SCA Gear
This is an "in garb event"!
You should bring your SCA fencing gear and
also a costume and feasting gear for the Feast on Saturday night.
Be sure to remember to bring eating gear and an extra costume with you.
Don't forget that we will entertain one another during the feast, so prepare a piece of entertainment to share with your fellow "renaissance scholars".
Bring with you training gear (see below for hints).
Equipment
The main focus of the course is on training, consequently you do not need
full protection in order to participate in the classes. To take the classes
participants need to bring with them the following minimum level of
equipment.
- fencing clothes (preferably SCA dress, but for those not in the SCA or another re-enactment organisation we need you to have at a minimum gym pants and a long armed top). Ideally historical fencing clothes should be worn in order to get a feel for how period clothing restricts the fencer's motion.
- shoes with decent grip (training will be outdoors on grass)
If you have any of the following please bring them with you. Much of the
following will only be needed if you wish to spar with others during the
course. Sparring will take place on Friday after class and on Sunday in parallel with
authorisation bouts. Some equipment will be available to loan for those wishing
to authorise but who (at present) do not have their own gear.
- fencing mask
- rigid back of head protection for fencing masks (for cut and thrust)
- gorgets
- rapiers and cut and thrust replicas
- half gauntlets (for cut and thrust)
- knee and elbow pads (both rapier and cut and thrust)
- bucklers and SCA approved types of daggers
- rapier legal cloaks
Remember the event is "in costume", so please make an effort to make your gear look as historically plausible as possible.