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I've know that horses won't charge what they perceive to be a solid object so how did people in the middle ages and in ancient times remedy that so that they could make a good charge? :) can anyone tell me anything? if so please go into detail and use valid reliable sources please :) Thanks :) I re...

Did they use unarmed martial arts? :) I'm not aware of any specific to Poland unarmed martial art, but as long as one assumes that disarms are an important part of any swordsman training, they surely trained for that. Those guys used to be notorious bruisers, and duelling was very common those days...

One last comment and I'm done, I promise. This link: http://www.thearma.org/essays/Quality&Build.pdf was supposed to show, that one is able to start a blow with arms and do it coherently anyway. Well, IMO it doesn't. The actual Zorn happens between frames second and third. First frame is a build...

You step because to remain in the true place for any length of time is very dangerous. Silver is adamant that you stay out of the true place until you are ready to attack because to remain there does not simply invite an attack against you, but ensures its success. So the problem is, how to get to ...

Why? Both terms describe a very related phenomenon. If one is in "true place" one is able to perform an action with reasonable chances of success; be it an attack or defense, no matter. Perhaps you could consider making the distinction Perhaps I wouldn't. "True time" and "t...

The concept of the true times is a universal that applies to all combat with all weapons and also applies in striking based unarmed combat, like chuanfa, karate and boxing. That's also how I understand it. I have seen it used in all these contexts with great success over those who do not use it. In...

In one sense "true place" means simply a distance, but I believe that the meaning of this term is a bit more universal. It is imprecise to argue the term "true place" has some universal meaning (apart from the singular one we generally assign it: the name for the optimal distanc...

No, I am afraid it isn't. You actually wrote: True place regards both offence and defence. You are in true place if you are able to perform an action in time. The action can be offence or defence, so one doesn't have to be within reach of an opponent to be in true place. But with this little commen...

IMO the real point is about that a dagger makes a lousy shield. Some guys obviously insisted that they can defend themselves sufficiently with just a dagger and it irked Silver enough to make a paragraph about how wrong they were. There is a certain amount of sense to this argument. To me Silver in...

AR: You are making absolutely no sense. You clearly implied that the video showed movement opposite of sequence that Silver advocates Because it does. The real strike was from Vom Tag position. All hand movement could have started from Vom Tag, or from Ochs, or from Plough, or Alber or a tail guard...

"True place" here in part means the spot you need to put your defense to set aside the blow or thrust. It does not refer to "true place" as it relates to distance between you and your adversary. That's exactly what I wrote. The two concepts are separate and should not be confuse...

Andrzej, your weapon or your buckler are not in the true place. Oh, my. "For distance being broken, judgement fails, for lack of time to judge, and the eye is deceived by the swift motion of the hand, and for lack of true space with the dagger hand , which cannot be otherwise, for lack of circ...

Please view the actual video . Our fellow Casper, starting in ward of Ochs with his longsword, I've seen this video before, but I checked it again now. He does start with different position than the one from which he delivers his final strike, but it actually supports my point. He has time enough t...

Ok I'm no expert on Silver, IMO what he is saying about the time's in this instance is just an illustrative point, the hand is the fastest mover it also has more distance to travel, so when we strike we should push with the feet and start the hand's moving and then the step will occur, the time of ...

Andrzej, Silver is quite explicit that the "true place" is the spot from which you can hit your adversary He's quite explicit, that your buckler can be in or out of true place, or that a dagger can't be in true place to defend both a blow and a thrust, because it lacks weight and circumfe...