Global:Introduction to SCA martial activities - Handbooks - General

General

1. Each martial activity has a set of rules which must comply with the Society Marshal's Handbooks and the SCA Governing Documents (relevant to and operating under local state and country laws).
   1. The Society Marshal's Handbooks define the SCA minimum requirements and standards for participants, marshals, administrators, including allowed activities, conventions, weapons, armor, equipment, and authorizations.
   2. Kingdoms can define additional requirements, standards, conventions, marshals, or types of authorization (such as weapons forms) if they decide those are necessary. However, they cannot reduce or disregard the requirements and standards delineated in the Society handbooks without a variance from the Society Marshal and approved by the Board of SCA Inc. (Corpora IX.A.2)
2. These handbooks are laid out in the following order of information relevant to:
   • Participants - How to participate, types of activities and their requirements, conventions (competition guidelines), equipment standards, authorizations, accessibility
   • Participants & marshals - Authorizations, and other safety related information (heat, concussions) and procedures (injuries, misconduct).
   • Marshals - Requirements, types of marshals, roles and responsibilities/chain of command, how to do inspections and marshaling. Marshals ensure participants and equipment comply with SCA rules, conventions and established standards.
   • Administration - Reporting, insurance, inter-kingdom events, and experimental programs.
3. These rules are subject to change or clarifications.
   1. The official versions of the Society Marshal's Handbooks can be found at https://www.sca.org/resources/document-library/#marshal.
   2. Kingdom-specific rules are denoted by the kingdom's name and shading (online format) or with blue text (PDF).
   3. Additional kingdom-specific information can be found on each kingdom's website.