And I’ll end this spam with this drawing I did a few days ago of my characters from Monster Hunter World while waiting on Iceborne to release. Been playing it since though and It’s super fun.
The confusion between the meaning of these two terms in Historical Fencing seems to come up a lot.
If you touch without power it does not necessarily mean you are fencing without intensity. If you fence with a lot of power, it does not necessarily mean you are fencing with a lot of intensity.
Though they exhibit a lot of overlap, they are not the same thing.
I got a proof print of my book in the mail a week or so ago. I am pretty happy with it. A few things i will do differently layout-wise next time, but it’s fine.
Waiting on a foreword and then it will be ready to go. The final came out to like 220 -ish pages.
So I bought a super durable case for my new gopro and tried to get some first person sparring footage.
I unfortunately messed up. It was the first time i’d tried controlling the camera from my phone, and accidentally had it set to timelapse mode. So it’s very low framerate (meaning no image stabilisation) and very long exposure (meaning blurry images)
However, the footage in general shows some promise for what I can come up with if I am less of an idiot next time.
I think i want to aim the camera a little bit more downwards and put it on the highest FoV possible (this was on mid range FoV)
It’s one of the most famous posters in the world: often copied, often poorly. This is the original – in the original large format of the design – and this one, in particular, has vibrant coloration and exquisite detail that we rarely see. (Note our Valkyrie’s chain-mail miniskirt, with textured rings and metallic shimmer.) Pal’s triumph here is the culmination of the “Bicycle Craze” of the 1890s, which indeed delivered liberation for female riders and sparked the modern women’s rights movement. This is the original large format of the design.
Presenting my most recently completed commission, a scabbard for the Albion Munich. A lot of ‘labor of love’ went into this, which isn’t uncommon for me The client favored trees but left the design up to me, so I came up with a design of abstract representation, to which I think it turned out rather well.
Today’s fencing was done with spear, axe, and sword.
Fencing spear against spear for a change, I had much luck with this, using Fiore’s spear fencing methods. Quite happy with it, need to work on parry-riposte, and not overreaching.
Axe fencing was a bit harder this time, ended up absorbing blows on the shaft that made me loose my grip, and found it hard to follow up with double handed strikes, rather than sneaky one handed strikes. Again, need to work on parry-riposte making use of the axe head to pull and push.
Of all things, longsword was where I struggled most today. Fencing my primary partner, I was on edge, flinched from strikes, which let him hit me, and kept entering into range doing the wrong thing. The only success I found was right at the end, landing a perfect thrust, more from fortune than skill.
Proof that even a seasoned fencer with a primary weapon, can have an off day. All said, it was good to work with new weapons, and to have some fun using a series of knightly arms. ⚜️
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