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OK, Allen, you won :wink: You are especially got me on the second point. Since anything it is, most probably not a historic European martial art - which was the question I visited these forums to find answer for - there no more point of talking about it here, and we can close this topic. Anyways, if...

Hi Gene, What I know about the Hungarian szablya - by the way, it is pronounced like "sab-yah" - I learnt from a teacher at my university. (I studied Literature, but I got to know a lot of History-department teachers and students.) This man is called Csaba Hidán, and he is an experimental ...

Dear Allen, I'm afraid you misunderstood my point. 1. I found a kind of dual dagger style in a fantasy video game and I wondered if it ever existed in the real world. 2. Since ARMAists doubt the existence of such style (and I trust their opinion, since it is based on both real experience and the afo...

Good morning, folks, and thanks for all your replies. From what you say, it seems evident that whoever tried to fight with a dagger in his main hand votes for leaving the off-hand empty - and also, that no historical tradition exists for using dual daggers. By the way, I've written an e-mail for the...

I agree that a free hand may be more practical than another dagger. However, I'd like to point out that the simple fact that a style haven't evolved doesn't prove it's ineffectiveness. For example, I had to learn the hard way that dual wielded light sabers (of course, not the Western heavy cavalry s...

Hello ARMAists, I've just found your forums looking for an answer for a question that interests me. As for me, I'm a Hungarian game developer who is also interested in historical martial arts (although generally I rather dig Eastern Nomadic saber fighting than Western styles based on straight-bladed...