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2. Swordsmanship - Wikipedia

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   Swordsmanship or sword fighting refers to the skills and techniques used in combat and training with any type of sword. The term is modern, and as such was mainly used to refer to smallsword fencing , but by extension it can also be applied to any martial art involving the use of a sword.

3. Historical European martial arts - Wikipedia

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   Civilian weapons include single sword, sword and cape, sword and dagger, and sword and Brocchiero (Buckler). The military weapons are the two-handed sword, spear, shield and spear, sword and targe, and sword and rotella. The civil weapons championship is one of the largest HEMA tournaments in the world. [30]

4. Buckler - Wikipedia

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   Buckler front and back Sword and buckler combat, plate from the Tacuinum Sanitatis illustrated in Lombardy, ca. 1390. Irish round shield. A buckler (French bouclier 'shield', from Old French bocle, boucle 'boss') is a small shield, up to 45 cm (up to 18 in) in diameter, [1] gripped in the fist with a central handle behind the boss.

5. Italian martial arts - Wikipedia

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   It involved the usage of weapons (swords, daggers, walking stick and staff). Each weapon is the product of a specific historical era. The swords used in Italian martial arts range from the Bronze daggers of the Nuragic times to the gladius of the Roman legionaries to swords which were developed during the renaissance, the baroque era and later ...

6. Achille Marozzo - Wikipedia

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   An introduction to the use of single sword and sword and buckler, according to the work of Achille Marozzo by Phil Marshall and Oliver Barker of The School of the Sword. An introduction to the play of two swords, one in each hand, according to the work of Achille Marozzo by Phil Marshall and Oliver Barker of The School of the Sword.

7. Badminton - Wikipedia

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   Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact origin remains obscure.

8. Martial arts manual - Wikipedia

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   Example of an illustration of half-sword, c. 1418: Islan the monk executes a half-sword thrust against Volker the minstrel (CPG 359, fol. 46v). fol. 2r of the Cod. 44 A 8, depicting two fencers in the vom tag and alber wards. Illustration of a half-sword thrust against a mordhau in armoured longsword combat. (Plate 214) Codex Wallerstein.

9. Royal Armouries Ms. I.33 - Wikipedia

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   The treatise expounds a martial system of defensive and offensive techniques between a master and a pupil, referred to as sacerdos (priest) and scolaris (student), each armed with a sword and a buckler, drawn in ink and watercolour and accompanied with Latin text, interspersed with German fencing terms. On the last two pages, the pupil is ...