Fencing is an overly romanticized fight
Each era implies its own tactics and strategy of warfare. Naturally, first of all, tactics and strategy are chosen based on weaponswhich is available.
Weaponry in the poya field is an art that, as shown storymay well become art in the truest sense of the word. Among other things, this is the possession of cold weapons, including fights with their use.
Hand-to-hand combat with the use of edged weapons - fencing - has firmly entered the culture of world civilization. Moreover, if today fencing is probably overly romanticized (not least thanks to literature and cinema), then in those days when melee weapons were the main ones in battle, there definitely “did not smell” of romance. Even the word itself was not always perceived as a duel of rivals with the same edged weapons. In fact, it was a very real battle on real terrain with a sad outcome for at least one of its participants.
Today, fencing, in the understanding of many inhabitants, is either an Olympic sport, where one of the greatest consequences is a light bulb after an injection, or something from the French novels of the Belle Epoque. By the way, both there and there the main techniques and commands are in French.
Special manuals (instructions) on fencing were created, including those that talked about how one person with a sword or rapier confronted several opponents. The instructions scrupulously describe the behavior of the student during certain actions of the master. Moreover, these instructions were often written down in the form of real treatises, which have survived from the Middle Ages to the present day and represent, if not charters, then quite rigid sets of rules and actions for a swordsman.
Giorgi Peikrishvili and Sergey Kondratenko talk about fencing instructions on the Tactic Media channel.
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