My urgent desire to snuggle up to Philippo Vadi has been gratified, and now you can do the same too. This lovely facsimile went live today, and you can get it from Amazon US, Amazon UK, … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2017
Obedience is not a virtue
My younger daughter is something of a handful, so I’ve been thinking a lot about things like obedience, virtue, loyalty, and authority lately. These are often associated with martial arts training, so … [Read more...]
Philippo Vadi, reborn!
What's this? A new book? Or an old one? My recent fascination with producing affordable facsimiles of fencing manuscripts began with wanting to curl up in a chair with Vadi. Mission … [Read more...]
Do you want to be a [insert job description here]?
A student once asked me, "when can I call myself a swordsman?" I think he was expecting my answer to be a certain number of years spent training, but I said "when swordsmanship is your primary means … [Read more...]
Exciting times, for booky sword geeks anyway.
About a month ago I was checking through a pdf of Vadi's De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi, and thinking how lovely it would be to just pluck the manuscript off a shelf and curl up in an armchair with it. … [Read more...]