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Updated: 31 Mar 2009 


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This page has reviews of and links to select sites relevant to SCA rapier and fencing.

Note: titles and honorifics are omitted. Some of the authors are Defenders of the White Scarf (or the equivalent) and others are not.

What's new (March 2009)

Added list randomizer and link to Tivar's new wiki site.

 

Virtual (Fencing) Practice 1.2
Logan "the Bright and Shiny" (Outlands). Pictorial introduction to SCA fencing. Armor requirements, stance, basic parries and attacks, footwork, tips for solo practice. See elsewhere on site for pictures of the canton members, many of whom appear to be fencers.

Small Unit Tactics for Light Weapons
The Blue Company (Outlands). Includes leadership, marshalling, drills, stories. Note: This is all on one page now, and it's LONG (~310k). Updated Nov 2002.

Society Rules for Rapier
The Web site for the Society Marshal. Handbook and Appendices in PDF format.

Silfren the Singer's site
Silfren lives in Lochac. Queen Elizabeth's proclamation on limiting sword lengths. Sword and cloak usage. Accounts of 16th c. French duels. A proposal for playing a provost's prize.

Scola Metallorum Rapier Training Manual
Randal the Malcontent (Outlands). Basics (footwork, attacks, defenses), fighter styles (charger, blocker, runner, shifter), the "downed fighter", analysis of weapon styles, fighting against multiple opponents, training drill ideas, and oh so much more. 278k of information on one BIG page.

Robin's Roost
Walter Robin (Ansteorra). Journal, articles, prose, and pictures (including Gulf Wars from 2001), MANY links with reviews.

Njall's Library
Njall Olaf Hagerson (now Meridies, was Caid). Articles include: The Spanish Circle, by John MacCrimmon; The Helmet Project (converting existing helms for rapier combat, with pictures); making hilts, shop safety, forge construction, a tour of his shop.

Newcomer's Guide to Rapier
Senan O'Faolan (Atenveldt). Glossary, advice, persona questions. Updated Nov 1999.

Moondragon Manor
Tivar Moondragon (Ansteorra). "Think of it as a concentrated version of sitting around my living room and talking about rapier combat and the SCA." Tivar's articles have been online since at least 1997. Main areas: history, testing, White Scarves, costume, rules.

Midrealm Fencing Articles of Interest
One in particular has good advice: "8 Steps to Intervening in a Bout". Also, some of the manuals that are also on Gwylym's site. PDF files of manuals by Agrippa, Alfieri, Capo Ferro, di Grassi, Fabris, and Marozzo.

League of Rapier Academies
Based in the East Kingdom. Charter, beginner's guide, member roster, links to pictures.

KWAR 2000
Now archived on the Wayback Machine...

Elizabethan Fencing / Tattershall School of Defence
Gwylym ab Owain (Atenveldt). Brief profiles of period masters and their works, playing for prizes (London Masters of Defense), a study of period rapier blades, period fencing terms, training guides, his own manual on the use of the rapier, articles [Cavalier Graces, Rapier and Dagger, The Courtier, The Italian Circle Theory; "Don't Look at the Fish" (a philosophical approach for the SCA), "The Square Target and its use in the SCA"]; period manuals in PDF format [G.A. Lovino in HTML format!, Camillo Agrippa, Giacomo di Grassi, Ridolfo Capo Ferro, Salvatore Fabris, Achille Marozzo, Francesco Alfieri, Nicoletto Giganti, Carranza, Tamiriz].

Doré's Cross Roads
Christian Jérôme Doré (Ansteorra). Tips on drills, shields, equipment care, melees, timing, strategy, strength training, garb (waist coat); and more content planned (one hopes).

Campeche Steel
"An Informal History of Swordplay, Fencing, Dueling & Edged Combat Along the Texas Coast" — not only is this interesting on its own, it's also a surprising source for some SCA-related information. Tucked away in the pages are Tivar's involvement with rapier in the earlier days of the Society and the ties between HACA/ARMA and the SCA.

Black Wing Company
The company was formally disbanded in June 2005 at Uprising. However, the site remains. Drill and ceremony manual. Articles, charter, letters, handbooks, hymn, member list, pictures.

The Ansteorran Rapier
Otto Vustmann. Physical stats of rapier blades, historical literature, accounts of two duels, White Scarf treaty. Updated Dec 1997.

Academy of Defence
Danulf Donaldson (Atlantia). Historical blade specifications, punch-testing for masks, cloth test results, blade test results, White Scarf treaty. Updated Dec 1998.

Academie d'Espee
Aedan Aylwyn (Atlantia). Excellent contact info, MANY articles, poems, pledges, oaths, pictures, humor, MANY links.

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