Puncture and Tear Resistant Virtually Indestructible Always Returns to Form Perrformance Cores Fused to Foam Among The Best Looking Swords on the Market Dire LARP Flail  SBCL-BLACKFLAIL   $159  Expedited Shipping Available! E-mail service@strongblade.com or call 866-7SWORDS On Sale! Originally $164 This item is no longer available.    There are basically two possible alternative histories for the weapon known as the flail. Both are dated from the same early-medieval period and both arrived at the same conclusion, just in two different ways. The first talks about a man named Ethan Burridge, a farmer, and his friend Andrew. Both these men were farmers and both used the typical agricultural flail for separating wheat from chaff. An agricultural flail, for those of you who missed the History Channel episode, is basically a wooden handle with another wooden handle attached to it with a length of rope or leather. The farmer holds one handle and swings it. The other handle swings through the air, smiting the evil, rapist wheat from the innocent, beautiful young chaff (Ethan was quite the imaginative farmer, he was). Anyway, one day, Andrew was over helping Ethan fend off the wheat-rapists when Ethan got a little too close. Ethan failed to smite the wheat, instead striking Andrew a near fatal blow to the back of the head. Ethan, seeing his friend lying on the ground unconscious, did what any good friend would do. He ran into his barn excitedly, added spikes to the flail and went off to the pub to give that bully Thomas Miller a good flailing. The other theory on the origins of the military flail goes like this: Some rich noble dude got into trouble with a neighboring rich noble dude. The neighbor came over with a horde of peasants armed with pitchforks. The original rich dude's peasants had no pitchforks, so the rich dude told them to use "Those sticks with other sticks tied to them" to fight with. Thus was born the military flail. Yeah, not so exciting is it? I really like the previous one better. Much more character development and better plot twists. Either way, the flail was eventually tooled and tinkered. The inevitable "hey, if you make the hitting part metal, it'll hurt more," comments led to the equally inevitable "Hey, it might break a bigger chunk of someone's skull if you made it round," which ultimately led to the conclusion that "I bet if we put big spikes on the ball it would REALLY freakin' hurt!" The big ball on the end with spikes is called a morningstar and is the same type of ball that you see on the end of some types of maces. Flails also sometimes have flanged heads like some maces, instead of the spiked ball heads. Regardless of the head type, flails are usually a pretty good thing for both horsemen and footmen. The horsemen can build up momentum, thus hitting with much more power. Footmen on the other hand have a great time curling the flail heads around and over shields.

Anne Bonny was probably the most famous female pirate in history. Her famous words to fellow pirate Jack Rackham (who hid in a hold on his ship when his ship was boarded) immediately before he was hanged as a pirate? "I'm sorry to see you here, Jack, but if you had fought like a man you needn't hang like a dog". Strongblade has plenty of pirate swords, pirate flintlocks, and pirate accessories. So pick some up and fight like a man (or woman).

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