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strength, stamina, and ferociousness were valuable factors, the same could be said of quickness, coordination, and nerve. Mediev ...

used was not uniform throughout the Middle Ages. Many schools of fighting even developed different methods for armored and unarm ...

and actively, defensively and offensively, whether mounted or on foot. For hundreds of years, the sword and shield were consider ...

an incoming weapon simultaneously with a countercut. Motions such as ducking, sidestepping, and leaping forward or back were emp ...

to stand up against increasingly heavy weapons (e.g., poleaxes, halberds, war-hammers, etc.). The medieval European long-sword i ...

There was a significant but subtle difference between the handling and action of wider, flatter, parallel-edged medieval swords ...

there were three principal actions called drey Wunder(three wonders): the thrust, the cut, and the Schnitt(a slicing or drawing ...

systems, these were known as gryps.All were based on a handful of key ac- tions: reaching out to grab the opponent’s hilt or arm ...

to the Eighteenth Century.1885. Reprint, London: Arms and Armour Press. Clements, John. 1998.Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated ...

Symbiotically, with the spread of fencing schools came a significant in- crease in both street fighting and private dueling. As ...

the period clearly demonstrates that European swordsmanship at the time was a systematic and highly dynamic art. The Renaissance ...

A number of the masters reveal in their cut-and-thrust methods the thrusting techniques that were to later develop into the spec ...

sponse to the use of cut-and-thrust swords, and only later did it find use against other rapiers. Although a cut-and-thrust blad ...

incredibly deceptive and agile attacks and the dangerous capacity to renew continued attacks at unpredictable angles, even after ...

the late Renaissance as a personal dueling tool. Most popular in the 1700s, they are sometimes confused with rapiers. They consi ...

logical evidence it is clear that their blades and the skills for employing them were not haphazard, ad hoc, or simplistic. Rena ...

classical fencing and sport fencing have never entirely escaped this biased view. Today a “classical fencing” movement has devel ...

street situations. Although it can include numerous disarms and grappling actions, that is not its primary purpose. It is a mart ...

evolved over more than two thousand years as an integral part of the mar- tial culture of Japan, over time becoming an important ...

ing skills the Jômon people developed, it was not until later periods that techniques were developed for the use of iron swords. ...