The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts

Hell come and train with all of us:)

nathan featherstone wrote:hi david
thanks for the offer and i would gladly take it but i was just offering directions for jack there as i live in ireland and weekly trips to london might be a bit costly
thanks though

sorry Nathan not reading things properly my bad:)

Hi some good points I'll try and add too them soon, in the mean time I have this to chew over...

Youval Kuipers has been saying that he feels grappling should be given longer to run than in the rule set as it stands, but as a couple of people, Anders and Oz to name a couple have said they like to ...

Sal Bertucci wrote:ok, right. Should have seen that. sorry.

Nah, it's a lot to read through, thanks for taking the time:)

to stop people playing the after blow

ie I get hit, step and hit back at your head, you put your left hand in the way.

as the counter blow has to hit head or torso... you could block with the arm, this means you can't.

new wording for the limb interrupt rule:

The limb interrupt.

If a strike would hit the torso head or weapon arm(having the correct distance and path to do so)and another limb obstructs its path(deliberately or accidentally) , the strike is deemed to have hit the original target.

this ...

Hi Sal thanks for sticking in there:)
What about strikes with the cross? I've been in situations where we had closed to grappling, and I was able to free my sword arm and punch him in the face (read mask) with the cross. That should be awarded a point in my book, but isn't an option in the rules at ...

Hi Chris, here you go, there are a few things I'll ask for opinions on that aren't in the rules yet, but that's for in the week

Scoring. There are several ways to score:


1: The Clean Strike.

You must enter into distance, strike the opponent and exit striking distance.

The point is ...

and by the way I agree with a lot of what you just said

Dave Rawlings wrote:

As the fight is not a real fight to the death we want to show as much of a martial mind set as possible whilst accepting certain indefinites such as did the shot finish him, sever his sword limb, blind him render him incapable of movement? and so on will be impossible to prove ...

Hi chaps, a thread on another forum raised some of the development logics of the rule set as it stand so I'll post it here and hope it explains a little where we've all been going with it.
This is to do with why there is the addition of the sword hand as a target for the struck if he is struck in ...

Very, very good question. I'm not sure that anyone has any clear answers right now. Nor, in fact that anyone ever will. But I will say emphatically that even though I disagree about our community needing standardized rules, I heartily agree about it needing vigorous and civil discussions like ...

Hi Nathan, where about in london and what do you wish to learn?
I teach Earlier source German longsword, messer, I.33 sword and buckler, various dagger work, and Thibault's rapier.
If that's not your bag I'll try to point you in the right direction.

Similarly, I would think that what makes a martial art great might be that it is both technically complex and challenging AND effective in real life or death combat.


Hi Tom, good post, I would say however(in my opinion) that martial arts should be on the whole be based on simplicity, any ...

Any sparring which is festooned with rules as described here is worse than useless, in my opinion.
All sparring is done under at least one constraint, which is that neither contestants should get seriously hurt. If you don't add more rules to enforce a realistic behaviour on the players, you end ...