Who is the greatest sword fighter of all time?

Some forgotten dead soldier, maybe he died from arrow, or disease.

>>33253107
Vispuci Lapriso, by far.

He was an Italian born mercenary who actually fought and got out of one of the battles to break the Seige of Constantinople alive. There is a rumor he fought hand to hand for 6 hours straight to carve a path out through the Ottoman lines.

Back in Venice he became a high dollar personal guard, but was blacklisted for killing a man during his off hours who turned out to be some relation to a city controller. He continued to work though, and at one point city guards were sent to arrest him for defiance of his work restriction. He was said of have killed 16 city guards, then peacefully surrendering to the beuarcrat who had come along with the arrest papers.

He was released shortly after thanks to powerful relations he had cultivated. He died an old man living in southern Italy who hand crafted swords for younger men.

>>33253107
Minamoto Yoshitsune.

>>33253153

The fuck

Yoshimitsu

>>33253107
Not the idiot without armor and dual wielding like a faggot

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>>33253153

>>33253153
>Vispuci Lapriso

No hits on google. Are you misspelling his name?

>>33253107
Miyamoto Musashi
>fought many wars
>won 60 duells on live and death
>never lost
>has beaten on of the best fighter of his time to death with a wooden sword mock-up

>>33253307
He was mentioned by that name in the book "1453", though in other acamedic history journals I've seen it spelled differently.

>>33253107

Fiore dei Liberi

Go google him.

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Geralt of Rivia

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>>33253107
EL ZORRO

The Fencer of Minerva

>>33253107
Achilles.

Inigo Montoya.

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>>33253153
This is the most bullshit filled post i have read in a long time.

Connor MacLeod

Matt Easton, Scholagladiatoria.

>i am immortal
>i have inside me blood of kings
>i have no rival
>no man can be my equal
>take me to the future of your world

>>33253485
>is...is this real?

>>33253458
Yeah I'm reading the book of five rings or whatever now. He's pretty badass

>>33253153
This is utterly convincing.

>>33253153
>Vispuci Lapriso

https://books.google.com/books?id=H3tpAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Vispuci+Lapriso

I'm calling bullshit

>>33253107
Probally you and your bf fag.

Sorry, had to say it.
Now back to your regular scheduled programming.

>>33253107
Götz von Berlichingen is a pretty god life
surviving half a century of battles as a mercenary has to be a mark of skill, right

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>>33254478

Assuming unarmored

Who's the greatest fencer of all time? cause that would be the greatest swordsman of all time.

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>>33253153

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the scarlet pumpernickel

Miyamoto Musashi

>>33253107
Whoever has the high ground

>>33254879

But what if the guy below can do a flip?

>>33253107
>>33253107
The dread pirate Roberts.

>>33253107
This guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Anderson_%28fencer%29

He was the swordmaster of the Highlander movie, and a bunch of others.

>>33255006
Will still get his limbs cut off and get turned into a cyborg

>>33253107
Somewhere between:

Johannes Lichtenauer
Miyamoto Musashi
Fiore de Liberi
Salvatore Fabris
and
George Silver

Aren't those kendo dudes exceptionally good with swords? I figure if you spend your whole life learning to smack someone with a wooden sword, you'll be pretty legit with a real one. They're so fast about bopping eachother.

Then again, a fencer probably has the advantage in terms of initial strike. Their weapons are so light and long. I bet top-tier fencers today are the best swordsmen in history when it comes to that dueling style.

Kendo would be hard to say for sure. It seems like japanese men might have had more time to devote to kendo in the past, and the art is based on tradition instead of winning. I'd say kendo has probably not as refined today as it once was.

I'd honestly put my money on some unknown European swordsman who trained with his brothers his whole life.

>>33253107
Don Juan, the prince of Spain.

>>33255761
Kendo is Korean you stupid autistic sack or shit

I have heard of some dude named vispuci lapriso. Was supposedly some mercenary who had a falling out with local nobility after his scandalous murder.

>>33256483
stop trying to trigger japanese fans

the koreans could never create something as beautiful as kendo. that is purely japanese

>>33255761

Kendo sucks

Katanas/bokken suck

The east sucks at melee and everything martial

Modern fencing sucks

Modern fencers with actual epees or foils would immediately kill each other in a duel with their spastic sperg lunges with no concern for safety.

Hitting the other guy 0.005s before he hits you means you win in fencing, and in real fights, lose the duel 0.005s after the other guy.

Probably whoever that Himura Kenshin is based on

Also Saito Hajime. Not the *best* dude in his corps (apparently Okita and Hijikata is better), but dude got to live to old age and passed his knowledge

>>33256966
B-buh calling Kendo Japanese triggers me

>>33253107
Indiana Jones

>>33257126
How's your first week of HEMA practice going?