SCA members?

[Tasia]

I had the same problem when I first started with my own group that I had a trainer who was in the SCA and tried to make our equipment etc. be according to the SCA rules but soon we realized this is not gonna work so we split with him (but also for other reasons). At the SCA everything is overly secured, protection here and there. This means if you fight you could just attack and don't need to care about blocking etc. that much because you are protected so well.

The SCA rules are foremost for safety. Rattan can cause some serious bruises/injuries so each fighter armors up 1)within the minimum requirements and 2)based on their personal interest and level of protection they feel comfortable with. Some start out with a serious amount of coverage then as they become more experienced some of that starts to fall away. Some of these guys go all out with the fighting and you definitely want to know how to block!

Blocking is a fairly integral part of the fight though. One you don't want to get hurt and two, you don't want to get killed!

So on the field it is a little more difficult to be 100% authentic Roman, however, off the field it is easy. I do like the idea of authentic off the field armor though.