About a year ago I asked a throwaway question in a discussion among the Atlantian Rapier Army’s eager beavers: Can you attack into tempo on the melee field? I admit, at the time, it was a lot of Wistric saying “Hey, look how insightful I can be!” (and, let’s face it, this blog is all […]
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Wistric’s Weekly Warfare 38: Melee Contratempi Leave a comment
Questions for the Audience: Melee Tempi 2 comments
Hey, look, actual almost content about melee. Okay, so it’s actually meta-content. There’s an idea I’ve been kicking around in my brain for a while which will get a more thoroughly written out post soon, but for the time being, I’m going to make a related thought kick around in your brain. Using your favorite […]
Holiday Faire 2011 Leave a comment
Friday night, Tassin, Gawin, and I (but not Ruairc, boo Ruairc and holiday work schedules) piled in to Gawin’s little shoe box on wheels and headed up to Dante’s house, the two of them staying awake by talking alternately about League of Legends and Skyrim, which apparently are what people do if they can’t fight. […]
Saturday in the Salle Leave a comment
Saturday at Way Too Damn Early, Gawin, Tassin, Antonio III, and Jana piled into the War Wagon and drove three hours down to Sir Christian’s place for a couple reasons: 1) I wanted to fight somebody, a lot of somebodies, now that my foot seems to be functional. 2) Christian recently got his hands on […]
Journal, 10/31: For reals this time Leave a comment
Sort of. I have gotten completely out of the habit of how to write and document these, so it’s going to be weak. That said: The Foot is Alright I’ve had two real practices where my foot felt fully functional, one baronial, one Kbergian (plus a couple of driveway fights). At the baronial practice, fighting […]
Mair’s Peasant Flail 8: Duo Superni Ictus Leave a comment
Translation by Rachel Barkley Two High Blows Here you will wish to use now the following position properly. You will place forward the right foot and you will grasp the body of the flail in the middle with the right hand, and you will apply the left hand to the posterior part. Strike the left […]
Journal, 10/31-ish, but really just “the past two months” 2 comments
This past week I actually got out and ran for the first time since Pennsic. The foot endured it with little complaint, and let the rest of my body suffer from chronic slack-assitude. Not, in and of itself, notable, but it does mean it’s time to get back to training and kicking ass and taking […]
Mair’s Peasant Flail 7: Habitus Superni Ictus Contra Inferiorem Leave a comment
Translation by Rachel Barkley The Position of a High Blow Against a Low One You will position your body in this kind of competition by reasoning which will soon be described[1]. You will fix forward the left foot, you will grasp the flail in Scales[2] against the enemy so that the flail-body is inclined toward […]
Mair’s Peasant Flail 6: Ratio Superni Ictus Contra Medium Leave a comment
Translation by Rachel Barkley Reckoning of a High Blow against the Middle You will accustom yourself to a fight of this kind: Put forward the left foot, grasp the body of the flail with both hands from your right flank[1] against your enemy, from this position thence you will direct the hanging part of […]
Mair’s Peasant Flail 5: Ictus Superus Ex Flagello Leave a comment
Translation by Rachel Barkley High Strike from the Flail Rightly here you will have wished to use this position. You will plant forward the right foot, you will apply the right hand in the middle of the flail, the left hand on the lower end, and from this position you will strike with the hanging […]