#mostlynotactuallylongsword

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You're on weight? Cool. There's bacon in the fridge that needs eating, by the way.

my girlfriend’s effortless sabotage of my tournament preparation.

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This amuses me far too much....

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A lifestyle is built around your own preferences, desires, and goals and should never be something that is preordained by a group. If you are forsaking the things most important to you to adhere to the expectations of a group, you are not in a community. You are in a cult. ... You can’t just take a bunch of membership contracts, pour gas on them, set them on fire, and pound your chest and yell to the sky 'I HAVE MADE COMMUNITY.'

http://breakingmuscle.com/sports-psychology/what-is-community

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From Danelli Armouries - almost enough to make me take up sidesword.

In line with the other entry level sideswords we couldn't miss the opportunity to make a Rappier, following the iconography of Meyer and Mair to create something suitable for the study of aforementioned treatises while managing to keep the prices low. Same characteristic of the other entry level models, hollow ground blade, thick edges, flexible enough to be safe, extra length in the grip for the ones of you with thick gloves. Price for the first run £200 The specs: Weight: 1.2kg Length: 106 cm - 42" Width: 26 cm - 11" Blade lenght: 92 cm - 36" Blade width: 3.5 cm - 1"½ PoB: 11 cm - 3"¾

That's Danelli Armouries folks!

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Groundwork in HEMA

Somebody said there was no ground fighting in HEMA. The following is the result of a quick and dirty wiktenauer binge. Links and pics below...

Try Huntfeltz's armoured Ringen - a pretty good example of why "with daggers no one would train groundfighting" makes no sense!http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Martin_Huntfeltz

It's been a while since I did any halfswording, von Danzig at least makes reference to targeting the same places with the point when he's been thrown downhttp://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Peter_von_Danzig_zum_Ingolstadt

Talhoffer and Lignitzer both have "knave wrestling" type balloon ride sweeps/tomo nages and counters. The 1467 Talhoffer at least includes various dagger locks and finishes on the ground.

Petter shows groundfighting.Part 2 has a set of plays involving what BJJers would call the open guard. - http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Nicolaes_Petter

Mair has his famously brutal half guard pass (gouge the eyes while kneeing the nuts, as far as I remember)  http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Paulus_Hector_Mair

Gladiatoria has unterhalten, ausstenden with harness and dagger.http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Gladiatoria

Hutter has similar stuff

Sigmund Ringeck's grappling is what Medvesec was teaching at Celje. EDIT: Whoops! Gregor was teaching the grappling in "Codex Ringeck", which Wiktenauer at least thinks is not by Sigmund hisself! http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Codex_Ringeck_(MS_Dresd.C.487)

Nuremberg group has both grappling - mostly pins and locks on the ground - and some (untitled) dagger stuff with one participant on the ground.http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Nuremberg_Group