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Zaine
Black Belt
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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Location: Dallas, TX
Styles: Matsumura-Seito, Shobayashi-Ryu, Shudokan, Long Fist, American Street Karate, Southern Mantis, HEMA
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| bushido_man96 wrote: |
| The nature of the buckler not covering as much area, and requiring a more active defense, was obvious in the stats. |
This is correct. In what I've learned of sword and buckler so far, every time you move the sword, you also move the buckler for additional cover.
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Drew
Orange Belt
Joined: 28 Sep 2011
Posts: 189
Location: My other body
Styles: Boxing, Muay Thai, Sub Wrestling, Tai Chi, MMA, Medieval, Extreme Reaction Combat Scenarios (This is not a drill) Judo, formerly Mishima Style Karate
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| bushido_man96 wrote: |
| The studies comparing the sword and buckler to the sword and shield were informative, too. The nature of the buckler not covering as much area, and requiring a more active defense, was obvious in the stats. |
I'm sure other people did and do use bucklers differently from how I do it, but using a buckler for active defense is almost impossibly hard. Except for parrying thrusts, trying to parry with a buckler against an opponent who doesn't put everything into every strike almost always ends in getting hit anyway. Using the buckler to protect your sword hand instead, and both blocking and attacking with the sword will save you some broken fingers. Experience and the Tower Fechtbook support this 
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0043824042000303683#.U6EVVJRdVjE
That's a link to the specific Japanese one I was thinking of. You may also find this to be of use: http://www.bajr.org/documents/bajrbattleguide.pdf |
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Zaine
Black Belt
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 2279
Location: Dallas, TX
Styles: Matsumura-Seito, Shobayashi-Ryu, Shudokan, Long Fist, American Street Karate, Southern Mantis, HEMA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6UCxads6kk
Here's a quick video of a sword and buckler sparring match. Watch how the shield moves every time that they move the sword. Drew nails it pretty well. Bucklers are small and used (at least by us) as additional defense.
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Zoodles
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ShoriKid
Pre-Black Belt
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
Posts: 900
Styles: Matsubyashi-Ryu, Okinawan Kempo, wrestling, bits of BJJ
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And nice thread, and I get to sit back and watch good video now. Thanks for the great clips.
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