May 2012
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“In the sword you shall have trust and belief, So blood runs not over your eyes.”
– Hans Talhoffer, 1459
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“Be sure, as death is, that your play comes not from courtesy, against he who...”
– Filippo Vadi, c.1482
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“Now since everyone thinks differently from everyone else, so he behaves...”
– Joachim Meyer, 1570
“He is Best who is trained in the severest school.”
– -Thucydides, c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC
“Sticht er dir zum gesicht / setz den stich ab mit lerer handt / unn laß dein...”
– Hans Lebkommer; ca.1430s – 1482
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“…you must never attack without defending, nor defend without attacking,...”
– Achille Marozzo, 1536
“…cut down from your right without any parrying, angry on his sword.”
– -Peter von Danzig, 1452
“Pain is only ego leaving the body”
– Anders Linnard, Gothenburg Historical Fencing School, 2009
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical...”
– Socrates (469 - 399 BC)
“In these modern times, many men are wounded for not having weapons or knowledge...”
– Achille Marozzo, 1536
“Chapter V - Satisfaction, Section 6: For the atrocious offenses, namely those...”
– Angelini, 1883, “Codice Cavallereseco Italiano”
Tournaments and Combative Exhibitions in Victorian... →
