The Art of Fencing Reduced to a Methodical Summary
Title | The Art of Fencing Reduced to a Methodical Summary PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Slee |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2017-02 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0994359047 |
Jean de Brye's The Art of Fencing (1721) is a manual for fencing instructors and coaches showing how to break down the discipline into four broad developmental stages. He begins with the basics of posture, balance, guard positions and simple actions before progressing to chaining together these actions to make complex attack phrases and later moving on to sparring with another opponent. It is not a book which teaches early French smallsword techniques but it describes a small collection of techniques for illustrative purposes. Historical European Martial Arts instructors and historians will find The Art of Fencing useful in understanding Enlightenment period fencing pedagogy as well as proving a useful framework for teaching period swordsmanship in the modern day. There are a great many practical examples of how de Brye's teaching framework was and can be put into action in the training hall. This is a book which deserves to be found on every fencing instructor's bookshelf.
The Art of Fencing Reduced to True Principles
Title | The Art of Fencing Reduced to True Principles PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Markland |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 91 |
Release | 2014-11-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1312651598 |
New English translation from the French of St. Martin's 1804 instruction manual for smallsword and sabre. This is not a facsimile edition. All available plates have been restored as close to like new as possible.
Schools and Masters of Fence
Title | Schools and Masters of Fence PDF eBook |
Author | Egerton Castle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Fencing |
ISBN |
The Complete Guide to Fencing
Title | The Complete Guide to Fencing PDF eBook |
Author | Berndt Barth |
Publisher | Meyer & Meyer Sport |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2017-09-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1782551115 |
This teaching and reference book covers the most important concepts of training theory in the sport of fencing and their methodological application. Supplemented by the general teaching methods and experiences of Germany's most successful trainers, findings, theories, and methods of training, science-oriented basic concepts are integrated here with application-oriented editing. Through the collaboration of internationally renowned scientists and long-time successful trainers, a fencing book was created that is unique in fencing literature. From the Contents: • Essential information regarding terminology • Basic methods of fencing training • Youth training • Aspects of sports medicine in fencing • Foil fencing • Epée fencing • Saber fencing • International development trends in fencing
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books
Title | Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 633 |
Release | 2016-06-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004324720 |
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies. This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts. Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.
Cheng Hsin T'ui Shou
Title | Cheng Hsin T'ui Shou PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ralston |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781556430947 |
This book provided this beginning tai-chi student with a rich, methodical philosophical "grounding" on some concepts that that are at the core of Eastern martial arts. Ralston helps the reader develop an awareness, quite literally "from the ground up".
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Title | The Burnt Orange Heresy PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Willeford |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1683358015 |
A driven art critic’s plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything—blackmail, burglary, and beyond—to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living—and most reclusive—artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff? Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresy—the 1970s crime classic now back in print—has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con. Now a major motion picture starring Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger Praise for The Burnt Orange Heresy “Stunning . . . A novel full of genuine fun that also manages to make a level statement about the art world and its hermetic credulities.” —New Yorker