[Regia-NA] The Nasal: What's it for?

[Martin Field]

I hope you have someone reliable as your right-hand man as this sounds like
you've nicely opened up your right side for an equally nice spear thrust
from your opponent's left-hand man - aaaargh !
Martin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Boulton" <chris.boulton at ntlworld.com>
To: "list-Regia-NA" <list-regia-na at lig.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] The Nasal: What's it for?


> As a re-enactor with a fair bit of battlefield experience I find it quite
> easy to imagine the alterations to our mode of combat to turn it into the
> real thing. A classic when parrying a sword cut to the shield side of your
> head with your sword rather than your shield, is the backhand cut across
> your opponent's face which naturally follows. This would be quite a
powerful
> cut with a horizontal path, and still leaves your shield in optimum
position
> for defence. The nasal bar would help to protect against such a cut, which
I
> believe would not be uncommon.
>
> Take your sword in hand, assume position facing imaginary opponent, move
> sword across to the left blocking imaginary blow from high left, notice
> you're now inside imaginary opponent's guard, launch mighty backhand cut
> across imaginary opponent's face, go into garage, find polyfilla to repair
> chunk you've just taken out of the wall plaster, do it outside next time.
>
> Chris.
>
>
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