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Progress Report: Letters Home, Abandonment, and the Matron Effect

August 3, 2015 By Guy Windsor 3 Comments

This is a progress report for the “get over boarding school” project. If you’re here looking for some technical sword stuff, I suggest going here or here. I usually edit my posts quite carefully. … [Read more...]

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

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

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

Sometimes it’s better to just take the [s]hit.

June 11, 2015 By Guy Windsor 3 Comments

We often duck and dive to avoid something, when our interests would be better served by meeting it head on. Sometimes it's better to just take the hit. By the time they are a few weeks old, most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: capoferro, fear, parenting, training mindset

Managing fear: a case study, with verse!

November 7, 2014 By Guy Windsor 1 Comment

Fear management is the key skill underlying all martial arts. If you are not afraid of getting hurt or killed, there’s something wrong with you. But if you are frozen in place by that fear, prevented … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: breathing exercises, fear, How To, how to conquer fear, training mindset

Training for Fear

September 12, 2014 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

I am writing up the Fear section of my new book, Swordfighting for Writers, Game Designers and Martial Artists. This particular section seemed like a useful snippet. About half the book is blog posts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: fear, learning, swordfighting, training mindset, video, writing

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