During the winter, spring, and early summer Letia and I were focused on learning about fighting with the sword alone. Since the end of Pennsic we have begun to focus more on the combination of sword and dagger. According to Fabris everything that he taught with regards to the sword alone is still valid. Tempo […]
Archive for November 2012
Fabris: Sword and dagger, the Wedge of Doom 2 comments
All Fun and Games 8 comments
Folks who attended Holiday Faire were treated to Dante’s “All Fun and Games [Until Someone Loses an Eye]” tourney, wherein fighters fought in eight iterative bearpits, with head-shots being the only way to definitively eliminate a competitor from the pool. The champs of each pit squared off at the end in a single-elim tournament. The […]
Musing regarding German school stance 5 comments
Of late I’ve been reading through my copy of Codex Wallerstein (I blame Rhonwen) and thinking thoughts about German footwork. The 15th century manuals show a very upright and almost straight-legged stance: ‘ The 16th century sources show a wider, lower stance […]
4th Peerage Committee 17 comments
And of course we should start by pointing out it’d be the 5th Peerage. Or 12th, depending on how you look at it. Anyway, the rapier/C&T peerage committee was announced and is starting up. I have many, many thoughts on this, but figured I’d see what everybody else thought, first. So what, if anything, […]