Our sports and competitions

[darjr]

I’m fighting October 10th in St Paul Minneapolis at War in the North! Teams of twelve, full contact with steal weapons and full armor! War in the North '26

 

[aco175]

That sounds a lot more cool and hardcore than my 2-day golf tournament at my local club.

 

[darjr]

Are any ya’ll competing and want to let us know please post. I wanna hear em. Especially if I could attend or even maybe compete!

 

[Gradine]

Unfortunately I live in way too isolated of a place to join any trans-only teams, and anything outside of that is a dicey proposition at the best of times.

I do wish my knees would let me get back into running, though. Cross country, just straight going for an hour or more was so good my physical and mental, and gave me so much time for creative thought.

Kiddo aged out of non-competitive soccer but has picked up the competitive spirit when it comes to tetherball. At least if all the injuries they keep coming home with are any indication (who breaks a bone playing tetherball?!?!?! )

 

[Ulfgeir]

Doing archery, but sadly at the moment it does not go so well.

 

[payn]

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I’m fighting October 10th in St Paul Minneapolis at War in the North! Teams of twelve, full contact with steal weapons and full armor! War in the North '26

I’ll try and swing by to this if I can make it.

 

[Tonguez]

Never done full contact with real steal, whats the likelihood of actual injury?

 

[darjr]

Never done full contact with real steal, whats the likelihood of actual injury?

The armor is typically stronger than you'll find in harnischfechten, SCA, or jousting. So think of a harsher rugby or American football, less than MMA, but maybe without as much constant low level head trauma.

Personally I've gotten lots of massive bruises, one that wrapped half way around my mid section, black eyes, and a couple broken ribs. Lots of just plain painful things too, especially joints.

I have seen concussions and broken extremities and a couple of massive face bleeders needing stitches, but I'm a newbie.

 

[payn]

@darjr if you want recommendations on pubs or places to eat let me know

 

[sevenbastard]

Cross country, just straight going for an hour or more was so good my physical and mental, and gave me so much time for creative thought.

Its amazing what a long run can do for the body and the soul.