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Central Sports and Recreation: Annual Shamrock Run is 7:30 am Sunday at John ... Palm Beach Post Register online at www.palmbeach The Association for Historical Fencing and Palm Beach Classical Fencing are hosting a classical fencing tournament March 27 ...

Acadiana News The Daily Advertiser Historical Fencing Class. 7:15 pm Renaissance-era swordfighting with Rapier, dagger, cloak and buckler. For ages 14 and up. Equipment provided. ...

Antique treasures make a return to Linden Hall Morpeth Herald Experts from the Northumberland-based Hotspur School of Defence will also be giving demonstrations of historical fencing, including how some of the pieces ...

Art gallery construction begins today Sarnia Observer Contractors were set to begin installing construction fencing around the Sak's and John Howard Society buildings, said project co-ordinator Dereck Holmes. ...

Court officials begin the big move before June opening Fall River Herald News The Justice Center, in the middle of downtown, remains wrapped in construction fencing, but trees and grass have been planted and workers have scrubbed the ... and more »

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I thought I’d start this thread looking at the use of Historical fencing/swordsmanship manuals for reference. I’ve been a practitioner of European Historical Martial Arts for 6 years, during that time I studied 1.33 (medieval single sword), rapier using the Fabris manual, Talhoffer and Liechtenauer. I’ve also in the past studied modern Olympic sport fencing as well, mainly the sabre and epee.

There are some major differences between current sport fencing and the historical manuals, the biggest one being that historical manuals were designed to teach you to defend and attack someone in a fight which could result in death.

I’m going to concentrate on two weapons single handed broadsword and medieval long sword (2 handed), as these are the most common swords for fantasy miniatures.

The best place to start is this website http://www.thearma.org/manuals.htm, the link is to list of available historical manuals in PDF format, also on the site are articles on particular aspects of the martial art.

By using these manuals and translated books will give you as a hobbyist a better understanding of the sword and how its used. Which will in turn allow you to sculpt, convert or scratch build more realistic poses, and not ones that look slightly ridiculous, which unfortunately is the case with a lot of minis.

Here is a link to a web based video documentary on the subject of historical swordsmanship.
Movie Doc

This should be enough to get most people interested, below are a few books I can recommend. Those who are interested I can bring some along to the Irregulars event, also if any one wants some of the historical manuals let me know and period and I’ll email them to you.

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