The Beginning

As with all things there is a beginning.  Journeys especially so.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

– Lao Tzu

The purpose of this blog is to document my journey through the SCA and my quest to engage in Heavy Fighting.  At the moment I am a relative newcomer to the SCA and hopefully writing this blog will better help me to understand my journey and to possibly help others someday.

Those of you that have found me must have some interest in the SCA or Society for Creative Anachronism.  If not click on the link or ask.  Anyone in the SCA would be more than happy to tell you about it.

Quick disclaimer, I am not a professional writer.  Don't have the desire to be one.  So if you see grammar and or spelling errors take it easy on me.  My beautiful wife is a Catholic school teacher and I get all the corrections I can handle....

Oh and I cant forget to post a pic of JR.  I am bias but he is the cutest little guy in the world, my little squire.

I attended my first event last year and was immediately interested.  I was lucky because I had an excellent guide for my first event.  To be honest I don't remember how we first made contact, but he did chaperone me to my first event.  His name is Sir Wolfgang Von Wuestenberg.  In case you don't know everyone in the SCA creates a persona.  Its basically the person you are going to be while in the SCA.  And Wolfgang Von Wuestenberg is the name of his persona.

Also in this picture is Sir Isaac Rous.  Both are two great individuals I have met in the SCA.  Also both are Knights.  More on that later in case you don't know about it.  Sir Wolfgang has been a great source of knowledge on my journey so far.  I have also learned a lot from our local group the Barony of Thor's Mountain.  More on some of the awesome individuals I have meet there in later entries.

A major part of my journey as I stated earlier is that of a Heavy fighter in the SCA.  Currently I have attended some practices and begun to gather my "kit", or the armor I will be fighting in.  Gathering ones fighting equipment is a tough task.  I have been lucky and have been given a lot and loaned even more.  Thank you to everyone that gave so that I could get started.  I also have had the opportunity to make friends with Bokalo of Bokalo's Armory.  Much of my current kit has come from his shop.  That too I will elaborate on later.

Added to the above,  I am a decent leather worker.  That skill has helped me to create some of my own armor and a few pieces for others.  I have found that building ones kit is an ever developing process.  I started off thinking of creating a Viking persona and began building my kit along those lines.  Well, my process quickly morphed to a Crusaders era kit.  So I chose the Knights Hospitallers as the source for my persona.  I have recently rediscovered the faith aspect in my life and am taking RCIA classes.  I have enjoyed the parallels of learning about the early church and learning about the Hospitallers.

So my kit is coming along, probably for eternity.

Well, if you have read this far it is my hope that you will follow my blog and feel free to comment and share.

  My future entries will cover my progress (or lack there of) as a fighter, some leather working, a bit about fighting fitness, and any fun topic I come across.

I am going to try and end each post with a fun or inspirational quote.  Thanks for stopping by, and hope to see you again soon.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

– Aristotle