Ask the Sword Guy 5: left handers, and one-handed thrusts

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Today’s episode has me talking about left-handers, and the one-handed long thrust with a longsword. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/vHcAK_LmUk0   Shownotes: Fiore Facsimile (the closest you can get to owning the manuscript): https://amzn.to/2MOowWH The Flower of Battle (Leoni translation) http://www.freelanceacademypress.com/flowersofbattlethecompletemartialworksoffioredeiliberi.aspx The Rapier, part Four: Sword and Dagger and Sword and Cape Workbook: https://www.guywindsor.net/blog/rbc400

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Ask the Sword Guy AMA part 4: training motivation, and knights with katanas

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https://youtu.be/JmSxAGY7jaw The shownotes for this episode: Fighting Depression Personal Update: Mental Health Learning Rapier: your free workbook video The Unconquered Knight: A Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Niño, Count of Buelna Alan Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace Fiore Facsimile (the closest you can get to owning the manuscript) The Flower of … Read more

Exchanging the thrust: Fiore Translation Project #22

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Having kicked our opponent in the groin, we turn the page to see this spread: [Note, this image is not a photograph of the manuscript opened up; I have just put the scan of each page next to each other.]  The story is the same though; having dealt with a whole lot of cuts, including … Read more

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