SCA documentary preview

Preview of a doc on the Society for Creative Anachronism, With a section on Estrella War.
With corrections.

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• SCA
• fighting
• battle
• war
• anachronism
• medieval
• prigg

[BrigitofBergental]

The combat is not slow. They hit at full speed. Sometimes tournaments can be slow to watch, but that is because the combatants are waiting for an opening before throwing a shot, no point in wasting energy hacking away with shots that won't land when you need to be able to continue in the tournament.

[AnimeMom]

I grew up in the S.C.A. (East Kingdom), and miss it SO much. A finer bunch of people you would be hard-pressed to find. I was at Pennsic X when I was 13 years old. Ah, the glory days. One thing you never forget: the smell of fighters after a battle. Phew! And you thought locker rooms were bad. I also remember dancing to that tune at the end of the video. The only thing that seems to have changed is that now there are a lot more children. Vivat!

[whytbear1]

@ Monster Skull, When you consider that the whole point of the game is to chase people down and HIT them with Rattan sticks, it's amazing that there are so few serious injuries! Mostly welts and bruises, most of the worst injuries are from falling over the dead!

[TheMonsterSkull]

You get at leas 500 or so people in the ER for broken bones :P

[BrigitofBergental]

Looked back at old comments and found another one I made at the time; someone was dissing the sport and I actually called them out and suggested they show up to a practice with their cup and say whatever it was they said to the face of a knight (looks like their comment was removed). I hate when people dis the sport that my friends play.

[BrigitofBergental]

@xNightshadex There are other groups that do other time periods and there are other groups that do fantasy; the SCA was founded to have fun studying a specific historical time period and cultures that interacted in certain ways.

[BrigitofBergental]

@norseczar27 No, you cannot be Vlad the Impaler. It is against SCA rules to pretend to be an actual documented person from the period. You can choose to be from his time period and place, but you cannot be him anymore than you can be Henry VIII.

[BrigitofBergental]

@malave31 - Did you read my comment before commenting on it? I was posting in response to someone else's comment, though I don't remember exactly what they said because it was 2 years ago that I replied and I don't feel like looking back at all the old comments to find it, but I'm pretty sure it was something implying that SCA combat is not a full impact sport, when I know different having seen the bruises and been in the SCA for 15 years now.

[300spartancrusader]

@ishouldplayzelda well this more broader while there is no actual obligation to roleplay its up to you though you evantually will because think about hitting someone and saying ;take that dude sounds lame. What ever floats your boat!

[norseczar27]

I'm thinking about joining one of these SCA groups. Is it cool to dress like Vlad The Impaler?

[Knightsquire74]

@ishouldplayzelda Some people call it LARPing. Others Know it as LRPG (Live Role Playing Game). Either way it is fun. In y opinion LARPing is more fantasy. Where the person you play as certain atributes. LRPG is more real. In the SCA We Do Full Research On The Medieval Time Eras Between 600 ad & 1600 ad. Come out for more then just the fighting. We do have good classes that help us to know the time fram better.

[ishouldplayzelda]

does this count as LARPing? i told my friends about it and they said that because of the persona it's LARPing because you're playing the role of someone. i only go for the fighting so i guess what i do it's? :l