A post without riposteI

 

* they’re called defensive parries because a riposte from their lines can be seen coming from a mile away. You can always make a riposte from any line; it just won’t always work. But these 4, and nuevieme (parry 9) all look wonderful, will big sweeping arcs of the blade from one line to the other. Parry 10, usually not listed in any fencing manual, is the most practical one when approached by someone pointing a sword at you: run away!!

1. WW-I vet?

   WW-I was over in 1918 and he wasn’t born till 1922.

   Posted by New Jersey Yankee       01/03/2012  at  01:52 AM  



2. Both references to WW say WWII, I am more worried about the discrepancy between
   

   died in New York on Monday

   and
   

   died early New Year’s Day at an English hospital

   Doesn’t any ‘news’paper employ proof readers/editors any more - do all 20 something morons always turn off the spell check/grammar feature?

   We are getting old and all of the Greatest Generation are dying off - to leave us to the whims of the Dropout/acid generation, the Me Generation, the Gen Xers and the moron OWS generation - God Help America.

   Posted by wardmama4       01/03/2012  at  12:38 PM  



3. God speed, Maestro!!

   Posted by MAJ Mike       01/03/2012  at  10:39 PM  



4. I’m familiar with this guy. He’s choreographed fight scenes from the Errol Flynn days to Star Wars. Even beyond, I think. He might have been involved with the Peter Jackson’s LotR trilogy.

   There’s a documentary called ‘Reclaiming the Blade’. Check your library for it. He’s one of the experts they interview. I happen to have it as an .avi file.

   Posted by Christopher       01/04/2012  at  06:10 PM  

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