05-17-2005, 04:45 AM
[size=150:3uc7p1il]H[/size]ow about this this thought... most of us want to have some kinds of fighting reenactments... correct? About the ONLY event like this in the US is Lafe, also correct, yes? Is this the time period everyone wishes to fight in?
Having talked to Mark Graef ([size=75:3uc7p1il]inventor of the Graef Combat System[/size]), at length, about this today, I wonder... where could we start to do R_E_E_N_A_C_T_I_N_G??? Not the dog and pony shows to "edjakate the publik," but I mean reenactments in the sense of tacticals like Lafe?
What would blow your tunica up? Augustan Period? Claudian? Flavian? Trajanic? or beyond? WHERE DO WE START? I ask this w/out trying to invoke hatred, voodoo curses or long, 2-page messages about shield design or crap like that? And if you don't wish to do this kind of event, we shan't drag you, screaming, away from hearth and home, just don't go! Don't put it down, just don't go. However, if the idea get's you all gooey, then by all means, please jump on board!
Let's look at what we have IN COMMON, if we do that first, then maybe we can make things work. Rather than "I ain't doin' it because Joe "A" is an a-hole" or "They're farbs!"
And please, imagine the glass is half-full vs. half empty and let's think on it. And please don't call anyone's ideas dumb, you don't have to agree, you just have to be polite ([size=75:3uc7p1il]or Jasper will send out the RAT Punishment Team to cane your feet bloody -- he told me so himself[/size])
Best, DMV
Having talked to Mark Graef ([size=75:3uc7p1il]inventor of the Graef Combat System[/size]), at length, about this today, I wonder... where could we start to do R_E_E_N_A_C_T_I_N_G??? Not the dog and pony shows to "edjakate the publik," but I mean reenactments in the sense of tacticals like Lafe?
What would blow your tunica up? Augustan Period? Claudian? Flavian? Trajanic? or beyond? WHERE DO WE START? I ask this w/out trying to invoke hatred, voodoo curses or long, 2-page messages about shield design or crap like that? And if you don't wish to do this kind of event, we shan't drag you, screaming, away from hearth and home, just don't go! Don't put it down, just don't go. However, if the idea get's you all gooey, then by all means, please jump on board!
Let's look at what we have IN COMMON, if we do that first, then maybe we can make things work. Rather than "I ain't doin' it because Joe "A" is an a-hole" or "They're farbs!"
And please, imagine the glass is half-full vs. half empty and let's think on it. And please don't call anyone's ideas dumb, you don't have to agree, you just have to be polite ([size=75:3uc7p1il]or Jasper will send out the RAT Punishment Team to cane your feet bloody -- he told me so himself[/size])
Best, DMV
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a.k.a.: Marsh Wise
Legio IX Hispana www.legioix.org
Alteris renumera duplum de quoquo tibi numeraverunt
"A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." ~Mark Twain
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