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Youth Armored Combat Marshal 101 Training

  1. Steps to becoming a marshal
    1. Classes
      • Field Marshal 201 (required for all disciplines)
      • Discipline specific class “Youth Armored Combat Marshal 101”
    2. MIT Events

      3. 6 MIT events. This number can be reduced or increased at the discretion of the Deputy Earl Marshal (DEM). Usually candidates without any previous fighting or marshalling experience should expect to do at least 6 MIT events. Candidates with fighting experience and warrants in other disciplines have been averaging at little more than 4 events.

    3. Background check

      4. The SCA has required a background check on all adults working with children in an official capacity. This includes YC marshals. SCA corporate has contracted with an outside company to accomplish this. The Kingdom of Atlantia has been footing the bill for these checks and authorizing SCA corporate to perform these checks once appropriate paper work has been submitted to SCA headquarters. A background check will not performed until all other requirements have been met. This has been taken about 2 weeks.

    4. Recommendations
      5. After the (DEM) for Youth Armored Combat makes their recommendation to the Kingdom Earl Marshal (KEM), it is the KEM that grants the warrant. Your proof of a warrant is your name on the Kingdom website listed under warranted marshals for the particular discipline.
  2. Rules of combat

    3. Read the rules!
    1. Where to find

      2. The Atlantian Book of Policy Section 3.8

    2. Interpretation
      1. Active marshalling

        2. YC marshals are to teach fighters how to call their own blows, but in practice will have to call many blows for fighters in order to accomplish this. Except for tournaments, marshals should take every opportunity to teach and not take a passive “there for safety only” stance.

      2. “If you as a marshal are not comfortable with something, then do not allow it on your list field”

        3. There will always be something new that a parent will make or a child will bring or try that you as a marshal have never seen before. Make a decision as to whether you are going to allow it on your list field that day then discuss it with the DEM and on the YC marshal E-list after the event/practice.

      3. Use the e-list to discuss questions

        4. The yahoo group YCMarshallateAtlantia is a forum for marshals to discuss, ask questions, and to bounce ideas off each other. If the published rules are vague there will be discussions on the e-list as to the common interpretation and expectations as to how all YC marshals should be interpreting and enforcing the rules.

    3. “Youth combat will use the same conventions of combat as adult fighters, both for individual and melee combat - with the exception of calibration.”
      • Engagement
      • Legal targets
      • Chivalry
    4. Armor and weapons construction
      1. Sports equipment

        2. Most YC armor standards are based on commercially available sports equipment and any constructed armor should protect the fighter to the same extent.

      2. Constructing

        3. There is pretty much no sports equipment equivalent for gorget, shield, or weapons. Be prepared to assist parents in making and building these.

    5. Duties of a YC marshal
      • Inspections
      • Safety on the field
      • Training
      • Create atmosphere of middle ages
    6. Local YC practice

      7. The YC program will not grow without local practices. Please start or assist in running a local practice if at all possible. As possible have loaner armor available.

    7. Two unrelated adults at all times

      8. There is the requirement that 2 unrelated adults must be present at all youth activities. Usually this is not an issue, because parents are usually always there, but keep this in mind if parents leave. You will have to cease all YC activities if the 2 unrelated adults requirement is not met. It is easiest to inform the parent that if they leave and there are not enough unrelated adults their child cannot participate as activities will have to stop.