Some of the exchanges from my bouts at Vasaslaget-18 in Gamla...
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Some of the exchanges from my bouts at Vasaslaget-18 in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden. Hosted by Uppsala Historical Fencing School. The ruleset awarded bonus points for covering lines before and after attacking (with the sword or with sword and buckler together, but not with just the buckler) which changed the behaviour of the better, more adaptive fencers significantly. We were much more inclined to fence with sword and buckler together, “I.33” style, and the fencing lost some of the typical “cover high with buckler and strike low with the sword and then double” approach we often  see in modern ..read more
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A rare treat; a competitive single rapier bout between...
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A rare treat; a competitive single rapier bout between Francesco Loda and Ton Puey, from Briscia Pro Challenge -17. Ton rarely competes, but made an exception for this tournament. He took third place while Francesco took 1st, however Francesco thought Ton should have been in the final and asked him for a competitive bout immidiately after the tournament, which Ton accepted and also won. Enjoy ..read more
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This is one of my favourite fencing images,  a display of a...
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This is one of my favourite fencing images,  a display of a Fechtschule event between Marxbruder and Freifecther. Join me as we go through some of the many amazing details of this image, and relate them to our own times. Courtesy of signore Roberto Gotti and, Gairthenix and MAM. https://www.facebook.com/axelpetterssonhistoricalfencing ..read more
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Footage from a sparring bout with Ken Kot of Hong Kong earlier...
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Footage from a sparring bout with Ken Kot of Hong Kong earlier this year. We got video of the session from two angles, one is in slow motion. https://www.facebook.com/axelpetterssonhistoricalfencing ..read more
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Kristine Konsmo and Axel Pettersson at Brescia Pro Challenge...
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Kristine Konsmo and Axel Pettersson at Brescia Pro Challenge 2017. Axel took gold in the longsword tournament ..read more
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La Destreza Común: The Original Spanish Fencing School
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elsegno: mindhost: By Alberto Bomprezzi & Marc Gener In 1582 Don Jerónimo de Carranza, a cultivated Andalusian noble, devoted Christian and skilful swordsman, publishes in his book “De la Philosphia de las Armas…” a new system for sword combat, developed by himself. This system, completely novel, practical and efficient (as would later on be proven by a large number of fencing masters), used geometry and mathematics as a vehicle to explain fencing concepts with impressive accuracy and precision, and claimed to be, because of its rational nature, universal and absolute. From then on ..read more
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A compilation of most of my exchanges from Brescia Pro HEMA...
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A compilation of most of my exchanges from Brescia Pro HEMA challenge in December-17, my first competition in one and a half years.Being rusty I fall back to flinch responses alot; the left Zwerchau counter is great and all but I do  it too often, and I should vary the target (elbows are often more difficult to defend than the head). I also use the upper Hengen too often, a Kron or lower Hengen parry leaves your sword on top of the opponent and defends better in general.My footwork kept up pretty good though if a bit too linear. I pulled off two mutieren, one duplieren, a half sword entry, a ..read more
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Worldhistoryfacts:Leopards kill a Roman criminal in a Tunisian...
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worldhistoryfacts:Leopards kill a Roman criminal in a Tunisian mosaic dating from the 200s CE. Some criminals who were set against predators in the arena were given weapons and expected to fight; others were simply bound and put at the mercy of the animals. The most famous group of “criminals” to be subjected to this punishment was the early Christian church ..read more
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Long swords with short blades, what? The longswords you...
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Long swords with short blades, what? The longswords you usually see at events and clubs around the world today are really on the long end of the historical spectrum, historically longswords were often shorter (though longer swords most definitely existed too). The trend with longer blades in modern practice started around 2010 when the Slovak fencers had longer blades made, at Swordfish we started to use longer blades as our competition standard in 2012 in order to encourage more blade contact and “Binden” techniques. Now it is standard in most places. I still love playing with shorter ..read more
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Kristine finally has enough of my hand sniping and have at me...
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Kristine finally has enough of my hand sniping and have at me (watch to the end), I deserved that one! Context for the video:  1. I was going for alot of “cheap” and not so cheap hand hits in order to let K work on leading with a threat as well as her timing and distance management. 2. Between the Koning gloves and the Thomas Nyzell forearm and elbow guards Kristine is better protected there than on many other parts of her body, so stirking there means less pain on her part. 3. It was a funny moment we got to share together because we love eachother and we both love fencing. Being able to ..read more
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