{"id":5209,"date":"2016-05-08T05:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2016-05-08T05:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T05:40:39","slug":"punching-and-rapier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/bartitsu-blog\/punching-and-rapier\/","title":{"rendered":"Punching and Rapier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Bartitsu does not draw from the Italian traditions, the four hand positions clearly match. Especially for the rapier students at Academie Duello who are also Bartitsuka, I present \u201cBoxing Interpreted as Italian Sword\u201d without further commentary:<\/p>\n<h2>Prima<\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmawiki.org\/images\/9\/90\/Capo_Ferro%27s_First_Guard.jpg?resize=432%2C342\" width=\"432\" height=\"342\" class data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capo Ferro&#8217;s First Guard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This pairs with what I call &#8220;over-pronated&#8221; punches, and what some mistakenly call &#8220;the chopper&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/bartitsu-blog\/punching-and-rapier\/attachment\/prima-punch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/prima-punch.jpg?resize=564%2C633\" alt=\"prima-punch\" width=\"564\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/prima-punch.jpg?w=564 564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/prima-punch.jpg?resize=267%2C300 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Seconda<\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmawiki.org\/images\/5\/5a\/Capo_Ferro%27s_Second_Guard.jpg?resize=394%2C308\" width=\"394\" height=\"308\" class data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capo Ferro&#8217;s Second Guard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the common pronated cross:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/bartitsu-blog\/punching-and-rapier\/attachment\/seconda-punch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/seconda-punch.jpg?resize=456%2C640\" alt=\"seconda-punch\" width=\"456\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/seconda-punch.jpg?w=456 456w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/seconda-punch.jpg?resize=214%2C300 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Terza<\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmawiki.org\/images\/c\/c5\/Agrippa%27s_Third_Guard.jpg?resize=344%2C217\" width=\"344\" height=\"217\" class data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agrippa&#8217;s Third Guard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our favoured punch, featured in most bare-knuckle boxing instructions:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/bartitsu-blog\/punching-and-rapier\/attachment\/terza-bare-knuckle-fighter\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5212\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/terza-bare-knuckle-fighter.jpg?resize=590%2C307\" alt=\"terza-bare-knuckle-fighter\" width=\"590\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/terza-bare-knuckle-fighter.jpg?w=590 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/terza-bare-knuckle-fighter.jpg?resize=300%2C156 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Quarta<\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmawiki.org\/images\/6\/68\/Capo_Ferro%27s_Fourth_Guard.jpg?resize=519%2C332\" width=\"519\" height=\"332\" class data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capo Ferro&#8217;s Fourth Guard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Palm-up straight punching and uppercuts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/bartitsu-blog\/punching-and-rapier\/attachment\/quarta-punch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/quarta-punch.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"quarta-punch\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/quarta-punch.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/quarta-punch.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Bartitsu does not draw from the Italian traditions, the four hand positions clearly match. Especially for the rapier students at Academie Duello who are also Bartitsuka, I present \u201cBoxing Interpreted as Italian Sword\u201d without further commentary: Prima This pairs with what I call &#8220;over-pronated&#8221; punches, and what some mistakenly call &#8220;the chopper&#8221;. Seconda This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bartitsu-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/blog-punching-rapier.jpg?fit=470%2C260","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vfin-1m1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}