I think that modern sharps are too sharp down the entire blade - no need if you expect to be half-swording with parts of the blade you don't...
Ouch - I understand. That's bad analysis and unfortunate observations. :mad: On the chambering - we (as a group) never do/train this. If it is...
Wow Bear, there's some pretty wide sweaping statements about Fiore. Several things not right (audience being one example). Also what do you mean...
First of all - good rant and I totally agree. This is interesting (with your first rant point) from my training (i.e. good old Italian Fiore)....
I suspect that we'll both be at the stage of propping up the bar by then :rolleyes: Mind - you'll have it worst as I'll be trying to teach you...
2010 sees the 600th anniversary of the Fiore dei Liberi PD manuscript and there are various events planned to celerate this. SWASH 2010 is...
Bear, Interesting (and, to be honest, unexpected) - do you use any form of hand protection? Cheers, Mark
We don't do too bad in sunny Dagenham. Ironic one of the guy doing a perfect "Fiore style" dagger cover from a high attack. Problem was that it...
That's a good point - we used to have an outside session and once swapped from wood to ali wasters - 2 police cars later we swapped back to wood....
We only train with steel (and for that price bracket we point students at the Paul Chens) but we did buy a few for workshops where joe-public...
Excellent set of tests Kirk - very interesting. I can see after a few more articles you coming up with something very suprising as the ideal...
Nice article Kirk, I picked up my new full harness recently and the armourer recommended coating with olive oil. When it gets too "much" of a...
Randall, That was a good post up to this point ... That sort of comment. without valid qualification, is in danger of providing more...
Thanks Kirk, that's really appreciated - I'll pass it along.
Hi RH, That what I was meaning about size being a pro and con. Most groups tend to be dictatorships with higher "generals" and it's the same...
I don't think this means the end of ARMA - JC will just regroup and go forward. Didn't those guys split off a few years back and publish the...
Hi Louie, That would be Ken - a new(ish) member of the small study group we have up in Carlisle (which is much more local than trying to get...
Hi there - not too sure I agree with you here. Having done more research than I consider healthy into the period, the one thing that keeps coming...
:D Hi RAbid, but we're London based and couldn't make it up there! Anyhow, I read the DDS rules and there was a definite German bias (something...
We do Fiore almost exclusively. We've seen the German stuff, but decided to stay with a proper fighting system :p
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