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How to recreate historical swordsmanship from historical sources

March 8, 2017 By Guy Windsor 2 Comments

I have just created a syllabus for creating a syllabus. You read that right. The end product of my Recreate Historical Swordsmanship from Historical Sources course is a complete syllabus for the style … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: courses, learning, manuscripts, online courses, Research, sword texts, video

Seeing the future: training foresight.

April 27, 2016 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

There are few things that all martial artists agree on, but I think this may be one of them: “it’s easier to fight someone if you know exactly what they are going to do”. To predict their actions. To … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: avvisamento, fiore longsword, manuscripts, sword drills, sword texts, training mindset, video

The Book that began it all: Francesco Novati’s Il Fior di Battaglia

April 22, 2016 By Guy Windsor 13 Comments

Yesterday I went to visit my friend Peter Mustonen. He’s an arms dealer; but our kind of arms dealer: gorgeous antique swords, knives, guns, armour, shields; you name it, he has a delicious example. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books and Writing Tagged With: antiques, fiore, fiore longsword, hema, manuscripts, sharp swords, sword texts

This belongs to you. Fabris’s Sienza d’Arme, the best rapier book ever, yours free.

April 14, 2016 By Guy Windsor 5 Comments

I have the enormous privilege of owning an original copy of Salvatore Fabris’s Sienza e Pratica d’Arme, printed in 1606. I bought it from Sr. Roberto Gotti, of Brescia, in 2014. It is in incredibly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books and Writing Tagged With: capoferro, fabris, free books, historical treatise, manuscripts, rapier, salvatore fabris, sword texts, windsor books, writing

Pimp my Sword, or, the Sword Pimp: my first ever HEMA article

March 8, 2016 By Guy Windsor Leave a Comment

I am currently digitising a metric fuck-ton of paper, prior to moving to the UK. If you're interested in the actual process of going more-or-less paperless, then I'll be happy to post it here in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Swordsmanship Tagged With: how to go paperless, sword texts, writing

Oh my, what treasures!

December 31, 2015 By Guy Windsor 1 Comment

I am usually late to any party held on the internet, because I don't go looking for stuff, and I am pretty cavalier about things like facebook. Which means, much to my chagrin, that I didn't even hear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books and Writing Tagged With: crowdfunding, fiore, manuscripts, sword texts

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