Black Jack
12-17-2001, 09:07 PM
Here is a very interesting and informative website on the Polish school of military sabre fencing and it's training methodology as seen in the 1830 "Treatise on Fencing".
I just love stuff like this and I will spend some time going over the sight for the Western martial info and its applications in sparring.
It looks like a good guide for a little "hard-knock" R&D between training partners and I want to take a look at what it has to offer in a reverse engineered enviorment for big knifes as what has been done in a lot of the Bowie work out there now that has a bit of Old World European Sabre fencing worked into its mix.
What is interesting to note is that it has biomechanical cutting princples like the FMA defanging the snake strikes, thus showcasing that this tactic is really nothing new, the Polish method displayed here has a number of "limb cuts" as well as evasive "stop-cuts".
Solid Diagrams, 11 angles of attack, parries, guards, reposts, feints, good stuff to incorporate into ones training if desired.
Do not mix this up with modern fencing as the old world stuff is based on survival and not points.
http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/Zablocki.htm
I just love stuff like this and I will spend some time going over the sight for the Western martial info and its applications in sparring.
It looks like a good guide for a little "hard-knock" R&D between training partners and I want to take a look at what it has to offer in a reverse engineered enviorment for big knifes as what has been done in a lot of the Bowie work out there now that has a bit of Old World European Sabre fencing worked into its mix.
What is interesting to note is that it has biomechanical cutting princples like the FMA defanging the snake strikes, thus showcasing that this tactic is really nothing new, the Polish method displayed here has a number of "limb cuts" as well as evasive "stop-cuts".
Solid Diagrams, 11 angles of attack, parries, guards, reposts, feints, good stuff to incorporate into ones training if desired.
Do not mix this up with modern fencing as the old world stuff is based on survival and not points.
http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/Zablocki.htm