Hello, The School of Fencing by Domenico Angelo will once again be available in reprint. Maestro Jeannette Acosta-Martinez has added over a hundred annotations...
... Jared, You and the Martinez's did a great job on Capo Ferro's Gran Simulacro, so I am looking quite forward to picking up this as well. -- Patrick Shannon...
Thanks everyone for your feedback on "where to fence". As you may remember I am in a fight with the school district over using school facilities for fencing....
Bill, Have you contacted the USFA (www.usfencing.org)? I'm sure they can point you to such resources since they exist largely to promote (sport) fencing. -- ...
Kim Moser
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Feb 6, 2005 9:56 pm
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Hi Bill, There isn't a whole lot of data out there on fencing injuries. What I knew about, I included in my previous posting on January 30. Here it is ... ...
I know that someone has asked this in the past, but I'm about to purchase and I need an update. Who makes the best rapier blade for use in actual bouting? I'm...
You got you about three choices, the way I sees it: Del Tin practice rapier blade: Diamond-shaped, kinda heavy. Del Tin FISAS rapier blade: Lighter, triangular...
Ken Mondschein
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Feb 8, 2005 4:59 pm
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In Triplett's new "Zen Warrior Armory" catalog, in addition to the schlager and double wide epee blades, they also offer a blade they call the "Triplette...
In watching several SCA rapier fencers lately I have noticed that their fencing doesn’t really look like historical rapier, but more like a modified form of...
Rez, In response to your post... ***The first thing to understand is that no one ever accused to SCA of adhering to a strict policy of "period fencing...
Since there was more than a single rapier type, one would expect that there would be more than one way to defend-the user could presumeably parry more quickly ...
Stephen, Thanks for the reply. ... Some of the blades people are using for rapier fencing, such as epee blades can do foil-like parries much more quickly than...
From what I have seen, SCA fencers, like most active arts, have wide regional variations. Sounds to me like this group has independantly re-invented the...
The Triplette blades are OK, and far better than a schlager—the price is reasonable too, but not quite as 'accurate' as they make them out to be. IMO, the...
... What Stephen said. ... Unfortunately, not a cure-all. A lot of SCA, and others, do use the better simulators, but still don't get it—often causing...
... Swetnam's a bit later, his manual is from about 1620, most of the Italian manuals are a twenty or thirty years earlier. This was a period of great change...
William Black
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Feb 9, 2005 5:55 pm
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IMO, schlager blades are definitely to be avoided when one wants to learn rapier technique. After all, schlagers are designed for one thing and one thing ...
I recently bought this Italian foil on ebay. It's handle is curved in one plane only, so it works equally well for right or left handed people. So far, I...
It looks like a typical Italian foil circa 1970s - 1990s, with a stretched or loose grip. I have one just like it which was bought from American Fencer Supply...
Dear Rez, ... one has to settle for either 35" or 40." Which is it better to ... It's complicated and depends very much on the style you use. A 35" blade is ...
... manuals are a twenty or thirty years earlier. Swetnam is 1617, while the "Classical" Italian treatises of Fabris and Giganti are from 1606, Capo Ferro from...
... In the context of early 17th century Italian rapier, a cavazione is best understood as a change of line in response to an adversary covering a specific...
... Umm, Stephen? Classical Italian foil and epee using a 35" blade do attacks and counterattacks (with opposition) just fine, thanks. Sean Sean Hayes Maestro...
On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, at 08:40 PM, Sean Hayes wrote: In the context of early 17th century Italian rapier, a cavazione is best understood as a change...
Antone Blair
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Feb 10, 2005 4:57 pm
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Hi Sean, Well it's not that simple. 35" is around the critical length that you need to attack with opposition, where your weapon can reach from his forte to...
On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, at 04:14 PM, Stephen Hand wrote: The biggest problem I've seen with commercially available blades is the lack of thickness at...
Antone Blair
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Feb 10, 2005 4:59 pm
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Antone- I don't have the specific reference to hand, but I think it's in paragraph 110 of the main section, where he advises that you must "ride his blade...
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