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Dear All, Following Mr. Clement`s article and the praise given its content by various group members, I am now somewhat confused by the sudden ideas that appear to rail completely against the articles main argument. It suggests that "It immensely foolish for anyone now to claim to be "maste...

Absolutely!

Those words still hold True.

Mr. Dexter, Regarding weight per shield, this is something I have not yet measured. I did make the maces, very easily from two faces cut from ply of the basic mace profile and then slotted and nailed together, one face slotted halfway from the bottom up and the other from the top down. This makes a ...

Hi Brian, Well, it is first neccessary to look at all existing treatise references to these lost weapons, as none survive today (that we might know of at least). The techniques and force of actions lend us the best working knowledge from which to construct them, as you don`t want them too light or h...

Gentlemen, This is one specific area in WMA I have spent a bit of time on with research and practice and am happy to offer some input. I made my first pair of Mk.1 duelling shields in 1998/9 for the purposes of practical research and use and they saw plenty of it. They served well over years but now...

Mr. Eging, My apologies for then assuming that your inferrence was dirrected at myself. There having been so many allegations, accusations and inferrences cast here towards myself and others along these lines, it was difficult to determine if your words may have been otherwise. My thanks for your ci...

Mr. Eging, I choose to respond to your own last post as it refers to myself personally, and erroneously, to which I simply wish to redress. I do not hold a sport fencing Maestro ranking. I am not a sports fencer. I work as a professional swordmaker and fencing master and consequently, shed blood, sw...

Dear All, It gives me no pleasure or satisfaction to keep answering to blinkered accusations by men who do not know me. Several times, my own sense of judgement and personal accountability has been called into question here. Suggestions that I have simply followed Mo. Sinclair blindly, on good faith...

Dear All, Once again, words are being taken at face value without the individuals accused or full facts even being Truly known, and as such, new aspersions are cast and characters darkened without a second thought. How many here have actually met, listened to, trained with and really known Maestro S...

Dear All, The mark of a learned human, above all animals, is as a free-thinking individual. Those that exhibit more animalistic tendencies act no differently from one another, and to be honest, I have faced and taken as much as is tolerable from this pack on this forum. Mr. Uribe has become more and...

Mr. Nankivell, The Art of fencing is, I would suggest, a broad (and also very deep) field but a very specific Art. A Japanese master would have a similar qualification, but not the same, as Worldwide, all Arts are subject to differences in geographical expression, and specific expressions can be stu...

Mr. Uribe, I have several times here stated quite specifically and clearly as to the subject of my qualification. That is - Fencing, the Art of. Not singlestick. Singlestick tuition (in the form of military sabre) was simply one example of receiving a real living tradition of weapon skills and form ...

Gentlemen, Now we are becoming embroiled in matters of semantics. Both regarding what the word Master means (again...., and to which I have clarified earlier in this thread) and to what Living Lineage means. Maestri Martinez and Sinclair I know can rightly claim a tradition of tuitional knowledge fr...

Mr. Clements, I can only agree with your every word and sentiment of your last post. I have never once claimed or pretended to be anything that you refer to, and stand in full agreement to your views regarding false and erroneous claims to `mastery`, ability or qualification in the Art. Yours Very T...

Mr. Nankivell et All, Gentlemen, I feel as though my engagement in this thread has lost its spirited appeal as I now find myself simply obliged to repeat myself time and again. The answers to all questions now posed I have already presented, and my working time and day might be better employed in pr...