Evolution of the Lunge: A Look at 17th & 18th Century Fencing Lunges

My buddy Phil Swift came up with this fun video “challenge“ where you demonstrate lunges (or any basic attack footwork) from the various masters you’ve studied. It seemed like fun, so I gave it a whirl myself, demoing Italian Rapier (north & south) and French Smallsword lunges. You can check out Phil’s video here: Not all of these are picture perfect (i.e., I’m not flexibile enough to completely nail La Touche and I’m hinging with Marcelli’s “starfish lunge“), but I think it gets the idea across. This was fun and interesting project to do and highly recommend folks do their own version (even if you don’t publish the video anywhere). It’s pretty illuminating. I *do* have some new actual training videos in the works, so stay tuned. PS - I do not apologize for this music choice. Bask in the Big 80s Energy. TOC Fabris (1606) - 00:15 Capoferro (1610) - 00:48 Alfieri (1650) - 01:28