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  • ...paired exercises with cane fighting, dagger fighting, and cane and shield fighting on foot. The author details the proper ways to feint and hit, the ways in w ...-lawn?''). The player stands holding the buckler in his left hand, and the stick in his right. He strikes the first strike at the face of the opponent, and
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  • ...y likes to attack at your front. So seize your dagger, precisely under the fighting hand, and go high underneath his blade, and take in with your dagger's knob ...rom above at your face. When this happens grab the blade (that is, of your fighting hand), and strongly go in with it, and shift the dagger over and behind his
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  • ...alta, you will immediately go into the same guard, and while he wishes to stick a thrust in the gesture of a montante, withdrawing your right foot behind y ...h a mandritto, and during this show, crossing with your left foot you will stick him in the face with a thrust in the gesture of a montante.</p>
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  • ...re begins the science and practice of the noble Axe-play and the manner of fighting.}}</p> | <p>[71] If he does it to you. You must stick your axe into the middle of his chest, and he will not be able to do it.</p
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  • ...to denote a feat of arms in which a knight travelled from place to place, fighting other knights in the lists, to gain renown. It was also commonly used to de | <p>[8] If I can’t stick a point in your face,<br/>I’ll stick a pommel instead, as it’s right here.</p>
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  • ...al 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 becomes so habit ...According to its category, the spears are called: "''anaza''", which is a stick, more ready than the "''harawa''", and with an iron tip. It enters within t
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  • ...d into the Hanging Point, immediately follow outward with the left leg and stick the point into his chest. ...trikes and thrusts at you like this, then displace this with the Krieg (in-fighting) and work with his Schwech (weak) and Sterck (strong), in the Vor (before)
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  • ...vering such topics as ''bastoncello'', or plays of a [[club (weapon)|small stick or baton]] against unarmed and dagger-wielding opponents; plays of sword vs ...g the art of fighting in the lists<ref>Fiore is comparing the two kinds of fighting: sport/tournament (“combatter a sbarra”—“in the lists”) and morta
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  • | Thus so there, the complainant shall swear that he therefor has cause for fighting the other; and that he has deemed the other man guilty. And then shall the ...both shall guard their doings from much of society; and say little of the fighting, so that no notice is made thereof.
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  • ...you see that your adversary is about to lunge in order to encourage him to stick to his purpose. Such an ''appel'' is made to deceive him; but if he perceiv ...n of them, as of the practice of throwing the sword at the adversary, when fighting with the sword alone; some think this an essential movement, but we deem it
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  • ..., as if he would say, why do not you the same, as pious Christians who are fighting not for an earthly but for a heavenly honour in this world.<ref name="Paulu ...s would shout and admonish their men to be brave and keen and not to flee, fighting not just for their country and people but also for their wives and children
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  • ...encounter while delivering a cut to cover one’s withdrawal. Also called '''fighting away'''. Cf. '''cutting long after'''; '''thrusting away'''; '''Withdrawal' | '''fighting away from''' ('''the opponent''')
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  • ...han the arm can stretch itself, that is to the middle thigh. In the act of fighting, a man stands always somewhat bowing, therefore a little more is allowed. T ...In which chance or occasion, it is necessary that he have the skill how to stick the dagger with the point. But yet howsoever it chance, the coming of the d
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  • | <p>ROD: This too I knew, ''conte'', but did I not say to you, that for fighting between man and man, that this, my new imagination, and this, my ''schermo' ...rdia alta, offensiva, perfetta'', and from here drop from high to low, and stick this ''punta sopramano'' into the middle of your chest, and then promptly r
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  • ...first, that all the Distances and Instances (i.e. steps in the process of fighting) to be observed in training (which are the basic foundations and support fo ...into 10 parts, & each part into 10 minutes. Thus it will be the same with stick or with cord, with which one would measure a person. And thus he will find,
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  • ...d this, considering how these pauses are quite contrary to the old mode of fighting, where no one knows about making brief pauses, and even less to carefully p ...were to suddenly place an obstacle in his way, such as a large rock, or a stick thrown between his legs. Who needs to have explained to them the effect of
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