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Archives for July 2015

Balls of Steel!

July 31, 2015 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

There is a rather stupid convention common in the upbringing of boys and men: because we are supposed to be strong, we ought not to acknowledge our weaknesses. As any weight-lifter could tell you, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: fear, fitness, health

How to Write Forms or Kata for Martial Arts Training

July 29, 2015 By Guy Windsor 3 Comments

We are in the middle of our annual monster seminar, the Fiore Extravaganza. We began with a day of pollax training from the medieval French manuscript Jeu de la Hache, taught by Lois Forster. Lois … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: fiore, fiore longsword, form, How To, pollax, sword class

Dealing with it.

July 14, 2015 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

  Oh my, what a week it has been. I was scared of hitting “publish” on my last post, for obvious reasons. I am a big bad scary martial arty swordsman, or at least that’s how a lot of people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: boarding school, fear, martial arts, personal

The Price of Privilege

July 8, 2015 By Guy Windsor 16 Comments

I spent much of yesterday evening crying my eyes out. The kind of wracking sobs that leave you weak and shaky for hours afterwards. This is not normal. I was packed off to boarding school at the age … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: boarding school, health, personal

Size Matters: how long should your rapier be?

July 6, 2015 By Guy Windsor 24 Comments

As you may know, I am in the process of videoing everything we do in the salle, and putting it up online for free. This project is called the "Syllabus Wiki". One of the many benefits of this is that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: capo ferro, capoferro, cappo ferro, how long is a rapier, long rapier, manuscripts, rapier blade length, rapier dimensions, rapier length, rapier size, the duellist's companion, vadi

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