Whipping

Currently this is not addressed in the V8 Rulebook. There has been an official clarification regarding whipping found here: [Overly Flexible/Breakable Weapons]

Worded as follows:

A reeve or Champion may deem a weapon unsafe for use even though it may meet the technical construction requirements. Some examples of technically legal but unsafe weapons might be weapons with cores so flexible as to risk core failure or other safety issues during reasonable combat, weapons made with overly hard foam, weapons with excessive tape, or weapons with excessive mass.