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- From: bukti@wam.umd.edu (Andrew F. Maddox)
- Subject: Re: Spanish/Moorish Swordsmanship (was Re: More European History)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.041125.16492@wam.umd.edu>
- Summary: Training vs. fighting
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:11:25 GMT
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- I don't know about the Spanish applying their theories, not being a medieval
- SPanish fencer, but I can draw a parallel from my own experience: I've been
- working a lot on kali and eskrima for a few years now, and the eskrima is
- especially influenced by the Spanish fencing of the 16th-17th centuries,
- against which the pinos were fighting. In both kalie and eskrima (and in most
- pentjak silat, too, although unarmed), we use similar concepts, of circles,
- arcs, angles, and triangles. The idea behind such detailed analysis of the
- structure of fighting is that you do that in training: you break everything
- down as far as you can, so that you can understand it as completely as you
- possibly can. You train stick combinations and footwork patterns just like
- any unarmed fighting drills. Make them reflexive, and they'll come out in
- fighting. Yes, we use sticks now, but that's because sparring with live
- blades is just a touch dangerous :-) I have done many a drill, and some demo
- fights, with dulled blades, just to attract customers, and it works the same:
- the better you get, the more you practice the scientific, analytical fighting
- methods, the more it actually applies in fighting. At first, you have enough
- trouble throwing more than one shot in a row. Eventually, you start cutting
- people's angles, defending with circles and attacking off the lines, and so
- forth. So, I think the Spaniards probably had very good reason to their
- non-madness.
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- Of course, I could be completely full of B.S. - you make the call
-
- Andy Maddox (also am96@umail.umd.edu) - Death to Long Sigs!
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