PSA: Historic fencing clearinghouses

[anotheranon]

ViaHup.com, the Italian Swordplay Wiki - yes, Wikis are rightly suspect as primary sources but ViaHup's editors are the cream of the crop (they even explain about the odd name right up front). Very new but I'll be very interested to see how it turns out, because sharing knowledge in a sortable/searchable format warms the cockles of my little collaborative-coveting heart :)

Spanish Destreza Translation and Research Project - I don't know enough about this style of fencing to be a good judge, but it appears that their contributors are fairly serious. Should be interesting, as the Spanish style was supposed to have been very scientific and turned out chillingly precise fencers (jlsjlsjls, the "Narváez" mentioned on the site is also invoked in the Alatriste novels). Contains translations from the Spanish (thank doG, says the monolingualist) and illustrated footwork drills (PDF).

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Cool!!! Site is now bookmarked on my computer for later comfy reading ... thanks! :-)