Pollaxed.

Is that am holding two rapiers?..in the same hand?..

Nope! This is from a rapier fencing manual and it depicts two different positions of the rapier... Showing your options of where to thrust. :)

there are more blades that ought to be in this picture

Well… I doubt it’s a double-bladed rapier… Nor do I think it’s an error, my guess is that it just shows options. :D

I’m so glad someone asked that. It was bothering me, but I was afraid to ask lol

there are more blades that ought to be in this picture

Well... I doubt it's a double-bladed rapier... Nor do I think it's an error, my guess is that it just shows options. :D

“If you happen upon someone who knows fencing as well as you or better, is stronger than you and more agile, you must employ the art of deception.” Nicoletto Giganti (1608)

*throws cloak at your face and stabs*

Lovely.

My new favourite post. BOOMSTICKS!

“The arms used for combat have been of various shapes and materials, depending on the keenness of the intellects which invented them. The first weapons were spears, clubs and flails, whose wood was arrayed with bone, horn, fish spines and similar materials apt to harm. As human avarice sought to know what was held in the depths of the earth, so iron was discovered, and as man’s punishment it was soon employed in battle. Of all the forms which iron takes, the sword is the most noble. It is used by every sort of person, both by civilians and by soldiers, the former to defend honour, the latter to acquire it. It is carried by princes, who use it in bestowing knighthoods; and it is the usual instrument with which, where it is permitted, quarrels are settled.” Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri (1640)

YESSS!

Gosh darn thoroughly yummy! Thanks! Always nice to see how closely related sword martial arts can be. :)

@pollaxed im going to @ you if i can find such videos lol (re: documentaries / HEMA vs budou videos)

Thanks! There is a bunch of them floating around, but most of them are sadly pretty bad... And some feel kinda unfair... I remember one longsword versus kendo... The longsword wielder just closed, grabbed the kendokas blade and finished with the longsword in one hand, you could see surprise/shock in the kendokas body language... Not really used to Ringen am Schwert. Both of them seemed to be pretty green in their Art though.

There is a darn good documentary about it too! In which Gothenburg Historical Fencing School choreographed and starred in the combat scenes. :)

“I am not sure how many colors we will be able to do in the first run, but we hope to get out several different colours eventually; black, oxblood, eggshell/broken white, brown, etc.” from their facebook page :)

Could it be? Has the moment finally come? A pair of gloves that protect and actually let you use your hands?!

KONING! (In more ways than one)