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Hi :) Due to approved consensus almost all of the groups doing Fiore are basically doing little beyond what Bob Charron was doing back in 2002! To get to his current understandings of Medieval and Renaissance martial arts the first interpretations John had to challenge was 20+ years of his own work!...

Hello, Just a Quick note - there is no such thing as a better or worse martial art. Every art had it's own intention, it's own cultural environment and a different need for being brought to life. What sense does it make to compare any martial art to another? There are arts which are meant to fight w...

Hi, will there be any response to Ilkkas critic over fiore or my two cents about "the Döbringer" or are you going to produce some more posts about how great ARMA is? I can tell you, I met a number of great people from Dreynschlag, Hammaborg, Ochs, De Taile D'estoc, Boar's Tooth, Schola Gla...

Hello Brandon, I misjudjed you, my wrong. Didn't notice you are one of the authors and that you are not in ARMA any more. Hello Szabolcs. I assume you're addressing me? You seem to be, but you're a little hard to follow at times. Yeah, sorry man. I guess I make less mistakes in Hungarian ;) I'm not ...

One of the things I admire about Mr. Clements is that he has been doing this work longer that just about anyone else and that his "stubbornness" is a result of seeing too much faulty work out there. First, "Seeing faulty work" is equal to "I know it better, no matter what&q...

Hi, I am a co-author of the book, I did the translation/interpolation of Hundsfeldt. As for criticism, most of the things I don't like about this book can be said about most of the books of this topic. I haven't read all publications available in the market; but what I've seen so far seems to be equ...

Hi :( i have never seen meyer accept a double hit, Mate, I was talking about tournament rules. meyer is self defense BTW and even more than that Meyer was chosen above many other fight masters to write possibly the most important HEMA manual ever, his book was essentially at the forefront of the fir...

Hello Folks. "I'm surprised this thread is still going and rather shocked some people would even consider Mr.Knight's arguments on an academic level. " Be not. Like I said, it's basic ethics. Mourn the day when you do not consider anything outside your group anymore as something that can h...

Hi Folks, This is beginning to be interesting ;) Szabo: Ummmmmmm.......are not those skills "closely related" to fencing? I prefer Szabolcs or Szab, Szabo means Taylor and is rather funny as a name ;) But yes, I mean no, I don't think that those skills are closely related to fencing . They...

OK, I am curious now. Explain this part about how the Dobringer book may have had another author. :?: With pleasure. ;) First and foremost, the one guy who actually introduced this book as being written by Hanko Döbringer was Martin WIERSCHIN, in his book „Meister Johann Lichtenauers Kunst des Fech...

Hi Gene, I see your point and if that's what he claims to be on his homepage, you are surely right about being mad at him. I don't have the time to check out his homepage, maybe I will later. Strange situation, then. I mean, he can be wrong in any way, and he may be the greatest lunatic of them all,...

Hi all, Long time no see ;) I did check out that one article. And since I don't do any sword+buckler, I can only really write about my opinions about the longsword stuff. Here I find some disturbing opinions of yours. In some cases, where it fits our goals, we use the fact, that if to something ther...

Now you are getting ugly. You do not do any better than those guys flaming forums. You should consider carefully. Knights were slaugheting peasants as well. And how can U talk about a different martial art like this? Do you know it? Well I do. I was involved in Iaidó for 4 years 5 years ago. And I k...

Well, you do not need to convice everybody.... and you actually can not. All you can do is use the right words, be nice, and maybe at some stage, when he is tired of all those martial arts cults, when he has heard a thosand times how great the über-master of the art he is studying is / was, how he k...

You should always keep in mind than we people are all the same: a writer in the Medieval times can be just as wrong with his statements than is any writer today. My answer is, that it is legitim. It could work. What I don't understand is, why one would do that, for there are much better tactics in m...