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I'm a heavy fighter, sword and shield. Fairly new to fighting and I'm trying to get rid of some real bad habits right now, namely holding my shield up too high.



But really, when it's David vs. Goliath 90% of the time, do you blame me?

Right now my group is practicing fighting as a unit. I'm usually stuck in the middle so I can hook my shield on my neighbor's and use their strength to hold it back if it gets hooked by a polearm. We're also practicing "Erin learns how to fight people taller than her!"

I use all leather armor altough I hate my knees and want to replace those with metal whenever I have the money to. The breastplate I wear has a double fox tooled onto it, my own work. I'm very proud of it. My helm and shield is borrowed, altough those should be replaced shortly as soon as my shipment of a helm comes and I get my hands on a shield basket from someone in our group.

about the only thing my dad does not do is 2-sword

he plays great-sword (2-hander), polearm, sword/shield, and recently experimented with sword/medue (sp?)*

* hold a great-sword, blade-down, just under the hilt. you have stabbing spikes on both ends

Wow. It's been a long time since anyopne's posted in this thread!

Well, to help revive it, I've taken up an interest in light fighting since my own last posts here. Alyna has some great material that she means to use to make me a dueling outfit, and after I can lay hands on a cheap beater of a car, I'll be saving up to get a good, solid rapier. Maybe after some practice I'll consider backing it up with a main-gauche, but I'm not gonna rush it. I'm still really, really amateur as far as footwork and movement go.

Aluminum armor? Huh.

Seems like cheating to me.

Scottish Targes and... Katanas? What?

Some weeeiiird stuff going on in this thread.