Guy Windsor

Ask the Sword Guy: AMA part 2

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Here you go! Some rambling on training with sharps, and the ethics of martial arts… https://youtu.be/boOVVT9qUxY Links from this episode: Bullshit post Training with Sharp Swords: article on the CFAA blog My book Swordfighting for Writers, Game Designers, and Martial Artists My book the Theory and Practice of Historical Martial Arts My short book Ethics … Read more

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Ask the Sword Guy: AMA part 1

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Hi yesterday I sent an AMA email out to my mailing list, and got inundated with questions. The first two are answered in this video. https://youtu.be/V3i18qzPgEo I hope you like the intro-outro music. If you want to put questions to me, then join the list and drop me a line!

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A stitch in time, or twelve years late!

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I’ve had my woodworking bench for twelve years now. It’s been a good workhorse, small enough to fit into my bijou little workshop spaces but big enough to be useful. It first lived in a corner in the old salle, then the tatami shed in the ‘new’ salle: then my garage in Ipswich, and now … Read more

On drawing the sword! (Fiore Translation Project #21)

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We in the historical swordsmanship community are often asked about drawing the sword. I wrote a short chapter on it in my book Swordfighting. The chapter was short because there isn’t much information in the sources! I think this is because most sources are concerned with swordsmanship for the duel in a European culture, which … Read more

Fiore Translation Project #20 defending with the dagger against the sword.

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If you have been following The Fiore Translation Project from the beginning, you may recall that I gave myself permission to skip about in the treatise as the whimsy takes me. I had a nagging feeling that I ought to include the plays of the dagger against the sword, and the sword in the scabbard … Read more

The Fiore Translation Project #19: Slip the Leg, and Kick the Nuts

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The seventh play of the sword in two hands in zogho largo punishes the opponent for offences against geometry. Pythagoras is widely credited with establishing the relationship between the lengths of the sides of a right angled triangle (though I think the Babylonians got there centuries earlier). In short, the square of the length of … Read more

The Fiore Translation Project #18: Colpo di Villano

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As we saw in the 10th play of the Sword in One Hand, the solution to overwhelming force is to let it go by, while preventing it from following you. The “Peasant’s Blow”, or colpo di villano, does this by meeting the incoming sword and yielding to it, while stepping out of the way. This … Read more