WEBVTT 00:00:12.483 --> 00:00:20.129 Jogo do Pau 00:01:01.652 --> 00:01:14.758 Produced with the collaboration of Júlio Hopffer and his disciples 00:01:15.373 --> 00:01:25.741 This documentary, more than a cinematographic work, intends to be a record of the classes of STAFF FENCING 00:01:26.157 --> 00:01:36.042 As they were established after long studies by master Frederico Hopffer 00:01:40.011 --> 00:01:45.133 This photografs from an old album, represent a teaching that allow us to better understand a time 00:01:45.133 --> 00:01:47.227 when living in Lisbon was very different from nowadays. 00:01:47.227 --> 00:01:50.795 The suburbs were not very similar to the city houses 00:01:50.795 --> 00:01:54.368 this were fields and yards where the Lisbon men went horse riding on Sundays looking for better airs, 00:01:54.368 --> 00:01:58.784 wine, and outside guitar playing 00:01:58.784 --> 00:02:03.114 At this time, Jogo do Pau, exercise of the most useful for the health 00:02:03.114 --> 00:02:05.182 because of its diversity of movements 00:02:05.182 --> 00:02:11.548 powerfull educator of courage and virility, was the favorite sport 00:02:15.209 --> 00:02:17.323 Still today we remember the old masters 00:02:17.354 --> 00:02:19.344 Carlos Relvas 00:02:21.975 --> 00:02:25.368 Domingos Salréu 00:02:26.399 --> 00:02:29.811 José Dias 00:02:31.673 --> 00:02:34.994 Domingos Miguel 00:02:36.163 --> 00:02:40.022 master Frederico Hopffer 00:02:40.714 --> 00:02:43.458 and his son 00:02:45.550 --> 00:02:49.966 in the year of 1923, Jogo do Pau had a triumphal aura, blessing brought by the Ginásio Clube Português classes. 00:02:54.014 --> 00:02:58.688 In a old shed near Campolide, today still existing but transformed in a garage 00:02:58.688 --> 00:03:02.134 Frederico Hopffer gathered 7 masters and several disciples 00:03:02.134 --> 00:03:06.717 Meanwhile in Ginásio Clube Português, the practitioners where almost as much as the club members 00:03:06.717 --> 00:03:10.135 the staff fencing done there followed the Lisbon School 00:03:10.135 --> 00:03:14.501 different from Minho and Ribatejo because the strikes were done at one hand 00:03:14.501 --> 00:03:17.584 that gives more reach and obvious advantage 00:03:17.584 --> 00:03:22.981 Founded by master José Maria da Silveira, and later reformed and regularized by Hopffer 00:03:22.981 --> 00:03:27.652 the Lisbon school got its hight by that time. With the help of two masters, 00:03:27.652 --> 00:03:32.005 one of them Júlio Hopffer, restless follower of the tradition imposed by his father 00:03:32.005 --> 00:03:36.082 and the colabotation of Dr. António Jales, old practicioner of the sport 00:03:36.082 --> 00:03:41.814 it is possible to demonstrate a small lesson, and what it is worth as dexterity and emotional spectacle 00:03:41.814 --> 00:03:46.379 the sport that was one day the king of sports of Portuguese athletes. 00:03:46.379 --> 00:03:52.598 First, the thrust to the chest and the corresponding parries 00:04:14.244 --> 00:04:22.462 in all the parries, the body never stays in the place that is targeted 00:04:30.616 --> 00:04:37.660 we have the the back stepped parry, then the exited from the left, from the right, the lateral parries left and right 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:42.035 and finally the forward stepping parry 00:04:44.143 --> 00:04:50.559 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 00:04:50.559 --> 00:04:54.603 the oblique descending strike from the outside has the same parries, but the the staff oblique 00:04:54.653 --> 00:05:04.245 still doing the parries exiting from right and lateral left with the crossed arms 00:05:16.614 --> 00:05:20.864 we have now the round (horizontal) strikes from the outside to try to hit the torso 00:05:20.864 --> 00:05:24.693 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. 00:05:24.693 --> 00:05:28.340 lateral left and right, and yet the forward stepping with the oblique staff 00:05:28.340 --> 00:05:34.170 also doing the back stepping parries from the left and right with the arms crossed 00:05:35.555 --> 00:05:46.028 the ascending strikes from the inside or from the outside have the same parries, expect the forward stepping parry 00:06:09.382 --> 00:06:19.974 and also the strikes to the ankle, also from the inside and the outside, with the same parries and the forward stepping parry. 00:06:42.497 --> 00:06:47.930 finally the cutting counter attacks that work against any strike 00:06:47.930 --> 00:06:54.481 the cutting can be done with step back, half step back, half step forward, lateral left of right 00:06:54.481 --> 00:06:58.073 and then by antecipation 00:07:15.134 --> 00:07:17.999 and in this formal assault by two disciples 00:07:17.999 --> 00:07:22.873 for the lay man, all seems hard and a constant danger with every thrust 00:07:22.873 --> 00:07:27.033 however, the boys of nowadays cannot forget that in this sport that is practiced 00:07:27.033 --> 00:07:33.173 without any artificial protection, everything can be learned, and as the knowledge is aquired 00:07:33.173 --> 00:07:37.452 the nervousness subsides, the confidence reborns and the enthusiasm springs 00:07:37.452 --> 00:07:44.202 and so it will be easy to give Jogo do Pau the place it deserves 00:07:44.202 --> 00:07:47.802 among the most virile and healthy sports 00:07:47.802 --> 00:07:51.753 sport that we don't know well why, stopped having the legion of adepts 00:07:51.753 --> 00:08:00.341 that had been generalized by Portuguese lands, the most Portuguese of the physical exercises 00:08:46.110 --> 99:59:59.999 The End