Destreza in English?

[Carletto]

Hello guys, I have a senior student that is mad about destreza (Ton Puey's fault).
Having a senior that is all about rapier and smallsword is a pain in the butt already (when you mainly teach sabre, sidesword and backsword), when you don't have enough stuff to make him study, though...
Any Destreza source translated in English?

[Phil C]

http://www.destreza.us/

[Michael Chidester]

Amazon had copies of Gerard Thibault in recently at their proper cover price, there might still be a few.

[Rob]

Puck Curtis has an introduction to Destreza here. It's a good intro, but he perhaps spends a little too much time on talking about Martinez' interpretation.

Sébastian Romagnan has an introduction in French, which I'm helping him translate to English, and which should be out later this year.

There are also some useful translations here, but a little technical I found.

Ton's group, AGEA have translated a vulgar destreza from Portugal which is nice and he's told me they have more planned.

Also check out the videos by ACEA, which include a good description of the Atajo.

[tim_stl]

Pretty much everything in English has already been listed; I just wanted to add that Puck's "From Page to Practice" is the best English reference for the basics of the technical aspects of la verdadera destreza. Getting a handle on the jargon and theory is the biggest obstacle. After that, your student would probably have to narrow down what period in particular he's interested in, as the art is not monolithic.

Tim

[Carletto]

Thanks guys, my student needed some reference to work on the stuff he is working on, now I guess these references will help him out.

[tim_stl]

Also, I forgot to mention that assuming your student reads Italian, Texedo wrote a bilingual Spanish/Italian text: Escuela de principiantes y promptuario de cuestiones en la filosofía de la verdadera Destreza de las Armas. I think Google Books has a copy.

(edit) here it is: http://books.google.com/books?id=_TlMzl ... &q&f=false


Tim

[Carletto]

Also, I forgot to mention that assuming your student reads Italian, Texedo wrote a bilingual Spanish/Italian text: Escuela de principiantes y promptuario de cuestiones en la filosofía de la verdadera Destreza de las Armas. I think Google Books has a copy.

(edit) here it is: http://books.google.com/books?id=_TlMzl ... &q&f=false


Tim

We're working on that, but he wanted some more stuff, because the Italian text does not explain some terms

[tim_stl]

We're working on that, but he wanted some more stuff, because the Italian text does not explain some terms

In that case, you definitely want Puck's e-book. It's the only English resource that details the basics (leaving Thibault aside), since Ettenhard's Compendio is not completely translated.

[Rob]

I would take care withusing Thibault as a Destreza manual. Wile it is derived and a development, it is not what would be seen as canonal Destreza. Best to start with Puck's book.

[Carletto]

I wonder if it is standard for Destreza masters to be Aritstotelian, I find that Don Pedro's introduction is basically a short essay on aristotelim and a captatio benevolentiae to the Inquisition (he casually names a Cardinal, I know it because he was in the first trial of Galileo Galilei).

[tim_stl]

I wonder if it is standard for Destreza masters to be Aritstotelian

Very much so. Many core principles in the verdadera destreza are built off of Aristotelian physics and ethics.

[Carletto]

I wonder if it is standard for Destreza masters to be Aritstotelian

Very much so. Many core principles in the verdadera destreza are built off of Aristotelian physics and ethics.

As a matter of fact, I expected it to be very difficult to understand, but this being Aristotelian makes it easier for me, actually.