Peak 3rd density sword arts from ancient Europe

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What's interesting is that European martial arts and sword-fighting actually doesn't have a lot of continuity to it, in the sense of transmission. A lot of these manuals that are being used today are being used in the form of re-creation and reinvention, since there haven't been continuous lines of transmission so there is a great deal of interpretation that takes place. That's different from a lot of Eastern schools that do have continuity of transmission, with the same techniques being passed down for hundreds of years from master to pupil.