Backsword vs Rapier, Malcolm vs Nick

Two weapons that were contemporary with one another. One a medium length sword that emphasises cutting, the other, an unusually long sword that emphasises thrusting. The rapier vs backsword debate is one that has been controversial since George Silver wrote his fiery condemnation of the rapier and foreigners in general in his works published in 1599, ’Paradoxes of Defence’. Malcolm is not a renaissance backsworder, but an experienced sabre/broadsword user as we commonly teach, which is very much the same we