| OMSG Equipment Standards |
| The Omsg is perdoninantly a 14th century heavy armoured fighting group and it expects its members to fully comply with this mandate or have thier memberships summarily rejected. To comply with OMSG equipment standards a complete 14 century transitional harness (level 4) is required within a respectable amount of time (somewhere around 1-3 years). Due to factors such as training experience, cost of aquisition, timelines for manufacture and delivery of equipment, OMSG uses the following four progressive levels of equipment acquisition as a guide to its members. Members are obligated to move through all these levels and aquire all this equipment if they are to retain thier membership in the OMSG. This equipment and armour is considered a crucial part of the true practice of medieval European marial arts as taught by the OMSG. |
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1) Eye protection (racket ball goggles) 2) Athletic Footwear 3) Padded Gloves (Broom ball) 4) Black Athletic Pants 5) OMSG T-Shirt 6) Wooden LongSword Waster 7) Wooden Dagger Waster Level 2: Advanced Beginner (Wood or Aluminum Waster Fencing, and Steel Sword Practice) 1) Gambison 2) Steel Sword 3) Groin Protection or Breast Protection 4) Knee & Elbow Cops (metal prefered, hard plastic or Cuir bouilli leather permitted) 5) Three weapon Fencing Mask 6) Arming cap or Coif 7) Padded Gorget Note: A member must have all the equipment requirments from level 2 in order to challenge for a Scholar Test. Level 3: Advanced Member or Scholar (Light Armoured Steel Fencing) 1) Metal Gorget 2) ChainMaille Hauberg 3) Steel Gauntlets 4) Transitional Arm Protection (or cuir bouilli or padded athletic wear) Level 4: Scholar (Heavy Armoured Steel Fencing) 1) Full transitional 14th to 15th century plate, splinted or maille armour 2) Coat of Plates or segmented breast plate 3) Full Greaves of cuir bouilli, maille, splinted or plate 4) Armoured foot wear required |