Craziest Re-Enactment stunts or injuries

[Aedon]

Khairete,

I am not surprised to see most responses calling me foolish. Well, that is to be expected when I only tell about my failures and screw ups. This thread was intended to be a humorous look at our mishaps, not a glamorous look at our strengths and triumphs.

I did not go into the other stunts I have pulled off successfully due to my elaborate safety precautions. But you are all right, there are times when I recklessly endanger myself. However, I do just that, endanger MYSELF, nobody else. And as far as lives go, mine is not worth much, as you might agree. I don't have much to lose by dying, and I wouldn't really be missed. "Let the months and the years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more."

Whenever I carry a loaded gun, I make sure that it never points even in the general direction of people, even if there is a wall or a great distance between me and them. I don't worry so much about my house and materials, as that is all they are. When handling napalm, gunpowder, and other explosive/incendiary devices I am either alone or a safe distance away from my compatriots. They give their input, and I carry it out.

Boken practice is about as dangerous as football practice, or any other martial arts practice for that matter, sometimes people get hurt. Besides, part of re-enactment is experiencing the anxiety and adrenaline of a hazardous situation.

As for drunken gladius combat? Well, you've got me there. :lol: :wink:

Khairete,

-Aedon

[Caballo]

"I don't know what they do to the enemy, but by God they frighten me."..... (Duke of Wellington)

[Arthes]

Khairete Aedon,

However, I do just that, endanger MYSELF, nobody else. And as far as lives go, mine is not worth much, as you might agree. I don't have much to lose by dying, and I wouldn't really be missed. "Let the months and the years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more."
-Aedon

don't ever think that way about yourself, everyone's life is worth something to somebody and you will be missed by someone, maybe you don't realise that.
Take care of yourself.
regards
Arthes

[arklore70]

Safety over realism, a must.

I have been around folks that have accidental or what I like to call negligent discharges of firearms. It stinks. Guys and gals, please be careful. Nothing worse than watching an 19 year old bleed out and die because his buddy failed to properly clear his weapon and accidentally ( negligently) blow his intestinal track out.

A gladius, pugio, or a pila will do it almost as quick as a firearm.

While some of our mishaps can be humorous, never forget that some of the tools re enactor are weapons that will kill, main, and disfigure just as well as they did two thousand years ago.

Cheers!!


v/r
Mike

[Tarbicus]

A friend of mine was set next to an American policewoman on a flight to the US once, and she told her a lot of shooting incidents she had been to were when someone had guzzled half a bottle of whisky at home, got the gun out, waved it around and 'BLAM!' - bullet through their foot. Ring any bells?

I do just that, endanger MYSELF, nobody else.

So long as nobody was on the other side of the backpack, sweatshirts, blanket, rifle stock, and WALLhock: :wink:

[madoc]

I have a spear wound in my calf. Around 5" where it went in and 2" where it came out............

I used to "catch" spears that were thrown at me from 10 yards or so and then be able to return them ( a stunt mentioned in the viking saga's). I then graduated to stopping spears thrown from very short range with a buckler from the rest position. I then decided it would look cool if the spears stuck in the shield .......... and indeed it did until one day the thrower mis-threw and it skipped, flat, along the ground and went all the way through my leg.

So, do spears go easily through people ?? Yup they do. I have the proof.


Anyone got a better one than that ??


I also have a small scar on my eyelid, two in my eyebrows and a trauma wound to the cheek that has deadened slightly all my nerves on one side of my face. This is in addition to some serious ones to the hands, forearms and broken ribs. I had one finger bone completely snapped and it had to be manipulated back ... nice.

24 years in the game now and not surprisingly all these wounds are from the first few years. Older, wiser and far more experienced at it now.

[Robert Vermaat]

I have a spear wound in my calf.
I also have a small scar on my eyelid, two in my eyebrows and a trauma wound to the cheek that has deadened slightly all my nerves on one side of my face. This is in addition to some serious ones to the hands, forearms and broken ribs. I had one finger bone completely snapped and it had to be manipulated back ... nice.

Nice! hock:
And your advice to uninjured beginners like me and others would be?

[madoc]

my advice... never, ever play with sharp weapons.

I once saw another iron age group in the UK, who shall remain nameless, chucking a sharp spear among themselves at a public event (Kirby Hall)and proclaiming loudly that there were ".. the only group in the country who used sharp weapons .."

Dan shadrake, of Brittannia, turned to me after watching the dozen idiots out there and said ".. there used to hundreds of them..".
How we laughed.............

[Robert Vermaat]

".. there used to hundreds of them..".

Brilliant!! :lol:

[TFLAVIUSAMBIORIX]

hock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

yep, chucking spears at eachoter is one of the stupidest stunts ever, I know from experience :oops: :oops:

[Anonymous]

We were using WW2 vintage FMJ ammo

Lucky it wasn't S.m.K. (armor-piercing) ammunition- that stuff can punch holes in 1/4" steel I beams...

Ewig leben? Darf ich?

[Anonymous]

Khairete,

I am not surprised to see most responses calling me foolish. Well, that is to be expected when I only tell about my failures and screw ups. This thread was intended to be a humorous look at our mishaps, not a glamorous look at our strengths and triumphs.

I did not go into the other stunts I have pulled off successfully due to my elaborate safety precautions. But you are all right, there are times when I recklessly endanger myself. However, I do just that, endanger MYSELF, nobody else. And as far as lives go, mine is not worth much, as you might agree.
-Aedon

NOW you're making me angry. NO life is worthless, certainly not that of an amiable nutcase with so much talent for mayhem as you have. I agree that it sounds like you have done some stupid things and, yes, that was damned selfish of you, considering the way it could have spoiled all our fun, but a lot of my mates have been VERY silly in their youth and I have to say that, despite that, the world is a better place for their continued presence in it. So, carry on taking the calculated risks and remember that no-one can calculate for little green apples when they're drunk. If you don't like your life, get a proper one.

[Anonymous]

hock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

yep, chucking spears at eachoter is one of the stupidest stunts ever, I know from experience :oops: :oops:

When I was in Poland, in September, one of their chaps decided to throw javelins at the shieldwall. Fine. Sharp javelins. We put our shields up, the javelins stuck in them. Fine. Then one came in high. The man in front of it lifted his shield and deflected it away from himself. Fine. The javelin went up and over the shield wall, coming down again, point first, into the AUDIENCE. The audience moved. Oh. Fine. The great thing about Poland, is that they seem to have no concept of the blame culture.

[Tarbicus]

one of their chaps decided to throw javelins at the shieldwall ...... into the AUDIENCE.

That's the dumbest of the lot so far hock: No different to archery but using living flesh and blood for targets. When they do archery do they also set the targets up in front of the audience? :roll:

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[Tarbicus]

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