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To actually understand Fabris, you need to understand who he is disagreeing with. And I don’t think we have good sources on that from the time of Fabris.
But as I work my way through the discourse chapters in Fabris, I’ve been noticing more and more examples where what L’Ange taught 60 years later is exactly what Fabris is telling you not to do.
For exampl...
What follows is a mechanical translation of Meyer’s personal manuscript from 1570. It is the synthesis of the output of two translation programs with the intention of bringing it more inline with other Meyer translations. I lack the knowledge to verify the accuracy of the translation, but both programs offered comparable results so this shouldn’t be too far off from a pro...
Far too often I see the same elitist comments,
You can’t learn anything with a stick or wooden sword… A synthetic sword is useless, you need steel… That brand of feder isn’t good enough… You can’t learn anything without safety gear… You can’t learn without full tournament gear… You can’t learn anything by your self… You and your friend can’t lea...We decided to do some spear sparring yesterday and it was a hot mess. Doubles everywhere. No one can block anything.
Ok, so time out. We’ve been studying Meyer Staff for months. And before that the entirety of Paurenfeyndt staff. We shouldn’t be having any problems.
So we pick a drill from the book that begins with a parry. Something that we shouldn’t have...
I have a beginner Italian rapier student who is also a beginner Destreza student, specifically L’Ange and Rada respectively. This has proven to be surprisingly challenging.
For example, I’m trying to teach the first counter thrust drill in our L’Ange sequence. And it’s just not working. No matter what student A does, the counter thrust fails.
Then I look over to...