Oookay, I'm not feeling terribly welcome here. I think I'll just go off and
leave you alone.

Sorry to have bothered you all... :(

Regards

-Jean-Loup

On Thursday 14 December 2006 22:02, you wrote:
> You may want to checkout swordforum.com for discussions on
> Rapier. I would say it is a very popular sword related forum with good
> posts and traffic. There is a "search" functionality that can be used
> to search for previous answers to a subject of interest. Last but not least
> there is a sub-forum called "Historical European Swordmanship"
> in swordforum.com where Rapier, Longsword and other forms of Historical
> European Swordmanship are regularly discussed.
>
> Best Regards,
> Sam
>
> --- Bob Lyle <blyle@...> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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