Youth Armoured Combat Draft:Armour Requirements

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All Divisions

1. These are the rules for the armour that you must wear, but you can also wear more or better armour if that makes you feel safer.
2. We encourage you to make your armour look medieval, but you might need to use modern sports equipment for safety reasons.

Head

1. Your helm must completely cover your head.
2. You can use a hockey helmet, lacrosse helmet, and other sports helmet with a rigid facemask, but the helmet might need to have parts added or be altered to fully enclose your head.
3. You are allowed to have a period-looking helm.
4. Depending on your size and development (how strong you are), the marshal-in-charge may not let you use a helmet that is too heavy for you to wear safely.
5. Your helmet must be constructed of a continuous rigid material.
6. Your helmet is not allowed to have "floating" segments that are only attached with straps.
7. Your helmet must have a grill, rigid mesh, or a face plate that keeps a weapon from making contact with your face. This means it must not have any gaps that are bigger than 50 mm.
8. Your helmet must have a chinstrap or something that does the same thing that will keep your helment from coming off or touching your face during combat.
9. Your helmet and neck protection must work together so that a weapon cannot touch any part of your head or neck.
10. Your helmet must be padded inside so that the rigid parts of it cannot touch your head.
    1. The padding must be soft enough to be protective, but not so soft that you can squish it and feel the hard surface behind it.
11. Your helmet can have an aventail or camail (chainmail that hangs off it), or a bevor (rigid neck protection) to help protect your neck.

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Neck

1. An aventail, camail, or coif may be substituted or used in conjunction with a gorget as long as all required areas are protected.

Groin

1. Minimum protection is a sports cup or padded skirt until reaching puberty, after which a rigid athletic cup or equivalent armour appropriate to the youths physical characteristcs is required.

Hand and wrist Protection

1. Gauntlets of heavy leather or rigid material lined with closed cell foam or heavy padding are acceptable.
2. Lighter gloves with a basket hilt and additional wrist protection, such as a half gauntlet, are acceptable.
3. Street Hockey gloves alone are NOT acceptable.

Feet

1. Participants must wear properly fitting, closed-toe shoes that provide safe reliable footing.
2. Open toes, sandals, toe shoes, flip-flops, crocs, etc. are NOT acceptable.

Shields

1. Shields may be made of wood, plastic, foam, aluminum, or an equivalent material.
2. Shield edges must be covered by plastic tubing, leather, or foam at least 13 mm wide to minimize damage to youth weapons or other fighters.
3. No wires, bolts, screws, or other objects may project more than 6 mm without padding or tape covering them. Rounded shield bosses are not considered to be projections.
4. Shields should be of a shape similar to that used in period.
5. Shields should be of an appropriate weight for the size and strength of the combatant.

Division 1

Neck

1. The throat and larynx must be protected by a minimum of light leather or the equivalent.

Body

1. All combatants must have the torso, shoulders, and armpits covered with a minimum of cloth. Tunics, shirts, or bodices, and pants, shorts, or skirts are acceptable.

Elbow and Knee Joints

1. At a minimum, a layer of cloth must cover the elbows and knees. Elbow and knee joint protection is not required. A long sleeve shirt and long pants, or a short sleeve shirt and shorts with elbow and kneepads meet this requirement.

Hand and Wrist Protection

1. A minimum of light gloves is required.

Division 2

Neck

1. An aventail, camail, gorget , or coif may be used with a MISSING TEXT as long as in conjunction all required areas are protected.
2. A minimum of medium leather with padding is required.
3. The larynx, cervical vertebrae, and first thoracic vertebra must be covered.

Body

1. All combatants must have the torso, shoulders, and armpits covered with a minimum of cloth. Tunics, shirts, or bodices, and pants, shorts, or skirts are acceptable.
2. Kidneys must be protected by a minimum of a medium leather kidney belt with padding or the equivalent.
3. It is recommended but not required that youths developing breasts have chest protection.

Elbow and Knee Joints

1. Elbows and knees must be protected by a minimum of soft pads.

Hand and Wrist Protection

1. A minimum of gloves with at least 6 mm of foam or padding protecting the fingers, back of the hand, and wrist are required. Street Hockey gloves are acceptable, as is a light glove, with extra wrist protection, in a basket hilt.

Division 3

Neck

1. An aventail, camail, gorget , or coif may be used with a MISSING TEXT as long as in conjunction all required areas are protected.
2. A minimum of rigid material or heavy leather, with padding, is required.
3. The larynx, cervical vertebrae, and first thoracic vertebra must be covered.

Body

1. All combatants must have the torso, shoulders, and armpits covered with a minimum of cloth. Tunics, shirts, or bodices, and pants, shorts, or skirts are acceptable
2. Kidneys must be protected by a minimum of a medium leather kidney belt with padding or the equivalent.
3. The xyphoid process must be protected by a minimum of medium leather and padding or the equivalent.
4. Youths developing breasts are required to have chest protection of medium leather, heavy quilted material, or the equivalent.

Elbow and Knee Joints

1. Elbows and knees must be protected by rigid material over padding. Hockey, motocross and other similar sports elbow and kneepads are acceptable.

Hand and Wrist Protection

1. A minimum of a sports glove with at least 13 mm of foam protecting the fingers, back of the hand, and wrist, and extra thumb protection, such as those for ice hockey or lacrosse goalies, or equivalent.
2. Rigid gauntlets of hardened leather or plastic are preferred.