RustyNell

FACE!!

OK then!!! PUSSY.....cat......the best way to keep rats off ships!

ummm yea... I know what ya mean...Nell and mass = no MUSS no fuss (and you can't use fuss I already used it LOL)

I love trying to figure this stuff out... really cool little metal locket. can you take a picture from a couple of different angles.. and show the back? is the top just rough from how the metal is cast? or does it look like it was textured? I mean it looks fairly roughly cast. Might the top have attached to something else?.. My guess....I think it might be for a chatelaine something like this perfume bottle would explain why the strap is so short and the thing so small. could have held any manner of things, solid perfume (basically oil scented wax) or yes sewing needles, or a key. How fun to find neat little things and wonder about what they are. I wonder what people will find of ours hundreds of years from now and wonder what they are.... Heck todays little kids must marvel over cassette tapes LOL

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I really love the idea of physical signals for blocks. That combined with giving verbal cues for combinations of moves could easily make it appear as though there are no cues. Dead-eye has chorographed some great combinations we use, some with as many as 10 different strikes slashes, blocks, steps, ducks etc etc.. and those strung together become really long complex looking fights. I love the idea of giving them names that could be called out loud and not be explosed. It would certainly be easier on my memory to have difinitive signals I can call on should I have memory issues with long strings of choreography. Video of your method would be the greatest!!

ahhhemmm....inspired again to go there.....lust

I haven't read about Selkirk, Was he sane when rescued?

Thanks for the references. Impressive school!! We have a really talented fight coordinator in our crew and I always feel safe when fighting. I was actually surprised how very much like a dance class fight training is, as a musician and dancer I certainly understand the goal is never speed, the goal is always good form, speed happens in time and with practice. Our best live steel fighters are really impressive at full speed, in fact watching them is frightening though I never fear for their safety. Our regular fighters rehearse weekly, sometimes several times a week, and it really shows. In almost 2 years I have never seen anyone get hurt, and I'm proud of that.

don't be RASH

I think its smart that you gave the names of your moves pirate swears, its a great way to leave room for improvisation in a fight. Great video. I came across a stage combat book on the internet once, but now I can't find the bookmark and I can't seem to find the book anywhere in web searches. I could have sworn it was something that the Rennie crowd had developed. It may have come from a London stage fighting school I don't remember. I will have to keep looking. Thanks for sharing your video we too use wood until our technique has developed to use steel safely. And we never fight someone we haven't rehearsed with. Still my thought was the same way we all know the same pub songs and can jump in and sing together....if your group where doing some of the same fights every other group did, everyone could conceivably fight after a run through or two. Of course each fight captain has to know their fighters well and safety over speed would always be important, much like our approach to cannon. and drilling positions, we fire together but every new cannon crew has to run drills before going "live" Anyway would love to see a day when we could all fight together .... (weird thing to say when you look at it out of context)

let me take at STAB at them.... poopin' buggers

Awesome I'm going to go check the one near my house tomorrow. thanks for the tip!

stinkin RATS

I'll bake a pie fer me PETS!

I'll bake a cherry pie for you my PETS

Hey sailor... watch it... go jump off a PIER... lol ;p (just kidding you know)

Oi canny take much mair craic

A curiosity of mine....Many of us in the "Pirate community" are carrying some wonderful swords (love my Baltimore Steel) and many of the crews, including ours are training in stage combat. My thought was this......Because the only steps we know are the one's we choreograph and rehearse we are forced to fight within our own crews in order to fight safely. If we were all using the same "dance steps" so to speak we could formatively write out combinations that we could use from crew to crew. Our fight master has devised a system and a series of names for the moves we use. However, as a former dancer I was curious what kind of systems other crews are using and how much they differ from ours? I imagine there has to be a standard system of steps recognized throughout the professional theater. (ie what's the fight equivalent of the pas de bourree?? left slash, stab right, duck....lol) I'd just like to know if there is already an existing system we could all share and use. Is there maybe a book I'm not aware of? A standard stage combat system that makes sense, would go such a long way towards letting us safely fight one another in a relatively short amount of time. What say you?? dansez un mortel pas de deux ??

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