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Belegarth Medieval Combat Society is a sport where participants fight with foam padded safety equipment made to reflect medieval weaponry. The sport's combat is hard hitting and fast-paced, governed by a set of easy-to-learn rules Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, and requires a level of skill and aggression that challenges its participants to be physically fit.
Dagorhir Battle Games is a national live action role-playing game (battle game) with full-contact melee fighting and ranged combat as its primary focus. Fighters typically use foam weapons such as swords, flails , spears, bows and arrows, javelins , axes, and other medieval weapons. [ 1 ]
A Dagorhir battle which shows a variety of foam weapons and shields being used. A foam weapon, also known as a boffer, padded weapon, or latex weapon, is a padded mock weapon used for simulated handheld combat. Such weapons are used in simulated battles called battle gaming and in some live action role-playing games (LARPs).
Similar large shields made of wicker were used by Achaemenid sparabara infantry. The Roman army later adopted the scutum , a large rectangular curved shield made from three sheets of wood glued together and covered with canvas and leather, usually with a spindle-shaped boss along the vertical length of the shield.
Amtgard was created by Jim Haren Jr, also known as Peter LaGrue, in El Paso, Texas in 1983. [2] Taking pieces from the rulebooks of both Emarthnguarth and Dagorhir (both of which he had played previously), he advertised in the newspaper for an event known as "Attila the Hun's Birthday Brawl."
Two Dagorhir fighters use foam weapons to duel. The earliest recorded LARP group is Dagorhir, which was founded in 1977 in the United States and focuses on fantasy battles. [22] Soon after the release of the movie Logan's Run in 1976, rudimentary live role-playing games based on the movie were run at US science fiction conventions. [23]
Actual shield decorations of the Archaic period have been found most notably at Olympia; these are bronze sheets into which designs have been hammered or engraved. With the development of Greek religion from the 6th century BC, the belief in the power of apotropaia dwindled [ citation needed ] and as a result shield decorations cease to be ...
Among the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache about 50 possible shield designs existed. [17] Tipis could be painted with visionary designs. The design and related power belonged to the tipi-owner, which could be transferred by inheritance, marriage, or, among some tribes such as the Blackfeet, sale. [17]