{"id":2488,"date":"2009-01-18T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.playfighting.ca\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2012-02-16T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T08:57:16","slug":"youngblood-unearths-smallsword-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/stage-combat-2\/youngblood-unearths-smallsword-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"YoungBlood Unearths Smallsword Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nAside from a brief list of terms and definitions in the Pallas Armata(1639) this is the earliest published historical fencing glossary I have seen. Please make best use of it that you can.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/youngblood.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22\">YoungBlood \u00bb Sword Geek: Smallsword Glossary 1784<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tim Klotz has sourced an excellent piece of sword history here. A full A-Z glossary of terminology and advice on smallsword duelling from a very early source. McArthur&#8217;s manual, which he published at the age of 24, is based on his understanding of Master Oliver. The reader may compare this work with Oliver&#8217;s Fencing Familiarized, and contrast with Angelo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/1853676268?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=memorishakes-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=15121&#038;creative=390961&#038;creativeASIN=1853676268\">The School of Fencing<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=memorishakes-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=15&#038;a=1853676268\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Klotz, &#8220;McArthur\u2019s dismisses many distinctive and flamboyant characteristics of Angelo\u2019s style (such as thrusting in Tierce, the Fan Parade (Modern Parry 6) and complex disarms).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from a brief list of terms and definitions in the Pallas Armata(1639) this is the earliest published historical fencing glossary I have seen. Please make best use of it that you can. YoungBlood \u00bb Sword Geek: Smallsword Glossary 1784 Tim Klotz has sourced an excellent piece of sword history here. A full A-Z glossary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24,28],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stage-combat-2","tag-historical","tag-stage-combat-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}