Andrea Lupo-Sinclair
Videos:
Sinclair
Method Close Distance Drill Sword & Daga
Italian
Rapier 1
Italian
Rapier 2
Italian
Rapier vs. Italian Smallsword
Italian
Smallsword vs. French
Italian
Rapier & Daga vs. Spanish chunk 1
Italian
Rapier & Daga vs. Spanish chunk 2
Italian
Rapier & Daga vs. Spanish complete (74 Mb)
Andrea
Lupo-Sinclair is the founder & technical director of
FISAS,
(Federazione Italiana Scherma Antica e Storica), the first independent
Federation ever created in the world for the study and practice of the
Historical and Traditional Fencing, and of the Traditional Fencing Academy
"Manuela Lecchi".
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.
After years of researches on the traditional principles of Duelling Fencing,
on motion schemes, on martial principles and on the physical and psychological
effects of a real fight, he has developed a personal and unique method
of teaching and training for the real practice and application of a complete
Martial Art also in its phylosophical elements of personal growth and
knowledge and mind/body education and developement.
Particularly, he has developed an unique system of practice and application
for the Early Historical Fencing (Medieval and Renaissance).
Andrea Lupo-Sinclair's didactical method is firmly based on his education,
training, extensive research of historical documents and proven experiments,
free from academic stiffness and conformism and deeply inspired to the
spirit of the free Masters of the past, to create a personal system and
style and to make the practitioner to develop and improve his personal
and unique potentials.
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 a safe
and reliable practice of the 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).
Recently he has restarted intensive practice of the Boxing, studying the
Military Defense System RIS and is cohoperating with the Research Center
created by the Wing Tsun School of "Fiore Rosso" in Italy.
He is the National Didactical Director
for the Historical Fencing for the Italian Sport and Education Center.
