Showing posts with label archetype. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archetype. Show all posts

14 February 2017

George Silver's Three Trials

In George Silver's 1599 book "Paradoxes of Defence", he asserts that a way to test a true master is to fight three bouts against three different archetypes of fighter.

This article is a discussion of my approaches to fencing against the three archetypes in the context of longsword.