Some Longsword Love – Drills for Longsword Flow

Over the past few months I’ve been travelling to a lot of different places to teach workshops on a great diversity of topics from longsword,…

Martial arts practice on my own can be one of the great pleasures of my week. I don’t have to worry about providing for a partner or guiding a student. I can simply focus on my own body, my own sense of flow, and my own desires from that practice.

Slow practice and fencing does not prepare you for combat. The truest test of martial combat exists without self-imposed limitations on speed.

The most essential part of a practice system is its regularity. Generally the individual who practices more consistently over the long-term will see larger gains over the sporadic practitioner.

One day while teaching a private session one of my students brought in an old book of stretches and stretching routines and asked which ones were best for swordplay.