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Archives for June 2018

Imposter Syndrome

June 30, 2018 By Guy Windsor 3 Comments

Who am I to be writing this blog post? Nobody. I’m sure there are a thousand people out there who would do it better.  But a friend of mine asked me, not them, so here we go. First, I’ll … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reflections

The last of the Bolognese: Senese’s The True Handling of the Sword, yours free.

June 27, 2018 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books and Writing

Fiore scholars, you must have this book. A review of Flowers of Battle

June 19, 2018 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books and Writing

Freedom to Strike: a lengthy discussion of largo and stretto

June 13, 2018 By Guy Windsor 4 Comments

Ultra-geeky sword post alert: this is a lengthy and detailed discussion of some really specific terms from Fiore. Expect pedantry and nit-pickery, in the service of a definition of terms which has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: filippo vadi, Fiore dei Liberi, fiore longsword, Research

Hypocrisy

June 7, 2018 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Hypocrisy is deliberately saying one thing and doing another. Pretending to be something you are not, or pretending to believe something that you do not. Lecturing others on family values while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reflections

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