[UA] UA lrp (was no subject)

[Ysidro]

Bailey Watts wrote:
> 
> >heh. no comment on the women. except to say it's pretty unfair on them. but
> >they do tend to get a lot of attention, at least in most of the games i've
> >been to. unfortunately the male-female ratio in most live games i've been
> >to
> >has been pretty similar to that in most tabletop games, ie not very good.
> >as for whacking things, that's just something you have to learn not to do,
> >along with hitting in the face and stabbing. lrp combat isn't a very good
> >simulation of real sword fighting, but it's certainly a lot closer in feel
> >than scissors-paper-stone. not that i'd expect there to be a lot of sword
> >fighting going on in a UA game anyway, of course.
> 
> How does a person boffer fight without swinging or stabbing.  I'll admit my
> sparring involves real spears and 20+ kg of armor, and I've little larp
> experience.  Still boffers wouldn't be the sort of weapons for UA anyway
> since they're kinda large hand to hand weapons instead of shivs and guns.
> And claw hammers.

That was "without hitting in the face and stabbing".  Stabbing is
dangerous, most boffers don't have adequate thrust protection.  And the
face is an obvious no no.  

Which is why I don't boffer fight and just use nice hickory wasters. 
<grin>

Greg
-- 
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~ysidro/pohemas.html

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