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Who is the successor to Italian fencing?

This article is an interesting research, which demonstrates to me as a journalist and a researcher of the world’s martial arts a peremptory exposure of Italian masters of fencing and the hereditary significance of the…

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Counterattack in the Spanish fencing school

It is not a secret that Spanish fencing school had a big influence in the medieval European history. One of the facts is that the Charles V and his well-prepared army had conquered almost the…

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The mystery of history: two different Sicilies

The mystical island in the Mediterranean is shrouded in legends about the Society of Honor and the Mafia. It is a place, where “justice” is not an empty sound. Despite numerous centuries of war and…

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About the difficulties of ancient fencing Spanish treatises translations. Cindy Kepp

We have repeatedly raised the topic of translations of ancient treatises on fencing. In the frameworks of this study, we have communicated with many experts who took part in this work. Among them we can…

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Object of national pride was returned to Spain

History knows many examples of falsification and speculation. Attributing to oneself somebody else’s merits and forgetting brilliancy of geniuses has became a social norm since long. That is the way it was, and always will…

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Academic excursus into the sport fencingworld. Gennady Tyshler

New research had started in the framework of the international project “Lies and Truth about Martial Arts”. The topic of this conversation was an academic journey into the world of sportive fencing. Special correspondent of…

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“Snake bite”. Second Echelon of the Palermitan Style of Spanish Fencing

In continuation of the study of the Palermitan system of Spanish fencing in the framework of one of the programs “The Science of Victory” Grand Maestro Oleg Maltsev had explained and demonstrated the second echelon,…

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Treatise by Gerard Thibault “The Academy of the Sword” published in the Russian language for the first time ever

An eternal monument of the military heritage the treatise of Gerard Thibault “The Academy of the Sword” was translated and published into Russian language for the first time. The translation of the treatise was prepared…

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The Treatise “A Simple way of examining teachers in the art of fencing with weapons” by Pacheco de Narvaez

Presenting to your attention the ancient Spanish treatise “Simple way of examining teachers in the art of fencing with weapons” (1625), authored by Don Luis Pacheco de Narvaez. The treatise was translated for the first…

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Ultramundane level of training methodology. Italian Fencing School.

To conclude the first block of explanations on Italian fencing with Grand Maestro Maltsev Oleg we are going to look at the greatest work of the master and a scientist in the field of martial…

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The science of Victory. Genoa school of fencing

This article is based on the lecture about Italian fencing by Grand Maestro Oleg Maltsev during live broadcast for the project “Lies and Truth in Martial Arts”. This lecture outlines the logic of the Genoa…

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Science of Victory. Italian school of Fencing

Each person has his own notion about Italian fencing. Therefore there are always misapprehensions concerning this or that question which concern his type of martial arts. This time we will try to regulate historical facts…