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Manufacturer: SwordMasters
Category: Sports
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Seller: Sword Masters LLC
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 36,969
Media: Misc.
ASIN: B0006JLLGC
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Magnum Libre d'Escrime "You canât learn to fence from a book, but you can learn significant things about fencing." Written for the average American fencer, this 271-page text has gotten "must buy" reviews from the British and Dutch fencing federations as well as by current president of the American Fencing Coaches Association (the USFA does not review fencing texts). Included are sections on history, pedagogy, tactics, directing, repair (Dr. Volkmannâs celebrated repair manual is one of the sections), and the plans for a fencing dummy. The main part of the text, though, is a highly illustrated encyclopedia of all the moves used in foil fencing, which includes the theories behind the moves and positions, and detailed explanations of what goes wrong when trying to learn them. Just the section on stance, advance, retreat, lunge, and recovery types take over thirty detailed pages
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 Great text! July 8, 2005
Mark Pollock (Davis, CA United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
AS I said, this is a great text, though it could use a good rewrite for clarity and ease of reading.
While the text is great, the pictures are almost univerally shoddy. They are hard to see, and simply not printed well. That is due to this being published as a xeroxed book, not as a printed book. This is a good way to print a small-run book such as this, but the illustrations really suffer.
Regardless, the section on repair is worth the price of admission alone, and the discussion of the various stances and parries is superb. I can still recommend this book.
 Good armory reference January 25, 2007
Meredith (New Bern, New Caledonia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mr. Volkmann does a good job of trying to explain the basics of fencing in this text. I do find it a bit disorganized at times, the parts on epee and sabre fencing are interspersed and hidden within the general foil sections. The use of french rather than english terminology can also lead one to confusion. It is a small-run book, crudely printed and bound, which takes away from its real strong suit as an armory reference. This book's best content is its detailed wiring diagrams and schematics. It even includes a plan for building a fencing dummy. Worth having in your library for that alone.
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