Re: (TFT) notes+ The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship, Gorgeously Illustrated

[raito@raito.com]

I prefer Di Grassi to Thiabault.

And by that time, I had my own scissors.

It's also interesting that Yaquinto's Swashbukler used a system nearly
identical to En Garde, except that movement was done on a grid.

For those of you in the dark, those fencing game systems required that you
lay out your maneuvers ahead of time, and each took several beats. As a
made up example, if you started combat, and your opponent chose Lunge, the
attack would be in the first beat, and he'd be doing nothing in the
second. If you chose Parry and Lunge, your Parry would be in the first
beat, and your Lunge in the second (when he's doing nothing). Then you'd
spend 2 beats doing nothing. It works out pretty well.

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com

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