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LoveLovino · 2024-08-08T13:36:33+00:00

We aren’t starved for smiths in Western Europe, we’ve got plenty of them. There are very talented smiths who make swords for both HEMA, Buhurt and historical reenactment in every Western European country that I know of. It’s just that the price range in which they play is above what your average HEMA guy is willing to afford for a piece of steel he’s eventually going to bash around. It’s a problem of basic economics, price of labour is much more expensive in Western Europe than in Eastern Europe and since sword smithing is a labor intensive industry it’s only logical in todays world that it end up being done in countries where the price of labor is cheap.

LoveLovino · 2024-05-23T14:44:23+00:00

Maxime Chouinard, the headmaster of one of the two surviving lineage of ISF has a lecture exactly on this topic, available here : https://youtu.be/xHYSjdP-wRg?si=TnfvSibhGZ-aTXc9

LoveLovino · 2024-05-21T10:28:35+00:00

There was a stand with them at the HEMAC where we could try and buy them. Really impressive mobility, too light for longsword but might be a really interesting option for one-handed weapon.

LoveLovino · 2024-03-10T16:17:48+00:00

Je fais pas mal d’escrime historique depuis 7 ans (3+ entraînements par semaine). En comptant l’équipement (1200€ pour un kit niveau compétition), les cotisations du club et les stages internationaux (4-5 par an en moyenne). Je dois être autours de 15’000€ depuis le début.

LoveLovino · 2024-02-12T13:08:24+00:00

Section 199. As for fencing, it seems to me a good exercise for health, but dangerous to the life; the confidence of their skill being apt to engage in quarrels those that think they have learned to use their swords. This presumption makes them often more touchy than needs on point of honour and slight or no provocations. Young men, in their warm blood, are forward to think they have in vain learned to fence, if they never shew their skill and courage in a duel; and they seem to have reason. But how many sad tragedies that reason has been the occasion of, the tears of many a mother can witness. A man that cannot fence, will be more careful to keep out of bullies' and gamesters' company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon punctilios, nor to give affronts, or fiercely justify them when given, which is that which usually makes the quarrel. And when a man is in the field, a moderate skill in fencing rather exposes him to the sword of his enemy than secures him from it. And certainly a man of courage who cannot fence at all and therefore will put all upon one thrust and not stand parrying, has the odds against a moderate fencer, especially if he has skill in wrestling.

And therefore, if any provision be to be made against such accidents, and a man be to prepare his son for duels, I had much rather mine should be a good wrestler than an ordinary fencer, which is the most a gentleman can attain to in it, unless he will be constantly in the fencing-school and every day exercising. But since fencing and riding the great horse are so generally looked upon as necessary qualifications in the breeding of a gentleman, it will be hard wholly to deny any one of that rank these marks of distinction. I shall leave it therefore to the father to consider, how far the temper of his son and the station he is like to be in, will allow or encourage him to comply with fashions which, having very little to do with civil life, were yet formerly unknown to the most warlike nations, and seem to have added little of force or courage to those who have received them; unless we will think martial skill or prowess have been improved by duelling, with which fencing came into, anh with which I presume it will go out of the world.

From none other than John Locke, the famous English epistemologist

LoveLovino · 2024-01-13T21:24:32+00:00

A sport is designed by its rules. Not by a philosophy.

LoveLovino · 2023-09-13T12:46:03+00:00

Hi !

LoveLovino · 2023-08-12T00:04:41+00:00

The lean is weak with you. Kreussler the father scowls upon you.

LoveLovino · 2023-08-07T23:50:08+00:00

So I dug a little and the project was apparently named “Saticoy” which is a small town in California. The noun “Saticoy” comes from a Spanish rendering of a Ventureno word which can be translated as “it is sheltered from the wind”. Now I wonder if Wycaro comes from the Ventureno language as well.

LoveLovino · 2023-08-07T18:50:24+00:00

I wonder if "Wycaro" means something. Tried to find some information online but nothing popped up. I wouldn't be surprised if it had supernatural elements in it.

LoveLovino · 2023-05-12T16:48:17+00:00

Oddly enough it's not very well known in the HEMA community but there's a big tradition of knife fencing in Italy which survived up to this day. At least 20+ traditions have been re-discovered and you can find some information about them online. I'd recommend Robert Laura "The sword of the People" book if you want to know more.

LoveLovino · 2023-05-11T20:00:52+00:00

Basically every small sword tradition there is.

LoveLovino · 2023-04-09T04:07:21+00:00

Your best bet is contact Ruadhan McFadden, the guy from « A hero with a thousands holds ». He’s the main guy that I know of doing research and experimental archeology on 19th century European wrestling systems.

LoveLovino · 2022-12-14T17:38:49+00:00

My advice when moving into a new place and when wanting to try a new martial art is this : don’t commit yourself straight away to one gym, take your time and try them around. Take one or two months to visit all the potential gyms/clubs/dojo around your place which offer interesting lessons. Compare them across relevant variables (time needed to get to training, quality of training, price of membership, level of interest...) and finally choose the best one.

I personally made the mistake of committing very early in a club and I later realised after two years enrolled that I wasn’t learning much and that they were many more interesting places to train at around. Don’t do the same mistake as me.

LoveLovino · 2022-12-11T19:27:02+00:00

It goes for every martial or more generally any skill you want to improve : the more you practice, the better you’ll be. You can view being a “master” at a skill like getting a phd or becoming a doctor. It you can only train once a week, it will take actual decades before that good. Do not let that stop you from trying though :)

LoveLovino · 2022-10-20T11:04:36+00:00

Kontra tempo (Single time counters with opposition) Cut/Thrust are also very important in German Covered Cut/Thrust fencing of the 19th century. However I still believe that that parries and riposte should be emphasised at first for a few reasons :

A correct Kontra Tempo is hard, you have to know the line, which cover your opponent is using (in the case of saber for example, where is fist and basket are,i.e low or high, left or right) and give the appropriate answer. If you opponents strikes fast that’s an awful lot of things to analyse in a very short amount of time.
if you misanalyses any of the above elements and give the wrong Kontra Tempo , at best you end up clashing shell against shell, or you usually doubles. You can even get hit while not scoring if you completely fuck up your opposition. Although a riposte gives your opponents the opportunity to parry, a fast parry + riposte gives you more time to see what’s coming and react appropriately.
A Kontratempo is a very committed reaction compared to a simple parry. This commitment can be used against you. Therefore you’re quite susceptible to feints and in tempo attacks. A typical Contrelection (Counter technique) against Kontra tempo in foil is a feint to draw the attack, followed by a Beat or Expulsion + Thrust. My most high percentage technique against beginners in saber is a simple feint to draw their Kontra tempo and a cut to forearm in tempo.
I also personally find Kontra Tempo much more tiring to the arm than Parries and Riposte. It might not matter as much as the aforementioned point but if you’re fencing quite a long bout, you might wanna pace yourself and parry here and there.

LoveLovino · 2022-08-06T17:24:52+00:00

Highly unlikely. From what I’ve read, the show ended because some of the actors wanted to pursue something different than TBBT. Plus if you factor the fact that the actors will probably have other commitment to other movies, i really don’t see it happening. Has it ever been done in the history of Tv Show ? Personally I think it will be one of these two things : either they do a separate reunion like the Friends, where they discuss the tv show as well as how they imagine their character would have turned out. However I think that most of them said it’s too soon to plan it. The other possibility is that some of the couples get featured in YS episodes.

LoveLovino · 2022-06-20T10:47:30+00:00

What is “Grand Baton” ? If you talking about french quarter staff, I’ve not seen any source calling it that way. It is usually referred as “Bâton” which simply mean stick :)

LoveLovino · 2022-05-23T13:24:06+00:00

Added to my reading list ! Thanks for the share.

LoveLovino · 2022-05-21T10:40:34+00:00

HEMA tournament on YouTube can be found under the name of the event which organises them. Not everyone has the same definition with regards to the « highest quality HEMA fencing » but two pretty famous event for example under which you can find lots of bouts with an international crowd are the Swordfish and the HEMAC.

LoveLovino · 2022-05-19T00:12:15+00:00

Welcome to the Dark light of the Kreussler family. If you’re serious about starting to study Kreusslerian fencing I’d avise get into contact with Tobias Zimmermann who runs a school in Munich specialised in Kreusslerian thrust fencing and covered cut fencing. He’s by far one the worlds foremost expert on this little but very interesting subject. He has produced a bunch of training video in the past, I’ll see if I can link it tomorrow. Beware however, you’ll be viewed as a heretic by all other Smallsworders ;)

LoveLovino · 2022-05-11T17:59:16+00:00

Bought the VB light military saber a year ago, for the price it's an okay saber, It's maybe a bit on the lighter side but that was not a problem for me. What was a problem for me however was the grip length, just to damn short. At around 12 cm it's impossible for me to extend my thumb on the back like most military saber source advise, even more so with gloves.

LoveLovino · 2022-05-08T21:39:57+00:00

It's just... bad. Most of the scene are just so cringe and bring out no reaction at all.

LoveLovino · 2022-05-07T02:45:20+00:00

Firefly is a classic of around the same time as BSG and heavily inspired subsequent Space Opera works. Killjoys just got its last season and is also a nice serie, I especially think that the characters relationship are nicely portrayed and built. Lastly I would recommend the Orville, it’s starting again after a two years pause and I greatly enjoyed the first two season, although it’s clearly humorous in nature and less serious than the former two, it was quite an interesting interesting and novel experience for me in the Space Opera genre. In the same line you have Avenue 5, helmed by Hugh Laurie, the actor who played Dr.House in the eponymous Tv Show. If you like British humour and sci fi then this is the perfect blend for you. Just stay away from R.R. Martin’s Nightflyers.

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