Again, a great lesson today. At the end you jogged my memory about a key to Fiore's teaching. He tends to teach the farthest / safest techniques first. You can't get much farther than flinging your sword. The universal parry that coda longa gives is a pretty far distance, too, leaving your hands still on the sword. Point forward in the shortened guard still gives you some distance. Point off-line in the next guard shortens the reach that much more. Its interesting to me that he puts the di donna's last. I have to mull over that.
I don't understand this "safest technique first", what makes them more or less safer than the other from your pov? From the farthest techniques, how do you order what makes you further? A parry as I know is a beat against the opponent's moving blade so its stance or strike is broken. Why do so many people use Coda Longa as a parrying action when you see almsot every time they don ethat, its basically no different than crossing your blades if you were to do it without ever starting from it.
@inferna7327 that's a lot of questions, and more than I can get into in a TH-cam comment. A lot would get lost in brevity. To properly answer would take a class or essay.
@@theholeyknight But placing extended ideas like safety without anyone being mutual on those particulars yet. In the literature, it mentions 'this guard is good in armor, but not as good without armor'. To describe sword against sword fighting, I have no idea in the history of sword fighting ever. When any position a person took was more safe because of the measurement between the range of motion of weapons. In my perspective, those stances are there to teach you to be effective at any position, they're not there because to describe being safe against someone's ability to deliver an effective strike from any distance.
Again, a great lesson today.
At the end you jogged my memory about a key to Fiore's teaching. He tends to teach the farthest / safest techniques first.
You can't get much farther than flinging your sword.
The universal parry that coda longa gives is a pretty far distance, too, leaving your hands still on the sword.
Point forward in the shortened guard still gives you some distance.
Point off-line in the next guard shortens the reach that much more.
Its interesting to me that he puts the di donna's last. I have to mull over that.
I don't understand this "safest technique first", what makes them more or less safer than the other from your pov? From the farthest techniques, how do you order what makes you further? A parry as I know is a beat against the opponent's moving blade so its stance or strike is broken. Why do so many people use Coda Longa as a parrying action when you see almsot every time they don ethat, its basically no different than crossing your blades if you were to do it without ever starting from it.
@inferna7327 that's a lot of questions, and more than I can get into in a TH-cam comment. A lot would get lost in brevity. To properly answer would take a class or essay.
@@theholeyknight But placing extended ideas like safety without anyone being mutual on those particulars yet. In the literature, it mentions 'this guard is good in armor, but not as good without armor'. To describe sword against sword fighting, I have no idea in the history of sword fighting ever. When any position a person took was more safe because of the measurement between the range of motion of weapons. In my perspective, those stances are there to teach you to be effective at any position, they're not there because to describe being safe against someone's ability to deliver an effective strike from any distance.