Cheers all!  I hope your Christmas celebrations went well and your plans for a New Year's Eve Bash are progressing well! 

2007 for the Pain Bank was sort of a transitory time and not all that great, considering my focus wasn't the SCA.  Expect us to be back with more of what you have seen in the past.  Hopefully I can get the rest of Duke Paul's videos posted up as well, so stay tuned.

So stay tuned and if you want to help out or have any requests, please feel free to email me at:

Richard fitzWilliams

I was sick earlier in the week and didn't get videos posted, so my appologies to everyone waiting anxiously for the next videos.  I have posted 4 more for next week.

Please visit the Armour Archive Discussion list for Duke Paul's answers to any questions you might have about these videos as I am only putting his descriptions down with some intepretations of my own.

Richard

Sorry for the delay in posting new training videos from Duke Paul of Bellatrix and his School of Bellatrix fighting style, but last week on Thursday October 11th, 2007 my wife gave birth to our third child.  Parker Mathew Elswick.  He weighed in at 7 lbs and 11 ozs at a length of 20".

Look for more videos starting on Monday, October 22nd.

 

Richard

As Pennsic is here and most of you are already probably there, I look forward to it as I do every year.  The gathering of kindred souls and meeting with friends, who it has been sometime since we had talked or met.  A magical time as always.

This year, however, a household brother of mine and a good friend will be unable to make it to Pennsic, even though he is only a few hours a way.  He is quite ill and having a hard time getting around.  Unfortunately he is also an artist or fortunately if you have heard him before.  He is a musician and makes is living off of teaching others how to play the guitar.  This means that if he is not able to teach, which he currently is not or he would be at Pennsic, then he is not making money. 

I ask all those that enjoy this podcast and listening to me rant sometimes, that please go and puchase a copy of his latest CD from here:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/catapano

He goes by the name of Draco in the SCA and he is a very cool person, so please help him and his family out in their time of need and get some enjoyment out of his music while your at it.

See you all at Pennsic, I will be staying in Company of Outremer's camp in N17 along Chey Ping Way, which is between N16 and N17.  Look for the crosses, not the maltesse ones either.  I will only be there for about 3 days, from Monday-Wednesday probably.

Richard

 

So, I found this on the web and it describes The Pain Bank.  I have modified it a bit and here ya go...

Just like blood banks store blood and sperm banks store sperm, pain banks store pain.

From pinpricks and itches through agonizing toothaches all the way up to the worst gut-wrenching, torture imaginable, they had every kind of pain in their massive iron vaults. From the lightest acceptable blow to the most excessive helm denting pole axe!

Suffering too much pain? Put in a deposit.

Feeling detached, or looking for a little masochistic rush? Head to an ATM. Make a withdrawal.

Feel something. Feel something really bad for a while.

Getting over the pain is the biggest rush, you know.

Just don't fall behind on your interest payments.

Just wanted to thank everyone who listens in on our little podcast slice of the SCA.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family.  Cherish them and enjoy your time together.

Richard and Kith

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

Well it has been a year since Kith and I posted our first Podcast up and WOW, it has been one hell of a ride.  During the summer months, we seemed to be able to get about 1 a week up, but as time has gone along it has gotten harder.  We are at about 1 every other week or so and very few Event Reports.  Partially because I scaled back my attendance partially as well as my declining interest in doing it as often. 

There are a LOT of folks out there, who are wonderful and I hope to get to know and interview!  We are recently reminded as a close friend and fellow fighter, who I had the pleasure of knowing over the past decade passed away, Count Sarnac of Ealdomere.  I had hoped to interview him at some point, yet it did not happen.  This is just one of the many reasons I do the interviews, because we are all only blessed with so much time to get to know one another and the SCA is a family of sorts after all.  You can read about Count Sarnac here.  If you knew him or if you can, please consider donating to a fund they have setup for his daughter, Amber.  It is one small way to ease the gapping hole many of us have and especially his wife and only daughter.

You can see our stats from the past year with the picture posted up, coutesy of our web host provider.  Our original blog/podcast was on 11-19-2005 that we were going to do this and our first recording went up on 12-10-2005!

Well I hope you still enjoy our little podcast when we put stuff up Hopefully I find more time to make it happen.  If you really enjoy the show, please consider providing us feedback with comments here on the site, donate some money via the Paypal link at the right and/or buy some Pain Bank Merchandise as it will help cover costs of equipment, the website hosting and make it just a bit more worth the time spent away form our families when we are doing this.

Richard fitzWilliams and Kith the Silent

I just wanted to appologize and let you know we are working on getting the Sir Vitus interview back up for you soon.

For now, please go here and buy a 14th Century Mafia T-shirt as they are sponsoring us as our first official advertising with the Pain Bank!  You can see a large image of what it looks like here.  Mention us in your order, so they know where ya got the info from.

You can also get other merchandise from us here, such as T-shirts and stickers.

This is just a short cast when Richard was at Pennsic right after the Unbelted battles.


Enjoy!

Kith

Our Guest, Captain Gunnar, Kith and I discuss the upcoming Pennsic 35 and what is Gunnar Funk!  Pennsic 35 is finally here, hell some folks are already on site.  Kith and I will be there for the middle weekend and will be podcasting from on site, so check back daily.  We have something in the works for working with The Pennsic Independent  and hopefully we can get the word out.  I am hoping to have T-shirts on site as well, so come find me.  $12 for listeners and more if you find them at a merchent. 

We had some technical difficulty and lost our recorded episode with HRM Felix and HRM Brion.  We are implementing some hardware fixes for this software pain and future recordings will be much better. 

I expect to have an Advertiser page up by Pennsic as well for those, who may wish to advertise to our audience on The Pain Bank!

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We cover the Val Day event in the Midrealm, which is the first big melee event of the year. After that we get into a discussion of the coolio tournament HRH Felix and Madelina plan on hosting for the upcoming Coronation. My Odeo Channel (odeo/4b809f98b0380d5d)