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My knees are chewed up, I can barely lift my arms anymore and I have bruises in various places.
I love Battle Society.
Joined today with Vicky, Pete and Erin. The chewed knees came from being ploughed over in a failed attempt at the boar snout shield formation (the idea is to plough your enemies over, not people in your own formation!), and other ailments... well. Swinging around a metal sword and holding up a heavy kite shield at shoulder-level for three hours generally creates such ailments for the unprepared and/ or unfit. It was great fun though, and I look forward to continuing with training!
Am also finding I'm going to have to remember nicknames as well as real names in this soc too. One guy known as Cabbage, for instance. Another girl as Spam (although she prefers people not to call her that!), a guy as Gluber (pronounced 'Gloober'- can't be bothered to retrieve the umlaut mark) etc. Learning names is crazy enough for me already!
I'm going to have even bigger guy-arms by the end of this... I didn't think they'd give us metal swords so early though. Not that I'm complaining. =P You would not believe how happy I was to feel a sword in my hand. Not so happy about the shield though as it hampers movement considerably, but this is battle reenactment.
I love Battle Society.
Joined today with Vicky, Pete and Erin. The chewed knees came from being ploughed over in a failed attempt at the boar snout shield formation (the idea is to plough your enemies over, not people in your own formation!), and other ailments... well. Swinging around a metal sword and holding up a heavy kite shield at shoulder-level for three hours generally creates such ailments for the unprepared and/ or unfit. It was great fun though, and I look forward to continuing with training!
Am also finding I'm going to have to remember nicknames as well as real names in this soc too. One guy known as Cabbage, for instance. Another girl as Spam (although she prefers people not to call her that!), a guy as Gluber (pronounced 'Gloober'- can't be bothered to retrieve the umlaut mark) etc. Learning names is crazy enough for me already!
I'm going to have even bigger guy-arms by the end of this... I didn't think they'd give us metal swords so early though. Not that I'm complaining. =P You would not believe how happy I was to feel a sword in my hand. Not so happy about the shield though as it hampers movement considerably, but this is battle reenactment.