A little friendly duel

[DamnthePants]

I post this in the off topic section, as it is only at best, 34% kilt related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTJ1iZy92aU

This is a video of my Scottish Historical Fencing Societies’ first official monthly tournament. I am the person who fights first and last. The day this was recorded I had opted to not wear a kilt ( When facing new people, who your not used to, you want as much covered skin as you can afford). One of our members did how ever. You can see him fight at 1:40.

I’ve fought in a kilt though. Compared to pants, there is no contest. The freedom of movement is just far greater in a kilt. Got to be careful though, move a little too much, and get the pleats waving, and your likely to get your sword a little tangled if your not aware.

* By the way if any one happens to live in the Portland Maine Area and wants to come take a free lesson, we are always accepting members, no experience needed. Just send me a message

[Splash_4]

Very cool. Although, trying to breathe through those masks has to be tough.

[Yaish]

Are you working off of traditional sword manuals, modern fencing, or some other school?

[Nerts]

That looked awesome! First time I've seen broadswords dueling! Usualy I see longsword or rapier, so it was nice to see something a little different.

I'm going to be learning rapier soon and was planning on wearing my kilt. Should prove to be interesting.

E.

[DamnthePants]

Are you working off of traditional sword manuals, modern fencing, or some other school?

Lets see if I can remeber them right.

We work off the works of:
Donald Mcbane: The Expert Swordsman Companion 1728
Thomas Mathewson: Variours books 1800's
Henry Angelo: The Guards and Lessons of the Highland Broadsword


Those are the main manuels we use, but there are many more minor and many more contemporary interpretations its derived from as well.

[Yaish]

Very cool. I just recently bought a book that was a modern print of an ancient sword manual, but I dont recall the title at the moment.

I'm always interested in people recreating some of the older western martial arts. There is a tendency to think the Europeans were all hack and slashers with no formal training, and to romanticize eastern martial arts as the pinnacle of fighting. That's just not the case.

[Archangel]

One of my early fencing masters was a maverick who only studied the early texts. It was his ph.d. stuff. He'd enter open events and use techniques from the 16th Century. Taught me some skills in his backyard in Brighton and later moved to a castle in Spain where I've lost contact with him.

I used his techniques while I fenced too and incorporated them into other martial arts.

In martial arts all roads lead to the mountain top, whether they are Scottish or Edo. (phew, didn't think I was going to get a Scottish link.)