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Bill Grandy
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 Posted: Fri 08 Jul, 2005 11:49 am Post subject: New stuff at Darkwood Armory |
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I think these were just put up, as they weren't on the site yesterday when I checked.
A writhen styled rapier
A pierced Italian styled rapier
I've seen some of Scott's nicer pieces before, and I'm surprised it's taken this long for him to take pictures and put them on his website! He's most famous for reasonably priced WMA fencing gear, but he can really do some very nice work when requested. He's also got a line of economy rapier's that will be dirt cheap but still quite sturdy and even decent looking for the price. I got to see a few of them several weeks ago at a cinquedea class he was teaching in Maryland, and they were surprisingly nice for the price.
What I love most about Scott's pieces, though, as a rapier fencer, is that he really gets the feel of the sword right. If you closed your eyes and held a few antiques with one of his swords thrown in, you'd never know it wasn't an original based on feel.
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William Goodwin
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| Posted: Fri 08 Jul, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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Great Bill...thanks for the heads up.
the other Bill G.
Roanoke Sword Guilde
roanokeswordguilde@live.com
"I was born for this" - Joan of Arc
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Jonathon Janusz
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not to get off topic, but a cinquedea class? Renaissance Itallian dagger fighting? I would be interested to hear more 
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Bill Grandy
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| Posted: Fri 08 Jul, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Jonathon Janusz wrote: | | not to get off topic, but a cinquedea class? Renaissance Itallian dagger fighting? I would be interested to hear more |
Oh, it was very cool! Scott has been doing a lot of research into a plausable system of usage with the cinquedea. There isn't any SPECIFIC information as to how this particular weapon was used, but Scott presents a very possible fighting style that is based off of local period fighting styles of the same era with similar weapons. Scott lays out some good arguments with evidence for why the weapon would have been used in the way he teaches, too, though he readily admits that there is no hard historical evidence. It was a really fun class. Interestingly, most of the people there were more modern knife fightign practitioners than the typical western martial arts practitioners.
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Jonathon Janusz
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| Posted: Fri 08 Jul, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the feedback, Bill! If Scott has any published or online materials I would be interested in doing some further reading on his ideas (and I know of at least one or two other folks that would be very excited to do a bit of study).
Thanks again!
[back to your regularly scheduled program]
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Bill Grandy
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| Posted: Fri 08 Jul, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think he has anything published yet, but shoot him an e-mail!
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