Conversations on Binding at the Sword
My student asked a question about the nature of longsword fencing as it is often seen now in tournaments and in many videos online: "Why don't we see more play at the bind?"
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Notes from a Fencing Student, circa 1657
Nearly everything we work with today is written by instructors for a consumer audience. These notes provide an invaluable alternate view into the historical systems of fencing we study now. They are surprisingly readable for a modern audience and remind me of both notes I have taken and things that I say in class to my long-term students.
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Vancouver Martial Challenge 2017 Report
At the end of July we hosted the Vancouver Martial Challenge at Academie Duello in Vancouver, and it was a tremendous weekend of inter-disciplinary sparring and camaraderie.
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The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Study
The benefit of practicing a martial system that includes multiple disciplines is that this learning from alternate perspectives is baked in. It is also part of what separates sport from art.
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How to Get Started in HEMA: Find a Group
If you can practice with other folks, in person, that is really the best way to learn a martial art. HEMA groups predominantly fall into a few categories: Sparring practices, study groups, and schools.
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Dimensions of Mastering the Art
Our goal is to help people find the path of mastery. To develop an understanding of the art on a deep and fundamental level in multiple dimensions and to explore those dimensions in as useful and effective a manner as possible.
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Dealing with Criticism
Putting yourself out into the world is a surefire way to invite criticism. All who *do* encounter those who detract. Yet is there really any other way one would want to be in the world?
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Tumbling Down the "Why" Hole
Like getting caught into a conversation with the pedantic child who always asks "why?", down the why-hole lies madness.
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Pursue Your Art Your Way
For each goal, each set of values, each person, there is a different art to explore and practice.
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Growing HEMA in Istanbul
Istanbul is a city steeped in both European and Asian history. Every site you visit reveals layer upon layer of history that goes back at least 2000 years. This makes Istanbul both an interesting and fitting place for the study of Western martial arts.
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