I lunge many times in this video, and no one in the world seems to agree with you, my two European rapier tournament victories this year and countless highly appreciated workshops do not support your position.
@medic1642 Exactly so. The inside line pass is the origin of the fleche. Passes are more commonly made on the outside line in rapier which then often involve grabs, holds or dagger strikes with the offhand. However the inside line pass is essentially a fleche, which you will find me talking about in one of the instructional videos on my channel.
The novel is a medieval renaissance with futuristic open world. The medieval aristocracy is somewhat a little replaced by megalomaniacal corporate aristocracy. The perspective comes from a main character--young adult goth girl, who is an acolyte. War comes to her county and state. America is divided into two factions; east corporate hegemony, and west corporations under a French Gaelic king, who is greedy. The corporations' bosses are absent kings and queens.
Okay, seeing as that is the case, and the fact you want to keep research on it to a minimum, I would suggest you checkout the article below. It's by no means perfect, but better than a lot of material out there. To really understand swordsmanship you really need to go into books for context and classes for practice and understanding of the fight. But this should help a lot. michaelsmathers.hubpages.com/hub/Swordsmanship-101-for-Fantasy-Writers
Indeed, and this is why I do like to put a good amount in to my lessons about tactics and styles that work well for the individual, it certainly ins't suited to everyone. With many of these matters there is no strict right and wrong, masters of the day had varying opinions on many things, no reason that should be any different today. Quite soon I should think, no lessons over the Christmas break and snow has resulted in several cancelled sessions so far this year.
no, unfortunately not. The reality is there are some great rapier fencers in America and in Europe, but they rarely ever meet, for the obvious reason of cost to visit eachothers clubs and events. I do hope to get over to the states for an event at some point, for now, I just get to as many European events as I can. I think it is a real shame the lack of communication between the two sides of the pond, which is why I got involved on the seven hearts forum.
I disagree, for a start, I don't leap in to lunges, you are commenting on the passing steps, which require explosive power to strike an opponent in guard, techniques shown in Fabris and Capo Ferro. Stability is not a problem at all and point control is fine providing you dominate the blade, as I do. It also does not commit me to one action, I often follow with a grapple, cut or dagger thrust if I can. This kind of explosive nature is hugely important and keeps winning fights against the best.
@Venethor Currently we have one session per week in each location, which are at the University Campus Caerleon, Newport South Wales and at Bradley Stoke leisure centre in Bristol. We are open to newcomers and have a regular influx.
Indeed whilst I have taught Richard as a Rapierist first and sabreur second, he much prefers the sabre style of play and emphasises it too much in rapier, still working on that. He is doing well though.
In my opinion this is your best vid, by far. I am able to recognize some of the techniques described by Capoferro. I like, overall, Nick's passing steps and how he stringers Richard. Anyway, Richard seems to defend very well in some actions... Keep on Richard, and take Nick down a peg or two! :-P
Thank you for this video. I really appreciate that you show the ingaugements in slow motion. Often when watching sparring sessions the action is happening so fast it is hard to tell exactly what transpired.
1:24 looks like a double - a thrust to the armpit of Nick, with the cut to Richard landing shortly after. Might be camera angle but the cut also looks like it bounces off the cup rather than landing on shoulder?
It is all indeed interpretation, and CF says nothing of the speed of the launch, in terms of it being reckless, only really when done without correct blade engagement. With good blade engagement it is actually an extremely strong and safe technique (as much as any can be). We can only test our interpretations against all those we can find to face, and I can most certainly say it is very effectice and safe in the vast majority of scenarios.
@eddiedaskull Open for a body cut yes, but in that respect I am playing to the type of weapon, there is a reason why you don't see such cuts in the manual, as they are so ineffective, so to do so would only allow me to power down a hard cut to his head. My style changes on a regular basis, and also per fight depending on what I want to work on, I use the passes heavily here as it was something I was developing greatly at the time.
+tungsten Darkwood and Hanwei. Don't both with Hanwei anymore, since their prices went up they aren't worth it. If you are in Europe go to Danelli Armouries. If in the US, Darkwood armoury.
Rather conveniently I am a writer (as my day job), swordsmanship I practice as a hobby. So I should certainly be able to give you some help here. However, I need more info. What sort of time period, context, what you are trying to represent and from who's perspective. Without that info it's hard for me to provide a quick solution. Feel free to PM me, or happy to go to email/facebook.
