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This article.
Holy shit.
A few snippets for the sake of contextualising a particular piece of information.
Yet, interestingly this recent effort to follow "old swordplay" is not the first. Such an effort actually was underway over 100 years ago and in, of all places, Britain. Several Victorian military men, namely Captain Alfred Hutton, Egerton Castle, Captain Carl Thimm, Colonel Cyril Matthey, Sir Frederick Pollock, and Captain Sir Richard Burton, were fencers interested in the history and practice of antique forms of fence.
In the preface to his famous 1896 complete bibliography of fencing and dueling, British researcher Carl Thimm stated "all forms of fencing" were seeing at the time a "revival" after a "long period of abeyance".
Hutton also tells us that, "the fence of the case of rapiers, as of all the other Elizabethan weapons, is much in vogue at the present time at the Baritsu club, now the headquarters of ancient swordplay in this country." The Baritsu club ironically was itself teaching an eclectic English form of self-defense created by combining boxing, wrestling, and Savate with elements from Japanese jujitsu and had among its members Arthur Conan Doyle.
Emphasis mine.
Think about that for a second. Arthur Conan Doyle was a martial reconstructionist of historical European forms of fighting.
And that's pretty much why I made this thread.
A few snippets for the sake of contextualising a particular piece of information.
Yet, interestingly this recent effort to follow "old swordplay" is not the first. Such an effort actually was underway over 100 years ago and in, of all places, Britain. Several Victorian military men, namely Captain Alfred Hutton, Egerton Castle, Captain Carl Thimm, Colonel Cyril Matthey, Sir Frederick Pollock, and Captain Sir Richard Burton, were fencers interested in the history and practice of antique forms of fence.
In the preface to his famous 1896 complete bibliography of fencing and dueling, British researcher Carl Thimm stated "all forms of fencing" were seeing at the time a "revival" after a "long period of abeyance".
Hutton also tells us that, "the fence of the case of rapiers, as of all the other Elizabethan weapons, is much in vogue at the present time at the Baritsu club, now the headquarters of ancient swordplay in this country." The Baritsu club ironically was itself teaching an eclectic English form of self-defense created by combining boxing, wrestling, and Savate with elements from Japanese jujitsu and had among its members Arthur Conan Doyle.
Emphasis mine.
Think about that for a second. Arthur Conan Doyle was a martial reconstructionist of historical European forms of fighting.
And that's pretty much why I made this thread.
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