Another Rapier Fencing From ARMA

rapier and dagger vs rapier and buckler.

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• WMA
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• rapier
• kendo
• fencing
• saber
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• kenjutsu
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• sword
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[Darthbelal]

THIS kind of sparring should be an Olympic sport instead of the tame saber fencing we see......

[Kahouneko]

Do you seek the Riddle of Steel?

[l3054]

@Ryo19zintkd savate is french kickboxing

[Miauriceful]

@kenkanif729

The fencing was for people who had money and time to practice. Bring a sword without to know how to use it was only a way to die soon.

[UJS8X]

@NaniaCystine If english is the language that matters here then why bother using French? If a "gauche" is a "gauche" and a dagger is a dagger, then English is English, Francais est Francais, and in French "main gauche" means "left hand" and refers to a sharp pointy piece of metal with or without a knuckleguard that is used in the left hand in conjunction with a rapier, hence the name. Make up your own English names if you're going to be that picky about them.

[Ryo19zintkd]

@NaniaCystine Is it Savate?

[neosonic66]

@NaniaCystine well, we'll have to agree to disagree then unless you can point me to a source, in which case I would genuinely be interested in reading about it.

[NaniaCystine]

@neosonic66 A Gauche is more a kin to a shortsword. Classification, is accurate but most people don't know the difference so they call it whatever and has become a habit of people calling certain things they are not. It doesn't matter what it's called in french its what the English decided to call it that matters since we are speaking english not french. A Gauche is without a shield a Main gauche is with a shield, regardless of what it means in french. End of story.

[NaniaCystine]

@neosonic66 First of all google it. I have a minor in medieval weapons. Second when you say rapier and dagger its like saying, in your terms, "BMW and a car". And its not a dagger. A dagger has a specialist look and feel to it. First of all a dagger's guard is smaller, it about 1.5-2 inches shorter than a gauche. In English you label melee weapons by their name not category. A Rapier is a Rapier a Gauche is a Gauche a Dagger is a Dagger. Continued.....

[neosonic66]

@NaniaCystine that's like saying 'That's not a car, it's a mercedes.' A main gauche IS a dagger, just a type used specifically for parrying. And there's no such thing as just a 'gauche' 'Main gauche' translates to 'left hand' from French. It's the term used for a parrying dagger, the 'main' part just means 'hand'. It doesn't refer to any sort of shield. A main gauche is simply a parrying dagger used in the left hand.