Before ARMA was HACA, and before the internet was big my friends and I did our own attempt at Sword reconstruction. Not having any knowledge of the manuals and fight books, I did the best I could with some saber fencing moves, and some stick techniques from French Canne. Such as the later half of this interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saYFaZYw ... re=related
The more showy stuff at the beginning has some use but the jumping and turning are not so useful, at lest to my take on sword play.
Also I came across two wood cuts form 1910 which played a key part in my early construct of sword play.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... l%26sa%3DG
Pics 4 and 5.
The reason I bring this all up is two fold, one to say that when I first went to a ARMA event, then HACA, I learned that my re construction was fairly sound. I didn't employ all the guards known, nor did I really do any half- swording, but much of what I pieced together was the same. For this reason I feel we can 'learn' or guess at least part of what has been lost on the French end of sword play.
The second reason I bring all this up is it is 6am and I have been up all night, actually that is true, but not the real reason. The reason is to give thanks to all at ARMA that have opened my eyes to a much wider world of technique, manuals, and actual sword stuff so I don't have to 'guess' at things as much.
Unfortulatly I have lost contact with most of the folks I used to 'play' with But I am fortunate to have had a 'European' background going into swordplay, as it is easier to lean again than un-learn an Asian art to learn a European one.
If this turned out to be a pointless rant excuse me it REALLY seemed to have a point at the time.
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