06-01-2011, 05:19 AM
I would not call the men in the image you show in outside ward. There are very good illustrations from fencing manuals of such. Roud-shield fencers often step through with the right leg on thrusting which is unlikely in spearmen, and ths may be part of the reason the ward is popular. Those men look to me like they are holding the shield mostly in front of them. They may be in motion, the man on the right appears to be delivering a thrust and swiveling his torso to the left, so this may play into the appearance. Hopefully the man on the left does not stand static with that left leg so extended!
Paul M. Bardunias
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