by Chicken » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:38 pm
Have people actually seen this come up as a problem? Often? Where I first learned to fight, the rulees were much less... well codified..., so I was told to make a pommel big enough that it wouldn't get in someone's eye. When I experimented with that, I found that I needed the pommel to be ~4" across and flat to not be able to hit my own eye, and I have pretty deep set eyes. 2" , even flat, is more than capable of hitting an eye with a little (bad) luck... yet I don't seem to see a whole lot of belgrim with eye patches at events.
When I test pommels, if it's kinda soft, gonna stay on, not horribly pointy, and doesn't pass through a 2" hole without much effort, I figure it's fine. Honestly, if someone's getting hit with a pommel on anything other than a javelin or a polearm, something's wrong. Not that it doesn't happen, but the victim is 2" away from the person's wholly unpadded fist or haft anyway... .
$0.02...
WikifiedSquire to Sir Kyrian; Commander, Clan of the Hydra
"There is only one appropriate attack for all polearms, and that is the thrust."Antonio Manciolino, Opera Nova, 1531