Youth Armoured Combat Draft:Adult Participation
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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 authorized adult fighter can provide training, which does not include sparring, as long as a Youth Marshal is present.
- Parents can always actively train their own children.
- Group training activities and exhibitions, involving multiple youth and one or more adults, are allowed at the discretion of the youth armoured combat marshal in charge.
- Adults in a training situation with youth armoured combatants must use weapons appropriate to the division of the youth being trained whether or not sparring occurs.
- Adults in a training situation with youth armoured combatants are not required to meet the armour standards of youth armoured combat.
- It is recommended that trainers wear armour appropriate to the training.
Sparring
- Sparring is performed as training with the intent of teaching defensive and/or offensive skills to youth combatants.
- Sparring can also be part of a demonstration, educational, or morale building exercise.
- For the purposes of youth armoured combat, sparring has a definite meaning.
- If the adult is holding a weapon and is attempting to throw shots at the youth, this IS sparring.
- If both the adult and the youth are striking each other with weapons, regardless of force or speed, this IS sparring.
- 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.
- 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.
- Parents can always spar with their 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 authorized adult sparring partner vs. one youth).
Competition
- Adults are not allowed to participate as combatants in youth armoured combat tournaments or melees.