True SCA Story?

[SCAVard@aol.com]

Poster: SCAVard@aol.com

This has been floating around some of the other SCA lists for the last couple
of days, so many may have seen this already.  It sounds like an urban legend,
but even if not, it's a good read!

-Vard
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There was once a fighter in the SCA who was also in the US Army Reserves.
During the summer the Army would introduce the reservists to various methods
of man-to-man combat. They'd hand them a weapon, tell then how to hold it, and
let them all have at each other for a little bit. Then they'd take the guy who
was doing the best and put him up against a regular soldier who knew what he
was doing, to demonstrate that you really do need lots of training if you want
to get good at whatever kind of combat it was

So one time they hand out a new kind of weapon to the group this SCA fellow
was in. He looks at it and says: "Gee, that looks a lot like a pole-arm. I
know how to use that!" So he picks it up and promptly starts trouncing
everyone near him. After a bit the sergeant notices him and sends him up
against the pole-arm specialist.

tappity tappity tappity THUNK

The sergeant wasn't expecting this and asks a regular who knows about these
weapons what had happened. The regular says: "I'll bet he's in the SCA."

"SCA? What's that?"

"It means you can't beat him."

So the sergeant goes back and asks the guy if he's in the SCA.

"Yes, sir, I am in the SCA, and in the SCA I hold the rank of Knight."

"Well, let's see what happens if we send you up against *two* regulars," says
the sergeant gleefully.

tappity tappity tappity THUNK THUNK

So the sergeant goes back to the regular and says: " He says he's a Knight.
What's *that* mean?"

"It means *they* can't beat him either."
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