Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Rapier Duello 레이피어 듀엘로" channel.

  1. And trying to not poke an eye out of the kendoka. They should have been both wear a mask.
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  2.  @CaptainDeadpool53  Provided it doesn't fall, it would be like having your eye stabbed with a finger. Not a pleasant experience.
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  3.  @aethelwolfe3539  To "knock that dinky rapier thing way off course" is not going to do anything. The rapier doesn't stay that way. The point realigns faster than the opponent closing the distance. That's why, despite the existence of more point heavy blades in Europe, rapiers became the favourite duel /civilian defense weapons. Reach is too much of an advantage.
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  4. Notice, the background music had been composed by a German. ;)
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  5. Yari has NOTHING against a pistol, and that is what an experienced gentleman would have for defense.
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  6. In Italian there's not a word for "rapier". It was simply called "spada" (sword). It was the way the sword was meant to be in late 15th to 16th century. The natural evolution of the "spada da lato" (side sword), the sword that was worn on the side (differently from the heavy cavalry sword, or the estoc, secured to the saddle), and so worn when the knight was dismounted, for everyday protection. However, it was not alone. A lot of 16th century portraits of northern Italian gentlemen show them wearing a schiavona instead. Born as an utilitarian military weapon, its complex hilt made for a nice dress item, and many preferred its flexibility of employ.
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  7. Freedom to perform when the kendoka didn't wear a mask? The fencer had to be careful to not poke out one of his eyes.
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  8. A rapier is a civilian duelling / self defense weapon. That's what it does best. A 16th - 17th century European soldier in full gear would have used a different weapon. An estoc, a schiavona, a mortuary sword...
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  9. It needs much training to effectively use rapier& dagger.
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  10. For that matter, the rapier guy didn't even need a plate armor. A coat of mail would have been enough to avoid any cut.
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  11. Without a mask vs. a rapier? The other guy has to be careful not to poke one of his eyes out.
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  12. Infact all the most renown masters of 15th to 17th century were Italians.
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  13. You can clearly see the evolution of the rapier in the Italian treaties, from Marozzo (1536, narrow blade, straight quillons but finger rings protection for the ricasso, so already a rapier-style position of the hand) to Agrippa (1553, added a quillon for the protection of the hand) to Fabris and Capoferro (1606 -1610, complete rapiers). No surviving or depicted Spanish examples predates this evolution. The swords depicted in Francisco Roman's "tratado de escrima con figuras" (1532) were still without finger rings. Those depicted in Carranza's (the inventor of the term "la verdadera destreza") treaty (1582) were still almost identical to those of Agrippa.
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