Welcome, Jean-Loup,

I regret to mention that Classical Fencing concentrates on 19th-early 20th
century fencing and we seldom discus the rapier. I have no alternatives,
though. [Rapier-L] (RAPIER-L@...) used to have distinquished
contributors, including respected American and Italian maiters and maestros, but
there have been barely a dozen posts in the last year.

I walk quietly about it here (where I just claim to be one of the last and worst
students of Russell Wieder) but I am a SCA rapier fighter in Dallas,Texas (or
was when my health let me). There was a privately printed translation of St.
Didier floating around, but I can't seem to find my copy. 16th century French
has, I think, changed less than English but I sure a native could bring much to
the translation.

Original Thibaults are rare, reportedly beautiful, and inevitably expensive.
They might have one at Kelvin Grove near Glasgow. But there is a new English
translation, professionally done at http://www.chivalrybookshelf.com/

Bob Lyle



----- Original Message ----
From: Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith <ulf@...>
To: classicalfencing@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:07:02 AM
Subject: [CFML] [intro] Hello from Edinburgh, Scotland

Hello,

Quick introduction post. I'm Jean-Loup, originally from Normandy, France
but now settled in Edinburgh Scotland.

I've been doing historical fencing since January 2003, initially with
the Society for Creative Anachronisms but now primarily with the Dawn
Duellists Society in Edinburgh (though I do still play with the sca
since I have many friends in there still).

I don't consider myself particularily proficient but I am certainly very
keen to continuously improve my skills with the blade. I would like to
specialise in French style in the long term. I have started my own
translation of Henri de St Didier and was pleased to discover a period
French translation of Giganti recently. If I could afford an original
copy of Thibault, I'd get that too but you can only do one thing at a
time. For the moment, I'm quite happy to stick with the principles of
basic Italian Rapier :)

I'm quite pleased to have found this list, I've been looking for a
non-sca rapier-specific list for a while so I hope I can bring something
constructive to this group.

Cheers

-Jean-Loup



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