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Originally Posted by Atlantia
... rigid wrist of tulwar fencing must have been a revelation to European opponents ...
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I thought the revelation was more in the contrary direction

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Rigid wrist sword handling wouldn't proprerly be called fencing
Wasn't the advantage of malleable wrist fencing (recazo, thrust and all that) a score against talwar and scimitar rigid moves?
Oh, why should i, such an ingnorant, interfere in this discussion ?
Just forget it

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Fernando