A little friendly duel

**DamnthePants** · 1st August 07, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by Yaish

Are you working off of traditional sword manuals, modern fencing, or some other school?

Lets see if I can remeber them right.

We work off the works of:
Donald Mcbane: The Expert Swordsman Companion 1728
Thomas Mathewson: Variours books 1800's
Henry Angelo: The Guards and Lessons of the Highland Broadsword

Those are the main manuels we use, but there are many more minor and many more contemporary interpretations its derived from as well.

**Yaish** · 1st August 07, 10:21 AM

Very cool. I just recently bought a book that was a modern print of an ancient sword manual, but I dont recall the title at the moment.

I'm always interested in people recreating some of the older western martial arts. There is a tendency to think the Europeans were all hack and slashers with no formal training, and to romanticize eastern martial arts as the pinnacle of fighting. That's just not the case.