This tutorial (view PDF) is my attempt to help those who have not made any L.A.R.P. weapons learn the process. This is the main method that I use to make weapons in the Myth Wood. Other Foamsmiths have other methods. If you ever have a question feel free to get ahold of any of us Foamsmiths, we love to help out. Shared ideas can only make our weapons better.
What you will need. Continue reading Myth Wood Foamsmithing Tutorial
Many of us gathered together last Saturday for our annual tournament. There were 15 people participating in the tournaments and about the same number of kids and spectators who showed up.
There were two tournaments throughout the day. The first, and largest, was the one to determine who would wield FarinGar this year. The tournament was a new style where each participant fought everyone else using the exact same weapons and each starting the fight with 3 lives. We discovered that while we really like this style of tournament it makes for a long day, almost 5 hours of constant one-on-one battles. In the end 89 battles were fought and after determining that the weapons weren’t going to hold up through every single fight we ended up skipping 16 battles that were unnecessary for determining the final victors. Each participant fought in at least 8 battles. This tournament was great because it offered a chance for people to fight in battles that they may have never fought with weapons they had never used before. Continue reading Winter 2016 Feast and Tournament