I'm not left-handed, either

[sovay]

Lightsabers out, everyone. Or just grab the nearest pointy object and have at it for a moment in his memory: Bob Anderson, the Olympic fencer and sword master who gave us Darth Vader and the bladework of everyone from Inigo Montoya to the Fellowship of the Ring. If you thought Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) had the best swashbuckling since Errol Flynn, he was why—his first work on film was fight-directing Flynn in The Master of Ballantrae (1953). Zorro and the Three Musketeers, too. And a couple of Bonds. Duncan MacLeod. There was only one.

Comments

[sovay]

I second this, as a student of both the epée and the katana.

I didn't know that about you.

(But mostly as a Scot.)

(Fair.)

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that about you.

The epée in college, the katana courtesy of my first wife.
There is much about myself I would tell you.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Epée is a really interesting style.

[sovay]

Epée is a really interesting style.

kraada fenced epée.

Anderson's specialty was the saber.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

There are elements of epée that don't appear really anywhere else, and it was one of the things that Bruce Lee studied and incorporated into his martial arts.