Broadsword and Sabre 10 Lesson Posters, & AHF Workbook for them.

[@jeremy4655]

I use a lot of you club's resources and always credit you. Can't thank you enough for the support

[@Yeknodathon]

Thanking AHF for these resources, very useful and in a format that is clear and concise. I'll be using!

[@MySelfDefenseBlog]

thanks for pointing to the workbooks. I'm currently training in sidesword and buckler and longsword but our local club is not doing sabre... so I appreciate the illustrated workbook.

[@taraskashuk1069]

Great information! Just started my way with saber. Very helpful!

[@MichaelJenkins910]

Thank you! I've been wanting these prints for a while now.

[@KlausBeckEwerhardy]

Thank you very much for the texts and the posters.

[@wcropp1]

Thanks for making these available to us. Awesome resource.

[@ktoth29]

Thank you for putting these resources together

[@dlatrexswords]

As before spectacular! Thank you so much nick for all of us at home swordsmen

[@10thStormClad]

My heartfelt gratitude to y'all!

[@lancerd4934]

Thanks! It's clear a lot of work has gone into these, well done.

[@TheJimm3h]

Thank you so much for all your work in this field Nick, trying to get into HEMA from all the way over here in NZ I can't tell you how helpful the AHF is. I very much look fore ward to getting these prints up on my wall . Also I'm wondering if you could do a video that compares an contrasts Georgian and Victorian saber? I also watch a lot of Scholar Gladiatoria videos and am intrigued by the similarities and differences, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how much is because of hilt/blade differences specifically but also any other thoughts too. Thanks again for the amazing work you put into this channel and the AHF website.

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Glad you are enjoying them. In terms of a comparison video, yes I can, but I am going to have to freshen up on the later 19th century sources. I have not gone into anything post Napoleonic era for many years now. Just out of personal preference for the period and weapons of the period. Maybe over the Christmas break I will go back through the later sources and see what I can do.

[@StudyofSwords]

TheJimm3h This is really interesting, because of the three popular(?) Victorian sources, if limiting to BMS, Angelo's is the only one which still places a lot of emphasis on slipping when guarding (albeit as a foundational principle), whereas Waite and Hutton limit the leg slip substantially. Waite, so far as I know, doesn't provide much of an explanation. Hutton makes the case that when you are on a horse, you can't slip the leg, so you needed to learn to parry low cuts/ leg cuts without relying on the slip.

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

I have already been doing more reading and comparison into this, and will produce a video once I am happy with my comparisons. I also just bought a first addition of Angelo's new exercise, 1817, but will have to wait a week or two for its arrival. In the meantime I have been going through the 1845 Angelo that Matt Easton shared, and also his version of Waite. But the thng that strikes me more than anything else is just how similar Angelo's 1845 system is to his fathers 1798 one and that of Roworth. The terminology has changed, and some teaching methods a little too, but the techniques and end result are near identical. Seeing as Angelo's manual was the official standard of the British army until the sabre stopped being used, and his father's works and that of Roworth (essentially the same) were the most popular works of the Georgian period, you could well argue that there is little to no difference between Georgian and Victorian sabre. Of course there were other approaches from Hutton, Burton, Waite etc. and I will compare those too. But Seeing as the Angelo's system dominated throughout, it would suggest very little changed.

[@xiaohu1974]

Thank you very much!!! Your lessons and the resources are the best!!!

[@leonsheppard322]

Thanks very much for the resources.

[@grailknight6794]

thank you so much i've downloaded your pdfs!!!! keep up the awesome work!

[@wilfdarr]

Thank you for making this freely available, 也中文谢谢。

[@TheCrestfallen59]

Thank you so much for the resources!

[@Zooasaurus]

Thank you for these prints :D

[@mattobrien4849]

You guys are legends.

[@dfraser7402]

Outstanding!

[@maxk1459]

What type of blunt sabre would you recommend as the best type to learn 19th Century napoleonic Sabre (e.g Angelo)?

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Something around with 80cm blade length, with basic stirrup hilt and a weight of 700-800 grams. Black fencer's curved sabre is perfect as a cheap synthetic option. For steel I like Swordsmithy, have a look for their FB account.

[@maxk1459]

Academy of Historical Fencing , will do, thank you for responding so fast. Thank you also for the quality of your videos and the contents in the ressource section of your website. Looking forward to the next.

[@johanhofstedt7317]

Very helpfull and generous!!

[@Baihu108]

Well done sir.

[@kendrickwood7174]

Nick, I heard you mention the name Saint George. That caught my interest so I looked through your handbook to find out more. All that is mentioned is that it's Angelo's third guard. Do you know the origin of the name of the guard? Could there be a relation to the 18th century superstar fencer, classical composer/musician, french colonel, and abolitionist Saint George? I've recently done a bit of reading on him and wanted to know if there's any connection to him.

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Chevalier de Saint-Georges is a fascinating character, and was friend to Angelo, who had those posters made. However, the 'Saint George's Guard' or "St. Georges Guard' term existed before he was born. I have never seen a conclusive answer as to it's origin, though I would think it is likely due to the fact that the body and sword together resemble a cross, a symbol so closely tied to St. George.

[@kendrickwood7174]

Thank you! Great workbook by the way.

[@KnightedDawn]

Could it not be because St. George was commonly depicted holding a sword in a similar position to St. George's Guard? (Example: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/St_GeorgeEnglish.JPG) This woodcut is from 1515 (Westminster).

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

It is possible of course, but I don't think so. St. George is more typically depicted with lance only, and when he does have a sword it is pretty much always with the tip held back behind his head and for a heavy cut, which I believe is what that one is depicting as well. Sometimes hard to tell because of the perspective of artwork of the time of course. It is of course possible that somebody interpreted it that was a few hundred years ago as well. Who knows. In my experience, looking into the origin of many words related to swords and fencing can lead to a frustrating dead end, with little left with the sort of guess or educated guess that we all are doing with this one.

[@KnightedDawn]

Yes, it's definitely all sheer speculation. I don't personally see the cross in the guard, and I would assume the guard would be called something like "guard of the cross", instead of being named after St. George if that's where the term came from (as St. George was hardly the patron saint of crosses).

[@Matt_Romans116_Morris]

No dislikes as it should always be 👍

[@zeroa6]

Hello Nick! Thaks for sharing this things, very important. I can download only 1 poster, other 3 failed on download. I think is a server problem, but... I just want to advice you. Thanks!!

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Please try again, I just tried on two separate devices and all are working fine.

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Please try again, I just tried on two separate devices and all are working fine.

[@zeroa6]

Perfect! I will try again. Thanks for your time!

[@MexieMex]

Fantastic resource, thank you very much ;^>

[@TheCrestfallen59]

Perfection!

[@robertsully9351]

brilliant

[@Yeknodathon]

And the counters to the slip system? Stop thrusts as someone comes out of slip? As the guard is likely to be high then it announces incoming Cuts 1 or 2 back so bind and thrust? Yeh, easy to write :)

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

To stop thrust against a cut 1 or 7 (as would be typical) you are going to have to thrust in carte, and it is quite weak with basket hilts and sabres, due to the grip restriction of the basket, and the curvature taking the blade away with the sabre, and it's also very difficult to cover at this angle. Many strikes are of course easy to land if you aren't concerned about taking a shot yourself. In our experience, counter thrusting against moulinet/parade type actions is incredibly dangerous to try and pull off. Also, not every slip goes to a high guard, it is used with all guards. And thrust work from the parry, used like a bind if also done.

[@Yeknodathon]

..but being a leftie, one would be in carte the other way round muahahahahahaaaa.. yeh, okay, thanks, I was also thinking mixing up the guards back in slip... very interesting, fencing food for thought...

[@ImThinking3]

Putting this on my list of things to get. Need it in my man cave.

[@sherrattpemberton6089]

Another thing Angelo does is absolutely punish over extending/over stepping

[@RemusKingOfRome]

poor sound