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Isn't this what the nachreissen is partly about?

I recommend the following combination, personally: Lindholm's Knightly Art of the Longsword as a copy of Ringeck. It has pictures that can show you the broad basics of what the moves should look like. As a companion, pick up In Saint George's Name by Christian Tobler. This is a translation of the 'V...

Just a thing on Alchem, for clarity's sake. They do sell safeflex blades, however not all of their weapons are so fitted. Take the reitschwert rapier: http://www.alcheminc.com/reitschwert.html You can get it fitted with a traditional practice blade or an SCA-approved (yeah, bleh) safeflex blade. Als...

No argument at all on that point. I agree that ultimately you want a better training tool. I'm saving up for an Ensifer, or possibly a Fechterspiel for example. But for now, my Tinker does what I need it to do, and my waster works against my pell. I definitely understand the argument for quality, bu...

Making the appeal to prices alone is fallacious, though. Saying you "can't" expect good training gear at wallhanger prices is an absolute, and absolutes are rarely true in something as subjective as a standard of quality. I got an Atrim Custom longsword for 200 dollars. That's the same pri...

Posting from the Hanwei Tinker side of the equation: It's a good sword. There's more flex in the end of the blade than their is in the Albion Liechtenauer (though I hear the Meyer has about as much flex as the Tinker). It's light and easy to maneuver through drills and plays well in sparring. It has...

To be completely honest, unicorn, hanging, ox, and fiore's window are probably all subtle variations on the same concept of "sword held near your head, point toward your opponent." Anything the text says to do from ochs, I've found I can do from einhorn, for example.

Or the rapier guy would do what I did when I was doing single-sword versus someone with a shield, and give the shield a good stout kick, then stab the man as he scrambles to regain his balance. Shields make people overconfident, and they don't necessarily realize they're as much an impediment in a o...

Depends on what you're going for. I think there are some sidesword manuals that go into one-handed stuff. Fabris might, I'm not sure if he's sword and dagger though. I think most of the early one-hander stuff is pretty sword-and-buckler centric though (I know Ringeck has a section on it, and MS I.33...

Generally when the manuals say messer, they're referring to this: http://www.albion-swords.com/swords/albion/nextgen/sword-grossemesser-soldat.htm A one handed, sometimes hand and a half, fighting knife/short sword. It's in essence a variation on the falchion concept (whether a derivative of or a pa...

Considering that the Albion 'Chieftan' Claymore shape blade falls right into the Type XIIIa category, and you can do more or less all of the Liechtenauer blossfechten with Type XIIa and XIIIa blades, it's a reasonable assumption that something similar to such a technique was probably the norm. There...

That will definitely have to be addressed. Thanks guys!

About the answers I expected, thanks guys! I'm fortunate in that my Judo instructor, who is finding Ringen very interesting to look at the few times I've gone over it with him, has opened up our dojo to my fencing study group. This means we have nice, padded floors to spar on, lights for when it get...

I can see how you'd make that choice. I'm not going to be able to participate in judo tonight (other than the very basic technique drills my coach is setting up for me) because of the injuries my partner gave me.

Thursday night at Judo (I know, I know, bear with me ;)) I had a trio of training accidents all in one evening. Some of it was my own fault, but it did illustrate a situation that I realize I'm going to have to confront as I start up my own study group here where I live. Specifically: 1 - my first t...