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How to use martial arts drills: a woodworking analogy.

November 19, 2013 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

It has been my experience that beginners feel they have learned something when they get to try a new technique. But experienced students of the art feel they have learned something when they have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: advanced swordsplay, beginner swordsplay, breathing exercises, sword class, sword drills

5 reasons why Audatia matters

August 1, 2013 By Guy Windsor 1 Comment

I have been working for the last nine months on creating a teaching tool for students of Fiore's art: a card game called Audatia. The game has been designed from the ground up as a way to make the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects Tagged With: audatia, beginner swordsplay, fiore longsword, hema, sword class

New Beginnings, part 8

April 29, 2013 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is the end of this beginner’s course. Unusually for me I actually wrote out a class plan in advance. I wondered whether given … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Class Reports Tagged With: beginner swordsplay, learning, series post, sword drills

New Beginnings, part 7

April 18, 2013 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

I should warn you, reading this, that my experiments in the land of data entry have shifted to a new phase. I am boldly going into Star Trek territory, and dictating this to the computer. This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Class Reports Tagged With: beginner swordsplay, learning, series post, sword drills

New Beginnings parts 5 and 6

April 11, 2013 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

I’ve been rushed off my feet with a plethora of interesting projects, including a card game version of Fiore’s art of arms, an upcoming trip to Oulu, and finding out the hard way that my youngest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Class Reports Tagged With: beginner swordsplay, fiore, series post, sword class, travel

New Beginnings, part 4

March 28, 2013 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Week 4 and we are half way through the course. We ran through a normal warm-up, including kicking squats, knuckle push-ups and falling. Then I had them remember as much as they could of the four … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Class Reports Tagged With: beginner swordsplay, learning, series post, sword drills, warm-up

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