From a trad. fencer's standpoint... The problem that I've seen with most people trying to do a block/counter (or what I'd call a parry-riposte)...
I like tournaments where disarms are allowed by leverage, but not allowed by grasping and wrestling with the weapon. Basically, if the disarm can...
Very true, you'll want to do something like pilates to make up for it. I think the most common injuries for beginners are in the lead ankle,...
Ran, Sorry, I don't want to have thin skin either. I guess we both know how much we all care about these things. Let me know if you're coming...
Sorry, been away for a few days. Just about all of these questions have already been talked about to death elsewhere, often leading to locked...
You can divide WMA between HES and LT. Since WMA covers everything from Roman combat to modern gun-fu, some are made up, some are re-created and...
Rohdes was also a ballet teacher as well as a fencing master and toured Europe, working with different fencing masters. In addition to Cabijos,...
Silver threads 2 good discussion threads on Silver http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54016...
Zenith is a matter of opinion. Were the 19th c. rapier and dagger duels in New Orleans or Mexico any less lethal than the 17th c. ones? People...
George Silver. Silver disliked rapier for a number of reasons. It can't be used for battle, to defend one's country. It's only good for young...
Right now, most of the treatises I'm looking at are 19th or 20th century - cane, knife, rapier and dagger. I don't do much longsword, most of my...
Matt, We can go back one more generation than that to M. Cabijos who came to America in 1922 and that's where the rapier and dagger comes from....
Well since you brought up the Sword Forum thread, why not just go back and read it? I'll print the final post from that thread, but Ran - you...
Well that's the entire point of a living tradition. Same thing with any traditional Asian style. On top of the living trad. we ALSO have the...
It depends on the Art involved. I study dueling sword, dueling sabre, smallsword, rapier, sidesword, and unarmored longsword as living tradition...
Separate names with a comma.
