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Syllabus Design: Using Forms

February 8, 2019 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

Creating a working syllabus is hard. Where do you start? What comes next? How do you know when you’re ready to move on to the next thing? I find it helps to remember that there is no one correct … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: capo ferro rapier, capoferro, form, rapier, workbook

Errors of Judgement

March 31, 2016 By Guy Windsor 2 Comments

Training happens in the brain, and in my experience, the biggest barriers to training exist between a student’s ears. One of the most common problems I have seen (and experienced myself), is the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: avvisamento, foresight, form, judgement, learning, mindfulness, training mindset

How to solve your fencing problems: with flowcharts!

September 21, 2015 By Guy Windsor 2 Comments

I think that training ought to be focussed and goal oriented. The goal in any fencing context is to strike without being struck, so any problem can be thought of as “I’m getting hit” or “I’m not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: form, How To, longsword guards, medieval longsword, sword class, sword drills, training mindset

How to Write Forms or Kata for Martial Arts Training

July 29, 2015 By Guy Windsor 3 Comments

We are in the middle of our annual monster seminar, the Fiore Extravaganza. We began with a day of pollax training from the medieval French manuscript Jeu de la Hache, taught by Lois Forster. Lois … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: fiore, fiore longsword, form, How To, pollax, sword class

Audacious Freeplay Training

June 5, 2015 By Guy Windsor 1 Comment

A good swordsman must be able to handle a range of different opponents, and so must train to face lots of different styles of attack and defence. This is quite difficult to accomplish within a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Class Reports Tagged With: audatia, breathing exercises, form, video

Wrong again! First play first master zogho largo, revisited.

April 20, 2015 By Guy Windsor 2 Comments

While I was at the Armizare 2015 event, I had a discussion about Fiore’s first play of the first master of zogho largo with Francesco Baselice. Let me summarise our interpretations, with reference to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: fiore longsword, form, sword class, sword drills, video

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