Youth Armoured Combat:Adult participation

Adult participation

Training

1. 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.
2. If you are an authorised adult fighter and you are not the parent or nominated caregiver of one of the youth participating, you can help with training (but not sparring), as long as a youth armoured combat marshal is present.
3. You can always train your own children.
4. The marshal-in-charge can allow group training activities and exhibitions, with more than one youth and more than one adult.
5. If you are training with youth, you must use weapons for the division of the youth being trained, whether or not sparring occurs.
6. If you are training with youth, you are not required to meet the armour standards of youth armoured combat, but we recommend it.

Sparring

1. Sparring is training where you fight with youth to help them learn new skills and try out things they have learnt.
2. Sparring can also be part of a demonstration, educational, or just for fun and practice.
3. 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.
4. You can always spar with your own children, even if you are not authorised as a youth armoured combat sparring partner.
5. If the youth combatant is not your own child, you can only spar with a youth combatant if you are an authorised youth armoured combatant, youth armoured sparring partner, youth armoured combat marshal, or the nominated caregiver for the child.
6. Sparring with youth is normally conducted as one-on-one combat (one authorised adult sparring partner against one youth).

Competition

1. If you are an adult, you are not allowed to participate as a combatant in youth armoured combat tournaments or group combat.