Consulting Swordsman
I’m back from an excellent trip to the USA, to speak at the Hero Round Table conference in Michigan. I’ll write up that event properly when they have uploaded my talk to Youtube; the whole thing was live-streamed, so you may have seen it already. I don’t dare watch it. This weekend I’m dashing off … Read more
I received the print proof of the new rapier workbook, and it looks great. The paper quality is much better than at Lulu (the other printing option), and the printing itself is excellent. I have put in the order for a limited print run, which will be distributed by Fallen Rook Press. That’s for the … Read more
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to teach swordsmanship through books and videos. It’s not a simple problem, not least because every student is different, and has different needs and preferences. How the material should be ordered and presented, what photos may be needed, how much explanation is sufficient (oddly, more is … Read more
Good news for Vadi fans! The black and white paperback edition of The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest is now at the printers- I expect to see a proof copy next week- and the ebook edition is now live! I’ve put together an ebook bundle for you here. This includes the full-colour PDF, as well … Read more
I am delighted to announce that the National Fencing Museum’s copy of Alessandro Senese’s rapier treatise from 1660 is now available to download from here. The download includes a zip file of edited jpgs, and a pdf for handy reference. If you need the full-res raw files at 25mb/page, email me and I’ll send you … Read more
Last year my friends at Freelance Academy Press boldly crowdfunded a publishing project: reproducing in facsimile and translation all four of the extant Fiore manuscripts. I supported the campaign, of course, and my copy of the first volume arrived some time ago. Flowers of Battle, Volume 1. I left it unopened for a couple of … Read more
I get a lot of stuff done, as you have probably noticed. A while ago, a kind soul took a few of my blog posts on time management and my approach to getting stuff done and put them together into a pdf. I was touched, and enjoyed the idea of it, but didn’t do anything … Read more
As you may know I’ve been working on a second edition of Veni Vadi Vici for several years, as part of my PhD work. I have completely rewritten the book, so much so that it has been re-titled as The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest. It is now available to buy in glorious full-colour … Read more
My book on Vadi’s manuscript De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi is available now as The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest. As with my first attempt at translating this manuscript I have released the translation for free, under a creative commons attribution 4.0 licence. This means you can do whatever you want with it, provided you give … Read more
“This should be the core book in every HEMA practitioner’s library” Comments like this are what authors live for. My new book The Theory and Practice of Historical Martial Arts has picked up eleven five star reviews on Amazon.com in its first week in the wild. I couldn’t be happier. The reviews come from beginners and highly … Read more