Fencing with Sabers

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by S.Al-Anizi

As to the shamshir, I always thought that had too much of curve, to use for anything other than swinging cuts from horseback.

I disagree, Saqr. Certainly the extremely curved examples are nearly useless for a linear thrust, and far from optimal for any thrust, but a slash from an unmounted fighter would work just fine with those.