Very informative and well explained. The carry over value to different weapons and scenarios of this technique seems very high. Glad to have found this channel!
I highly doubt the low thrust like that would be used against someone in armor, especially against a man at arms in Italy. While in places like France men at arms preferred to use mail voiders in the gaps between plates on their arming doublet, Italian men at arms were known for still wearing the full mail hauberk, along with a skirt of mail beneath that, providing 2 layers of mail for the waist and groin area. Combine that with the plackart and fauld, and that section of the body is probably one of the best protected sections of the entire body, so it's very unlikely a low thrust would ever be effective. My interpretation of the "3 Hooligans" scenario is that Fiore is showing the reader a few tricks for dealing with common attacks that might be used by untrained/unskilled swordsmen they might encounter in the streets rather than on the battlefield. Besides the description of the attackers as "hooligans" I think the fact that the parry used to deal with all 3 of them comes from the left hip implies that the sword might still be in it;'s sheath, meaning the context probably isn't some sort of formal duel but rather in a self defense situation. I doubt Fiore would even be worried about a low thrust if this was meant for armor, thats only an attack that would be a threat in plain clothes, when jumping someone who isn't expecting it.
Very informative and well explained. The carry over value to different weapons and scenarios of this technique seems very high. Glad to have found this channel!
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I highly doubt the low thrust like that would be used against someone in armor, especially against a man at arms in Italy.
While in places like France men at arms preferred to use mail voiders in the gaps between plates on their arming doublet, Italian men at arms were known for still wearing the full mail hauberk, along with a skirt of mail beneath that, providing 2 layers of mail for the waist and groin area. Combine that with the plackart and fauld, and that section of the body is probably one of the best protected sections of the entire body, so it's very unlikely a low thrust would ever be effective.
My interpretation of the "3 Hooligans" scenario is that Fiore is showing the reader a few tricks for dealing with common attacks that might be used by untrained/unskilled swordsmen they might encounter in the streets rather than on the battlefield. Besides the description of the attackers as "hooligans" I think the fact that the parry used to deal with all 3 of them comes from the left hip implies that the sword might still be in it;'s sheath, meaning the context probably isn't some sort of formal duel but rather in a self defense situation.
I doubt Fiore would even be worried about a low thrust if this was meant for armor, thats only an attack that would be a threat in plain clothes, when jumping someone who isn't expecting it.