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Blade Beats & Crossings | La Touche (American Smallsword Symposium 2024)

Welcome back to the fourth and final episode of this series on Philibert de la Touche's early French smallsword system. In this video, we look at blade beats and crossings. This ep is pretty light on instruction. This is partly 'cause La Touche doesn't give a lot of detail. He defines the action, gives a few basic tips and that's it. It's also in part that the vast majority of folks at American Smallsword Symposium were experienced smallsworders who didn't need to be taught what a beat is, for example. So this ep, I show a few examples of blade beats and crossings (which I interpret to be something akin to a blade cover in classical fencing), and let folks play around and experiment with the idea. Blade Beats | 00:10 Blade Crossings | 03:14 Closing Remarks | 06:11 Philibert de la Touche's 1670 treatise, "Les Vrais Principes de l'Espée Seule" ("The True Principles of the Single Sword"), illustrates a transitional period in French fencing -- from the rapiers of the early 17th Century into a more traditional French smallsword system. Not in this series is feinting and mounted combat, which was taught by Christopher Treichel and cutting with the smallsword, which was taught by Patrick Bratton of @saladellaspada . Special thanks to Wendy Colbert, for being the demo students in this video! These were recorded at the 2024 American Smallsword Symposium where I was the guest instructor. 🤺 MORE ON LA TOUCHE 🤺 Great translation by Reinier van Noort ( @RnrvnNrt ) https://www.lulu.com/shop/philibert-d... Free translation by Wandrille Duchemin on Wiktenauer https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Philibert... Plates and high-rez scan of the treatise from Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv... Information on the American Smallsword Symposium   / 317652728400128   ---- DONATIONS: If you found this video useful or interesting, please consider a small donation so I can continue to produce rapier & other historical martial arts content. Donate at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Bosto... ⚔️ABOUT JUSTIN AUCOIN⚔️ Justin (aka Remy in the SCA) is the product of when a five-year-old boy who fell in love with Zorro and The Three Musketeers grows into a mostly functional adult. His life-long love of athletics and swashbuckling has led him down the road to studying and practicing historical fencing. He’s the founder of @bostonacademiedarmes , a historical fencing school for HEMA & SCA fencers, with a focus on French and Italian rapier, Italian smallsword, and Italian dueling saber. He puts an emphasis on good body mechanics and helping his fencers to improve their physical fitness, athletic ability, and fencing skill while operating within their current physical limitations. As a competitor, Justin has won numerous rapier tournaments in the SCA -- both in singles and in group melee -- including Carolingia's Baronial Champion, East Kingdom Crown Champion, and named 8x to the Pennsic Champs team. He is 15th member of the East Kingdom’s Order of Defense, holds a Silver Broach and Maunche for his historical martial arts research, and a Silver Wheel and Silver Crescent for his coaching. Outside of the SCA and the Academie, Justin has taught rapier at Athena School of Arms and workshops at events such as Western Martial Arts Workshop (WMAW), Lord Baltimore's Challenge, the American Smallsword Symposium, and Iron Gate Exhibition (IGX). He is a certified Instructor at Arms in Italian foil through the Sonoma State University Fencing Masters Certificate Program (SSU FMCP), and is is a personal trainer through NASM. You can follow his historical martial arts research at https://justinswordfit.com/ ⚔️SOCIAL⚔️   / thetavernknight     / thetavernknight     / thetavernknight   https://www.bostonacademiedarmes.com   / bostonacademiedarmes     / bostonacademiedarmes     / bosacademiearme