Swordsmanship or sword fighting refers to the skills and techniques used in combat and training with any type of sword. The term is modern, and as such...
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Chinese swordsmanship, also known as jianshu, refers to various types of swordsmanship native to China and is a part of Chinese martial arts practice....
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Bolognese Swordsmanship, also sometimes known as the Dardi school, is a tradition within the Italian school of swordsmanship which is based on the surviving...
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Historical European martial arts (redirect from Historical European Swordsmanship)
disciplines, and sometimes historical European swordsmanship (HES) is used to refer to swordsmanship techniques specifically. Modern reconstructions...
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The Book of Five Rings (redirect from The Chance-Opening Blow (swordsmanship))
said to be how to distinguish the Way through "Sword-Fencing", or "Swordsmanship". The idea of strategy would be encouraged to be very astute in their...
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Kenjutsu (redirect from Japanese swordsmanship)
Kenjutsu (剣術) is an umbrella term for all (ko-budō) schools of Japanese swordsmanship, in particular those that predate the Meiji Restoration. Some modern...
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there has been a revival of traditional or reconstructed methods of swordsmanship (劍術 geom sul, or 劍法 geom beop) based on the Korean sword in the Republic...
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Kendo (category Japanese swordsmanship)
arts, swordsmanship), that uses bamboo swords (shinai) as well as protective armor (bōgu). It began as samurai warriors' customary swordsmanship exercises...
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pencak silat Kalarippayattu Swordsmanship: Chinese swordsmanship Japanese swordsmanship Korean swordsmanship European swordsmanship Historical European Martial...
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of swordsmanship is used to describe the Italian style of fencing and edged-weapon combat from the time of the first extant Italian swordsmanship treatise...
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a Japanese honorary title given to a warrior of legendary skill in swordsmanship. The literal translation of kensei is "sword saint". This suggests a...
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Iaijutsu (category Japanese swordsmanship)
and swordsmanship that pre-date recorded history, attributed to the mythological age of the gods (kami).: 3 The development of Japanese swordsmanship as...
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writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). Musashi...
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instructor in a new course in swordsmanship. It was here he wrote two training manuals in mounted and unmounted swordsmanship, "Saber Exercise 1914", and...
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country where magic skill is regarded as absolute power with only his swordsmanship skills in order to reunite with his magical prodigy childhood friend...
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Nagahide, who studied under Nenami Okuyama Jion and his Nen-ryū style of swordsmanship. Having benefited from the good graces of being on the right side of...
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outside Nara, who became the heads of one of Japan's greatest schools of swordsmanship, Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. The Yagyū were also Kenjutsu teachers to the Tokugawa...
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German school of fencing (redirect from German school of swordsmanship)
longsword fencing, and who was also trained in a Spanish school of swordsmanship, either an early rapier-fencing school of La Verdadera Destreza or a...
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vs. unarmed, and within these categories armed: by type of weapon (swordsmanship, stick fighting etc.) unarmed: by type of combat (grappling, striking...
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Matsura Seizan (section Writings on swordsmanship)
Seizan was a practitioner of Iba Hideaki's Shingyōtō-ryū school of swordsmanship, in which Seizan was considered as an adept. Seizan adopted the name...
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some sword forms which utilize the tassel as an integral part of their swordsmanship style (sometimes offensively), while other schools dispense with sword...
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that time. McBane thereupon paid a sergeant for private instruction in swordsmanship, borrowed a sword, and then fought his "govenor", who beat him, took...
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Mito-han (now Ibaraki Prefecture). He was a master of the Shintomunen-ryu swordsmanship style. He was one of the original thirteen members of the Shinsengumi...
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Korean martial arts (section Korean swordsmanship)
and taekkyon. For armed martial arts, Korean archery, Kumdo, Korean swordsmanship, and knife fighting exist. In November 2011, taekkyon was placed on...
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Japanese martial arts (section Swordsmanship)
as a general term for swordsmanship as a whole, in modern times, kenjutsu refers more to the specific aspect of swordsmanship dealing with partnered...
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Fencing (category Swordsmanship)
end of the 19th century and is based on the traditional skill set of swordsmanship. The Italian school altered the historical European martial art of classical...
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larga ('wide iron door' or 'wide iron gate') in the Italian school of swordsmanship. Iron gate refers to postures where the sword is held above the forward...
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Austrians listed as sources of influence for the sword and style of swordsmanship in British sources. The popularity of sabres had spread rapidly through...
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Korean sword (section Korean swordsmanship)
The traditions of Korean bladesmithing and swordsmanship have served a central place in the military history of Korea for thousands of years. Although...
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Yagyū Shinkage-ryū (柳生新陰流) is one of the oldest Japanese schools of swordsmanship (kenjutsu). Its primary founder was Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, who called...
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