Andrea Lupo-Sinclair
Didactical Videos:
Sinclair
Method Sword & Daga Drill 1
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Method Sword & Daga Drill 2
Sinclair
Method Sword & Daga Drill 3
Sinclair
Method Longword Vs. Sword & Daga Drill
Sinclair's
Basic Longsword Solo Drill
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Rapier 1
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Rapier 2
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Rapier vs. Italian Smallsword
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Smallsword vs. French
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Rapier & Daga chunk 1
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Rapier & Daga chunk 2
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Rapier & Daga 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 almost forrty 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.
Formerly a practitioner
of Boxing, he has later had the opportunity to discover the Duelling Fencing
as it was traditionally practiced for training.
He then dedicated himself to research into the old martial disciplines
of the European History, with an over twenty-five years long training
curriculum of practice 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 (the "Old School") of Europe
from the Renaissance period; systems which do not have any living tradition
but only written documents that require careful and accurate study and
practice so that it is possible to preserve their potentials and at the
same time making them useful still today in modern life for a modern pratictioner
and martialist.
Andrea Lupo-Sinclair's didactical method is therefore 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.
In the last years in Italy 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.
As Technical Director of FISAS,
Andrea Lupo-Sinclair has certified several Masters and Instructors that
are now fully operationals in their own Salle of Arms preserving the legacy
and the experience of many years of practice he has left them.
In his past researches he has also studied
Personal Defence, Stick Fighting, Aikido and the Indian Art Kalari Payat
(Kalaripayattu).
Recently he has restarted intensive practice of the Boxing and Pugilism,
is a certified Instructor of the Military Defense System "R.I.S."
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 Historical Fencing for the
Italian Sport and Education Center.
He currently lives in Norway, near the city of Kristiansand.
Mobile:
+47 91812128
+39 3292144912
