Читать книгу Secrets of the Sword - César Lecat de Bazancourt - Страница 13

“I remarked, yesterday, that the art of fencing would greatly benefit by simplification, and that it does not require such formidable and protracted study as some of the text-books by their elaborate display of intricate and interminable combinations would lead you to suppose.

“The elementary principles of sword-play are four in number. They are these: —

Simple Attacks.

Composite Attacks.

Simple Parries.

Composite Parries.

“Here is a table of the attacks and parries: —

Simple Attacks

The Straight Thrust.

The Disengagement.

Composite Attacks

One, two.

Beat straight thrust.

Beat disengage.

Feint disengage.

Feint cut over.

Cut over and disengage in tierce or quarte.

Simple Parries

Quarte.

Tierce.

Seconde.

Low Quarte, or Quinte.

Counter Parries

Counter-Quarte.

Counter-Tierce.

Circle.