Hey all,
Played in Dark Hart of Camelot the yesterday which was my first opportunity to play around with live combat LARP safe weapons. Got a couple of questions about 'em, and LARP combat in general:
- The surface of the sword was quite sticky; Daphne said that’s because they were wrapped in plastic for shipping and to fix that you dusted them in talcum powder. Wouldn’t that colour the swords a little? How do you avoid it getting sticky?
- The sword I was using (which has obviously seen quite a bit of use/love) looked like this:
Are you able to repaint them? Do you have to do something with the latex (i.e take it off) first? Can you re-latex them? Is there anything you can do to stop the paint flaking off (I assume not, given what they’re used for ) - Combat: How hard do you need to hit someone for it to count as a “hit”? Quite a number of times in the fight I was touched in the arm or the torso but there was very little force behind it - other times I was quite defintely HIT I know it’s kind of a dumb question to ask over a text-based medium, but what counts as a hit?
- Trust me to pick on the only guy who had actual real fencing experience However it did bring up another question; since he couldn’t thrust, it cut off a lot of his repertoire; is it simply a matter of safety for that? It didn’t seem to me - in all of my considerable one fight experience - that you could really do a lot of damage with a thrust, although I imagine it is actually quite bad for the sword - the tips were reasonably squishy and a powerful thrust I could see bending or at least creasing the tip quite severely.
Also I got hit in the head - not a big deal it didn’t hurt nearly as much as I thought it would
Oh for the record he got me 7 times and I got him 4… needs work
Viperion