02-20-2011, 10:21 PM
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.