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Hey Will:

My son and I are looking into the calendar that weekend to see if we can make the road trip. Will send you an email.

Mike

"I would also like to add something to the point about students having a "lack of real-life combat experience using these techniques." "Unfortunately, several of my students have in the past found themselves in undesirable live situations, facing sharp weapons where they have ha...

Thanks, David. Puts a lot into perspective!

Just a quick thought, with Lance's Realistic sparring weapons, we padded both the pommel and the crossguards with foam padding and duct tape. A good idea regardless of the model.

Mike

Sean, thanks for the examples and clarity. I was impressed by the rigor of your work, as others noted as well.

I guess what I got out of your note was the difference between lineage and working knowledge of a combat system. Very enlightening and helpful.

Mike

Mr. Eging, I choose to respond to your own last post as it refers to myself personally, and erroneously, to which I simply wish to redress. I do not hold a sport fencing Maestro ranking. I am not a sports fencer. I work as a professional swordmaker and fencing master and consequently, shed blood, s...

Yes, sometimes people have strong opinions. I think it is okay to hold strong opinions. When we put titles and other things out in the open, then it is going to be part of the debate and dialogue. As to the blanket statement of, well, if we shouldn't use maestro or master, then ARMA shouldn't use th...

Mr. Lupo and Mr. MacDonald, I think clarity is really the issue here. Tough questions, yes. But when the answers focus on circular rhetoric and metaphysical allusions, we have difficulty seeing clearly. Maybe what we see more clearly is your view of the world and it seems fuzzy to us. 8) I had quest...

I have just done a quick look at the sites you linked to Mr. Sinclair. Thank you for the links. Since I can't read Italian and the sites have limited English, I do have a question for something I saw on the pages that struck me. In the pictures pages, I saw people working out with what looked like a...

Please permit me to make clarity on the subject of masters or maestri, modern fencing and the gentleman from whom Mc Donald received his title. In Europe, is possible to earn the title maestro in modern fencing. This is through officially-accredited entities like the FFE in France or the Accademia ...

I had an very interesting visit at Luigi Marzoli museum of arms last friday. I took the brescia spadona’s original out of the “reliquary” and started to analyze it, spending the whole day with my group over this wonderful sword, called “stocco” o "spada da stocco" by the “armaioli” armour...

I, for one, have found the underlying issues to be very interesting and an area that I do not have much knowledge and had hoped to learn more.



Mike

Jaron, you put it into perspective. Perishability of skill is a terrific vantage point to view this from. We are recreating a 400 year removed tradition. Mastery of this is just not possible without all the real world factors of the 15th or 16th century in which the Art was put to use. As one who ca...

I have been absent for a while, due in part to work, vacation and pc problems. Such is the way of things. However, I find much discussion and much of it personal, refering to people as liars, without just cause, belittling people, savage comments. All of this is unwarrented and saddening. Having re...

Excellent. I have really wanted more Talhoffer for some time and this is a terrific resource. Thanks Jeff and all involved.

Mike