Unto Their Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, the Baronage, Peers, and populace of Artemisia, Greetings from Conchobhar mac Michil, Captain-General of the...
Having fought along side and against the members of the Blackwing Company, I have to say, their presence as a unit and organizing force will be a sad loss to...
Greetings, I've been interested in looking at studies and have actually been reading as much as I can find online about the London Masters of Defense schools....
Alaryn, This link provides a faily excellent overview of the LMoD, with a very extensive bibliography. http://www.iceweasel.org/lmod.html The Sloan manuscripts...
So you say you don't yet belong to enough Yahoogroups? Looking for yet another in the old internet cap? Well look no further! Yes, I've started yet another...
I have seen two methods in use and both have worked well with me. When I was being taught fencing formally, I was also taking Aikido. Since one required a...
Credit where credit is due: the following technique was thought up (at least around here) by my lady, THL Margalit Medicus. I have found it to be quite useful...
Lord Doring, I feel that I must rebut your statement regarding rapier requiring an aggressive attacking stance and its incompatability with waiting for your...
... I'd like to second Christian's assertions. Rapier does not require the practitioner to be 'agressive' anymore than Aikido requires a participant to be...
Ld. Doring, As Don Christian well put his comments in a period fashion, I to would make a few comments. ... This at least, how I'm reading your comment, is...
I too would have to agree with Christian on this, in addition to Ferro's work, spanish schools focused on a counter-offensive stance that invited attack...
After a second read, and some well constructed comments and discussion, I have to say, I did not communicate as well as I thought I had on my concept of...
Ld. Doring, It would seem to me that perhaps the terminology more prudent to what you describe is "Confidence in Action" and not Aggressiveness. Ideally one...
Greetings to all! In our kingdom, I have noticed students who are not assertive in their attacks also rarely use the fullest extent of their range and physical...
Lord Adam Goodwine PS Don Porthos, I have been to several Gulf Wars and would love to make your acquaintance at the next if you have time to spare. What...
(With apologies for the crosss posting) Northern Shores Regional Warcamp Hosted by the Shire of Lyndhaven (Jacksonville, N.B.) Friday, May 20th, 2005 to...
Appologies for multiples There will be two lists available for Rapier practicioners on Saturday the list opens at 9:30 AM for auths 10:00 if there are enough...
My former cadet sister HE Gemma~ is helping out Kolfinna with the Sword Maiden website, and asked me to forward on a request for her. They are going to be...
Greetings all, I lost touch with this lady several yars before I moved from An Tir to Caid. Last I'd heard, she'd been living in the San Francisco Bay area...
I've noticed this site stays active, but 2 Yahoo Groups focussed on rapier fencing around Stargate and other points of the Coastal Region of Ansteorra are less...
Please forward as appropriate... My many thanks to Chris MacConing for getting the word out about classes for the upcoming KWAR (Annapolis, MD; Nov 11-13). To...
Is anything being done to filter who gets access to the list? I mean if memberships are just getting automatic approval we're going to get SPAM'd regularly. ...
JJ, we do get spammed regularly.I have voiced my concerns from time to time and it seems to fall upon blind eyes or deaf ears. Perhaps what we need is a new...
If the owner or *any* of the moderators want to make the effort, it's possible to set any group to "new members need approval" That should slow down, if not...
