Okay, I've got a dilemma
Dec 2, 2009 22:10:37 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2009 22:10:37 GMT
All right, the finances do not allow any sword purchases for Yuletide 
so, my wife and I got talking about what to get each other for the Winter Holidays. My wife has given me the option of ordering one of two books I've been dieing to order. I can get either "Chinese Swordsmanship: The Yang Family Taiji Jian Tradition" by Scott M. Rodell or "Fighting with the German Longsword" by Christian Henry Tobler.
As some of you may know I recently decided to dive into the darkside of Euro swords and have been beginning to practice some longsword techniques. Chinese Sword Arts, are my "home territory" so to speak, but I still have a lot to learn there also. This is my dilemma, which one of the two to pick....
I've been told Tobler's book is pretty much the bible of longsword basics and is "the" place to start learning Euro swordsmanship. Scott Rodell is the foremost instructor of Chinese swordsmanship in the US and his book is to CSA what Tobler's book is to WMA. Now, Which to choose....
so, my wife and I got talking about what to get each other for the Winter Holidays. My wife has given me the option of ordering one of two books I've been dieing to order. I can get either "Chinese Swordsmanship: The Yang Family Taiji Jian Tradition" by Scott M. Rodell or "Fighting with the German Longsword" by Christian Henry Tobler.As some of you may know I recently decided to dive into the darkside of Euro swords and have been beginning to practice some longsword techniques. Chinese Sword Arts, are my "home territory" so to speak, but I still have a lot to learn there also. This is my dilemma, which one of the two to pick....
I've been told Tobler's book is pretty much the bible of longsword basics and is "the" place to start learning Euro swordsmanship. Scott Rodell is the foremost instructor of Chinese swordsmanship in the US and his book is to CSA what Tobler's book is to WMA. Now, Which to choose....
