Picking Up Your First Fencing Side Sword
If you're looking to get into a fencing side sword, you're basically stepping into the golden age of swordsmanship. It's that perfect middle ground where the sturdy, reliable arming swords of the medieval era started morphing into the elegant, lightning-fast rapiers we see in later history. For a lot of folks in the Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) community, the side sword is the "Goldilocks" weapon—it's not too heavy, it's not too thin, and it lets you do a bit of everything. ...