The Rapier Part One Beginners Workbook: Left Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks: Left Handed Layout) - Softcover

Book 1 of 4: The Rapier Workbooks: Left Handed Layout

Windsor, Dr Guy

 
9789527157459: The Rapier Part One Beginners Workbook: Left Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks: Left Handed Layout)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9527157455 ISBN 13: 9789527157459
Publisher: Spada Press, 2020

Synopsis

Take a beginners’ course with world-renowned swordsmanship instructor Dr. Guy Windsor, through this innovative workbook format.

With this 70+ page workbook you can learn the basics of rapier fencing. The book is illustrated with extracts from historical sources, and supported by over twenty video clips, linked to in the text. All you need is a training partner, a smartphone, tablet, or computer, and a couple of practice rapiers and fencing masks.

The book is organised in four sessions or classes, which covers all this and more:

  • footwork
  • sword handling
  • stringering
  • attack by disengage
  • parry riposte in one tempo
  • feints
  • parry riposte in two tempi
  • thrusts
  • cuts
  • beat attack

The workbook is laid out for left-handers with the space for notes on the left hand page. All video clips show the techniques done right-handed and left-handed.

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About the Author

Dr. Guy Windsor is a world-renowned instructor and a pioneering researcher of medieval and renaissance martial arts. He has been teaching the Art of Arms full-time since founding The School of European Swordsmanship in Helsinki, Finland, in 2001. His day job is finding and analysing historical swordsmanship treatises, figuring out the systems they represent, creating a syllabus from the treatises for his students to train with, and teaching the system to his students all over the world. Guy is the author of numerous classic books about the art of swordsmanship and has consulted on swordfighting game design and stage combat. He developed the card game, Audatia, based on Fiore dei Liberi's Art of Arms, his primary field of study. In 2018 Edinburgh University awarded him a PhD by Research Publications for his work recreating historical combat systems. When not studying medieval and renaissance swordsmanship Guy can be found in his shed woodworking or spending time with his family.

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Publisher
Spada Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9527157455
ISBN 13 
9789527157459
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
74