INSIGHTS
    The Body Strike

Finda is called in the Italian tongue a deceit
or cousinage, and metaphorically brought into
fencing, when I do as if I would thrust into one
part of thy body and seeing that thou dost catch
after my thrust to put me by, I then recalling
my point do thrust somewhere else, at which
place I in the beginning did not aim, before
thou strovest to put me by.
       - - Pallas Armata (1639)

QUOTES

"Among those who control the world and protect
the state there's no one who [shouldn't] employ
swordsmanship in his mind."
         - - Yagyu Muneyoshi [1529-1606]
       Private Schoole of Defence (1604)

 

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