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Any step which
takes ground from your opponent. |
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Gaining |
Gaining
on the lunge. When the lag foot is brought up into the guard
position from a lunge rather than the lunge being "reformed"
backward to it's original guard position. Often used when preparing
for another lunge. |
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Garniture |
Group of armours
decorated en suite comprising of field, tilt, and occasionally
horse armour. Matching objects. |
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Gauntlet |
An armoured
or padded glove intended to protect the hand and wrist from
attack. |
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Giganti,
Nicoloetto |
Sixteenth century
Italian master and author of Treatise on fence (1606) which
first clearly described the elongated thrust, or lunge. |
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Glide |
Thrust in the
line of engagement that maintains pressure while sliding down
the opponents blade. |
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Glissade |
Flowing attack
on the blade, executed from an engaged guard position, that
displaces the opposing blade by gliding down the opposing weapon,
foible to forte. |
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Goat's
foot lever |
Simple but
ingenious arrangement of levers to span a crossbow of medium
power. |
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Golden
Age |
(Of Swordplay)
The peak of the sword's evolution from the introduction of the
rapier in the sixteenth century to the swords eventual demise
in the eighteenth. |
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Grand
Lunge |
Offensive action
which replaced passing as a means for reaching ones opponent
in an attack. The extension of the sword arm followed by the
lead foot's advance as far forward as it can comfortably manage
whilst the lag straightens behind it. |
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Grapple |
To wrestle
or get to grips with ones opponent in the fashion of a wrestler. |
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Grasp |
To seize your
opponents sword arm or hilt, as referred to in the sixteenth
and seventeenth century. |
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Grasping
the blade |
A seizure of
your opponents blade with the intention of disarmament. |
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Grassi,
Giacomo di |
Sixteenth century
Italian master, who defined the lines of attack. He favoured
the point as opposed to the cut as the chief means of dispatching
ones opponent. |
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Graze |
A coule along
the opponents blade. |
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Grip |
a/ The method
of holding a sword. b/ The part of a sword situated between
the guard and the pommel.3/ (Film) The technician responsible
for handling set and lighting equipment. |
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Gripes |
Techniques
of swordplay which favor the locks, holds, grips and throws
of wrestling. |
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Ground
Judges |
Two judges
that look for hits made on the ground at electrical foil and
epee. |
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Grype |
To wrestle
or grapple at close quarters. |
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Guard |
a/ A position
from which a combatant can initiate an offensive or defensive
action. A placement of the blade that closes one or more lines
and allows the fencer to attack and parry whilst expending the
least amount of energy necessary. b/ The hilt of a sword. |