Those who practise with the sword should know how to conduct themselves in four different circumstances. Firstly, he should know how to play discretely with practice swords, behaving modestly without offending his partner, who due to personal acquaintance or for other reasons, deserves to be respected. This constitutes the principal area for any good instructor. Secondly, he should know play out of necessity, with unknown people he is not acquainted with, without respect, offering clear and unequivocal proofs, so that the blows themselves deliver the sentence, without leaving any excuse. Thirdly, he should know how to act if he happens to find himself in a one on one confrontation with a sharp sword, with or without a cloak. Fourthly, he must know how to act with a sharp sword in the piazza, alone or with companions, when the encounter is unplanned, beset by possibly more than one person; considering that in the piazza the ground, air, measure, and view are not like in the salle, nor is the spirit in which you fence like in the piazza, and neither the outcome. Therefore in each of these circumstances you have to have considered and prepared for how you will behave, since in each of the above cases you must act differently; and you need a lot more than just knowing how to put yourself into a pretty guard, and delivering a nice lunge into a target. Although it is no wonder this is the perception of the masses against fencing masters. Alessandro Senese - 1660
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:21:54 +0000
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