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Originally Posted by Peter Hudson View Post
Hello Robert, Fencing technique was drilled home ...depending on what sort of sword was being taught...To have saved the day for The Sword...what was needed was a decision to use one technique of fencing...blended with an open fighting form where all moves were allowed. Emphasis on how to fight than on how to fence... Both schools missed out fighting and filled up their programmes with Fencing...
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Peter Hudson.
Which was Hutton's complaint in the period, and why he started studying older manuals and eventually produced his own.

Robert
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