There is a lot out there if you know where too look. Remember the IDEA of old guard was the mentoring and passing of tradition of safety and knowledge. Such as do not break your toys to such degree irreparable status. I have not heard that since I was young mind you I am only 28 so it was through the stories of my Mistress. The old way was to be a bottom for a length of time. Such as a slave for 5 years was the minimum, so as to be taught how to be a Master. Upon receiving your Stripes you were given the token of Masterhood/Mistresshood, mine such a knotted flogger. Until recently I thought the old ways were still practiced. Such if you were a horrible Master the society could remove your status.


Here are some links on the information you seek. Also I am Old Guard Tradition so any question, just ask. Remember one thing. Old Guard makes there own rules of how the relationship goes as long as they are within the guidelines and codes.


http://www.iron-rose.com/vijohnson/docs/blic1197.htm
This person is kinda giving up.

http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/thecastle/resume.html
This person is spot on in most of the old ways except for this:
Secrecy was the price to pay for the knowledge, and forged in the Steel Rite was the honored Silence vow.
Thus being a hypocrite for speaking the knowledge and allowing contact for more info and that line together. The Rites are correct. But his incestuous views are also crap not to mention his math.

http://www.leatherviews.com/kinkyinfo/9930.htm
As I like this man's writings there is one thing he misses. The 'Old Guard' is a state of mind and moral code. Much more than that it is tradition representation. The old guard is a figment to keep stict safety and moral code law.

http://www.iron-rose.com/IR/docs/olddays.htm
A final subpoint to the above is that any "Old Guard" which existed at the time did not widely see itself as such. Instead, they were more like, as the song lyric goes "just a bunch of people, doin' the best they could."

So to close and recap I know that the Old Guard is one thing.

Tradition.