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Back to the topic, here are some pics the press did at our Training Weekend in Xanten back in april.
As we did only training and the weather was quite cold at that weekend we opted to train in tunics:
[url:2wgguejj]http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/rheinberg/2008/4/13/news-37504063/detail.html[/url]
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Since Wolf edited his post I would still like to debate my point on the possibility metal manica existing in a gladiatorial context.
Second, the metal manica debate is not even resolved amongst the scholars and I wont argue against either Connoly nor Junkelmann, but if you have the new edition of Junkelmann, you might want to look up page 203 and 204 where even Junkelmann admits that a segmented metal arm guard over cloth padding can not be discounted.
Picture 343 on page 203 actualy depicts such a construction worn by a secutor on a painted shard found in Vindolanda, England.
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Well the advent of the segmented metall manica in the roman army is still uncertain, but if you go by this excellent article
[url:1u7752zo]http://www.romanarmy.net/manica.htm[/url]
metall manica were used as early as mid first century AD.
Incidentaly these manica are depicted on tombstones of soldiers stationded in Mainz.
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As mentioned before: looking good!! 8)
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Here some pics from our show in Leipzig for the ROM 312 Exhibition in the Panometer Leipzig.
More on our website.
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Nice. Doesn't it seem sort of claustrophobic when the retarius is running all around, and you can barely see/breathe? I guess that's what they had in mind.
What kind of pad do you use inside to support the bowl? Do you add a chin strap for security?
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I now train with it for a couple of weeks and got very well used to it, so I don't have any problem with it, but still I've to know exactly how long the trident is and how big my scutum, as I don't be able to see the front of the trident when stabbed at me. So the sight is enough, for me.
I can breathe enough in that helmet. I trained about one hour without putting down that helmet, but my head will be very red when I turn of the helmet, as it's heavy. (about 4 kg)
I use 3 pieces of the simple deepeeka padding inside the helmet and chin strap for security, which is needed to make sure I can get blows on the helmet and fight 'save'.