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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baduin" data-source="post: 3825496" data-attributes="member: 45562">Italian terms:<a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/saviolo/glossary.html" target="_blank">http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/saviolo/glossary.html</a>imbroccata: a thrust with the hand pronated (knuckles forward, palm outward) passing over the opponent's hand and downward; also foininquartata: a sideways or backwards step with the rear foot together with a lowering of the body underneath the incoming blade, dropping the left hand to the ground for support, followed by a counterattack with line; also passata sotto. mandritta: a horizontal cut delivered with the palm upward and the knuckles leading, from right to leftpunta riversa: a thrust with the hand in supination (knuckles down, palm inward), delivered from the inside line, passing on either side of the opponent's ward, usually delivered on a stepriversi: a horizontal cut delivered with the palm downward and the knuckles leading, from left to rightstoccata: a thrust with the hand supinated (knuckles down, palm inward) rising from underneath the opponent's ward; also thruststramazone: a vertical cut to the head, palm to the left German terms:<a href="http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/talhoffer.htm" target="_blank">http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/talhoffer.htm</a>eg:Overhand cut. – Underhand cut.Plunging cut. – Changing cut.guard of Wrath sword capture.open guard Iron Gatehalf-swordMurder-stroke Spanish terms<a href="http://www.martinez-destreza.com/articles/spanish1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.martinez-destreza.com/articles/spanish1.htm</a>Old French:Coup de Jarnac:<a href="http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles/kill2.php" target="_blank">http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles/kill2.php</a>"The technique disabled one's adversary by severing the tendinous portion of the hamstrings, causing the victim's leg to collapse immediately, much the same way the limb of a marionette would go limp upon the severing of the string responsible for its movement. Located behind the knee, these tendons are not well exposed to an adversary facing his opponent from the front. Consequently, delivering a cut to this area presents certain challenges. The efficacy of the stroke was clear, however, and the technique may have served as a justifiable alternative to the risky and less effective cutting strokes directed to other parts of the leg.The momentous duel in 1547 which gave the technique its name was that fought between Jarnac and Chastaigneraye.28 After a preliminary exchange of thrusts and cuts, Chastaigneraye was closing distance when Jarnac shifted his position while drawing Chastaigneraye's defenses high with a feint to the head, leaving the lower limbs exposed. With his hand in pronation, Jarnac then executed a drawing cut with the false edge of his blade across Chastaigneraye's hamstrings, inflicting a slight wound behind the knee of the left leg. Surprised, Chastaigneraye became briefly distracted, but before he had an opportunity to regain his composure Jarnac delivered a similar stroke to the hamstrings of the right leg, this time cutting through to the bone. Although Chastaigneraye eventually bled to death, it was the severing of his hamstrings which resulted in his immediate incapacitation.A similar duel featuring the application of this technique was also fought between Newton and Hamilton in the same year, and earlier in that century yet another duel is reported to have been fought in which the same technique was employed in a combat between an Italian officer and a Frenchman. Short of a stroke resulting in dismemberment, this technique would appear to be the only sure means of disabling instantly the musculature of the leg. "As regards fantasy, this exact cut is described by M. John Harrison in "Viriconium's Knights"<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Viriconium-Pastel-Nights-Fantasy-Masterworks/dp/1857989953" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Viriconium-Pastel-Nights-Fantasy-Masterworks/dp/1857989953</a>Vikings preferred to simply cut off the legs from under the adversary.Other resources<a href="http://www.iceweasel.org/fencing.html" target="_blank">http://www.iceweasel.org/fencing.html</a><a href="http://www.thearma.org/manuals.htm" target="_blank">http://www.thearma.org/manuals.htm</a>As a bonus, critical hits:<a href="http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles/bloody.php" target="_blank">http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles/bloody.php</a><a href="http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles/kill2.php" target="_blank">http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles/kill2.php</a></blockquote>

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