The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 41 Joanna Penn is a writer (both fiction and non-fiction), podcaster and ultramarathon walker. She doesn’t do swords, or even a lot of history, but she has been a … [Read more...]
Fire Eating and Fencing, with David Ito
The Sword Guy Podcast, Episode 25 David Ito is a sport épée fencer, Kendoka, longsword practitioner, and a fire eater. He also does 100 burpees first thing every morning. In this episode David … [Read more...]
What should you spend your time on? My rules for prioritising what to do.
In "Following my own advice" I described how I try to get something important done every day before checking emails. In that post I rather blithely referred to concentrating on ‘creating assets’, and … [Read more...]
If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything! Free knee maintenance training for swordspeople.
“If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything!” Truer words were never spoken, certainly not by Count Rugen anyway.* Way back in the dawn of time when I began training martial arts, … [Read more...]
The Breathing Book of Doom! (and get 50% off…)
Everybody breathes, but some do it better than others. Breathing training is the foundation of my martial practice, and as with everything else I do, I'm happy to teach it to you. The … [Read more...]
My top 5 martial arts, and why.
Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of my School. I date it to the first demonstration and class I gave in a small room in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki on March 17th 2001. While … [Read more...]