As a Fiore practicioner who likes to play with sideswords on occasion, I am truly thankful to see a good example. Also, a question: are Fiore postas different from dall'Agocchie? Because what we do as coda longa really isn't the same as what you have shown. And so is the "porta di ferro". In Fiore, these are just "breve" from either side. Which is why I am asking, because, perhaps, it is different, after all.
Very glad to hear you like it! There is a lot more, and a series of videos coming concentrating on stretta di mezza spada, in my Patreon channel if you are interested seeing more. Also take a look at St. Louis School of Arm's Patreon channel, which is the source for everything I train and teach, they have the world's largest collection of Bolognese fencing material interpreted and the quality is top notch! Fiore's names for guards are indeed different even though some of them are same in the Bolognese fencing tradition. Bolognese fencing tradition is definitely a continuation in some aspects to Fiore's tradition. In Bolognese fencing system the guards are divided into subgroups, Porta di Ferro guards refer to inside guards (left side of the body for a right-handed fencer) and Coda Lunga to the outside guards (right side of the body for a right-handed fencer). The guards are furthermore divided with prefixes such as alta - high, stretta - narrow, larga - wide, etc. Cinghiare Porta di Ferro guards are inside guards with the left foot in front and so on. These things are also opened up in my Patreon content. In short, we could say the guards can be the same or at least used with similar ideas, but the Bolognese masters have expanded the system to be used in a more varied manner to describe more easily the guards' different uses. Or maybe Fiore had his own way using the names for the conventional guards at the time.
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As a Fiore practicioner who likes to play with sideswords on occasion, I am truly thankful to see a good example.
Also, a question: are Fiore postas different from dall'Agocchie? Because what we do as coda longa really isn't the same as what you have shown. And so is the "porta di ferro".
In Fiore, these are just "breve" from either side.
Which is why I am asking, because, perhaps, it is different, after all.
Very glad to hear you like it! There is a lot more, and a series of videos coming concentrating on stretta di mezza spada, in my Patreon channel if you are interested seeing more. Also take a look at St. Louis School of Arm's Patreon channel, which is the source for everything I train and teach, they have the world's largest collection of Bolognese fencing material interpreted and the quality is top notch!
Fiore's names for guards are indeed different even though some of them are same in the Bolognese fencing tradition. Bolognese fencing tradition is definitely a continuation in some aspects to Fiore's tradition.
In Bolognese fencing system the guards are divided into subgroups, Porta di Ferro guards refer to inside guards (left side of the body for a right-handed fencer) and Coda Lunga to the outside guards (right side of the body for a right-handed fencer). The guards are furthermore divided with prefixes such as alta - high, stretta - narrow, larga - wide, etc. Cinghiare Porta di Ferro guards are inside guards with the left foot in front and so on. These things are also opened up in my Patreon content.
In short, we could say the guards can be the same or at least used with similar ideas, but the Bolognese masters have expanded the system to be used in a more varied manner to describe more easily the guards' different uses. Or maybe Fiore had his own way using the names for the conventional guards at the time.