2020-06-27

Strangest

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 This might be the strangest sword I have ever seen so far... OK, to say ever can be a bit of exaggeration, but it is definitely true for t...
2020-06-20

Poster (1959)

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 „ Original poster maquette for the 1959 World Fencing Championship. Lajos Vajda made two different designs for the same occasion. The artis...
2020-06-18

Stab test

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  Russian re-enactors created an entertaining and historically accurate video (2017) about the protective features of riveted chain mail (t...
2020-06-16

Medieval sabre

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 In a FB group called Military & Classical Sabre Artem Lokhmatov wrote an interesting post about a modern replica of a medieval sabre. ...
2020-06-12

Old Hungarian

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 At the time when maestro Parise invented (~1884) his fencing headgear Hungarian sabreurs were using a rather different type of head prote...
2020-06-10

Mod. Parise

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 An excellent set of photos depicting an Italian fencing headgear ( secondo mod. Parise ) and also a fencing glove, manufactured in Germany...
2020-06-04

Neapolitan??

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 In his 1911 book -- The Theory of Noble Art of Fencing -- Samu Chappon claimed to know Neapolitan fencing (foil + dagger). He said that t...
2020-05-31

Kyohan (1909)

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  Ten years ago a great post appeared at kenshi247 site, entitled Kenjutsu Kyohan . This post contained the English translation of an inte...
2020-05-14

Mensur

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  In 2019 Czech fencing master Leonid Křížek participated at a very interesting event. In October a local historical fencing group --  Tov...