We discuss Duke Paul's Martial Arts background and some of the early West Kingdom's history, such as the details about the An Tir rebellion, which is now in the past and the Chaos Company!  

We cover his School of Bellatrix and the travel and training he has done over the years and where the SCA is at now in relation to formal school of training.  It is also interesting to hear him talk a bit about his raising his sons in the SCA as well as the lineage of fighters below him.  As well as can he beat them?  One example was the Schola Maleus Duras held in Ealdomere last year.

Of course we also get into where he sees the future of SCA combat going.  Has our calibration gotten too high, is there a ton of armouring up to compensate for it?  All these are answered and more!

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Well we are getting caught up here and this is our next interview with His Royal Highness Bardolph Odger Windlaufer.  We discuss his philosophy of fighting and find out, with not too much surprise, that he is fairly ambidextrious!  We also do a quick Event Report on the Middle Kingdom Acedamy of Defense (MKAOD).  

So visit the web site and leave your comments and questions.  Hope you like this one as I expect you may listen to it a couple  of times.  

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*UPDATE*
I just noticed that theres some corruption in the file I uploaded. I will reload the file. Sorry for the delay. -Kith 09-26-06

*UPDATE*
Looks like this one is better. Sorry everyone for the Snafu!
Kith 09-28-06

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Episode #21

Richard and Kith get a chance to talk with Sir Vitus von Atzinger of the Midrealm (like there is any other!)

You name it we talked about it: Green Boots, anvil's of virtue, chains of our faith, angry midgits, fighting styles, what to do with squires and much much more!

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We rehash Pennsic 35 from Wednesday to Friday of War week with our newest guest, Captain Kope of the Midrealm.  It is a riotious and fun little review of how things went.  Hope you like it and sorry we didn't get more in the field podcasts done, but it is hard to do when you are having fun!

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


Enjoy!

Kith

Sorry for the delay folks.  We did record a report from Pennsic, but we are having some issues getting it edited and posted up.  We have recorded the other half of the report and we should have it all up by next week, but for now, here is a training video that the Legion used to train the folks located in the Barony of Roaring Wastes this past year.

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!

Insured by the FDIC - Fighting Dukes In Charge

Yet another Interview, this time with the Felix Rex, current King of the Midrealm, also known as Felix of Ramsey. 

We talk about his transition from Boxing to heavy weapons and how has worked out for him.  Emporer Ming and Kith the Slacker get into it about practicing and ability.  HRM Felix is a big fan of the show, so I hope you enjoy it!

With the help of our Guest Lady Malla, we discuss the recent Midrealm Rose Tournament held in the Incipient Shire of al Ja'far on 6-4-2006. 

We talk briefly about Lady Malla and her participation at the event as well as what the Rose Tourney is about and what goes on a bit behind the scenes to make the event happen.  About 50 minutes in length.
Recorded on 6-22-2006

Well, this was an amazing event - somewhat unique due to the genius of Nissan Maxima, leader of House Clovenshield - a group of mercs. He set forth a call to all mercenary households to gather at this event and take away the lands from the King of Aethelmarc. Therefore all King's men from various kingdoms did gather and it turns out there were a LOT of Knights, Counts and Dukes in attendance as well as 4 currently reigning Kings! WOW, it was definitely fun and most likely not to be repeated like this any time soon.

It never RAINS at the FORT!  This is one of the best annual Midrealm events.  See http://www.baronwars.com for more information.  We talk about how this event went off this year and out of kingdom characters, who attended such as Duke Sean of Artemisia!

This was an awesome interview with HRM Vaclav Semjaka of Calontir about his history in the SCA, being Royalty, Pennsic and Lillies wars.  Death From Below!

This was a fun one and it is our first Interview with Sitting Royalty.  About 50 minutes in length.

My appologies for getting this out late and for lack of other content.  We had some technical difficulties and other things going on, so we have been unable to get any new material out there.  Good News is, with Skype allowing calls to regular phones for free until the end of the year, that means we can do more interviews easier!  Stay tuned, upcoming interviews planned for with Duke Sean, Duke Andreas Icefalcon, Duke Logan of Atlantia and the list goes on... !  Perhaps even a pre-Pennsic review with HRM Brian of the East and HRM Felix of the Midrealm...

Please contact us with some feed back telling me if you like the show and if you want more interviews, more videos, more event reports or even more BS in general. 

We cover the Midrealm Cornation of Felix and Madeleina held on 4-22-2006.  With our wonderful guest for the first and definately not the last, Duncan the Monster!

Topics covered include the Unbelted Tournement of the day, a wizard named Wizzo and a new Pain Bank contest - A bet and the winner is Michigan, so send in your hat suggestions!

Sprezzatura, as a word to describe art and life in the Italian High Renaissance, is a complicated concept.  Duke Eliahu in my opinion exemplifies Sprezzatura!

- find it here on the web: http://wso.williams.edu/~espence/sprezzmeaning.html

The following topics were discussed with this awesome Duke of the Midrealm: First Armour, Early fighting style, Transitioning to the next level of fighting, His two reigns, Noblesse Oblige and Dancing, Getting older and continuing to be competetive, A bit about Pennsic.  ~50 minutes long.  Recorded on 4-26-2006

Kith and Richard discuss the pros and cons of what went on at the Midrealm Tournament of Chivarly (TOC) and how we did or did not do.  We also talk about court and the 1 Laurel elevation and 2 others placed on vigil, Baroness Mistress Jasmine for Pelican and Captain Malcolm Donally for Knighthood

An interview produced by a fan of the show.  Hope you enjoy it as we did so much, we felt it should be shared by all!

Master Baron Gwynfor of the Kingdom of Lochac interviews Joseph of Newby for an interesting look at the SCA!

~35 minutes long.

A comprehensive report of Gulf Wars XV by myself and Kith with our guests: Duchess Eanor of Amberhall and Eldric von Atzinger. 

We cover every day and then some.  Get the low down on the battles and a few of the parties. 

It is a long episode, ~2 hours.  Recorded on 3-25-2006

Finally!

The last fight is here and it is Atlantia verse Ansteorra.  Watch it now to find out the winner!

and the winnner is.... well, watch it and find out...

Okay, so the finals I believe came down to Atlantia verse Ansteorra, with Ansteorra having to win twice to win the tournament.
This video is the second in the sequence of one battle.
I will post them once a day.

Okay, so the finals I believe came down to Atlantia verse Ansteorra, with Ansteorra having to win twice to win the tournament. Winner takes all or at least 5 nice ceramic mugs with the Legion of the Bear symbol on it. This video and the next two complete the sequence of one battle. I will post them once a day. Sorry for the delay as I was considering trying to combine them into one file.

Calontir vs Ansteorra. Pay attention to the Calontir team, who brings out 5 fighters with two handed swords!

This video shows the Merdian team, who defeated the Midrealm Unbelts in part 1 against an excellent team from Ansteorra. Keep an eye on the 2 spears being wielded by the Anstorran team!

This is the first of 7 videos, which I have of the Legion of the Bear 5 on 5 melee tournament conducted at Gulf Wars XV. This first video is of the Midrealm Unbelts team verse an uber squad from Merdies. I appologize that I wasn't able to podcast anything from on site, but as King's Champion I was a slightly busy fellow. I did not get any interviews done either, but I did speak with many a folk, whom I intend to get interviewed sometime in the near future and then post it up. I will intersperse the videos here between our audio recordings for everyone's enjoyment. Thanks goes out to Lord Lloyd of the Midrealm for the videos!

We interview Viscount Sir Tristan von Eisig of Northshield, The Lost Boys and Kamikaze party fame. We also do an Event Report on Golden Seamstress, Northshield TOC and the Known World Rattan Symposium. Total time is 1 hour 18 minutes. -0:00 Intro and Golden Seamstress report, -7:18 Northshield TOC and Known World Rattan Symposium report, -24:03 Interview with Viscount Sir Tristan von Eisig.

Get your Titan Free Weights for all your weight lifting needs, which Sir Tristan has designed and is selling from here!  Tell them the Pain Bank sent you!

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)

We cover the two midrealm events Maidens and Candlemas. Candlemas of course brings folks in from Meridies, Calontir, Atlantia and of course the Midrealm. Candlemas was awesome and an event not to be missed! After the reports comes another great interview with Duke Finn Jarl Herjolfsson. Want to know what it takes to win crown? All of Robo-Duke's secrets revealed here!

The first of many, this is an amazing interview with Duke Brannos of the Midrealm. What a way to start off as I can't even describe how awesome this was.

It is finally out, our December podcast featuring an event report from Christmas Tourney with our guest Eldric Von Atzinger. We also cover a Legio Draconis forums post about commanding. Enjoy and our appologies for the long delay. We have had it ready for the past 2 weeks, but our editing skills suck, so the sound quality isn't great. If there is anyone interested in making their attempt at becoming an audio editor, let us know. No experience needed!

This is our initial Podcast covering the activities with the SCA related to the modern medieval reenactor. We introduce ourselves and cover the All Souls event as well as a forums discussion on Legio Draconis about the 'Hot sticks of the Midrealm.'