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Uncle Johannes got his style from boiling down other masters techniques from poland, the holy roman empire, france and northern italy. Its the style thats important, not the name or the national border. We do 'GERMAN' at the GCoD but you could call it 'Partick Chibwork' and it would still be the same techniques. The tag german or italian is just an easy way to diferentiate the styles. Had Fiore been german and liechtenaur...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mark Lancaster Yeah, it's a hard one getting those rules balanced properly - I'm not a fan of point scoring, but hats off to the DDS as I know Ian has put a lot into getting their rules together and pushed out. Free play - now that's where it is Yeah I understand the reason for the tournament rules but I didn't take part because I didn't think I could fight to that rules set. Also I have a...

"There is but one art of Longsword." [ducking] Peace favor your sword, Kirk

[quote] Quote: Originally Posted by Mark Lancaster Hi Louie, That would be Ken - a new(ish) member of the small study group we have up in Carlisle (which is much more local than trying to get up from London ) Big thumbs up to Ken then... Game enough to give us a go and not refuse a challenge, he freeplayed Myself, Marco and Bear (amongst many others) - while dissapointingly others gave us a wide berth. Louie

Quote: I'm surprised I haven't seen it reported here. It seems to be burning up the WMA 'net. Apparently, about a year ago, Ken Mondschein found a previously unknown Fiore manuscript, by accident, misfiled in a Paris collection. He paid to have it scanned (not an insignificant amount) and now low-res images have shown up online (not good enough quality to read the verses, but you can kinda make out most of the illustrations if...

Quote: Originally Posted by Polar Bear Yeah and it's German the rest are just watered down versions. The Bear. Asides from Stolenbjorn, are there any "Fiore-ists" on the board? I've wanted to learn a bit in case I have to fight any. -Mark

Hi Louie, Quote: I'm pretty sure ONE of the Exiles was there on his own (cursing you all for not showing up ) - we did a bit of Freeplay together - but I met so many new faces over the weekend his name escapes me for the moment That would be Ken - a new(ish) member of the small study group we have up in Carlisle (which is much more local than trying to get up from London ) Quote: As to the rules, IMHO they were more on the side of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mark Lancaster Hi there - not too sure I agree with you here. Having done more research than I consider healthy into the period, the one thing that keeps coming through is that, although there wasn't an Italian state, there was definitely an Italian identity. I think it's fair to call Fiore's system Italian - it certainly travelled from Friuli to a large part of northern Italy - Milan. Ferrara/Parma,...