His focus is on smallsword, rapier, and polearms. He has been a martial artist since 1998, and started practising HEMA in 2009. A: 'You dont have a drivers license How lame.' B: 'Hey, at least I dont still live in my parents basement. From French, literally, 'touched,' used in fencing to acknowledge that a scoring hit has been made. ![]() He has published a number of translations of fencing treatises, including Of the Single Rapier, Lesson on the Thrust, and Swordplay.Īntoine Coudre is a historian who has worked as Researcher in the History department at the Centre des Hatues Études de l’Armement. Fencing.Net is the leading online news source, guide and community to the world of Olympic/Sport Fencing. touché Used to acknowledge that the other persons retort, counterpoint, or repartee was especially appropriate or well made. Reinier van Noort is a martial artist and researcher who has practised HEMA since 2005, focusing mainly on rapier fencing. In this work, Reinier van Noort and Antoine Coudre present the first ever English translation of La Touche’s Vrays Principes, providing a fascinating view on the development of fencing in France at a time when the rapier gave way to the smallsword. It is to this King that La Touche boldly dedicated his treatise, Les Vrays Principes de l’Espée seule, in 1670, and it is this treatise that could be seen as the first work to show how fencing evolved to accommodate the changing weapon. Often, this development is associated with France, and the court of its King, Louis XIV. Bill Steuben (left) of the Chicago Athletic Association Fencing Club. ![]() Our Role: To develop fencers to their maximum potential. ![]() Our Vision: To be the centre of fencing excellence in promoting the art of modern fencing. In the second half of the seventeenth century, the rapier commonly became lighter and shorter, with a smaller hilt, and eventually developed into the smallsword, also known as the court sword. TOUCHE FENCING CLUB MALAYSIA Our Identity: Touche Fencing Club is the first independent private club established in Malaysia since 1992. About The True Principles of the Single Sword Borrowed from French touch, past participle of toucher (to touch).
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