One Tuesday evening in April, I stepped over the threshold of an exercise gym and traveled a thousand years back in time. Men walked around in tunics and breeches, with custom leather shoes and boots.

ROCK ISLAND -- Jeremiah Kaha of Rock Island was wearing two knee braces under his heavy medieval combat uniform Saturday afternoon. Even though the 32-year-old welder at McLaughlin Body had hurt ...

spagthorpe,<BR><BR>Mail works great for SCA combat. The way mail is designed is perfect for blunt weapons and takes impacts a lot better than people think, for much the same reasons kevelar is good at ...

In a faraway village, in the kingdom of Avacal, lives a smithy named Ivar the Black. This smithy works not in iron or leather, but rather in high density polyethylene. He makes neither horseshoes nor ...