Category: Training Blog

Cultivating the competitive spirit is often used to drive one to harder training and to overcoming one's opponents in a game or tournament. Yet, if it…

I am often asked why people practice martial arts or why I practice swordplay specifically – considering it’s unlikely that I’ll be in a life-an…

Our capacity to stay on the long road to mastery and move through its various stages is highly connected to our relationship with ignorance. There is…

Martial arts done well can improve your strength, endurance, and physical comfort. But done poorly, they can have the exact opposite effect, leading t…

Relaxed muscles are quicker to respond, easier to adapt and change, and more capable of feeling connections through your weapon. Yet so many of us hav…

Let us explore how our desire to help one another can often get in the way of allowing others to both help themselves and connect with a vital part of…

Greg here. Two years ago my partner and I set out on an epic adventure to sword fight across Western Canada. It went so well we repeated the loop agai…

Sometimes, no matter who your sparring partner is, copycat behaviours can kick in and you begin to mimic and match your partner, even if what they're …

Swordplay is something I truly love and has been an enduring passion of my life. But when the fire is gone a sense of resentment, frustration, or ange…