Keith Culbertson wrote:hmmm, I like the idea of considering a rapier a kind of one-handed spear, although there is no rapier material for half-swording like a short staff/spear can be used...is there?
The last plate in Fabris' manual shows how to fight against a pole arm with a rapier by half-swording.
Bill, Let's just say you're right about all those things you have said for the sake of the argument. I only have one question. Do you in all honesty believe that the person you, for lack of better words, had fun with has a minimally adequate level of skill in the longsword that he can represent the ...
- chinese adapted their weapon to counter katanas after a long period of viking-like japanese raids on their shores. I'm not convinced by that, since the idea seems to rest on the naive assumption that clashes between Chinese garrisons and Japanese pirates entirely revolved around sword-to-sword fi...
I do think it odd that the katana is characterised as the shorter blade in the discourse when certainly, shorter-bladed longswords with blades of comparable length were in use beside longer-bladed longswords. In fact, there were much longer versions of the curved Japanese sword too. There certainly...
Now all this being said I fully understand and agree with problems put forth by ARMA members, however rather than the "It's too hard, or too expensive, or too dangerous" attitude, I think we should be looking for ways around these problem to creat a Competition that test REAL swordsmanshi...
Now all this being said I fully understand and agree with problems put forth by ARMA members, however rather than the "It's too hard, or too expensive, or too dangerous" attitude, I think we should be looking for ways around these problem to creat a Competition that test REAL swordsmanshi...
