Oh damn. I came here to answer this too, but was definitely not expecting someone else already to have said it.
I do HEMA, which has a healthy overlap with the SCA, but from what I’ve heard, the SCA has a pretty rigid structure and hierarchy with ranks and titles. I’ve heard about people winning bouts in SCA fencing against someone who is supposedly ranked higher than them, and getting shunned because of it. That’s not healthy.
Oh damn. I came here to answer this too, but was definitely not expecting someone else already to have said it.
I do HEMA, which has a healthy overlap with the SCA, but from what I’ve heard, the SCA has a pretty rigid structure and hierarchy with ranks and titles. I’ve heard about people winning bouts in SCA fencing against someone who is supposedly ranked higher than them, and getting shunned because of it. That’s not healthy.