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I have to ask, if they did not wear their Armor how did it get to the field of Battle?

Tim

Stacy, "It's not that the Art is evolving (it hasn't been fully resurrected yet and has no environment to shape it), but our understanding of the Art is evolving. I'm one of those old timers (10 years now) Sal mentioned and we definitely see and understand things differently now than we did bac...

This thread is quite interesting,

James, Your translation; "And thus Lichtnawer means with the word “After”, as one who has done the Before-strike, you should contact with the hands beneath to do the same with the After-strike. And shall come-around in action and in rolling it and come-around after with other drives to meet off...

As interesting as the Paridox is, we have to face the fact that it is being resurected and practiced and thus is once again alive, if only in the infant stages, it still lives. The interesting thought is where will it go from this point.

I agree that there is not much mention of "Feeling" aside from the tactile useage of the term. The point in which I come to the understanding of the term, and I must highlight here that this is simply my own personal view, is as follows. Having read the translation of Hanko Dobringer's Cod...

The term "Feeling" seems to me to be more than simply what occures in the bind. It seems to me that this can be applied to the over all as well as the bind, given that the art of feeling is to judge the intention of your opponent through the pressure he is applying. I see this in both the ...

We have Sal,

It makes me glad to see that there is evolution in the Art taking place after all the is a name for things which do not evolve.......extinct.


I look forward to eventually seeing this for my self.

Tim

I don't think any of us will ever be more than simple students of this art and the more we work together to learn it the better students we will all become.

Just my thoughts on it.

Tim

I am chomping at the bit to hear more of this, I have been working, albet solo, on the Holistic approach to the art for the last 5 years and I am convinced that if John, given his vastly superior knowledge to my own, is looking at similar things it will definately add to the Art in ways that at this...

Ok, let me give it a shot, what is the difference between the old way of looking at the art and the New.

I have my own theories but I have alread forwarded them in short to John.

Tim

" I note with interest the epiphany of Mr. Clements regarding his holistic insight into the practice of Historical Fencing. I wonder whether anyone could elaborate beyond what has already been mentioned in his articles?"

I second this thought.

Tim

If my memory serves me correctly Talhoffer's Fechtbuch has plates depicting women fighting men, though the man is standing in a whole.

Tim

I have been wondering while reading this thread, is it better to learn the movements in a slow and controlled manner focusing on form or to learn at speed and then perfect the form through practice?

Tim