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I have some military bagpipe music, with drums. That music really makes you want to kill something.

I would say easily Meyer is the best place to start, easy to read ( compared to the rest of them) easy to understand, just plain great. Yea you always here "Its fight school, its play there is no thrusting" Well I think thats about what we do, isn't it, when have you ever fought to the dea...

AlexCSmith wrote:I recommend Samoans.

Yea, but they hate it.

Angus Trim sells some good swords, and are less expensive than Albion. He sells them threw Christian Fletcher.

JC wrote "Yet, in our subject today, I detect certain folk just want very much to see things as "separate" so as to better enable them now to pretend to be a "specialist" or the "expert" on one small aspect (having its own distinct ethno-cultural identity) while ig...

Grab a big handful of groin and pull as far as you can . I bet that is way up there on the list.

Yes, I do not understand why those guys have left such a big gap in their text after so many years. :? Mike said that at the time The Meyer Project was going on and he thought they had a better shot at completing it. Then The Meyer Project fell apart and nobody finished it until Jeffery Forgeng. He...

Martin Surdel wrote:Thanks, but transcription from Freifechter website will do.

It is a good translation, but the Longsword section is incomplete it stops after fighting from longpoint, and then leaves out the next 40 something pages.

But I don't know of one on the net that is complete.

I don't know about that, Meyer is full of grappling and offensive use of the off hand. :D Seems I need to read Meyer properly, not just flip the pages ... :oops: Yes if you can get Jeff Forgeng's translation, it is the complete translation. It contains some information that is not available in Engl...

Hi CGM582 (Leckuchner) advises holding your off hand in front of your chest, if in-fighting is expected or planned. It's in the text (folio 2 recto), but not shown on illustrations. Sorry it took so long to get back to the discussion. In Talhoffer 1467 starting with tafel 223 it clearly shows the o...

Corey Roberts wrote: Just a note cut and thrust swords are not smallswords,

I guess what I meant was really single sword manuals, not really small sword.

Something that just dawned on me the other day while looking thru some fight manuals. I noticed that in most manuals that cover Messer, Saber, and some small sword (cut and thrust) the off hand is held out of the way to (presumably) prevent it being chopped off, But in most Rapier texts it is kept a...

yea, but why would you hold it like that?? Most people would use two hands

I dont see where this discussion is going from an RMA perspective. This discussion seems incredibly off topic.

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