The martial arts in the SCA fall into three styles, Archery, Heavy, and Rapier.
To see when these activities are going on see the Meetings page.
Archery - Archery falls into two styles; Target archery where in the classic styles of bows and arrows are used to score points shooting at targets, and Combat archery where archer fight along side the other fighters in armor using arrows with various types of blunts and bows of low power.
Heavy - Heavy fighters wear armor and helmets that simulate the armor worn in period. They use weapons made of rattan to simulate edged weapons. As they fight if one fighter strikes another in such away that it would have been a killing blow were they using real weapons, then that fighter is honor-bound to accept the blow and die.
Rapier - Fencers fight with swords ranging from epees to schlagers, wearing armor which is modern fencing mask, hood and armor that is styled like period clothing.
I will be putting pictures showing the various styles of fighting soon.
This page was last updated on 01/20/2008 by Baron Eógan mac Ailpein.
