Thrusting my long, elegant weapon over and over again: ask me about fencing

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Ko_Sine: Nov 12, 2010

ScratchAndSniff posted:

This is mostly from memory, so anyone more familiar with rapier/sport differences please feel free to correct.

Another big difference is that SCA has a much different definition of a "cut" than the historical manuals do. For safety reasons, they encourage more gliding cuts, rather than forceful whacks which would actually do damage.

There is a percussive element to a cut, but most of your actual damage would happen from a draw. A "whack" would mostly bounce off before doing much damage.
Source my rapier teacher who has been doing swordplay for 15+ years.

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Ko_Sine: Nov 12, 2010

Rodrigo Diaz posted:

yo uh not all the swords in this pic are rapiers. The vertical sword is a side-sword, to the right of that is an 18th century broadsword (technically a backsword- you can tell by the fuller on one side), and to the right of that is a schiavona, and on the far left is (arguably) another side-sword.

also you might want to link to imgur instead

As far as I know, sidesword was a mistranslation. It is just an earlier rapier.

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