grimreaper
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Recently, I read a post by zero angel on another thread , where it was said
That made me sit up and take notice, because I always thought that sword fighting was not much different from fighting with a stick .
So , my question is :- can any one please direct me to a place (a book, an website, anything) , where I can learn enough about sword fighting to write about it in my novel without sounding stupid? I already tried looking around in my locality , but did not manage to find any such thing as a fencing master.
The difference is a lot. There is a trick to holding a sword and swinging it. It's not the same as picking up a stick off the ground and swinging it (I'm not comparing it to bo-staff fighting or kendo or something like that, just saying that it's not just picking it up and swinging it). There's a LOT of subtleties in fighting that is NOT natural. And there's really nothing that we do in our lives that prepare us for sword-fighting (although other martial arts do help with the basic principles).
That made me sit up and take notice, because I always thought that sword fighting was not much different from fighting with a stick .
So , my question is :- can any one please direct me to a place (a book, an website, anything) , where I can learn enough about sword fighting to write about it in my novel without sounding stupid? I already tried looking around in my locality , but did not manage to find any such thing as a fencing master.