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Topic: people deserting SCA for LH?
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Fire Stryker
Admin & Advocatus Diaboli
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posted 05-05-2005 08:40 AM
    
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Can an OT topic really ever be OT?Actually, I have a question which relates to the insurance issue. I've heard people toying with the idea of crashing the SCA party for the use of their insurance, so to speak. On the other end of things, I've heard SCA people say "I wish we could find a way to keep people deserting SCA for LH - we need and appreciate their talent, and are the poorer for it." Yes, really, there are many SCAers who feel this way. I know that some folks have had bad SCA experiences, and would never go to an event. I'm sorry for that, and ashamed of some of the people who are welcomed in the "big tent". However, for the rest of you, what would it take for an LH group to go, have their own little area at an event, and try and do LH activities there? What could an event coordinator do to make a group feel welcome, and want to come? Allowing jousting? (I wouldn't hold my breath on that one...) Allowing period sword work within camp? Allowing enough space and a hands-off attitude? Just wondering... -Charlotte
I've made this a separate thread because most of the recent posts on the INSURANCE thread are not insurance related. Fire Stryker
Admin and Devil's Advocate.
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Charlotte
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posted 05-05-2005 01:32 PM
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Originally posted by Alan F:
Charlotte, a lot of people's 'bad experiences' have been not so much with SCA events, usually it's run-ins with members of the SCA. This can be for a variety of reasons: Some SCA people insist that they accurately re-create the past (with rattan swords?), which is something of a bugbear to myself and other re-enactors who very definitely do not see this as being the case. Other times it's over attitudes about what re-enactment is - I myself had an argument with a SCAdian who claimed that re-enactments were only accurate if we fought each battle step by step as it was fought. I pointed out that we re-enact what the battle was like and the conversation spiralled downwards from there.
*sigh* I know. Unfortunately, we don't get to pick our spokespeople. And, if the media ever shows up to a demo/event, they invariably pick the biggest idiot to talk to and take a picture of. Just remember that it's *some*, and that in a group of some 40,000 people, it takes all types. Also remember, there's a lot of us within the organization trying to fight for improvement from within. Sometimes it's those that are fighting for change that give up and move on out.
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