The Art of Longsword Fighting Teaching the Foundations of Sigmund Ringeck’s Style By Benjamin J Smith Hardback
Historical European Martial Arts became a major international movement
over the last two decades. Clubs and schools sprang up on every
populated continent pursuing a wide variety of activities and styles.
Because the movement is still so new many clubs lack people with
experience researching, practicing, or teaching long dead martial arts.
In The Art of Longsword Fighting Ben Smith offers his interpretation of
the foundational sections of the art of fighting with the longsword
taught by Sigmund Ringeck, one of the preeminent masters of the
Liechtenauer tradition. He offers his method of teaching it based on his
twenty years of research into historical teaching methods, the evidence
within Ringeck’s texts, and the writings of his contemporaries both
inside and outside his tradition.
He lays out the concepts for understanding the structure and form of a
martial art style, the process of physical research, the results of his
research into the training methods of this particular style, and offers
the most transparent published interpretation to date of the
foundational section of Ringeck’s longsword style to show how he
justifies his interpretation and teaching methods he recommends. All of
this is achieved through a panoply of photographs showing each movement,
along with explanatory diagrams, and explanations detailing how and
when to introduce each next step in the curriculum, in a manner that is
faithful to Ringeck’s style.
This book will help you understand this martial arts style as a complete
entity, use current historical research effectively, and will prove
invaluable to martial artists and researchers of the Renaissance era.
About Benjamin J Smith
BENJAMIN
J. SMITH began training in historical European martial arts in 2000 at
the age of 17. He earned his Masters Degree in Public History in 2008
from Washington State University, and achieved a certification to teach a
dao style of Gao Baguazhang in 2012, under the tutelage of Robert J.
Arnold. He began interpreting and teaching Sigmund Ringeck’s longsword
style in 2009. In 2014 he moved to Boise, Idaho, and founded his
current group, The Hilt and Cross, and has been teaching there ever
since.
Format: Hardcover Pages: 331 Publisher: Pen & Sword Books: Frontline Books Date: December 9, 2014, republished Jan 2020 Dimensions: 8" x 10" x 1"
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