Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekig.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig!jm From: jm@tekig.UUCP (Jeff Mizener) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Role Playing Societies and Live Steel in Combat (not SCA) Message-ID: <2110@tekig.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 12:23:55 EDT Article-I.D.: tekig.2110 Posted: Mon Jun 18 12:23:55 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 01:52:26 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 23 For a short while I was associated with the midwests biggest and oldest rennaissance fair(e), now called "King Richard's Faire" in Gurnee IL (To IH sites: does this fair still take place?). Before it became overly commercial and expensive to get into, I was a trappist monk helping an "anti-pope" (see the play "Martin Luther") sell Indulgences. For the two years that I was doing this (74 and 75) there was a group similar to the SCA, whose purpose was to give carefully choreographed demonstrations of medevial fighting techniques. They were called The American Footjousters. They used Live Steel. They were fun to watch, and very safety conscious. The SCA people thought they were nuts. I still have some indulgences left if anyone wants one... One Who Survived the Rennaissance: Jeff Mizener / Tektronix ADG / Beaverton, OR uucp: {purdue,ihnp4,uw-beaver} {ucbvax,decvax,hplabs,uoregon} {zehntel,hplabs,allegra,masscomp}!tektronix!tekig!jm ARPA: tekig!jm.tek@udel-relay CSnet: tekig!jm@tek