Youth Armoured Combat Draft:Adult Participation

Training

All training of youth combatants at official SCA activities, whether or not it includes sparring, must be done under the supervision of a rostered youth armoured combat marshal.
Other than parents, any authorised adult fighter can help with training, which does not include sparring, as long as a youth armoured combat marshal is present.
You can always train your own children.
The marshal-in-charge can allow group training activities and exhibitions, with more than one youth and more than one adult.
If you are training with youth, you must use weapons for the division of the youth being trained, whether or not sparring occurs.
If you are training with youth, you are not required to meet the armour standards of youth armoured combat, but we recommend it

Sparring is training where you fight with other kids to learn new skills and try out things you have learnt.
Sparring can also be part of a demonstration, educational, or just for fun and practice.
For the purposes of youth armoured combat, sparring has a set meaning.
1. If you are the adult, and you are holding a weapon and trying to throw shots at a youth, this IS sparring.
2. If both the adult and the youth are striking each other with weapons, regardless of force or speed, this IS sparring.
3. If the youth is striking an adult who is holding a shield or buckler and the adult is merely blocking shots, this IS NOT sparring.
4. If the youth is striking the adult but the adult is not striking the youth, this IS NOT sparring, but considered blow calibration or practice targeting.
You can always spar with your own children.
Only authorised youth armoured combatants, youth armoured sparring partners, and youth armoured combat marshals can spar with youth combatants.
Sparring with youth is normally conducted as one-on-one combat (one authorised adult sparring partner vs. one youth).

Adults are not allowed to participate as combatants in youth armoured combat tournaments or group combat.