Many thanks and Dear friends,
A review of the book "Persian Archery and Swordsmanship: Historical Martial Arts of Iran" by Mr. Antony Cummins from Historical Ninjutsu Research Centre:
Dear friends,
I hope this OK that I am posting it here.
I just wanted to mention that my new book Persian Archery and Swordsmanship: Historical Martial Arts of Iran has been published.
تشكر قداى خرسانى Thanks for the information on Persian martial arts and the link to the book, very interesting and I will probably be looking around for a copy of it. It would be great some time to have a free-play ...
Last week end, we had our photo shooting session of throws and locks as described in Persian swordsmanship manuscripts. Many throws were new to me especially locks with the belt of the opponent and/in combination with one own's belt. Being experienced in wrestling and ground fighting, many of these ...
Hi Stacy, most manuscripts are from Safavid period, but lots of bits and pieces from earlier times as well. One can see a consistency of techniques similar to the Japanese swordsmanship. But Safavid makes up a major part of it. I hope this is Ok that I am posting this here . Many thanks you are righ...
It is hard to say. I hope by the end of this year. I have annotated and translated 4 original manuscripts in it in addition to many bits and pieces from other ones. This will be a big book like the former ones I published and hence very cost and time intensive. But I really hope this will be possibl...
Many thanks Andrew for your interest. Kyle thanks. The Saracens facing the crusaders were of Turkish and Arab background. My field is Persian/Iranian. But surely there are similarities. I would say there are more similarity to northern styles of India by standing upright but with many traps and a ve...
Dear gentlemen, I am happy to be hear and actually I have very limited time to post on the internet but when I came across this post, I was really happy to read that there is a wide interest in this field: I thought you might be interested in the folliwng: Swordsmansship and historical weapons arts ...
