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Atlum Tiro Offline Don't mock the rock Posts: 12 Gender:	Highland Knife Fighting Sep 18^th, 2010 at 8:01pm I just ordered this book on Highland Knife Fighting mainly because I own a dirk and wanted to know how to use it. Is ther anybody else here who practices this knife fighting style. Here is a link to the book: http://www.paladin-press.com/product/Highland_Knife_Fighting/Historical_Arms_and...
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Bikewer Interfector Viris Spurii Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 1627 St. Louis, Mo Gender:	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #1 - Sep 19^th, 2010 at 12:07pm I'd be interested in seeing what the lads were doing back then, but likely not enough to buy the book. Chances are I won't be carrying around a medieval dagger anytime soon. Is this the time period when the Europeans were engaging in the "Espada y Daga" school of sword combat? (Sword and parrying dagger)
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14015 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #2 - Sep 19^th, 2010 at 12:19pm I have no experience with such things, but it looks fascinating.
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Re: Highland Knife Fighting
Reply #3 - Sep 19^th, 2010 at 5:09pm

Bikewer wrote on Sep 19^th, 2010 at 12:07pm:

I'd be interested in seeing what the lads were doing back then, but likely not enough to buy the book.
Chances are I won't be carrying around a medieval dagger anytime soon. Is this the time period when the Europeans were engaging in the "Espada y Daga" school of sword combat? (Sword and parrying dagger)

The dirk is the traditional weapon for highland knife fighting, but you can use any knife. And there is actually a segment in the book on using the Dirk with the sword and Targe.

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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3237 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #4 - Sep 20^th, 2010 at 2:33pm Ach, they dinnae use namby pamby knives! A real mon uses wolverines!
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Masiakasaurus Forum Moderation Offline mah-SEE-a-kah-SOR-us Posts: 6069 Alabama, USA Gender:	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #5 - Sep 20^th, 2010 at 5:22pm slingbadger wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 2:33pm: Ach, they dinnae use namby pamby knives! A real mon uses wolverines! Or badgered badgers?
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Dutchy Ex Member Slinging Rocks!	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #6 - Sep 20^th, 2010 at 6:01pm Sounds like an interesting book! I also don't own a dirk but i do own a Seax and knife fighting techniques sounds interesting.
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Re: Highland Knife Fighting
Reply #7 - Sep 21^st, 2010 at 11:56am

Cool ,paladin press has yet to dissapoint me from the things I have read, I usually use fillipinio arts for most of my knife fighting skills. I think the best knife fighting guide I have seen was Warriors Edge by cold steel pretty much covers everything including various cool fighting tactics, strikes, footwork and a lot more.

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I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.

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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #8 - Sep 21^st, 2010 at 6:57pm so why learn to knife fight? just a novelty, reenacting?
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Reply #9 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 5:08pm

I don't know if you found any other sources but these guys may be able to help.

The Cateran Society http://www.cateransociety.com/
They've got lots of good vids on youtube.

Then there's the Dawn Duellists. http://www.dawnduellists.co.uk/index.htm
The MacDonald Academy of Arms. http://www.macdonaldarms.com/index.php
Mr. MacDonald runs a week long summer course in the Scottish Highlands if you can make it to Scotland. More info here: http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=104608

Good luck!

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Re: Highland Knife Fighting
Reply #10 - Mar 11^th, 2011 at 5:27pm

Lead instructor forr the Cateran Society is the Author of the book discussed above.

Marc Adkins

snowcelt wrote on Mar 10^th, 2011 at 5:08pm:

I don't know if you found any other sources but these guys may be able to help.

The Cateran Society http://www.cateransociety.com/
They've got lots of good vids on youtube.

Then there's the Dawn Duellists. http://www.dawnduellists.co.uk/index.htm
The MacDonald Academy of Arms. http://www.macdonaldarms.com/index.php
Mr. MacDonald runs a week long summer course in the Scottish Highlands if you can make it to Scotland. More info here: http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=104608

Good luck!

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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #11 - Mar 11^th, 2011 at 9:06pm You can talk to the author on Xmarksthescot.com
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Re: Highland Knife Fighting
Reply #12 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 5:04pm

xxkid123 wrote on Sep 21^st, 2010 at 6:57pm:

so why learn to knife fight? just a novelty, reenacting?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I feel that learning any kind of martial art will help in your overall proficiency. Unless you have a great desire to spend many years in prison you don't want to go around knife fighting on the street, but knowledge is knowledge. You never know...

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Highland Knife Fighting Reply #13 - Mar 13^th, 2011 at 1:52pm Ah well the scots only had knives for gutting haggis (tricky buggers to hunt). For everything else a good old glasgow kiss usually suffices Not sure how you can learn any fighting technique from a book though. Let us know how it goes
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Re: Highland Knife Fighting
Reply #14 - Mar 14^th, 2011 at 7:40am

Agreed. Learning from books is limited in what it can teach you. There is simply no substitute for learning from someone qualified to teach. Hell, even having another partner to physically try out stuff would be better then learning from books alone. As a Fiore fan, I've got several versions of the original fight manual to work from but still attend as many courses and seminars as I can from various interpreters of this art, in addition to training 3 times a week. Might sound a bit lame to some, but we are encouraged to be scholars as well as fighters.

To the original poster, if you cannot get to a specific class of dirk/sgian fighting, you might consider taking a class in another style. Style differences aside, it will give you a good physical reference for what you read from the Highland knife-fighting book. Intellectually understanding something is of limited value unless you can translate that into its physical form. Then again, you may be one of the happy few that can see something once and be able to apply it. I'm not and have to work very hard to convert one to the other. Just my two sents.

Kevin.

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