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Wiktenauer, with Michael Chidester

November 13, 2020 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

The Sword Guy Podcast, Episode 21 Michael Chidester is the a long-time researcher and practitioner of historical martial arts, and the Director of Wiktenauer. He is also producing draw-droppingly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Fiore dei Liberi, treatises, wiktenauer

Women in Armour, and Translating Latin Fiore, with Kendra Brown

October 23, 2020 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

The Sword Guy Podcast, Episode 18 Kendra Brown is a swordswoman, researcher, and translator of the Latin version of Fiore’s Il Fior di Battaglia (known as the Florius manuscript). She has an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: armor, armour, Fiore dei Liberi, medieval, translation, women in HEMA

Setting Fire to Nunneries, Fiore’s Wrestling, and more. With Kimberleigh Roseblade

September 4, 2020 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

The Sword Guy Podcast, Episode 11 Kimberleigh Roseblade is a historical martial arts instructor, specialising in Fiore's Art of Arms. She teaches at AEMMA in Toronto, and has taught at many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Fiore dei Liberi, medieval history, women in HEMA, wrestling

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

Integrating longsword and dagger plays

September 22, 2017 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Last week I talked about the importance of swordsmen learning dagger techniques, and I promised I'd explain how to integrate training the dagger material with the longsword material. This needs to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: dagger, Fiore dei Liberi, fiore longsword, learning, longsword, teaching

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