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This volume is a comprehensive teaching and reference guide to fencing's most important training theories and their applications. "The Complete Guide to Fencing" is a unique collaboration between internationally renowned sports training scientists - and some of the world's most successful fencing trainers.
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Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who would cross swords with Bess after school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ's divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was "off to get spaghetti," their code to avoid alarming the children. By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting-a science,...
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Learn the highly technical sport of fencing in nine challenging and fun steps! FENCING: STEPS TO SUCCESS covers all of the essential skills of the epee and foil forms of the sport. The book is a perfect how-to guide for beginning and developing fencers, and a valuable reference for instructors.
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This program teaches students how to fight with two-handed swords and weapons along with basic and intermediate martial arts kicks and punches. There are more advanced moves, strikes, additions to the numbering system, brutal hand-to-hand moves, and several fights that will keep your audience enthralled.
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Learn how to apply the French numbering system to weapons including: rapier, dagger, lightsaber, cutlass, and more. This program teaches more advanced moves, martial arts hand-to-hand, blistering demo fights with multiple opponents, and an entire explanation of spacing, timing, and the miracle of shooting multiple opponent action with a camera.
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Instructors teach students the industry standard French numeric system that nearly every sword choreographer uses to create their fights. Using single-handed weapons, this number system will allow students to quickly and easily create a vocabulary to get ready for performance. This system includes strikes and parries that can be altered and stylized to look European, Asian, or alien depending on the creativity. They also teach the swipe to the head,...
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"No less than the internal combustion engine, the transistor, or the silicon chip, barbed wire is the quintessentially modern invention. Cheap and mass produced, it accomplished what no other product did before, or has since done so effectively: the control of space. Few technologies did more to usher in the hallmarks of the modern era: the harnessing of nature, brutal mass warfare, political conquest and repression, and genocide. With this work of...
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Revealing the practicalities of choreographing realist fight scenes on stage in a way that is both convincing for the audience and safe for the actors, this guide takes the reader behind the scenes. It explains how the illusion of the fight is created, looking at topics such as working with a partner; warming up; training, rehearsing and performing; and creating realistic sound effects. Topics covered include the role of the fight director, action...
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Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and...
18) Zorro: a novel
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Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and helpless. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern...
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In The Perfect Fence, Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott explore the multiple uses and meanings of barbed wire, a technological innovation that contributes to America's shift from a pastoral ideal to an industrial one. They survey the vigorous public debate over the benign or "infernal" fence, investigate legislative attempts to ban or regulate wire fences as a result of public outcry, and demonstrate how the industry responded to ameliorate the image...
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