[Cynnabar] Meeting minutes 1/17/2011 and officer reports

[Greg Less]

Thanks for the explanation Sir Ranthulfr.

I don't think that the Barony should be in the rattan sword business. New
people who are interested in acquiring rattan and a basket hilt need only
search the web for any of a number of reputable merchants who will sell them
both. Icefalcon comes immediately to mind. Alternatively, most established
fighters that I know have a hoard of rattan sitting around somewhere that
they could sell a length off of. The basket/cup hilt can again be ordered
through the internet, bought used on Ebay, traded for on the Armour Archive
or found at an event.

As for the spears - I believe that it makes more sense for the barony to
determine if we have any fencers who are interested in crossing over, then
find them an extra spear to train with, then help them buy their own than to
spend money on a number of spears which will sit around and take up space in
some volunteers garage/basement/etc.

-Gregoire.


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:40 AM, <randyasplund at comcast.net> wrote:

>  Hi Gregoire,
>
> To answer your question, the business about the spears came up because of a
> discussion about the royal encouragement for fighters of either light or
> heavy weapons to learn to cross over to do both at Pennsic. Spear is the way
> they envision light weapons fighters transitioning to heavy. So it was
> proposed that the barony buy a few ready made spears for such candidates to
> work with. It was also mentioned that these would need to be stored, and
> that they would only be useful at warm weather practice. Although these
> aspects are important factors, the rational for supporting the purchase was
> that we already buy loaner gear that we think we need.
>
> At this point I suggested that if we really want to help new fighters, why
> not purchase some staves of rattan that would be used as stock? Our new
> fighters would then purchase a cut from the stave at a rate pro-rated by the
> portion of the stave they wanted. Sgt. Bjarki then commented that if we were
> going to do that, we ought to also buy some inexpensive basket hilts and
> sell those at cost to the new fighter. The rational for this whole thing is
> that rattan and basket hilts  are hard enough to come by for a newbie that
> it usually takes them quite a while to get these things together. If we
> helped make them more available, then we would get people fighting sooner.
>
> They would still need to deal with helms, the other really difficult thing
> to acquire when one is new, but we learn to walk one step at a time.
>
> RanthulfR
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Less" <greg.less at gmail.com>
> To: "Bjarki Bjornson" <docdtw at gmail.com>
> Cc: barony at cynnabar.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:04:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cynnabar] Meeting minutes 1/17/2011 and officer reports
>
>
>
>    Armored Marshall
>>    not in attendence
>>
>
>     Sorry about that. I am sick. Again...
>
>     Just started the job as interim GKM. Nothing to report.
>
>
>
>>  We should look to purchase items for the Barony
>>  spears, rattan, basket hilts
>>    Straum will get rattan and basket numbers together.
>>
>
>      May I ask for more information about this? What will the basket hilts
> and rattan be used for? We have two loaner swords that appear to be in good
> repair with functioning Baldar cuphilts. I am concerned about having loaner
> spears - these are difficult to transport and are not necessary for basic
> authorization. In my opinion authorizations beyond sword and shield should
> be the responsibility of the combatant looking to achieve said
> authorization...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Gregoire.
>
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