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

[marfield66 at sympatico.ca]

Slaughter, what slaughter.
Oh, Normans being slaughtered - that's Ok.
Close in work kind of makes the sword redundant dousn't it ?
Unless you're using the shorter Greek/Roman type sword - they seemed to love that close, 'in your face' work.
Martin

> 
> From: "Chris Boulton" <chris.boulton at ntlworld.com>
> Date: 2004/05/17 Mon AM 10:29:38 EST
> To: "list-Regia-NA" <list-regia-na at lig.net>
> Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] The Nasal: What's it for?
> 
> You draw the sword for the bloody slaughter after you've broken the enemy's
> line - why work so close as at swords length when every other bu**er's using
> a spear? The problem doesn't arise, as you wouldn't do it if your weapon
> side was directly threatened at that moment.
> 
> Chris.
> 
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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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