Word: nadi
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...remark in your article on "First Fencer" that Nadi's use of the "advance thrust" is an offensive few dare attempt. The movement may seem daring to Americans who mainly follow the French School, but it is not unusual...
...last week arrived Nedo Nadi, the greatest fencer alive. Dressed in his fencing whites, his torso looking extraordinarily long because, in the traditional postures of correct fencing, his back was always stiff, his knees usually bent, he gave an exhibition at the New York Athletic Club. His opponents were Clovis Deladrier, onetime military champion of Belgium, now instructor at Annapolis, and George Santelli, onetime amateur champion of Hungary. As Nadi touched Deladrier's breast with the point of his foil or slashed at Santelli with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French...