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Fire Eating and Fencing, with David Ito

December 11, 2020 By Katie Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: circus skills, fencing, fire eating, fitness, kendo, longsword, teaching

What should you spend your time on? My rules for prioritising what to do.

December 19, 2016 By Guy Windsor 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: breathing exercises, exercise, fitness, health, lifestyle, meditation, nutrition, wealth

If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything! Free knee maintenance training for swordspeople.

December 1, 2016 By Guy Windsor 2 Comments

“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...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: courses, exercise, fitness, footwork, free, health, How To, learning, online courses

The Breathing Book of Doom! (and get 50% off…)

September 3, 2016 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

  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...]

Filed Under: Books and Writing, Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: breathing, breathing exercises, courses, fitness, health, How To, learning, martial arts, windsor books, writing

My top 5 martial arts, and why.

March 17, 2016 By Guy Windsor 5 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Other Martial Arts Tagged With: fitness, hema, hema tournament, martial arts

Fuck it, but don’t poke the bear. How to train when sick.

March 14, 2016 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Everybody gets sick or injured every now and then, and I’ve had a pretty rough winter so far in that regard which has got me thinking about how I train when sick. In this post I’ll lay out my general … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: fitness, health, injuries, sword class, training mindset

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