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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 5005377" data-attributes="member: 77019">Yeah I agree with you but it was a very good start at setting the record strait and putting all this stuff in context, the rise of the HEMA movement in the last ten years, the difference from the SCA and re-enactors and collegiate fencers etc.Of the maybe 100 or so Medieval European martial arts or fencing manuals which have been found so far (they still find 'new' ones every few months it seems), probably 40 have been translated into English (including many of the most interesting ones) most of which you can find online now in several places, both the original scans and the translations... and maybe 10 have had good interpretations published at this point which you can buy on Amazon, with probably another 20 or 30 about to be published.  If you like I can point you to the direction where you can find these, it's truly fascinating to me to study all this, both from a physical / martial arts point of view and just the academic / research point of view.  You gain so much insight into this world, which was so much more cool than I ever thought.  There are also free online videos (on youtube etc.) that you can watch demonstrating techniques of several of the main fencing traditions (such as German longsword, German messer, Italian dagger, Italian rapier, German ringen which is essentially analagous to Medieval jujitsu and etc.)  Some of those I've already linked up-thread but there are many more.  Let me know what you might be interested in specifically and I could show you.Mostly the HEMA fighters, the martial artists, though I do know Jonathan Waller, the younger of the two fight choreogrophers from the Royal Armories at Leeds, the guy with the blonde hair. He was a regular on the Riddle of Steel forum and I knew him from there.  The other guys I know from HEMA forums online mainly, Fabrice Cognot of Talles D'estoc and the annual international Longsword competition in Dijon was a contributor to the Codex.  He was the guy with the long hair who said "Swords are... coool." at one point in the movie.  Matt Easton and Dr. Gordon Brown who can be seen sparring with Shinai, and I think Matt also gave a little speach about English martial heritage or something.  I also know some of the other guys, from Sweden, who you only can see fencing.  I am also friends with Jay Vail, formerly of ARMA who spoke at one point in the film.  He is one of the top dagger fighting experts in the world, I trained with him in Tallahassee about 2 weeks ago.Glad you liked it m8, I love that kind of stuff, I wish somebody would aggregate all those kinds of stories in one place as a resource for gamers.  Maybe I should...Good luck on your FTX..G.</blockquote>

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