Searching for a qoute.

[Bengt Abrahamsson]

Page 36 in Gerry Embleton's book Medieval Military Costume.

"He does not do it for fighting,but to have a deeper breath,and it is a certain thing that one is fitter and more erect and much straighter for it - all these good thing come from fencing."

Does anybody know where this qoute comes from?

Bengt
EHCG Malmö

[David Kite]

That exact quote? No, sorry. But it's a common enough theme in some of the manuals. George Silver says something very similar in Paradoxes when he likens fencing to Divinity (I don't have the quote handy, but it's here on the site). Perhaps Embleton was simply paraphrasing?

David Kite
GFS, ARMA in IN

[Bengt Abrahamsson]

Yes,you could be right.
The text is made up,regarding the reenactor in the pictures being a pupil of a student of Talhoffer.
A bit before George.

[Sean Belair]

if my memory serves me its talhoffer. if he dosn't name the source after the quote than it belongs to the last source he mentioned. i had the same problem yesterday in the same book about a charles the bold quote.

[John_Clements]

If it were Talhoffer I'd very be surprised, and want to see the evidence. It sounds very much like a common 17th century French fencing statement emphasizing the health beneifts of the exercise over its fading practical value.