For the beginning of the new academic year and the reopening of the Salle after the Summer break, Ordine della Lame Scaligere in Verona held an open night to showcase the club’s fencing school and all its current disciplines to potential new comers.
With club mates and opponents for the night Nicola and Davide, I had the responsibility to show longsword and medieval sword & buckler to our guests, in a couple of demonstrative judged bouts. Instructors and other members of the club showed sabre, renaissance sword & buckler, side sword, armoured fencing and choreographed fencing for reenactment to the interested crowd.
The open night went very well and we already have some new brave beginners!
What happens when you take the greatest choreographer the world has ever seen and put him with the second greatest choreographer the world has ever seen? And then you give them sticks.
You get this fight scene.
I can narrow down a number of favourite weapon fights when it comes to kung fu cinema and this would definitely be in my top five. Maybe even top three. And best of all? It’s not even an old school fight. It’s a fast, modern fight that just so happens to be with old school poles. Lau Kar Leung was 55 years old in this scene. That’s only 9 years younger than Jackie Chan is now. He never got enough credit for doing bananas shit while being an old man. Unbelievable fight. And the crazy thing is that there’s a good two minutes of empty handed fighting before this bit.
Anyone wondering what film it is, it’s Pedicab Driver. Do yourself a favour and pick up the DVD here. It’s the only remastered version of this film out there and while it has terrible subtitles, if more people buy it, Warner might actually dig in their vaults and release the other classics they have stored away.
@warriormale this seems right up your alley! Train and fight at any age, right?
This is the best tutorial of how to animate bird flight you will ever find.
And I am hella excited to have found it again. I stumbled upon it ages ago, and have thought about is frequently since but hadn’t found it again until now. It’s not just interesting for animation uses, but for anyone looking to draw wings, or who has an interest in how birds fly.
Before this I’d always assumed that birds push the air back behind them on the down stroke to push them forward, but really they push their wings forward on the down stroke to generate more lift by forcing more air over the wings.
It’s a great look at the mechanics of flight and how to approach such unfamiliar movement in animation.
kill team update! also, these guys. i told you two of my soldiers were just gonna be a flock of birds
Razorwing flock?
they’re my inquisitor’s cyber ravens. they form a distributed intelligence and communications network, represented in-game as a scout specialist and a comms specialist
kill team update! also, these guys. i told you two of my soldiers were just gonna be a flock of birds
kill team update! inquisitor amelius just needs a staff and a head now…
“I would like to share this effort from Sala d’Arme dell’Appeso at retrieving fencing fundamentals (timing, distance, footwork) from two manuscripts belonging to Liechtenauer’s tradition. Thanks to Davide Morleo, Francesco Viola and Federico Dall’Olio for months of trial and discusssion (and costant spam and delirium by my side about olympic korean sabreaurs). Thanks to Maciej Talaga too for his kind and crucial feedback and contribute.(I remade the post since last one didn’t seem to work)“
Aliquid de Magis 