Elias, our in-house fighting and LARP weapons BLOGGER. Check out his first post. Feel free to comment:
http://www.larpwarrior.com/blogs/ask-th ... ting-style
http://www.larpwarrior.com/blogs/ask-th ... ting-style
Meet Elias, LARP weapons and fighting blog
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Dreamingfurther
Exemplar
Re: Meet Elias, LARP weapons and fighting guru
This looks like it could actually go somewhere and have some interesting specific skill tips or 'tricks'the to try. I clicked around the site though and i couldn't find anything anything about what experience this blogger has (years, and game styles).
This looks like it could actually go somewhere and have some interesting specific skill tips or 'tricks'the to try. I clicked around the site though and i couldn't find anything anything about what experience this blogger has (years, and game styles).
SkollWolfrun
Virtuous
Re: Meet Elias, LARP weapons and fighting guru
Yeah, I have a feeling he is more Amtgard or similar.
To pull off the Wrap Around/Reach Around attack you would actually have to have a really long weapon or be close enough to be considered charging under Alliance rules.
Dreamingfurther said:
Yeah, I have a feeling he is more Amtgard or similar.
To pull off the Wrap Around/Reach Around attack you would actually have to have a really long weapon or be close enough to be considered charging under Alliance rules.
Re: Meet Elias, LARP weapons and fighting guru
Here is his bio below. I will start adding it to the end of his blog posts. Thanks for the advice. I hope to make this blog a real asset to LARPers. So your comments really help. Feel free to post questions below his blog post to make it interactive.
Name :Elias (as far as you know...)
Age:34
Height:5'10
Weight:155
Profession:Larpwarrior
I've been a larper and sca fighter for better than 12 years, and now I'm sharing the nasty tricks I've been saving up with you! In my real life I've been many things, but blacksmithing, welding and generally getting to know weapons has been my passion. I'm considered to be proficient in most weapons and weapon combos and as long as you're not asking for a real-life method of sword related nasty, I'm willing to help. So, ask the Larpwarrior, and ill answer all your questions.
SkollWolfrun said:
Here is his bio below. I will start adding it to the end of his blog posts. Thanks for the advice. I hope to make this blog a real asset to LARPers. So your comments really help. Feel free to post questions below his blog post to make it interactive.
Name :Elias (as far as you know...)
Age:34
Height:5'10
Weight:155
Profession:Larpwarrior
I've been a larper and sca fighter for better than 12 years, and now I'm sharing the nasty tricks I've been saving up with you! In my real life I've been many things, but blacksmithing, welding and generally getting to know weapons has been my passion. I'm considered to be proficient in most weapons and weapon combos and as long as you're not asking for a real-life method of sword related nasty, I'm willing to help. So, ask the Larpwarrior, and ill answer all your questions.
obcidian_bandit
Pioneer
Re: Meet Elias, LARP weapons and fighting guru
Howdy,
Firstly, I appreciate that you've only been pushing your website a few times in the last couple of months, and that you've actually checked in on the posts that you make. Every once in a while we get someone who makes an account for the sole purpose of pushing their business, they make one promotional comment about it, usually in the wrong part of the forum, and then never return.
However, looking at your posting history, five of the six posts you've ever made have been for the sole purpose of advertising your website. While I appreciate that you're starting up a business, and that your business is actually relevant to the other posters here (unlike many of the spam advertisers we see), I'm not certain that repeated pings on our forum is the best thing for you to be doing. I say this for several reasons:
Howdy,
Firstly, I appreciate that you've only been pushing your website a few times in the last couple of months, and that you've actually checked in on the posts that you make. Every once in a while we get someone who makes an account for the sole purpose of pushing their business, they make one promotional comment about it, usually in the wrong part of the forum, and then never return.
However, looking at your posting history, five of the six posts you've ever made have been for the sole purpose of advertising your website. While I appreciate that you're starting up a business, and that your business is actually relevant to the other posters here (unlike many of the spam advertisers we see), I'm not certain that repeated pings on our forum is the best thing for you to be doing. I say this for several reasons:
- Based on your posting, both here and on your website, I get the impression that you haven't played our game. I could be wrong here, but you seem to only have input about your own website and products that you carry. While I appreciate that you may not have a chapter of our game near you, it means that your recommendations necessarily carry less weight, as you can't even make a reasonable guarantee that your products will be/have been approved for use at any of our events. We have historically had reasonably good luck with advertisers who wish to make some sort of connection with our group getting a link here on our webpage. There are avenues available to you should you wish to go that route.
- In posts you've made on our forum, you recommend a single brand. It would have been more forthright of you to note that that is in fact the only brand that you carry. Once you have built up your inventory, a recommendation of a specific brand or style would carry more weight.
- Editing: I always hate to throw something like this in, since it seems cheap, but I think it would be genuinely useful to you to have someone else look at what you're publishing before it goes live. Again, I am under the impression that you're a single person running a small business and have done most of your web work yourself, perhaps with a Wordpress or template website (which functions quite smoothly), but I cannot recommend strongly enough that you have someone check your work before you promote it, otherwise you're maximizing the exposure to potential grammatical and spelling errors, which will most likely turn buyers away.
- You've masked your identity and intent twice now. In this thread (which you started to promote your wares) you recommended "these guys," who are clearly yourself, and in this very thread you throw your support behind "Elias," who is also clearly yourself. While your dishonesty probably won't win you any customers, consider the reaction you would have to anyone else who would call themselves a "guru" of anything. The little voice that just said "Huh, who does this chump think he is," is the same one everyone else heard, too. Somebody else, who is credible in a group, has to make an assertion like that, otherwise it backfires.
Re: Meet Elias, LARP weapons and fighting guru
I have seen that shot before and it is possible but difficult. When I have had it come at me from those using it I cannot say as it has been overly hard. My Amtgard experience is minimal though...only a couple of years now a couple of years lapsed. That said, those are not good fundamentals by which to assert anyones credentials in these light touch multi hit boffer games. Sorry, no guru cred.
Joe S.
I have seen that shot before and it is possible but difficult. When I have had it come at me from those using it I cannot say as it has been overly hard. My Amtgard experience is minimal though...only a couple of years now a couple of years lapsed. That said, those are not good fundamentals by which to assert anyones credentials in these light touch multi hit boffer games. Sorry, no guru cred.
Joe S.
Re: Meet Elias, LARP weapons and fighting guru
It's not a matter of hard. It's a matter of charging and blind swings, both of which any sane marshal should be calling people out on. I find it -very- amusing coming from someone who claims to have been a larper and SCA fighter for 12 years, as turning your back on someone like that in an SCA fight is just going to get your helmet rung to remind you that you're not Errol Flynn. :wub2:
His other two 'tips' are utterly basic combat mechanics. Fighting two weapons one up one down is something we generally teach NPCs on their first weekend, and his second bit about blade placement is standard head-on-a-platter sword-and-board style, fighting with the shield high so you can parry and swing beneath it with supreme confidence your opponent won't do something smart like hit you in the face or kick that shield you have tucked under your chin thanks to the rules.
Simon said:
It's not a matter of hard. It's a matter of charging and blind swings, both of which any sane marshal should be calling people out on. I find it -very- amusing coming from someone who claims to have been a larper and SCA fighter for 12 years, as turning your back on someone like that in an SCA fight is just going to get your helmet rung to remind you that you're not Errol Flynn. :wub2:
His other two 'tips' are utterly basic combat mechanics. Fighting two weapons one up one down is something we generally teach NPCs on their first weekend, and his second bit about blade placement is standard head-on-a-platter sword-and-board style, fighting with the shield high so you can parry and swing beneath it with supreme confidence your opponent won't do something smart like hit you in the face or kick that shield you have tucked under your chin thanks to the rules.