the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

For the purposes of this study, the classical period extends from approximately 1880 CE to 1939 CE,

Hehe luckily for me the fencing master of club I was enrolled at was of the classical fencing period https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Gargano So I of course have all those fine manners a true fencing warrior possess……But seriously, as I recall the training was quite meticulous and the tools where not treated as fly whiskers it where “swords” we held in hand.……on the other hand there where an jiu jitsu club sharing the facility space, one time a guy got part of his ear cut off when they fooling around with real knife practicing defence against such, they continued with rubber knifes after that, sound decision.