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Archives for October 2016

Fighting Depression

October 26, 2016 By Guy Windsor 8 Comments

When my second child was born at the end of 2008, everything went horribly wrong which resulted in my wife losing 7 litres of blood (all of her own and a whole lot of someone else’s), and ending up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Personal

Don’t be good. Be visionary.

October 19, 2016 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Sensible people look at what they have and work from there in the direction they want to go. Visionaries decide what they want to do, then gather the resources they need to do it. Let’s take a … [Read more...]

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Safety Guidelines for the Practice of Swordsmanship

October 18, 2016 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Safety Guidelines for the Practice of Swordsmanship These safety guidelines come from my Recreate Historical Swordsmanship from Historical Sources Course and have been adapted from The Duellist's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: beginner swordsplay, exercise, health, injuries, longsword, rapier, safety, sword class, training mindset

Horny for swords? Me too.

October 15, 2016 By Guy Windsor 3 Comments

You may recall I went to Scotland a couple of weeks ago, and on that trip a select few got to travel to Glasgow to visit the Museum Resource Centre. There we met a curator, Dr Ralph Moffat, who kindly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fun, Travel Tagged With: Armizare, boar sword, fiore, medieval longsword, travel

A swordsman’s thoughts on some Game of Thrones fights

October 12, 2016 By Guy Windsor 17 Comments

[Warning: these videos contain some very graphic violence. If you are under 18, and like screen sword fights, please go here instead.] Game of Thrones is a great TV series, a soap opera of majestic … [Read more...]

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Parry this! A review of the Smallsword Symposium

October 7, 2016 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Last weekend I attended the excellent Smallsword Symposium. I am unusual amongst HEMA instructors in that I do lots of different styles; Armizare, of course, but also I.33 sword and buckler, Capoferro … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Class Reports Tagged With: capoferro, How To, smallsword, training mindset

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