ARN - Scarf meanings (was Cadets in Court)

Jesus Cavazos toshirokoi at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 6 20:25:01 PDT 1999



>From: "Larkin O'Kane [AKA Charlie Cain]" <larkin at webstar.net>
>Reply-To: ansteorra-rapier at Ansteorra.ORG
>To: Jesus Cavazos <toshirokoi at hotmail.com>, ansteorra-rapier at Ansteorra.ORG
>Subject: Re: ARN - Scarf meanings (was Cadets in Court)
>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 07:21:04 -0500
>
>Greetings Toshiro San,
>
>When I first started learning to fence almost everyone told me that my
>posture was wrong and that I should have my feet placed just so and
>should step just so and lunge just so....  I tried to do as they said, but 
>it
>didn't feel natural to me. Then at Known World Academy of the Rapier
>Antoine Dore asked me if I had been studying De Grassi very long and I
>said "Who/what is De Grassi?" and was introduced to one period fencing
>master's idea of a fencing style. [Or at least one englishman's translation
>of an Italian fencing master's  teachings].  One statement that this person
>made to me was that if I continued to study and practice this method then I
>had best get used to "everybody" telling me I was doing it wrong.
>
>
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And if you had been a newbie and someone supposably more experienced and 
knowledgable in rapier had walked up and told Antoine Dore he was wrong and 
was teaching you wrong, whom would you have believed?

Toshiro



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