it's use in tournaments at the barrier, so would not expect such lengths outside that use.
No, no breaks between points scored. If you view the video, you can see multiple hits in a row, in particular a nice queue thrust/mail strike combo I was rather pleased with  . This does have the unfortunate side effect of making things a little hectic for the scorer!
We use a combination of the marshal calling the blows, and the scorer calling the blows. Mostly the marshal signals the scorer, though he will stop a bout to query the fighters as to whether a blow actually struck or skipped, or where it hit if it was hidden from his sight at the time.
The fighters can also call their own blows if they see fit, but should not stop until the marshal calls hold at 5 blows struck.
There will most likely be a tournament at NZWMA in Wellington next year. It is very uncertain as to whether there will be one earlier, as of the competitors in last years tournaments, only I am still active, and the auckland students have yet to reach a level of skill and equipment that would allow them to participate. I would be happy to go a few friendly bouts with you myself sometime if you want to compare notes, though I warn you I'm terribly out of practice
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