A few years ago I saw a startling demonstration of some of the techniques from a medieval sword fighting manual. The techniques were brutal and dirty, and made a sword fight look less like a fencing match and more like a back-alley knife fight. I’ve been trying to find video of this for a while, and finally stumbled across this video [dead link] on YouTube. The guys are going pretty slow, but I think you can imagine how ugly the real thing would be.
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