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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
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 11:29:59 1984
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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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