An Improved Sabre Exercise - A Historical Military Article Containing Instructions in Fencing for Mounted and Dismounted Service

H. R. Hershberger

Description

This antique volume contains a antiquarian article on military sabre exercises, with instructions for fencing on horseback and on foot. This fascinating article was originally published for the use of military personnel and instructors, and offers an interesting insight into the martial training of soldiers before guns and mechanisation changed the face of war. This text will be of much value to the discerning military or history enthusiast, and makes for a great addition to collections of allied literature. Many antique texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are proudly republishing this book, now in an affordable modern edition - for the enjoyment and edification of those interested.

Sujets

• Sport
• Autour du sport
• Sports de combat
• Histoire du sport
• Sports
• Recreation
• Fencing
• Sport de combat

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 12 septembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781473356153
• Langue: English

Extrait

An Improved Sabre Exercise
A Historical Military Article Containing Instructions in Fencing for Mounted and Dismounted Service
By
H R Hershberger
Copyright 2011 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
AN
IMPROVED SABRE EXERCISE.
CONTAINING
INSTRUCTIONS IN FENCING
FOR
MOUNTED AND DISMOUNTED SERVICE.
Contents
RULES FOR THE SABRE EXERCISE IN THE SADDLE .
S ECTION I.- Method of Instruction .
S ECTION I- Attack and Defence, Dismounted .
L ESSON I.- Fencing in the Saddle .
RULES FOR THE SABRE EXERCISE IN THE SADDLE.
S ECTION I.- Cuts .
T HERE are only seven ways of directing the edge of the sabre.
The action of the wrist and shoulder alone should direct the blade; but the elbow may sometimes be a little bent (with safety) to give more force to the cut, thrust, or parry, particularly when acting against I NFANTRY .
Of the seven cuts, four are made diagonally, two horizontally, and one perpendicularly.
The cuts three and four should not be made in mounted service , except with the greatest caution; for, as in making those cuts, the body is somewhat unavoidably exposed, your adversary (if well acquainted with the science) will ever be ready to take advantage of such exposure: he will cause openings to induce an attack at those points , as a cut at the sword arm or bridle arm can be made with the greatest security, and, if well directed, with most fatal effect; and it at once decides the issue of the contest.
The edge of the sabre should lead in whatevei direction the cut is intended.
Every cut should be made with the sabre drawn toward you about an inch, lest it should not prove a cut .
It should be remembered that every cut made, exposes more or less of the body, and you should always be ready to guard the part exposed.
To enable you to understand the direction of the blade in the cuts, you should have a board about two feet square, and lines marked upon it, thus:

At the different points of these lines, place the figures as above represented.
Each cut is to commence at its respective figure and terminate at the centre, where the lines cross one another.
From the want of habit in the exercise of the wrist in the common occupations of life, the use of the sabre will, at first, be found extremely tiresome; and hence the closest perseverance will be necessary to attain perfection in the first lessons, which are merely for the purpose of acquiring suppl