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🗡️ Welcome to Sword Skool
This is Sword Skool—a community built around Italian swordsmanship, studied seriously and applied honestly. Our foundation is Italian HEMA: the tradition of Fiore, Marozzo, and the Italian masters. Our reality is modern competition: pressure, timing, adaptability, and results. That means two things can be true here: - We respect historical sources - We train to make techniques work against resisting opponents What Sword Skool is: - A place for serious practitioners - Italian-based instruction, with cross-style awareness - Competition-relevant concepts, drills, and discussion - A school mindset: structure, discipline, refinement What Sword Skool is not: - Not a meme group - Not fantasy roleplay - Not dogmatic manuscript worship - Not style wars or ego contests If you’re here to learn, test ideas, and sharpen your fencing—welcome. How to start: - Introduce yourself: style, experience level, goals - Ask specific questions - Share video with intent to improve - Disagree respectfully and with reasoning Steel sharpens steel—but only when both are willing. Train with purpose. Honor the blade. Welcome to Sword Skool. - ⚔️Enzo Cinquegrana⚔️ -
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⚔️ Sword Skool — Community Rules
Sword Skool exists to support serious study and application of swordsmanship. To keep this place sharp, these rules are enforced. 1. Train in Good Faith - Ask real questions - Share honestly - Engage to improve, not to posture Bad-faith arguments and ego fencing will be removed. 2. Respect Sources, Avoid Dogma - Historical sources matter - Modern testing matters - Blind adherence to any system does not If it doesn’t hold under pressure, we examine it. 3. Keep Critique Constructive - Critique ideas, not people - If you post video, expect feedback - If you give feedback, be specific and useful Sarcasm and insults add nothing. 4. No Style Wars - Italian swordsmanship is our foundation - Other systems are discussed for understanding and competition readiness Tribalism weakens skill. 5. No Fantasy or Roleplay - This is not cosplay - This is not historical reenactment theater - This is not a power fantasy We train for function. 6. Moderation & Removal - Posts or members that lower the standard may be removed - Repeated violations = removal from the community No drama. No announcements. Sword Skool is a place of learning, let’s have fun, but know the end goal is to improve together! Train seriously. Speak with purpose. Earn your place on the floor. - ⚔️Enzo Cinquegrana⚔️ -
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Don’t buy a sword…. Yet. Buy These:
Do not buy equipment if you are new! Equipment is expensive, varied and unique to every single person. Great example, in my first year I went through three swords, two jackets, 3 gloves, 2 pants, countless elbow and knee guards. I spent thousands because no one told me that equipment is a journey. You’ll still spend money on things you may move on from, but take it slow, borrow from others, and do tons of views to navigate towards what you want. That being said there is one thing you absolutely should buy first, immediately; a text. In this school we will use two texts primarily, Fiore’s Flower of Battle, msm or Getty version. And Achille Marozzo’s Opera Nova. Feel free to gain insight from other texts, we’ll definitely be referencing them, but these two books are all you’ll need for years. Below are links for each one, but feel free to grab these wherever you’d like. Read them, mimic them, but know that these texts were written for mortal combat, in competition we will utilize these techniques in a way that’s safe, but effective! https://amzn.to/3NoBidU https://amzn.to/3N2W3Ma
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Flow Work
Flow work is a form of training where you move the sword seamlessly between postas (guards, in Italian literally positions) and strikes. This type of work seems performative, but actually it’s a huge training tool that helps us as fencers feel comfortable moving from different forms. It helps us stay flexible, it trains our muscles to repetitively move into and out of stances and attacks, and lastly it punches these movements into our muscle memory. The last benefit is truly the most important. Retaining that muscle memory is essentially what divides a hobbyist from a competitive fencer. Because when you have microseconds to read a situation and respond, the truth is your brain is slower than your muscle fibers. You need to have movement committed to memory. What’s great is when you stamp some movement into your body one day moves just happen automatically. That, that is when training becomes addictive. This is something you should constantly chase in your training. Ok back to flow work, there are many different routines and I’ll be creating pdfs and videos for the many flow drills that will be part of subscribed content later on. For now check out these examples:
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Excercise - Landmines to push Press
This is a core, chest and arm exercise that is a great addition, fight sport specific, to your normal fitness routines. It’s called a landmine which we turn into a push press. To do landmines, put a barbell in a corner, start very small, just the bar or 10 pounds to get the feel. You want to pick up the barbell at the end, spread feet about shoulder with apart, and just like a fendente or a lunch in boxing, start with your heal, twist your leg and knee in, turn up to your torso, push your arms out and when your hips can’t turn any more stop, the rotate the other direction. You want to keep your back and has engaged, don’t over twist, and don’t lose your structure. Imagine you’re doing a fendente with a follow through. This will shred your core, strengthen stomach and back, and add a lot of pushing force to your cuts and thrusts. It will also teach you to keep your footing under awkward weight resistance. The next step when your core is exhausted, is turning your landmines into push presses. This time as you rotate your body, and come to center, let go with one hand and push with the outside hand. Catch with the other hand, then grab it with both hands rotate to the other side, return to center and push with your other hand. Repeat until you can’t anymore.
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