Teaching Across Taiwan: Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung

It's been a fun week of teaching in Taiwan! Since the Taipei intensive, I've taught a workshop at Cold Steel Lab in Taichung, two workshops at the CHIMEI Museum in Tainan, and a combat workshop in Kaohsiung. Then I took a day off and tried a little surfing.

I'm pleased to share a little from each stop with you.

Taichung: Cold Steel Lab

My first stop was Taichung, where I taught a workshop at Cold Steel Lab, the school run by Ryan (方品鈞), one of our Taipei intensive participants.

Ryan has built a beautifully put-together training space at Cold Steel Lab, and we had a full house. The workshop went really well.

Tainan: Two Workshops at the CHIMEI Museum

Then it was down to Tainan and the CHIMEI Museum, where I taught two full groups of 30 people: a three-hour longsword workshop in the morning and a three-hour rapier workshop in the afternoon. Along with the workshops, there were tours of the museum's medieval weapons and its Renaissance and later weapons.

Tai Lee, a Senior Student and Duello Armizare Instructor, and Sakura Sanguines, the Taipei group who hosted our Level 1 Duello Armizare Instructor Intensive, have translated and assisted at all of these workshops. At CHIMEI they were joined by a crew from a school in Tainan.

It was a really rewarding experience, and there was a lot of interest from people there in DuelloTV in Chinese, the translation I'm working on with Tai.

A huge thank you to Tai, Sakura Sanguines and the Tainan crew for all their help!

Kaohsiung: Tactics and the Four Attitudes

The next day I taught a combat workshop in Kaohsiung, with a smaller group of nine. We worked a lot on tactics, in particular the four attitudes, and on how to train from fundamental skills up to performance in environments like tournaments. There was a very broad range of skill in the group, and it went really well.

After that, I took a day off in the south of Taiwan and tried a little surfing. That went really well too!

Coming Up: Greatsword and Two Swords in Taipei

Now I'm taking a little time off before heading back to Taipei this weekend, November 7–8, for a greatsword workshop and a two-sword workshop.

Thanks for following along on my travels!