Other Early Reviews
Extreme Fencing with the German Longsword is brilliant. It far
exceeds expectation. It presents a unified, dynamic and complete
method for the beginner. Whatever few interpretive disagreements of
moves that I had were due to differing personal understanding of such
moves, and not because of any lack of substantiation of your own how
& why. Strikes, displacements, binding & winding,
footwork, tactics, drills and consequently the Liechtenauer directives
were all addressed. It was also the most useful and clear
integration of the Liechtenauer method and the Silver method that
anyone has ever presented. Its outdoors photography, as well as
its pace and humor, made it appealing. This is the Liechtenauer
Bloszfechten video that the English-speaking world has been
awaiting. - Jeffrey Hull,
author of "Knightly Dueling"
This DVD production is of high quality, and is obviously the result of
careful design, planning and organization. It is well laid out
and which would offer instructors an excellent teaching aid for his/her
students to learn and understand the basics of swordsmanship aided by
intuitive video and graphics presentations. I believe that any
would-be practitioner who is considering pursuing swordsmanship,
whether of the German, Italian, English, etc. style, should be
encouraged to watch this production as it offers one a very good basis
from which to begin his/her training. As for those who are
experienced practitioners, what this production offers is a good review
of the presentation of the concepts and foundations of fencing which
are so often so deeply internalized that sometimes, it is a challenge
to communicate these concepts and foundations to recruits. It is
unlikely that a skilled fencer will learn anything new from this
production, however, if the skilled fencer is also an instructor, it
may provide the instructor with an alternative teaching aid for his/her
students. - David Cvet, president
and co-founder of AEMMA
You guys did a marvelous job with the post production. At the risk of
sounding canned, I must say this is by far the most instructional
and entertaining work on the subject matter I have ever seen. - Ingo Bruning, historical fencing fan