y sword arm veers to the right during the first moulinet, leaving the left side of my head open and setting the stage for an even less-covered low quarte. My mistake is punished immediately: Within a second, two horizontal quartes hammer into my left temple, a bit more than an inch apart. Oddly detached, I feel the double tap of the blade...Something cold runs down my face. I can taste blood. My own blood...
Few martial artists and modern fencers today are aware of the mysterious realm of lethally effective fighting arts taught and practised in Europe from classical antiquity until the 20th century. Author Christoph Amberger introduces you to long-forgotten techniques and obscure references from ancient manuscripts and sources that allow a clear picture to emerge of the sophisticated empty-hand and edged-weapons fighting skills of the West. Take a look at these excerpted chapters...
New
insights into the development of protective gear in German
Dussack-play
A Fechtschule in late 16th-Century Germany
Reconstructing Ancient Martial Arts
Sword and Buckler Fighting among the Lost Crusaders
Renaissance Sword Techniques in A.D. 150!
NEW REVIEW: Kabale und Hiebe: Zur Sozio-Pathologie von Dr. Stephan Peters’ Elite sein (2004)
(German text only)
NEW ARTICLE! Christoph Amberger explores whether fencing is more a leisure activity than a means of self defence.
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