2020-09-26

How to...

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 ...modify the tip of a plastic longsword ( Red Dragon, RD) in order to make it more or less compatible with kendo headgear. We have been us...
2020-09-17

Filiberto Sauro

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 It is really exciting to find a catalogue picture which shows such a rich assortment of fencing sabres. (A better picture .) From Gerard Si...
2020-08-29

Kazarla

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 Very impressive cutting skills!!  In 2019 Russian Cossacks were competing in cutting different objects.  Video:  https://www.youtube.com/wa...
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...