... -- snip -- Complete layman's guess: a broken foil has a smaller cross-section that just about anything else we are likely to face on the field. Thus, if...
Doug Hulick
jarkman@...
Aug 1, 2001 7:43 am
2103
Greetings all! I have an old broken foil that I have been carrying for years. The blade part is about 20 inches long and it is as stiff as you can get them. A...
Capt. Eli Cameron
rapiergod@...
Aug 1, 2001 12:03 pm
2104
Greetings! In a message dated 8/1/01 12:30:48 AM, ”SÈaghdhaseumus1@... writes(in part): << I have two questions about this. The first, why on earth...
AlexdeSet@...
Aug 1, 2001 12:20 pm
2105
Case Study Put 5 apes in a room. Hang a banana from the ceiling and place a ladder underneath the banana. The banana is only reachable by climbing the ladder. ...
Fiskr
fiskr@...
Aug 1, 2001 12:45 pm
2106
inline... purple ******************************** KWAR2001 website: www.schoolofdefence.org/kwar.html Read my Column on OUTLOOKEXCHANGE.COM: ...
Drewski
drewski@...
Aug 1, 2001 1:12 pm
2107
Why has been answered. More than once. purple ******************************** KWAR2001 website: www.schoolofdefence.org/kwar.html Read my Column on...
Drewski
drewski@...
Aug 1, 2001 1:28 pm
2108
... Well, I had a neice that went by the name of Flathead Screwdriver but, she wasn't that much of a terror. Otes...
otes_mac_ke@...
Aug 1, 2001 1:33 pm
2109
I inquired of Don Dylan, the Society Rapier Marshal of the improvement made on the drop testers and here is his reply: (Also could folks please trim their...
Wendy Colbert
WendyC@...
Aug 1, 2001 1:45 pm
2110
"Why has been answered. More than once." True, but not in the post I was replying to, a post purporting to answer it. It is good to question authority. Not...
Fiskr
fiskr@...
Aug 1, 2001 2:52 pm
2111
... The East Kingdom, our perennial opponents in the Pennsic War, is another. Seumus Ó Séaghdha wrote: <<Second, now that we've gone to schlager, why haven't...
Christian Fournier
jamey@...
Aug 1, 2001 5:18 pm
2112
<<The valid, 25" long broken foil I gave Warder Purple (which he then left in the back seat of my car) is a railroad spike, and will probably fail a lot of...
Drewski
drewski@...
Aug 1, 2001 6:29 pm
2113
Greetings! ... Apes aside, I read the question as "why do we use a broken foil?" The reason we use a broken foil is that what we are required to do by rule. ...
AlexdeSet@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:11 am
2114
Greetings, I was out of town for part of this thread, so I'm just catching up now. As usual, the reply is long. :) ... danger ... and ... Unfortunately, not...
Doug Hulick
jarkman@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:34 am
2115
I would love to have a handful of broken foils to disrtibute. I'll be arriving at Pennsic on the 10th. Is that after you'll be leaving?? If not, perhaps we...
Roisin106@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:23 pm
2116
This is a fun (and informative) read... http://www.iceweasel.org/ek_schlager_mask_test.html Fiskr...
Fiskr
fiskr@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:59 pm
2117
... It'd been a while since I'd read that... interesting to reread it in light of recent conversations. (As a trivial side-note, my main qualification for my...
Christian Fournier
jamey@...
Aug 3, 2001 5:27 am
2118
Christian said "As has been discussed to death in this forum, an 8Kg-rated mask that passes a 12Kg test is still not a 12Kg-rated mask... " I searched all over...
Fiskr
fiskr@...
Aug 3, 2001 11:15 am
2119
... Interesting... The USFA's website is easy to find, and includes a PDF of the USFA rulebook, which says the following about "standard 12 kg fencing masks"...
Christian Fournier
jamey@...
Aug 3, 2001 2:51 pm
2120
Friend Christian, I had read all that, but it tells me that if the mask passes a 12kg punch test then it's 12kg rated. Yes, it requires a certain diameter...
Fiskr
fiskr@...
Aug 3, 2001 3:12 pm
2121
<<I have yet to read anything on either site that suggests to me that having a 12kg rating means anything more than having passed a puch test.>> Well, for one...
Drewski
drewski@...
Aug 3, 2001 3:52 pm
2122
What? ... From: Drewski To: gryphon-rapier@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:50 AM Subject: RE: [gryphon-rapier] The USFA on 12 kg (was Schlager...
Fiskr
fiskr@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:06 pm
2123
It's like the difference between a car being tested when it rolls of the line and being tested later. When a Saturn, for example, rolls off the end of the...
Drewski
drewski@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:23 pm
2124
Unless anyone else is actually interested in watching us rules-lawyer/"does-doesn't" our way through this, I'm going to take my response to private email. I...
Christian Fournier
jamey@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:37 pm
2125
... line ... a ... Actually, I'd argue that it's much the same thing. Passing a 12k test is passing a 12k test. The pertinent question, for me, is whether...
Doug Hulick
jarkman@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:40 pm
2126
Except that the "certified inspection" is recent, the factory certification is old. The recently inspected car is proven safe, the factory inspected car could...
Fiskr
fiskr@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:40 pm
2127
No, I'm not. However, we _are_ going around in circles. purple ******************************** KWAR2001 website: www.schoolofdefence.org/kwar.html Read my...
Drewski
drewski@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:50 pm
2128
It is very interesting. Also interesting was the dicussion I had with some people at WW, whilst playing with Kevin's tester thingy for force of shots. I've...
Drewski
drewski@...
Aug 3, 2001 10:15 pm
2129
A mask manufactured to meet a 12k rating and a mask that passes a 12k punch are not the same. The mask manufactured to the 12k has been designed to meet or...
David Valenta
guyofstockley@...
Aug 6, 2001 2:04 pm
2130
Lord Puck (Philip) emerged victorious at the Duel--I mean Discussion at Dawn at Poor Man's Pennsic. Congratulations to him and to all the rapier fighters who...
feldm010@...
Aug 6, 2001 3:03 pm
2131
Thank you very, very much. Salute! Warder Elijah Cameron of Black Isle La Familia di Cellini "Amore ed Onore: Nient'altro Importa" ... ...
