The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 122
er, sabre, orcutlass, and notthe flat, to the at-tacking blade—without which theguard would be in-effectual—fencingwith the foil, pro-perly and carefullytaught, is not onlya sufficient in-struction in theuse of a cut andthrust weapon,butthe very best. Sothat a really goodfencer, who hadnever… … LOW LINES. Fig. 3. instructors blade lightly—you have the advantage,being protectedwhile he is exposed. He therefore disengages, by directing hispointunder your wrist, with the intention of passingto the opposite side of your blade.Before his point i3raised, lower yourown by the actionof the wrist…
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