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Are any of those three manuals in English yet? Between those three authors, there are about a dozen manuals (I think eight for Pacheco, two for Ettenhard, and two for Rada). To the best of my knowledge, the only verdadera destreza manuals (mostly just partly rather than all) that have been translat...

I imagine much of their verbosity comes from talking at length about fencing theory and philosophy. Am I right? I know many of the later Bolognese masters do that. The earlier masters in the Bolognese tradition (and all the German masters) focus much more closely on the actual techniques and tactic...

SNIP There's only one two-handed swordsmanship system that I've really dabbled with -- Figueyredo's montante -- and it's quite different from my background in the Liechtenauer longsword style, but I lack the experience to tell exactly how much of this was due to the difference in weapons and how mu...

Thanks Steve! Do you happen to know if there are any surviving examples of imbracciature out there? The use of the imbracciatura in Marozzo seems similar to that of the rotella, except that it covers the legs, but the lower part can also be used against you. You can grab or pommel hook the top of h...

Thank you! I understand now completely how the florysh works. I gave it a go yesterday and I'm doing half decent with it. I just have a difficult time combining Fendente's fluidly. I'm fine with Volanti, Fendenti, and thrusts (couldn't find the Italian term for thrusts) but when it comes to those d...

Thibault has a whole section on countering sword and round shield with single sword (rapier). Marozzo has some short sections on sword and imbracciatura, a kite-like shield, both sword and shield against sword and shield, and sword and shield against polearms. http://wiktenauer.com/images/thumb/9/9...

There is very little written about two weapons at once aside from sword and dagger, sword and shield. Thus we can’t give you much from history about it, did it happen, yes. As to actually using a weapon in each hand, the shorter they are the easier they are to use. It’s common to see two machetes. ...

Hi Ray, you probably are not interested in my opinion about it, since it can be kind of biased;) SNIP Do you know of any Manuals that are older? On JdP no, but we have descriptions of JdP from the 1700s. They are in Portuguese. Professor Rui Simoes' dissertation has this material. AFAIK, JdP in the...

As you know,there is a very important techniques of longsword is half swording,grabing the blade as a shot spike of long war hammer. But I have never seen any one use this techniques on arming sword,side sword,rapier and any other single handed sword?Why???? Am I wrong? :roll: There are a whole ser...

Hi Steve! Well, I can't definitely say this. That is why I said I "believe". :) I am looking at many different sources right now, including Alfieri, diGrassi, Mair and more in depth with Joachim Meyer's staff and Jogo do Pau. I have a strong suspicion that there are things that connect al...

I can't really speak for Grand Baton, but I do believe that it is the case with Portuguese JdP, so it wouldn't surprise me. However, I also believe that JdP at some stage stepped away from being closely tied to sword training to stand in its own right as proper staff fighting. How this process happ...

There is a chapter in Marozzo's work that describes fighting with two rapiers. Di Grassi also includes a chapter on such fighting, and both of these masters did recommend studying this method as it required a high degree of skill. However, I have a theory as to why sword & dagger was preferred ...

Does anyone know where I could find the book Mars His Field which shows Targeteer drill? Dutch or English either version. It is one of the Early English Book series, I got mine as a blow back from a microfilm, let me check around. Steve Jared Kirby has it http://www.jaredkirby.com/Int17thcent.htm

fred scholpp wrote:Does anyone know where I could find the book Mars His Field which shows Targeteer drill?

Dutch or English either version.

It is one of the Early English Book series, I got mine as a blow back from a microfilm, let me check around.
Steve

[quote="Frederico Martins"]Hi Sal, the spinning and jumping ....quote] And...and...we have jumping with a montante against polearms and multiple opponents in de Figueiredo's Memorial -- it also allows you to change direction or make a very large advance without losing some lateral control ...