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New Fencing School in Jonesboro Draws Sword - ArkansasSports360.com
New Fencing School in Jonesboro Draws Sword ArkansasSports360.com, AR - By Arkansas Business Staff JONESBORO - The art of swordplay is coming to Jonesboro as the Northeast Arkansas Fencing Academy (NEAFA) readies to fill ... |
Fencing action heats up - NJ.com
Fencing action heats up NJ.com, NJ - Livingston and Columbia as the teams to beat, for both girls and boys fencing. In the Star-Ledger's top 10 rankings, Gov. Livingston is number one with ... Muhammad, Batzli lead Columbia to Santelli title (High school ... |
CCS decides to speed up fencing along Bangla border - Times of India
CCS decides to speed up fencing along Bangla border Times of India, India - "The idea of hastening the fencing is to prevent anti-India elements using Bangladesh to infiltrate into India," said a senior home ministry official. ... CCS decides to speed up fencing along B’desh borders |
Cascos: No answer yet - Brownsville Herald
Cascos: No answer yet Brownsville Herald, TX United States - Approximately 17 miles of border fencing is expected to run through Cameron County. Cascos said he received word last week that construction on the border ... Precinct 1 constable search running into legal problems with ... |
About Fencing
Fencing is the art of armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or slapping bludgeoning weapons directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned, of European origin. Examples include swords, knives, pikes, bayonets, batons, clubs, and similar weapons. In contemporary common usage, "fencing" tends to refer specifically to European schools of swordsmanship and to the modern Olympic sport that has evolved out of them. It has Spanish origins. Fencing is one of the four sports which has been featured at every modern Olympic Games. Currently, three types of weapon are used in Olympic fencing:
Etymology: The word 'fence' was originally a shortening of the Middle English 'defens', that came from an Italian word, 'defensio', in origin a Latin word. The first known use of defens in reference to English swordsmanship is in William Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor: 'Alas sir, I cannot fence.'
Fencing teachers and schools can be found in European historical records dating back at least to the 12th century. In later times some of these teachers were paid by rich nobles to produce books about their fighting systems, called treatises.
The earliest known surviving treatise on fencing, stored at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, England, dates from around 1300 AD and is from Germany. It is written in medieval Latin and German and deals with an advanced system of using the sword and buckler together. From 1400AD onwards there are an increasing number of fencing treatises surviving from across Europe, with the majority from the 15th century coming from Germany and Italy. In this period these arts were largely seen as 'knightly' and for the nobility - hence most of these treatises deal with the knightly weapons, such as rondel dagger, longsword, spear, pollaxe and armoured fighting mounted and on foot. Some treatises do cover the weapons more usually used by the common classes however, such as messer and sword and buckler. Wrestling, both with and without weapons, is also featured heavily in the early fencing treatises.
By the sixteenth century, with the widespread adoption of the printing press and the increase in the urban population, together with other social changes, the number of fencing treatises being produced increased dramatically. Fencing schools had been forbidden in some European cities during the medieval period, though court records show that such schools were kept illegally. After around 1500 it seems to have become more socially and legally acceptable to carry swords openly in most parts of Europe, and the increasing fortunes of the middle classes meant that more men were aspiring to carry swords, learn fencing and be seen as gentlemen. By the middle of the 16th century many European cities contained great numbers of fencing schools, often clustered together, such as in London in 'Hanging Sword Lane'. Italian fencing masters were particularly popular in the 16th century and they went abroad and set up schools in many foreign cities. The Italian styles of fencing at this time, bringing concepts of science to the art, were seen as revolutionary and new, and they appealed to the new renaissance mindset.
In 16th century Germany compendia of older Fechtbücher techniques were produced, some of them printed, notably by Paulus Hector Mair and by Joachim Meyer , based on the teachings of the 14th century Liechtenauer tradition. In the 16th century German fencing developed sportive tendencies. Eventually the newer Italian attitude to fencing grew in popularity in Germany as well as elsewhere.
Today there are many groups around the world recreating the old fencing systems, using the surviving treatises. Historical European Martial Arts are growing fast, bringing in people from many backgrounds, including those who have taken part in modern sport fencing and Asian martial arts.
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