It occurs to me that today I am engaged in what is probably one of the most expensive hobbies a person can have. I realize this after fighting on the ground Saturday and thinking about how many cool bits or updates to armour I have that I would like to make part of one of my two kits (like the used salet Helm, a mere $300) but especially when I think of today and know that I have both the vet and the farrier coming out to deal with Angel and Jack this afternoon.
Earlier today I went to church, not for church services though mind you. In actual fact I met a few good friends and few hundred others or so for some good tournament sword fighting, medieval recreational style. The event is called Candlemas, has been going on for a long time, is hosted here in Lexington and is known for two things historically: great fighting and great feasting. It was not a disappointment on either account today.
There are a common set of questions that I am often asked by new people who I have met when i start telling them about doing historically based jousting. They generally consist of: Where do you do that? How did you get started? Are the groups that do really do that? Who do you do that kind of stuff with? And so on of course. Over the years, I have probably told the answers at least a few thousand times and I have typed them in some formation or another at least a few hundred in just the last year. So, I thought I would put this is a blog for all to read and see – and it gives me the double edge bonus of being able to refer future meetings to this blog entry. I have realized after writing this, it is going to be more than one post, so here is the first one about the SCA. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent article on a blog by the name of Muhlberger’s Early History has me really taking a bit of an issue with it. The blog can found at http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/MUHLBERGER/2008/07/re-enacting-medieval-cavalry-henrik.htm. In the article, one of the founding members of the SCA, who has participated in the re-enactment of Hastings starts to claim that perhaps horses in medieval warfare were perhaps not as much a factor as we would like to believe. Read the rest of this entry »
So I am mulling over this blog in my head for the last couple of days and I finally have decided to put proverbial pen to ink. I kept trying to think about just exactly how to start this blog and finally it dawned on me, as it is definitely hitting the way I am feeling right about now. “Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headed for the trains, feeling nearly faded as my jeans…“ – which we all recognize as the famous opening to Me and Bobby McGee, much more famous because of the version that Janis Joplin did, but in fact it was written by Kris Kristofferson. Oddly enough, while Kris himself did have some short-lived fame, his own musical career was probably eclipsed by his songs being performed by others. Read the rest of this entry »
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