I Love Airsoft but....

Skullchewer said:
I don't think you can casually drop taking a glaive to they eye into a conversation without explaining the circumstances.
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Shamal said:
I agree.

Just looked up glaive cause I'm thick and didn't know what it was.

Do now though and what the feck was that doing near your eyes???

Regards
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Cr0-Magnon said:
Ooh that's interesting. I was looking at those. The cheek weld doesn't look great though?

I had to Google "Glaive" haha, yeah we need more on that!

Cheers for the words of encouragement.
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Rogerborg said:
I expect historic reenactment or HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts), i.e. fighting with swords and axes and glaives and such.  Generally pretty safe as most training starts with not hurting people, but accidents happen even with blunted weapons.  I'm down a front tooth due to a langsaex, I'd love to say doing something heroic, but it was dropped on my face while I was lying on the ground.
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Ding ding ding, we have a winner yeah it was a 1v1 reenactment fight, we were both wearing full-plate armour, I had a poleaxe he had a glaive, our weapons locked pushed against each other somehow, I don't remember it too well (metal stick hitting you in the head has that affect), it struck my cheek cut either side of my eye, cut through my eyelid and smooshed my eye leaving a 90% graze on my eyeball, I almost lost consciousness managed to steady myself but neither of my eyes would open which is bloody scary, went to the hospital they poured disinfectant into my eye which really hurts (to quote the nurse "like having an icicle jammed in your eye") and had to put cream on the eyeball for a while. was kinda cool crying blood occasionally but as a teacher not great but yeah not the most fun

 
Ouch.  I went up to early 14th century, padding + mail + curies / coats-of-plates, and my anecdotal experience was that the more armour folk were wearing (or facing), the worse the injuries tended to get.  Dark age stuff with mostly spears and squishies seemed much more restrained and safe.

 
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I did late Roman (410AD) and War of the Roses (Late 15th) and yeah more armour equals more ouchies honestly, you tend to have a lot more mass which means if you screw up it tends to be all or nothing, I broke 3 ribs in my first ever event and then once I got plate I ended up with a ridiculous list of injuries. So far airsoft has been much kinder on me 

 
DoooomRider said:
Ding ding ding, we have a winner yeah it was a 1v1 reenactment fight, we were both wearing full-plate armour, I had a poleaxe he had a glaive, our weapons locked pushed against each other somehow, I don't remember it too well (metal stick hitting you in the head has that affect), it struck my cheek cut either side of my eye, cut through my eyelid and smooshed my eye leaving a 90% graze on my eyeball, I almost lost consciousness managed to steady myself but neither of my eyes would open which is bloody scary, went to the hospital they poured disinfectant into my eye which really hurts (to quote the nurse "like having an icicle jammed in your eye") and had to put cream on the eyeball for a while. was kinda cool crying blood occasionally but as a teacher not great but yeah not the most fun
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Hey no fair.  Stewards inquiry.I didn't realise it was a comp. I could have come up with something. ?

I can't imagine how that must of felt.?

Sounds like millimetres away from a life changing accident. Thankfully no permanent damage nevertheless fuck! Bet it looked quite impressive though.?

Regards

 
Rogerborg said:
Ouch.  I went up to early 14th century, padding + mail + curies / coats-of-plates, and my anecdotal experience was that the more armour folk were wearing (or facing), the worse the injuries tended to get. 
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 Possibly the result of being overly confident in what the armour could protect from so take greater risks and end up with worse injuries ? 

Rogerborg said:
There seems to be a fair bit of overlap between airsoft, punchy and hitty-weapon sports, and motorcycling, which I would generalise as "adrenaline, warrior spirit, dumbness and optimism".
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Yup all of the above , I do hate it when someone tries to pigeon hole others but my take is it’s sort of like the whole ‘alpha male/female V beta male/female’ thing , the people who are willing to take risks(no matter how regulated and controlled they may be)seem to generally be drawn more to the pastimes based on individual achievement and not as much on ‘team’ achievements , and as a result more chance of injury than the “I’m not doing that I mite get hurt” type of person who generally stick to structured team pastimes which have a lessened risk of injury. 
As an example In Airsofting yes your on the blue or red team but there not teams in the traditional sense where everyone has an assigned job to perform these teams are almost more of a faction than a team used purely for group identification purposes , so we can tell ‘our team’ and avoid shooting our own side ‘in the heat of battle’ as it were . So more of an Alpha than a beta because there prepared that if they do fail then it’s a good chance it’s due to their own failings and not really the teams responsibility  ?

 
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Shamal said:
Hey no fair.  Stewards inquiry.I didn't realise it was a comp. I could have come up with something. ?

I can't imagine how that must of felt.?

Sounds like millimetres away from a life changing accident. Thankfully no permanent damage nevertheless fuck! Bet it looked quite impressive though.?

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Yeah, laying on the floor debating the rest of your life as blind in one eye is unpleasant, it hurt a lot!

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DoooomRider said:
debating the rest of your life as blind in one eye is unpleasant, it hurt a lot!
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Fortunately the pain for my issue was relatively minor, actually it was really just the operation under local anaesthetic which caused any discomfort in that sense but yeah I was panicking about not being able to drive etc again. Although even that I was told I could legally do.

Hope all is good now!

 
Cr0-Magnon said:
Fortunately the pain for my issue was relatively minor, actually it was really just the operation under local anaesthetic which caused any discomfort in that sense but yeah I was panicking about not being able to drive etc again. Although even that I was told I could legally do.

Hope all is good now!
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Yeah it's all good, it's a little more sensitive but I take it steady as I can, take the time to heal and do as they tell you. With airsoft just take your time and don't be afraid to step away and say it's too much

 
Druid799 said:
Possibly the result of being overly confident in what the armour could protect from so take greater risks and end up with worse injuries ? 
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Partly that, you do feel a lot more confident when armoured up, even when it's out of proportion to the protection offered - I've formed a theory that this is a key factor in morale.

There's also the consideration that the more armour you see, the harder you'll start to hit.  This also has airsoft implications.  The more you experience Crye-babies claiming "Didn't feel nothing, mate" as you whang BBs off of their plate carriers and stacks-o-gear, the heavier you're going to get on the trigger compared to being up against Team Mankini.

 
Cr0-Magnon said:
Ooh that's interesting. I was looking at those. The cheek weld doesn't look great though?

I had to Google "Glaive" haha, yeah we need more on that!

Cheers for the words of encouragement.
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 put your sights on a 1" riser. sorted.     Also means I can wear my glasses without steaming up, have coms built in, only 1 strap to put on/off and amazing vision (no restrictions). Ive gone i4 and Bolle 800 before that, not going back

Oh and I can go one better than a Glaive, I lost my right eye to an Arrow !!!!!!.    My nickname for years was Harold the 2nd. oh and yes it hurt

 
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Rogerborg said:
There's also the consideration that the more armour you see, the harder you'll start to hit.  This also has airsoft implications.  The more you experience Crye-babies claiming "Didn't feel nothing, mate" as you whang BBs off of their plate carriers and stacks-o-gear, the heavier you're going to get on the trigger compared to being up against Team Mankini.
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Yes this is true.  One recent game I found a bunch of day rental puffa-jacketed teens seemed to be impervious to single rounds, it became "let her rip, or aim for the head".   That does me no credit, but by heck lad, it felt good at the time (and had the desired effect of getting their hands in the air.  I suspect they walked about 20m before returning to the fray, but small victories...)

 
Shamal said:
I take it that it was a freak accident and hopefully not aimed?
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Ouch, I hope so too.  I've done a bit amount of re-enactment archery and it's a case of trust on both side: that the archers will ensure that our arrows are always heading downwards when they reach the targets, and that said targets won't say "What arrows?" and look straight up just as you're dropping a cloth-yard of rubber-blunted cedar straight down onto them.

But in the heat of the moment, I have seen absolute wankspankles flat shooting at full draw, in one case resulting in the miscreant being physically tackled and restrained by his own side.  Like airsoft, reenactment is a great hobby, except for the very occasional freak accident, and the 5% who will never listen or learn, and who should really find a different pastime.

 
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