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Well, I'm easy to ask :)<BR>
One of the things that IMHO differs most between roleplay-melee and real life medieval/chinese/japaneese melee involving melee-weapons, is how integrated grappeling is in the fencing. It's only in modern foil/japaneese kendo or modern european re-enactment-fighting/american SCA that (for instance) swordplay is separated from grappeling. Only one german longsword-manual from 14/15th century leaves wrestling out of his manual. Here is a link to Fiore di Liberi, the italian dude whose system I've been attempting to understand the past 8 years. He separates fighting into "Giokko lago" and "Giokko stretto" (long-play and short-play), and note how his manual shows far less long-play-techniques than short-play techniques, and how throws, disarms, arm-breaks etc. is not only common, but allmost preferred to the more chaotic, speedy and chanse-ridden "long-play".<BR>
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<A href="http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/Liberi.htm">http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/Liberi.htm</A><BR>
<BR>> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:57:33 -0800<BR>> From: royce@efn.org<BR>> To: runequest@rpgreview.net<BR>> Subject: [Runequest] Grappling Gratitude<BR>> <BR>> Greetings,<BR>> Thank you for the helpful suggestions on grappling. It was especially<BR>> interesting to hear about the differences between modern and medieval<BR>> wrestling. Please feel free to share even more on the subject. :-)<BR>> Sincerely,<BR>> Asher Royce<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Runequest mailing list<BR>> Runequest@rpgreview.net<BR>> http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net<BR> <br /><hr />Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_1:092010' target='_new'>with what you do online.</a></body>
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