Occasionally, on message boards people ask me for information on sword fighting history and techniques. While it is hard to write the moves and techniques down, the history of it is not.
A few years ago my folks got me By the Sword by Richard Cohen
I highly recommend that everyone who wants to learn about the history of Fencing and Sword fighting should read this book.
ISBN 037550417-6
copyright 2002 by Narrative Tension
If you want to learn the moves and techniques, I recommend talking to your local University fencing instructor (if they have one) and see what they can tell you. Hopefully I will be able to locate in the various boxes of our library the manual I got when I took fencing in college and will be able to post it on here for your perusal. Also your local Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) chapter is a good place to get factual and useful information on historical fighting and not sport/competition fighting.
I can also probably be talked into trying to put some basic fencing instruction into writing although I am rusty if you need it and am more than willing to review fight scenes for plausibility. My rates are cheap: cookies and Mt.Dew :P
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