This page has reviews of and links to selected sites relevant to SCA rapier and fencing.
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Ýves’ reviewed links for SCA rapier |
| Updated: Jan 8, 2006 |
Note: some of the authors are Defenders of the White Scarf (or equivalent), some are not. (Meaning, not everyone listed below is a Don or Doña.)
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.
Tivar's Corner
Articles by Tivar Moondragon (Ansteorra) from 1997: "Distilled di Grassi", The Machine, SCA rapier history, White Scarf
history.
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. "The Bluffer's Guide to Swetnam". Sword and cape/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. Aug 2003! (Original posted Sep 2002.)
SCA Chivalrous Arts
Links for "rapier/duello", kingdom rapier sites and more.
Robin's Roost
Walter Robin (Ansteorra). Journal, articles, prose, and pictures (including Gulf Wars from 2001), MANY links with reviews.
Njall's Library
Njall Hagerson (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.
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
Teachers and class descriptions.
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].
Dylan's fencing page
Dylan ap Maelgwn (East). Period manuals, kingdom info links, rules, OGRE roster, cloth testing results. Last updated Jan 2001?
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.
Academia Xiphias
Household based mainly in Ealdormere. Newsletter, roster, many
pictures, prose.
Pictures of fencers and rapier combat
Winged Rabbit (dead link: Mar 2007)
Andrés Míguel Rodríguez de la Rosa lives in Caid. Many, many photos going back to spring 2001.
The Swept Hilt Inn
Robert Camulus Brigantia lives in Caid. Many pictures of fencers and combat, some from Winged Rabbit. Last updated Oct 2002.
Scola Metallorum
As noted above, most of the members in this canton of the Barony of Caerthe in the Outlands appear to be fencers. A few Estrella
pictures too.
Lady
Eorann
Eorann inghean Bhroin (a.k.a. Eeyore) lives in Meridies. Includes nearly 200 pictures from the Gulf Wars held in 2002. (Careful, on the picture page they will all
load in a side frame - a fast Internet connection is recommended.)
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