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Monthly Archives: October 2016

Thibault – Chapter Three

Saturday, October 29, 2016

On The Correct Way of Drawing The Sword and Entering Into Measure This is the first chapter where Thibault has the student doing something with the sword, and falls neatly into the natural progression of learning. Interestingly this is one of the few places where he talks about making it work on the street – […]

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Thibault – Chapter 2

Saturday, October 29, 2016

On Proportions Having apparently dealt with the circle and proportions of the body completely in Chapter 1, Thibault returns to it in Chapter 2, in what feels to me l like a somewhat defensive inclusion outside his main thrust of teaching. The chapter starts by restating the argument that the measuring stick for all fencing […]

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Thibault – Chapter 1

Saturday, October 29, 2016

The Proportions of the Human Body, Related to the Figure of our Circle and to the Proper Length of the Sword Chapter 1 is very dense, both with theory and the way that the theory is discussed, but has a number of key statements that need to be observed. It’s a pretty good illustration of […]

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Thibault – Author’s Note

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Since I last wrote, and started searching around, I have found a record of one sale through Christies of a copy that changed hands for around €19,500 in 2009. There’s some interesting details there around that physical copy, including the size, listed as 550 mm x 410 mm, which is roughly the size of an A2 […]

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Thibault – Introduction

Saturday, October 22, 2016

I have in recent weeks began re-reading Academie de l’Espee by Gerard Thibault d’Anvers, for a variety of reasons. Sadly my virtually non-existent French means I am reading the 2005 translation by John Michael Greer. To my surprise and delight, re-reading after having left it alone for several years I find it opening up for me, […]

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On Git Submodules…

Monday, October 3, 2016

Git Submodules. Just Say No. Not Even Once. http://slopjong.de/2013/06/04/git-why-submodules-are-evil/ https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your-company-shouldnt-use-git-submodules/ http://somethingsinistral.net/blog/git-submodules-are-probably-not-the-answer/

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