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Guys help me out. I need to wire some foils, how do I keep the wire taut while the glue sets?
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Yeah I can bow it alright, there's a shelf set up just for that at the shop. On the last one I did, I missed a spot with the glue and the tape had slipped, so the wire popped up proud when I straightened the blade. I tried salvaging it with more glue but I don't think the outlook's good.
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Aug 7, 2018 20:14
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dupersaurus posted:I was shown to give it a few wraps around the threading on the tang But today I realized the shop had cut the tangs too short for my long-rear end grips. 
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Aug 10, 2018 21:27
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The PBT model A1 is about a centimeter longer than most pistol grips, it seems. The tang's cut exactly flush with the bottom of the hole where the nut goes.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:31
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Xiahou Dun posted:Help? Rule #1 of buying HEMA gear: Ask your instructor. Lots of teachers have their own pet preferences. Lots of old school teachers demand fingered steel gauntlets, for instance, while the sporty generation forbids those and says to buy Sparring Gloves instead. SPES and Black Armoury are good places to source protective kit. Sparring Gloves make popular gloves. Regenyei and Kvetun make good, reasonably prices fencing swords. Field hockey shin guards go well with long socks. If you're in the States, sorry, you gotta order almost everything through an importer. Don't buy cheap knockoff stuff like Red Dragon unless you know you need some specific thing. Don't buy Neyman, they can't stick to deadlines.
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Aug 13, 2018 08:49
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If you have smaller hands, those things can get in the way. A couple of people at my club just hacksaw theirs down to an inch. But if you got an actual bruise, my guess is you're death-gripping the epee real hard and need to relax. Try not to bend your wrist, it should be relaxed and neutral.
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Sep 8, 2018 09:38
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Yeah, just roll in, you're far from the first office worker drawn into HEMA. Many clubs structure their curriculums with that in mind, even.
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Oct 4, 2018 21:56
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Xiahou Dun posted:I can buy a perfect second feder In general you'll want whatever your instructor recommends. If they go "buy whatever I guess" you should get what everyone else has, just so you don't accidentally get something massively harder or softer and feel bad about chewing a sword up. I'd probably recommend the Regenyei Short, but the standard Reg is completely fine too.
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Nov 13, 2018 08:18
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BirdOfPlay posted:removing the off-target in foil 
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Nov 19, 2018 21:12
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You should expect to get a set of blisters on your palms opposite your knuckles and maybe on the first joints of some fingers, but that goes away with time. But to be entirely honest I've never ever seen anyone actually have to tape themselves up because of blisters. Try ditching the gloves? I can't imagine wearing sweat-drenched gloves is good for your skin.
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Dec 5, 2018 08:29
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You really shouldn't get any more blisters than you would get from swinging axes and hammers. The only explanations I can think of are a) your gloves suck and b) you're gripping the sword too hard. The sword has a knob on the end to keep it in your hand, don't worry about it.
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Dec 5, 2018 09:06
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These are the only blue gloves I found, do you mean these? I'm repeating myself but seriously ditch your gloves and see what happens. I've not used this particular model more than a couple of times but I know that they're really stiff and the cut is weird. The glove shouldn't be tight either, it should just... fit. You certainly shouldn't have to break a pair in over actual months. Poorly fitting gloves chafe and make you choke the life out of the sword. They're not even that protective in a longsword context.
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Dec 6, 2018 11:19
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A correct cut naturally has a "drawing" component to its arc because of body mechanics. When you hold the sword in the conventional "handshake" grip the blade is at an angle to your forearm, which means it won't meet the target perfectly perpendicular and the sword will naturally bite into the target easier. In addition, when you make a boring old descending diagonal cut, the movement of your shoulders and hips will turn the arc of the sword into an ellipse which means that the sword is drawn through the target as you cut into it. My completely uninformed guess is that you're either hyperextending your wrists to reach further, or you're cutting without proper extension in the arms and shoulders, or both. Can't really help you more without video.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:27
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I'm glad that helped! I've never actually cut a thing, I just parrot things I read on the Internet.
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Dec 20, 2018 22:46
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If you’re struggling with good form, you can start out cutting without stepping. Footwork changes the trajectory of the cut and can be a big distraction when you're focusing on what your hands and arms are doing. Just, uh, remember to put your right foot forward when you cut from the right.
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Dec 31, 2018 20:02
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Which art, anyway? The art of cutting with a single step forward?  The trajectory of the cut changes depending on where and how you step anyway, it's fine to learn the mechanics of "swinging a sword" standing still. Obviously you need to move beyond that once you're comfortable with it, but that goes for any practice anyway.
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Dec 31, 2018 20:36
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Look up KneePro, those are what many competitive longsworders use. I've heard good things about Neyman knees but Neyman is notoriously bad at shipping things on time. Also get a set of field hockey shin guards and padded fencing pants while you're at it. Some people fence longsword in unpadded pants, but it's not a good idea until you know what the gently caress. Trust me on this.
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Jan 5, 2019 08:48
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My guess is that it marks a point where it's the swordsman's turn to "win" with a cut to the arm. Instead of trusting the swordsman to not smash his arm the naginata guy just pulls his arm out of the way first and then spins away to become a "new challenger". Or it's just aesthetics, who knows.
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Jan 8, 2019 08:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYPyhr_Fno
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Jan 19, 2019 14:43
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In modern fencing terms there's no right of way and the lockout timer is super long. Different target areas have different points values and in case of double touch, the lower is subtracted from the higher. So wading in close and helicoptering at the other guy's head is a solid plan.
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Jan 20, 2019 16:47
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I bet you'd love some Errol Flynn movies. Edit: Mark Hamill explains why they didn't do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIefj6dOhnM&t=213s Siivola fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Feb 23, 2019 11:18
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I don't know the school but they say they're a branch of Greg Mele's Chicago Swordplay Guild. Mele's been working on Fiore since the beginning of time so he's got a thorough perspective on the book. They probably don't fence nearly as often as the SCA guys do, however, and you’re guaranteed to meet at least half a dozen Sword Dads with medieval turnshoes and walls full of really expensive weapons.
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Oct 18, 2019 06:40
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Medieval re-enactment events and HEMA clubs run by middle-aged upper middle class dudes. The two aren't entirely the same crowd but there's significant overlap.
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Oct 18, 2019 13:32
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Speaking of sport HEMA, Tyrnhaw's going on and they've got a livestream. Rapier and dagger finals going on at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFnuBK-6CM Edit: The Youtube stream shat itself so they streamed the finals on Tyrnhaw's facebook page. Not sure if there will be a recording or not. https://www.facebook.com/pg/Tyrnhaw/ Siivola fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oct 19, 2019 20:03
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Congrats on the point, at least? 
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Jan 14, 2020 16:33
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Lemme just repost then here for convenience's sake:  The high septime is an Italian thing I think ("mezzo cerchio" in Italian), it's kinda like parrying in prime but it lets you keep the point in line.
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Jan 15, 2020 12:30
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Oh yeah, thrusting targets are everywhere in fencing clubs and there's even ones with lights that light up in random patterns available.
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Mar 21, 2020 07:52
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For drills, you're unfortunately a bit out of luck. There just isn't that much solo training material for either weapon out there. Your best bet are the Bolognese masters of the 16th century (Manciolino, Marozzo and the anonymous one) since a lot of their material is solo forms, but Joachim Meyer (also from the 16th century) might also have something. And that's it. You can get wooden swords from Purpleheart Armory. I don't really know any company making a replica of a sword like the Dark Souls one since to be quite honest, the proportions are all wrong. Kult of Athena sells a ton of various kinds of sharp swords though.
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Mar 27, 2020 20:45
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If money is not an object, Albion Swords and Arms and Armor make great replicas. Solo training material for HEMA of any kind is kind of scarce, unfortunately. The Bolognese sources are the only period material I can think of that have any meaningful stuff for solo practice. They've got stuff for the single sword (and you can entirely well use a simple cross-hilted sword for it), sword and buckler, and two-handed sword, and some polearms and other stuff besides. However, if you just want to get training, I'd recommend checking this out: 10 Beers posted:Figured there might some interest in this here. Guy Windsor is offering his online training course for $20. Normally $500, so jump on it if you're interested!
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Mar 27, 2020 21:08
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Nektu posted:The protection for the back of the head thats used in HEMA could make this safe however. If this had been a HEMA competition, the mask would have been halfway to the stands by the time the dude hit the floor.
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Aug 10, 2020 19:19
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That's the thing, lots of people seem to go a size up to fit a rugby cap in there because they don't want to get bonked on the head, and honestly I do get that. The issue is, if the mask doesn't fit snug to their actual head it can turn and twist and, in bad cases, fall right off in the action. The mask's own padding should rest squarely on the bit of forehead between your brow and hairline, and snugly both against and under your chin. Speaking with a mask on should not be 100% comfortable. I'm absolutely convinced that a poorly-fitting mask is the culprit in all cases of "waffles" where the mesh of the mask doesn't permanently deform but still somehow hits the fencer in the face hard enough to draw blood. Edit: Full disclosure I've never gone hard in my life and I'm just shouting from my armchair here. But like, come on if the mask is apparently fine afterwards, surely it's turned on the head?? Siivola fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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Aug 10, 2020 20:20
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You can also do it against any masked opponent, but you might end up getting dunked.
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Dec 29, 2020 08:46
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Veteran foilists, on the other hand, are terrifying psychics.
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Feb 2, 2021 20:00
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Oh yeah that’s the tournament where they specifically and explicitly wrote the rules to test the participants' throws, and then this guy got thrown and hurt and made a huge deal about it on facebook.
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Mar 17, 2021 17:37
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I swear on my mum the only reason that looks bad is because the guy getting thrown has zero clue what's going on. The reason the thrower throws his sword away is so they won’t accidentally land on it.
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Mar 17, 2021 17:58
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That’s about as nice a suplex as you can do with all the gear on. Like, that’s how you finish a suplex. From a grappling point of view there really wasn’t anything wrong with it. 
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DandyLion posted:Replay that video but imagine nobody had masks on. It's wank like this that makes me want to sell my kit and go do real sports.
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