Post by LongBlade on May 22, 2005 12:47:39 GMT -6
On Fencing
by Aldo Nadi
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188452804X/ref=pd_sbs_sg_1/103-1577738-4693401?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Laureate Press; Reprint edition (June 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN: 188452804X
An Essential Fencing Student Primer!
Reviewer: J. Hauck (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA)
Aldo Nadi was an undefeated World Professional Fencing Champion. Know that many fencing instructors consider Nadi to be the consumate Master of sport.
Aldo Nadi places his many decades of fencing instruction into text form for all of us to use and enjoy. He provides the reader with his "secrets" gleaned through his fencing education, techniques, and learned and natural talents.
In this book, Nadi states that "teaching fencing is much more difficult than might be generally supposed." He then launches into a treatise of the history of the sword, the importance of footwork, the lunge, proper attack techniques, parry-ripostes, counterattacks, and much more.
I feel that this book is a model of fencing instruction, that is devoted to the sport, nay art, of fencing. Nadi's insights into the "psychology of combat" are revealing of the authority to which he speaks through his instructions.
The reader will find this text very easy to understand and incorporate into their personal fencing regimen. For novice or advanced fencers, this book is a must read! What else needs to be said. This is a great instructional/tutorial text. Superb! Five stars.
by Aldo Nadi
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188452804X/ref=pd_sbs_sg_1/103-1577738-4693401?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Laureate Press; Reprint edition (June 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN: 188452804X
An Essential Fencing Student Primer!
Reviewer: J. Hauck (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA)
Aldo Nadi was an undefeated World Professional Fencing Champion. Know that many fencing instructors consider Nadi to be the consumate Master of sport.
Aldo Nadi places his many decades of fencing instruction into text form for all of us to use and enjoy. He provides the reader with his "secrets" gleaned through his fencing education, techniques, and learned and natural talents.
In this book, Nadi states that "teaching fencing is much more difficult than might be generally supposed." He then launches into a treatise of the history of the sword, the importance of footwork, the lunge, proper attack techniques, parry-ripostes, counterattacks, and much more.
I feel that this book is a model of fencing instruction, that is devoted to the sport, nay art, of fencing. Nadi's insights into the "psychology of combat" are revealing of the authority to which he speaks through his instructions.
The reader will find this text very easy to understand and incorporate into their personal fencing regimen. For novice or advanced fencers, this book is a must read! What else needs to be said. This is a great instructional/tutorial text. Superb! Five stars.