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Kirjoittaja sape » Perjantai, 13.04.2007 09:37
If i have understood it right, on other countries boffering and larping quite much go more hand in hand than in finland where they are more separetad things. If you simplify a bit one could say that larp is improvisaton acting with partly premade plot, and boffering on the other hand is just having fun with friends bashing them, kinda like boxing, but with soft weapons and lots of variety on fighting styles. Also the attitude off "pure" larpers and boffers arent always very good towards the other thing, as one of my larping friend said "boffering is just mindless whacking that ppl take too seriously" and what i have heard from boffers is a bit like "seriously, who goes to some wood pretending to be gandalf and throwing tennis balls as fireballs". These were of cource generalisations, but the basic mindset of average larper and boffer is quite different here, at least in my opinion. I myself have never larped, but i can understand them, it just isnt my thing as imagining some short girl as 3m high demon just wont cut it, if i want fantasy i do tabletop rpg:s and if i want whack people with swords i go boffing, also im not very interested in historical things, so larping a life off medieval citizen would be a bit boring in my opinion.
Anyway, its awesome that you estonian guys come to finland and i wish you will enjoy your time here, i hope that my point on the text wa somewhat understandable.
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I just realized this thread was about estonian weapon standards, not how they combine larp and boffering... got a bit carried away ;D. I think here in finland we think latex more of a larpers weapon, and boffer for things more centered for fighting, because at least in here, latex weapons are quite heavy, dont have good thrusting tip, they are too unstable, and also cost a lot and tend to break easily, also boffers offer a bettet "touch" on different kind of weapons, or at least we are more used to them Rolling Eyes . And also most larpers think boffers are quite damn ugly.
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