Did a school demo on Tuesday, the first ever for the Warhorse Guild! Gordon gave a talk on knights & armor, as the kids are doing their Medieval section right now, I guess. We armored Gordon up, then he kept talking while I rode back and forth behind him tapping the quintain on Gryphon. It being western Washington, the rain came on schedule and we cut things short, but the kids were about at the
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October 28, 2005
Gordon has illustrated to me that without good training and a quick sergeant with a truncheon, a foot soldier would follow his primal monkey instinct and climb a tree where scary horseman are loath to go. He has forgotten more history than I will ever know, has the coolest toys ever made by the hand of man prior to the 1700s, and is not as lazy as I thought cavalry would be.
