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Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.48,0:00:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jogo do Pau
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.65,0:01:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Produced with the collaboration of Júlio Hopffer and his disciples
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.37,0:01:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This documentary, more than a cinematographic work, intends to be a record of the classes of STAFF FENCING
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.16,0:01:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As they were established after long studies by master Frederico Hopffer\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.01,0:01:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This photografs from an old album, represent a teaching that allow us to better understand a time
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.13,0:01:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when living in Lisbon was very different from nowadays.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.23,0:01:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The suburbs were not very similar to the city houses\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.80,0:01:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this were fields and yards where the Lisbon men went horse riding on Sundays looking for better airs,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.37,0:01:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wine, and outside guitar playing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.78,0:02:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this time, Jogo do Pau, exercise of the most useful for the health\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.11,0:02:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of its diversity of movements\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.18,0:02:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powerfull educator of courage and virility, was the favorite sport
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.21,0:02:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still today we remember the old masters\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.35,0:02:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carlos Relvas
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.98,0:02:25.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Domingos Salréu
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.40,0:02:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,José Dias
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.67,0:02:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Domingos Miguel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.16,0:02:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,master Frederico Hopffer
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.71,0:02:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his son
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.55,0:02:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the year of 1923, Jogo do Pau had a triumphal aura, blessing brought by the Ginásio Clube Português classes.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.01,0:02:58.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a old shed near Campolide, today still existing but transformed in a garage\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.69,0:03:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Frederico Hopffer gathered 7 masters and several disciples
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.13,0:03:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile in Ginásio Clube Português, the practitioners where almost as much as the club members\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.72,0:03:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the staff fencing done there followed the Lisbon School\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.14,0:03:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different from Minho and Ribatejo because the strikes were done at one hand
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.50,0:03:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gives more reach and obvious advantage\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.58,0:03:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Founded by master José Maria da Silveira, and later reformed and regularized by Hopffer
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.98,0:03:27.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Lisbon school got its hight by that time.\NWith the help of two masters,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.65,0:03:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of them Júlio Hopffer, restless follower of the tradition imposed by his father
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.00,0:03:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the colabotation of Dr. António Jales, old practicioner of the sport
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.08,0:03:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is possible to demonstrate a small lesson, and what it is worth as dexterity and emotional spectacle\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.81,0:03:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sport that was one day the king of sports of Portuguese athletes.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.38,0:03:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, the thrust to the chest and the corresponding parries\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.24,0:04:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all the parries, the body never stays in the place that is targeted\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.62,0:04:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have the the back stepped parry, then the exited from the left, from the right, the lateral parries left and right\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.66,0:04:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally the forward stepping parry\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.14,0:04:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now, a vertical strikes with the same parries, with the different of the forward stepping parry, that is done from the left and the right\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.56,0:04:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the oblique descending strike from the outside has the same parries, but the the staff oblique\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.65,0:05:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still doing the parries exiting from right and lateral left with the crossed arms\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.61,0:05:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have now the round (horizontal) strikes from the outside to try to hit the torso\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.86,0:05:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this ones it is needed a parry to the point of the staff, that can be done with a back step, exiting from right or left.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.69,0:05:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lateral left and right, and yet the forward stepping with the oblique staff\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.34,0:05:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also doing the back stepping parries from the left and right with the arms crossed\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.56,0:05:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ascending strikes from the inside or from the outside have the same parries, expect the forward stepping parry\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.38,0:06:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also the strikes to the ankle, also from the inside and the outside, with the same parries and the forward stepping parry.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.50,0:06:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finally the cutting counter attacks that work against any strike\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.93,0:06:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cutting can be done with step back, half step back, half step forward, lateral left of right\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.48,0:06:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then by antecipation
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.13,0:07:17.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in this formal assault by two disciples\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.100,0:07:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the lay man, all seems hard and a constant danger with every thrust\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.87,0:07:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,however, the boys of nowadays cannot forget that in this sport that is practiced\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.03,0:07:33.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any artificial protection, everything can be learned, and as the knowledge is aquired\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.17,0:07:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nervousness subsides, the confidence reborns and the enthusiasm springs\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.45,0:07:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so it will be easy to give Jogo do Pau the place it deserves\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.20,0:07:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the most virile and healthy sports
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.80,0:07:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sport that we don't know well why, stopped having the legion of adepts\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.75,0:08:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had been generalized by Portuguese lands, the most Portuguese of the physical exercises
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.11,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The End