NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/org/sca/16948

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From: [e-mail] (Dennis O'Connor)
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Subject: Re: On The Nature Of Armor...
Date: 22 Dec 92 08:52:09
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[e-mail] (Ron Hauser) writes:
] I am sometimes quite irritated by the assumption "well I dont wear hardly
] any armor milord, and I didn't feel that, so it must have been light."
] Many people who wear near-minimum armor are quite aware of what shots land
] on their body (since it creates a bruise), but I have seen people get
] excited and pumped up on adrenaline, to the point where they didn't feel
] much of anything--good, light, or anything short of bone crushing.

I can understand this, as I've experienced a lesser degree of that
myself and seen others experience it. However, if a fighter really
is as "pumped up" as you perhaps-hyperbolicly describe, then maybe
for the safety of his brothers and sisters in arms it would be
best for he or she to sit down and chill out for a while. Someone
so pumped that they can't guage the blows the receive may be too
hyper to control the blows they give, and that may not be safe.

One problem is that a "combat high" can be like a being drunk :
you don't realize how far you're gone, it feels so good !
--
Dennis O'Connor            [e-mail]