The Big Book on Fencing - by Rudy Volkmann Review

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(More customer reviews)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.

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Magnum Libre d'Escrime "You can't 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. Volkmann's 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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