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Permalink Reply by Curtis Scott on August 10, 2012 at 4:21pm

By other disciplines, I'm speaking of the Renaissance rapier traditions, or classical Victorian/Edwardian foil and smallsword, or Fiore, Lichtenhauer, and Talhoffer's longsword schools.

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Permalink Reply by Trisha Allison on August 10, 2012 at 5:05pm

Hi Scott 

And in addition to your disciplines (all of which I love) there's medieval weaponry, Staged Combat,   Fantasy Combat, the Italian school, the Spanish school, the Polish  -  I don't know if you could call it a school exactly, but it's a distinctive form of sabre fighting, definitely not Olympic sabre - and as the Ariston ad goes - and on and on and on and on.....

I don't know if the forum moderators allow that kind discussion here or not, but my site (as the name implies) embraces all sword disciplines, the more the merrier. 

I've already discovered that enthusiasts in some sword disciplines often don't know about closely related types of combat in other countries, and I'm kinda thinking of maybe offering a melting-pot forum where everyone can get together - lovers of the duello and a whole host of other non-Olympic sword forms - and chew the fat. 

But of course if the moderators here will set up a melting-pot thread, then I wouldn't need to do that  ;0

Just a thought...

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Permalink Reply by Curtis Scott on August 11, 2012 at 2:07am

Just examples of the pre-modern European traditions that I could come up with off the top of my head. ;>

 Myself, I study Fabris' rapier treatise, and have picked up a little of the Spanish Destreza from a friend.

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