This week brought two more voids, with an interlude of sword positioning for advantage (and that skipped page about fighting aggressive fighters) How to Parry Thrusts to the Chest with Single Sword This illustration shows you a safe way to parry thrusts to your chest and to deliver a counterthrust… in different ways; some pass […]
Archive for July 2010
Giganti 13: Blade Angles, Agrippa’s K, and Passata Soto Leave a comment
Giganti 12: Inquartata (inquartati? -e? -ae? -es? issimo?) 2 comments
Giganti teaches, basically, two voids, though he breaks the Inquartat (aka demi-volte/volte) into three ways to get there. The “scans0 della vita” of Capo Ferro shows up here for discussion at length. His (and here I’m paraphrasing the labels provided by Dante) “strike under the sword” and “passata to the left” show up elsewhere, but […]
Giganti 11: Interesting techniques 2 comments
No fencing journal this week, because it would basically be a C&P of last week’s. But Giganti brings some interesting fun to the game. I love the illustrations of these next three sections, and the actions depicted are beautiful little techniques that are actually useful lessons. The Correct Way to Deliver a Thrust while the […]
Journal, 6/28 Leave a comment
First, a congratulations to Letia on reaching the big 3-0, the day before Thursday practice of this week. Part of her birthday present was 30 passes promised to her, which we’d originally intended to do on her 30th, but life and weather intervened, so we fought them at Thursday practice. More on that later. Looking […]
Giganti 10: Feints (Part 2) 3 comments
On to the more specific discussion of particular feints, used to illustrate and reiterate: How to Strike to the Chest with Single Sword – from the Measure and Parity of Swords This illustration shows an artful manner to strike the opponent in the chest while assuring yourself of his weapon so that he may not […]
Giganti 9: Feints (part 1) 5 comments
Last week Gawin and I worked through the first half of Giganti’s discussion of feints. Here I’ll discuss only the first section. I usually substitute rapid sword movement and body/foot/hand fakes for anything like a formal, structured attempt at a feint, which has left this as a rather gaping hole in my arsenal. Time to […]