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hi im from ireland myself as far as i know there is no official irish martial arts there is stick fighting and a strong tradition of short spear and shield and two handed axe if anyone knows anythin else please pm it to me i plan to try revive these arts in all irish aspects i can
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i have spent years studying the regions of Europe my ancestors came from. and i was wondering were there any fencing masters from Prussia.

Curious to know what has happened with the hitler youth manual? Has it been translated yet, or if not, are there scans of the pages available?

C

I am also curious about this. Does anyone know where to find it

Though there seems to be a copy or two floating around somewhere it seems to have ...

He sounds like he's never been trained before. There's a gulf of difference between a trained swordsman and an untrained swordsman. The trained swordsman can make large damaging cuts quickly. Human reaction time is a fixed number, it can only be improved very little 180-200 ms. A trained swordsman ...

http://talhoffer.blogspot.com/2008/02/myth-of-test-cutting.html

I...I have no words.

LOL.

-B.

i dont know which is the better question to ask. how can this guy be so dumb, or how does he find armor in that size
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_a4pEKfQK_f0/R6TNsKuQaxI/AAAAAAAAAAM/hLNzcmPOzew/S220 ...

Here is another good public resource:

http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/collection.html

just straight up manuals, no translation...

I enjoyed looking through the manuals from this link. does anyone know where i can find translation for these manuals

I was wondering if anyone can tell me where to find some online historical manuals where i can print out the plates and translation.

Curious to know what has happened with the hitler youth manual? Has it been translated yet, or if not, are there scans of the pages available?

C

I am also curious about this. Does anyone know where to find it

That is fascinating. I hope one of the remaining heirs of this tradition writes a book on it someday. Thanks for the essay Nathan. I find it odd that the style you got to document didn't employ sparring. There is pretty solid evidence for it in other arts and places in Europe. There are lots of ...

I also stumbled across this on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p4Jp1he1uM

Thank you

Here's the article I wrote about the Ramsey family style of Irish stick, hope it helps : http://quebec.shinkendo.ca/textes/stick_edited.pdf

Thank you this has been very helpful

Just thinking. I don't really get why the fact that Native American Empires crumbled under the feet of European invaders must imply that these cultures had "no martial arts." It's only necessary to posit that their martial arts was insufficient to defend them against Spanish invaders, especially if ...

The cultures mentioned if you look are pre-Inca. Does it matter if it is a result of modern codification considering it comes from an ancient source. As for the categorization of this as "secret martial arts" this is no different from Renaissance martial arts before associations like ARMA as for ...

Did Native Americans know how to fight? Yes. Did Native Americans have a martial arts system? NO! Given that neither the Aztex, the Maya, or the Inca had a true martial art, why should we assume that the few people living on the Aleutian Islands developed a true martial art?

You put up a good ...