Category: Salvator Fabris
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The art of feeling and taking your time
This post is inspired by this video by Adam Franti from the Lansing Longsword Guild: “Studies in Opportunity – II – Speed is a Noobtrap” (17:52) Adam makes some excellent observations that I think many historical fencers can benefit from. In my opinion, the most important takeaways are these: So many people (especially longsword fencers)…
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A Speculative Hypothesis: Applying Fabris to Longsword
One of the things that I really like about many late 16th / early 17th century fencing sources is that they spend a lot of time discussing how to approach your opponent as securely as possible and do so in a clear and methodical way. By contrast, the 15th century longsword sources I am familiar…
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Close viewing of “Stop Getting Stabbed”
These are my notes on a “close viewing” of the video “Stop Getting Stabbed!” (6:32) by “Woody’s Fencing Clips”. The video packs a lot of information into less than 7 minutes, which I outline for my own purposes here. Motivation: We want to control the opponent’s sword through blade engagement so that they cannot stab…
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Fabris Overview
This is intended to be a “too long; didn’t read” of my chapter-by-chapter summary of Fabris’s Book 1 here. This summary necessarily involves a bit of interpretation on my part, but I’ve tried to keep that minimal. I’m new to Fabris and am open to corrections and feedback! Can you give me the “TL;DR” for…
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Fabris Notes by Chapter
Who is Fabris? Salvator Fabris was an Italian fencing master who lived from 1544-1618. He wrote a fencing treatise called De lo Schermo, overo Scienza d’Arme (“On Defense, or the Science of Arms”). It was written in the 1590s, published in 1606, and is regarded as one of the most influential fencing treatises of all…
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