Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!eder From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.followup Subject: Re: IFGS - Real life role playing Message-ID: <202@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 11:29:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.202 Posted: Wed Jun 13 11:29:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 01:51:49 EDT References: <766@druxh.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle Lines: 19 13 June 1984 To correct a mis-impression some net readers may have gotten about the Society for Creative Anachronism. SCA'ers wear real knives and swords as part of their costumes, but never use real weapons in combat. In fighting events, weapons are made of rattan, a realative of bamboo, which tends to crush rather than break. They are heavily taped and have minimum dimension >1" (like at the tip). Fighters must wear protective headgear and body armor, and referees make sure that fighting conditions are as safe as possible. Now, people do get injured in SCA combat, but the injury rate is comparable to the less violent sports of baseball and basketball, and less than football or rugby. Note, I was active in the SCA until last year, and did a little fighting and 'marshalling', or refereeing, myself, so this is first hand experience. Dani Eder / Boeing Aerspace Company / ssc-vax!eder