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Verisimilidude posted:Watch (and critique) my fat rear end doing some practice cutting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgqj6dMEVxA I'm a complete fencing noob (just started longsword this January), and I'm curious as to why, in the cutting that you're doing, your stance has the same foot forward as the should to which your sword is raised. It's probably because I'm so used to "right vom tag, left foot forward, left vom tag, right foot forward", but it just looks weird. Is it to avoid having to step to do a cut? Fake edit: Just tried swinging my longsword around in the kitchen like an idiot, and that's still my best guess, since it feels less awkward to temporarily hold an off-foot guard than it is to try to cut down toward your forward leg.
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Verisimilidude posted:The Trvana is supposed to be one of the better feders on the market currently. I know the feder by Pavel Moc is larger, and that's still safely within the realm of the longsword. What's the name for that style of sword on the bottom? The kind with the non-fullered blade and big chunky rectangular ricasso?
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Siivola posted:It's a feder. It's originally a post-15th century training weapon that got revived fairly recently. That particular one is one of Peter Regenyei's Trnava models. Is there any substantial difference between a feder with plain rectangular ricasso and the kind with a spurred trapezoidal ricasso?
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HEY GAL posted:yeah i'm into this kinda niche martial art kind of a hip-hop martial arts system
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So this might be relevant to you glasses-wearing HEMA dorks. Absolute Force sells a mask with a protective cover - http://www.afinternationalsporting.com/product_info.php/products_id/145/cPath/8?osCsid=u1rr37olckec8vjvqk921tb2c1 - which comes already riveted on. And due to the placement of the rivets and the way the inner lining is constructed, you can do this:  You can slip the arms of a (preferably cheap) pair of glasses into the little affordances made by the gap between rivets, which is quite conveniently located so as not to affect the ear vents:   Which also means that the glasses will be snug at perfect glasses height.  Best part is that you can take the mask on and off repeatedly without dislodging the glasses, so they should be in the perfect position when you put the mask back on. No more fumbling around with glasses inside your mask, or choosing to fight semi-blindly - just plug in a spare pair, and you're good to go!
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Sep 18, 2015 19:10
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It's me, I'm the fatty
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Our club uses Purpleheart Armoury synthetic feders, and the vinyl actually simulates a bind pretty well; some of our members line the edge with hockey tape to simulate edge-on-edge binding, which leaves the flat nice and slippery, not unlike steel. http://www.woodenswords.com/Meyer_Federschwert_Longsword_with_Fuller_p/type-iii-f.htm The crossguard, admittedly, does look pretty dorky, but it works; the rubber tips make crossguard techniques a bit less dicy to use, if you're being safety-conscious. The pommel is still solid steel though, so no Mordschlag. In terms of weight, they're actually pretty comparable to some of the lighter steel feders out there.
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