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----------The Sword Masters----------

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We sword masters are proud of ourselves and love the art of swordfighting... we own study and live for swords... if you would like to join talk to me... [Indelible]

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Falchion

It is not a very well known weapon in history except among big time medieval buffs, but it is a rather important one. Forged from the basis of the Egyptians' Khopesh and the Greeks' Kopis, the Falchion came about. The original Falchions looked very similar to a dadao or for less educated people a cleaver. It was however, a one-handed single edged, sword that in the Rennaisance era was curved. The medieval era Falchions though were either straight, or kind of obtuse. The Falchion of 16th century origin is excelent for slicing maneuvers and suitable for a thrust because it often had a sharp point. From the look of it, though it is a bit short, this broad-bladed weapon looks like it could be used effectivley from a mount, provided that the wielder had a good reach. Over time this design turned into a longer, more slender blade, the Sabre/Saber. I only know that the medieval form of a Falchion, the Conyers Falchion, looked rather ungainly, and is used as the emphasis of many medieval/sword books.

--update by [champagnebommer 77]

The Art of Fence: The Parry

In the art of fence there is something called a parry. It is quite simple, knock the foe's sword away from your body. Well, from that principle you can gain the advantage. One way is the Parry of Prime and Disarm by Seizure.
You use this when your foe comes in high with a thrust. You hit their blade from the top, knocking the tip downward but keeping their hand high. At this time their sword is about vertical. Then, you wrap their blade close to your body with your off-hand arm. Next, you put your sword into your off-hand and grip theirs at the hilt with your sword-hand and rip it away.
Now you have the obvious advantage possessing both swords.

--Update by [champagnebommer 77]

Dodge

Now, although I have put up that while fencing you should parry, it is also important to just stay away. Most people get tired more quickly while parrying than while just avoiding a hit. If you remember to just side step and counter a thrust, or step back and jump in after an attempted swathing blow. There are times when you cannot avoid contact, and those are the times you should parry. When forced into a parrying situation don't just stop their, use your free hand to punch your enemy, or send a kick to the groin, that tend to catch most people off guard and put them on their knees.
It isn't all about honor. Even a knight of honor would use dirty tricks to win whether they were fighting to the death or for chivalrous honor. It doesn't matter if you look like a coward, you killed the witness.

--Update by [champagnebommer 77]

Heavy Blades

Another choise of weapon many people prefer is the heavier swords such as claymores, broad swords, and buster swords.

Monay people assume that attacks from a heavy blade come slow and there only purpose is to strike through armor. this is not entirely true i use a heavly blade and i can get very quick attacks, but i am niether bid nor strong.

I use a metal scabbard with my sword held horazontaly in front of me to use a a pary tool or a quick strike while holding my sword up in the air virticly above me.

the trick is to eather dodge or parry there strikes then swipe down forcfully with the sword and if you miss you will still have the scabbard to fall back on.

[warlord stuart]

History of the Sword

Preeminent hand weapon through a long period of history, consisting of a metal blade varying in length, breadth, and configuration, but longer than a dagger, and fitted with a handle or hilt usually equipped with a guard. The sword became differentiated from the dagger during the Bronze Age (c. 3000 BC), when copper and bronze weapons were produced with long, leaf-shaped blades and with hilts consisting of an extension of the blade in handle form. By Roman times the hilt was distinct from the short, flat blade, and by the European Middle Ages the weapon had acquired its main basic forms. The heavy sword of medieval chivalry had a large hilt, often designed to be gripped in both hands, with a large protective guard or pommel at the top. The blade was straight, double-edged, and pointed; it was fabricated by repeated firing and hammering, a process that converted the iron into mild steel by the addition of a small amount of carbon. Blades were also made of laminated strips of iron, which were hammered together. Damascus was a renowned center of the craft.

Toledan steel and particularly swords have long been famous, being mentioned as early as the 1st century BC in the Cynegetica of Grattius "Faliscus." There is an important National Factory of Arms and workshops for damask and engraving, which produce metalwork decorated in the Mudéjar tradition.

I take this from: http://www.armadilloarmory.com/hxsword.htm

[Alexxei]

Suggested reading: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Exerpt from Hagakure
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.
* There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking.
* These are the teachings of Yamamoto Jin'emon:
* Singlemindedness is all-powerful.
* Tether even a roasted chicken.
* Continue to spur a running horse.

* A man who will criticize you openly carries no connivance.
* A man exists for a generation, but his name lasts to the end of time.
* Money is a thing that will be there when asked for. A good man is not so easily found.
* Walk with a real man one hundred yards and he'll tell you at least seven lies.
* It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is an even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

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2004-04-09 [Indelible]: need more members

2004-04-10 [champagnebommer 77]: It's too bad that the people I know that have sword interests aren't on Elftown. That reminds me, I'll have to start sparring with my friends more.

2004-04-10 [Lordterrex]: say.... what do u have to be to be a sword master man>???

2004-04-11 [Indelible]: yo wud up terrex msg me and tell me what u know bout swords

2004-04-15 [Arethusa]: i wanna join...i kinda learned to fight...got stabbed in the leg lol

2004-04-18 [champagnebommer 77]: Hmm...does anyone want to let me know how often I should post new stuff?

2004-04-26 [champagnebommer 77]: Should I keep preaching about the importance of the Parry?

2004-04-27 [champagnebommer 77]: do any of you sword masters other than myself and Megiltura do much?

2004-05-01 [Daemon SaDiablo]: May I join? Guess I should read before I post, eh. Sorry

2004-05-05 [goth dinah]: can i join please

2004-05-05 [champagnebommer 77]: Hmm...Finally, some growth. So, are we going to start using the wiki now?

2004-05-05 [Firnmenelwen]: may i please join? i am currently learning to use double shodo.

2004-05-06 [champagnebommer 77]: Shodo? Sounds fun.

2004-05-07 [Firnmenelwen]: yeah. they're short swords. they're a lot of fun :)

2004-05-08 [champagnebommer 77]: Well thats cool. I find that I like shorter swords the most. But I also find that they don't look as good on me.

2004-05-13 [Lordterrex]: i find that i do best with heavy and long.. i have the strangth to support it, and although its a bit slower i can crash through most defences, and get them from farther away..... i feel to in danger with short swords

2004-05-14 [crashbanger]: can i join please??i love the way of the sword.....

2004-05-17 [Lordterrex]: hmmm..... sum people must prove what they no of the sword....

2004-05-19 [crashbanger]: what u want to know??

2004-05-20 [psychopomp]: im here to join... i have a sword but its not a mievil sword... its a samurai... dun dun dun!

2004-05-21 [Indelible]: Samurai?? do u mean katana?? wakazashi? Tanto?

2004-05-21 [psychopomp]: yeh its a katana its cool... ill put it up on my house for a while

2004-05-23 [champagnebommer 77]: I have a katana, wakizashi, and tanto, as well as a colada del cid sword. My dad has a katana, two wakizashis, (one folded) and a folded sabre. This summer I plan on getting a rapier and some foils.

2004-05-23 [psychopomp]: cool

2004-05-23 [metalmeister]: anyone here familiar with the SCA?

2004-05-23 [crowfeather]: yes.... yes very familar.... *disappears as suddenly as appearing*

2004-05-23 [Lordterrex]: i am trying to get familiar with it, but saddly i must have a parent or guardian to do that.... as you can probably guess my mother is not as "exstatic" about the medeival times as me... heh.....

2004-05-23 [psychopomp]: hehe... really??

2004-05-24 [Lordterrex]: nope.... i love anythgin that has to do with jousting medeival music, armor, way of life.... WENCHES... lol.... but she dosent share my intrests, she understands she knows i love them.... but im the only one of te family who has an arsenal of medeival weapons

2004-05-24 [psychopomp]: nice

2004-05-24 [Lordterrex]: one of the teachers at my school is part of a scottish heritage society, and the keep close to the sca

2004-05-24 [psychopomp]: cool

2004-05-24 [champagnebommer 77]: Bummer, I must be the only one then. Well, I don't know of the SCA.

2004-05-24 [Lordterrex]: lots of medeival fairs are either run privately or by the SCA, they have it set up very nicely

2004-05-24 [jacktheripper]: hello i see you sre talking about i am in the SCA here in WI

2004-05-24 [psychopomp]: hey mage don't feel bad i don't know wat it is either

2004-05-25 [Lordterrex]: i ferget what it stands for.. but damnit i want to join.. lol

2004-05-25 [psychopomp]: hmm thats a good enough reason haha

2004-05-25 [psychopomp]: gah!!... it won't let me edit my name to the list

2004-05-25 [psychopomp]: oo yay my name is on there... ive been trying to do it for a few days

2004-05-25 [Indelible]: you need the pass msg me and i'll tell you

2004-05-25 [psychopomp]: no im good now

2004-05-25 [Indelible]: ok... if you dont wanna put up what you know

2004-05-25 [psychopomp]: o ok

2004-05-26 [warlord stuart]: cool can i join?

2004-05-26 [warlord stuart]: i specialize in heavy blades

2004-05-26 [Indelible]: I'm more of a Fantasy/Japanese sword specialist

2004-05-26 [Lordterrex]: i specialize in fantasy/practical armor, mail is my area mostly, but i study all forms of weapons.... katanas are amazing but i prefer bastard swords and battle axes.... im a heavy fighter

2004-05-26 [psychopomp]: im a katana girl :p, love 'em

2004-05-26 [dying immortal]: hweehoo I just joined ppl so helloo to everbody

2004-05-27 [warlord stuart]: bastard swords are simmilar to a hybrid of a long sword and a rapier correct?

2004-05-27 [Indelible]: Kinda like a long sword... The blade length was rarely much longer than that of a simple longsword, but because the weapon could be used with two hands (although there was really just enough room on most grips for about one and a half hands)

2004-05-27 [Indelible]: i dont see it being much like a rapier...

2004-05-27 [warlord stuart]: sorry i was getting my swords mixed up...my bad!

2004-05-27 [Indelible]: i c... its like calling a katana a butterfly sword

2004-05-27 [warlord stuart]: ok...

2004-05-27 [Indelible]: hmmm.... i'm thinking about posting about diffierent swords...

2004-05-27 [warlord stuart]: please do i dont know about too many.

2004-05-27 [Lordterrex]: well.. a bastard sword/hand and ahalf sword, as they are also called are bassicaly long swords, only a bit heavyer and longer with a longer handle so that if u wanted to inflict more damage u could include 2 hands, or a hand and a half.... since my hands are small i can use two, btu i weild it one handed

2004-05-27 [psychopomp]: *stares in amazement*

2004-05-27 [Kurus_Dreaon]: this place is cool...i cant find anywhere to learn to fight with swords but id love to join if i might

2004-05-27 [warlord stuart]: im self-taught with swords

2004-05-27 [Kurus_Dreaon]: cool...i would but im not good at learning somethings like this....id love to learn how but im not sure where to start

2004-05-27 [warlord stuart]: take the advise given above. do you have any swords?

2004-05-27 [Kurus_Dreaon]: nope...im going to get one soon though...ive had to fight aginst my parents about it but i think i can get one here soon

2004-05-27 [psychopomp]: i had to fight a bit... but i think being in karate helped a bit... meaning i would learn how to use it.... guess wat i might be able to get a new sword... its something like flimsy steel... i forget but its a chinese broad sword

2004-05-28 [warlord stuart]: i just have a royalty broadsword with a metal scabard.

2004-05-28 [psychopomp]: cool... never heard of it... but then again i am relatively new to it all

2004-05-28 [warlord stuart]: i dont know where it came from but it was made for some roral family i just call it Mortimort.