A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry by Sir Richard Francis Burton

A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Author:Sir Richard Francis Burton [Burton, Sir Richard Francis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, History, Fiction & Literature
ISBN: 9781465627025
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Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2021-02-24T05:00:00+00:00


§ 5. The Guards or Parries.14

The ‘Infantry Sword Exercise’ proposes Seven Guards, a number which can hardly be reduced for practice on the drill-ground or in the schools: the Manuel contains the same number, including one for the Point. But of the seven no less than five are “Hanging Guards,” and Nos. 3 and 4 serve only to defend the inside and the outside of the advanced leg. This limb requires no assistance of the kind: an able swordsman never exposes his head and shoulders by cutting so low, and, if he does, the leg can be smartly withdrawn (parade retrograde, or en échappant), rendering the attack not only useless but dangerous to the assailant. Even in fencing, “low thrusts,” that is, at the body below the wrist, are never made, for fear of the “Time” being taken, until the upper line has been closed by a feint. In our Single-stick practice the first thought seems to be to attack the advanced leg—which may be well enough for Single-stick.



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