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• Fiore de'i Liberi/alternate order
  ...th) of lance [spear/lance], pollaxe , sword and dagger and of wrestling on foot and on horse, in armour and without armour. Also, he wanted know tempere [a ...rusts [strikes] of sharp-ironed [sharp-headed] lance on horse, and then on foot three strikes of pollaxe and three strikes of sword and three strikes of da
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• Abu-I-Hassan Ali ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Farazi al-Andalus
  ...eat this several times, cutting in each pass as much as you can, until the length of the stick is only the size of a cubit. Follow this practice until it bec ...flag staff terminates</ref>, but without it being whole. It is followed in length by the "''nayzak''", who carries a fine iron; it is the same as the "''mitr
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• Angelo Viggiani dal Montone
  ...a perfect blow, done with wisdom, and with promptness, unleashed with more length, and thrown with more force, that it would have been with those other arms. ...dern usage has rediscovered the most offensive way to be having the entire length of both sides to be sharp edges; because when one comes to the half sword i
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• George Silver
  ...long staff of twelve, fourteen, sixteen or eighteen feet long, or of what length soever. And against two men with their swords and daggers, or two rapiers, ...teach with ancient English weapons of true defence, weight and convenient length, within the compass of their statures and strength of men to command, becau
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• Johann Georg Pascha
  ...oot to the Partisan (how Num. 1 shows), and make a Reverence with the left foot and hat (how Num. 4 shows). ...backwards a little (how Num. 3 shows). Set the Partisan down and the right foot to the Partisan (how Num. 1 shows), and make a Reverence (how Num. 4 shows)
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• Jacopo Monesi
  ...measure swords. Nor is this a given, since anyone can wear a sword of any length they please (speaking of Tuscany). They cannot even choose a piazza well su <p>Now, if this is not the case, what is the point of habituating your foot, and arm to a predetermined measure? Moreover, you can easily see from expe
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• Johannes Liechtenauer
  | This you should grasp:<br/>&emsp;All arts have length and measure. | Who dismounts<br/>&emsp;Fighting on foot begins
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• Henry de Sainct Didier
  | Some stand on the right foot, others on the left foot, however none give good reasons for one step or the other. But rest assured ...h experience and proof that the step which is done by standing on the left foot initially in putting sword in hand is better and more effective, both for a
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• Lulu booklist
  ...her Italian versions by beginning with fighting on horseback and moving to foot combat with progressively smaller weapons. This edition includes high-resol ...vaulting on a horse dummy), sabre and lance exercise, platoon maneuvers on foot, judgement of distances, and instruction for buglers (including sheet music
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• Gérard Thibault d'Anvers/Plates 12-22
  ...up, lowering and closing his elbow against his side, and setting his left foot on the ground inside the Quadrangle at the letter O.'' ...his elbow against his right side to protect himself, and he sets his left foot down inside the Quadrangle at the letter O, while keeping his body erect. T
  536 KB (96,447 words) - 19:55, 26 January 2024
• Fiore de'i Liberi
  ...honor.</ref> with spear, poleaxe, sword, dagger and unarmed grappling, on foot and on horseback, armored and unarmored.</p> ...t is, to the death); of lance, ax, sword, and dagger, and of wrestling, on foot and on horse, in armor and without armor.</p>
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• Philibert de la Touche
  with their foot raised<ref>"de le prendre au pied levé", which also means to surprise some ...on I found in all the Books printed on this subject, both because of their length, their obscurity & their bad arrangement, and because changes in Offensive
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• Joachim Meyer
  ...come in the Ox or take the sword onto the right shoulder so that the left foot stands forth, step and cut with the long edge from the right diagonally to ...e right, if one cuts at your opening from above, then step with your right foot well out from his strike to his left side, and cut Crooked ''Indes'' with c
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• Gérard Thibault d'Anvers/Plates 1-11
  ...; Construction and Mathematics of the Circle; Concerning the Sword: Proper Length and Introduction. ...e body, their relationship to the dimensions of our Circle, and the proper length of the sword.
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• Hans Talhoffer
  ...d [[grappling]], often both [[armor]]ed and unarmored, on [[horse]] and on foot, and in scenarios including tournaments, formal duels, and unequal encounte ...pe]], but are often depicted mirrored or with minor differences in hand or foot position.
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• Paulus Hector Mair
  ...gods, in the exercise of fencing, wrestling, running, both on horse and on foot. The exercise of fencing was also performed with such honourable and respec ...m gained a knightly victory. Likewise in the year 1409, a knightly duel on foot and in linen shirts behind two shields was held in Augsburg on the Lech on
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• Augsburg Group
  | length = ...e if you may mislead him and overcome him with Agility, that you catch his foot or such under-steps that you throw him, as you will then find with more tec
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• Fechtkunst Glossary (Jeffrey Forgeng)
  ...a step backwards away from the opponent, and a circular step with the rear foot behind the forefoot (like the modern fencer’s inquartata). Cf. ''Zurucktr ...thing of the ''Alber vom Tag'', as follows: when he stands with his right foot forward, he cuts “from the Day” Fool-style downwards and cuts before hi
  230 KB (33,257 words) - 17:09, 26 August 2022
• Pseudo-Peter von Danzig/Combined
  All Art has length and measure. ...may not have its correct path downwards to the other side before the left foot.
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• Paride del Pozzo
  ...te not being named or covenanted between them. And similarly, in battle on foot one may bring long weapons and also short weapons (such as bodkins and spik <p>And for this reason, at the end of the present work I will write at length about the manner of unsaying, which should be made one way by the challenge
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