Pirates!

[Heedless Horseman]

H with it ! Let's be Pirates!
Damn good intro... even if you don't like Pirates... and a pretty good TV series. 'Black Sails'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTcA4QLHw0

[fsn]

Pirates 1940

Pirates 1950

Pirates 1995

Pirates 2003

Pirates 2023?

[d_Guy]

This is a thread I can get behind.
Thanks for all the vids.

[Raider4]

Pirate films are odd things.

Cutthroat Island is terrible, despite the presence of Geena Davis. All of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels are terrible. There's an early 80's one with lots of Python influences called Yellowbeard which is terrible.

The original PotC is the only recent one I can think of that's even remotely watchable.

[steve_holmes_11]

Pirates eh!

I've re-purposed Pendraken's PRT2 Pirates / Slave Revolters as VoC (Dutch East India Company) below decks types.
Useful support for the frontline officers, enlisted soldiers and ships gunners.

My Frostgrave band is led by Cap'n Horatio Broadsides (Right, with bodyguard).


Currently in Bridge Miniatures range.

[T13A]

Hi

Pirates Traning Day:

Cheers Paul

[Ithoriel]

I actually used that clip as the intro to an IT training day when I worked in libraries

[Heedless Horseman]

'Pirates' in school. LONG time ago, but remember Gym set up for 'Pirates!' Wall bars set out, Beams, Horses, etc. I was not strong enough for ropes. There was a post on, think Facebook... and many hated it. It was MY favourite PE!

[Heedless Horseman]

LOL. PE sometimes was 'Murderball'! Another fave! 'Played' with V heavy Medecine ball. Don't really remember much. One of those 'games' akin to Colditz Stoolball or Rollerball without skates! Great Fun!
I Hated normal PE!

[Gwydion]

Pirates! half term and end of term treat, I'd forgotten about that.
You're right  - best PE lessons...apart from maybe...
British Bulldog.
Insane and so liberating. Great practice for rugby.
As was murderball, but a massive rolling maul got boring after a while, too much wrestling not enough 'kinetic' action!
Worst PE - circuit training for Sevens. Frequent throwing up after third circuit.

[Ithoriel]

Only PE activity I enjoyed was fencing.

I remember vividly walking through the school gates on my last day thinking,"I never HAVE to do PE again!"

[FierceKitty]

You had fencing at school?! 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

We did - razor wire, to keep us in!

[fsn]

Only PE activity I enjoyed was fencing.

I was very lucky and had a maths teacher who was a keen fencer, so we did fencing. Our school was near a riding school, so we went riding, and over the road was a leisure centre - so we did table tennis, squash, badminton and very rarely ice skating.

We also had a teacher who was a high level hockey player, so we boys had a go at hockey. Our boys team played the girls who obviously had a different ethos and we came out with bruised shins and bruised egos.

Happy days.   

[Ithoriel]

I had the Scottish Ladies Junior Team coach teaching me fencing at school and the Men's Team coach at uni  but, alas, despite that combination of talent to assist, Errol Flynn I was not. Not in fencing terms or romantic ones!

[Heedless Horseman]

British Bulldogs was frequent dinner time activity on the school yard. Fencing and Riding...I have been depraved deprived!

[Ithoriel]

We did a bit of pony trekking in final year at school, on Icelandic ponies named after the dwarves in The Hobbit.

My pony trekking career ended when the instructress turned her pony a little too soon and it's head knocked me half off my pony which bolted dragging me along a barbed wire fence,, lacerating my jacket but thankfully not me, before dropping me in a patch of mud and then standing on my foot as I got up.

[paulr]

You had fencing at school?! 

We had fencing at my High School in New Zealand and I continued part way through University

Got to attend a fencing training camp and a couple of tournaments at the Australian Institue of Sport in Canberra

Also managed to really annoy three of the more experienced fencers who were competing hard for the provincial Master of Arms trophy. They each won one event; Foil, Sabre or Epee but did poorly in the other two. I placed well, but not spectacularly, in all three, scoring enough points to take the title

[T13A]

Hi

I guess I was pretty lucky regarding the school I went to in Fulham from 1966 to early 1970's. We had alternate Friday mornings of 'big games' and 'small games'. Big games were either football or cricket (no choice) for the boys, depending on the season and I think hockey for the girls. 'Small games' were a choice of cricket (indoor nets in the winter), judo, more football, rugby, horse riding, rowing (my school was about 5 minutes walk from where they start the annual Oxford/Cambridge boatrace), tennis. badminton, ice skating, cross country running, athletics, archery and probably several more sports that I have forgotten. You had to 'sign up' for which 'small game' you wanted to do at the start of each term.

We also had a choice of learning French, German. Italian, Spanish or Russian for languages. Not bad for a comprehensive!

Cheers Paul

[Ben Waterhouse]

My state boys grammar school in the midst of a grim Yorkshire pit and mill town in the 1970's did fencing, taught by the the local cavalry regiment KAPE team, 4/7 Dragoon Guards. I ended up on the junior county team, sabre and foil.

The past is a different country...