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Born in 1964 in Firenze from an Italo-Swiss family who has roots both from North and South of Europe, he grew in Venezia and Turin, then lived in Milano for thirty years, where he frequented the High School for Classical Studies "G.Berchet", and later the faculty of Social Sciences and Psichology at the State University of Milan. He has an over twenty-five years long training curriculum in Traditional Fencing all over Europe. Since 1985, as a true pioneer of the European Martial Arts revival he has conducted extensive researches of reliable teachers, old duellists, traditional systems and documents for the knowledge and teaching of the Art of Fencing since its roots. He discovered that in Europe are still existing traditional lineages traceable back to the XVIII Century. Most of the researchers and students of Italian Schools in Europe and USA have learned from him - especially from his method of late Italian Rapier ("Spada all'Italiana") - and he can be considered a very preminent representant of the current revival of Historical Fencing all over the world and the high cultural battle to give a new good reputation to disciplines often neglected and misunderstood.
Together
with the foundation of FISAS - which originally included also members
of the Sportfencing Masters Association - Andrea Lupo-Sinclair has contributed
to the creation of several organisations and experimental research groups,
and continue to do so as an independent professional to develop the deepest
possible knowledge of the european martial systems and disciplines. He is also the designer of the "FISAS blade", by many instructors considered the best Rapier full contact training blade ever created in modern times. Recently he has also created Longsword, Sidesword and Sabre blades for contact training and developed a complete fencing gear and equipment that set the standards for FISAS and other organisations in Europe for the safe practice of historical fencing. Andrea Lupo-Sinclair teaches, either in the FISAS salles or in individual lessons, basically the four FISAS weapons: Longsword, XVI century Sidesword, Italian Traditional Rapier and Radaelli and Barbasetti Italian Duelling Sabre. In
his past researches he has also studied Personal Defence, Boxing, Stick
Fighting, Aikido and Kalari Payat (Kalaripayattu).
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