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Goliath Longsword

June 19th, 2008

Via Paul Bennett, the instructor of the new Schola Gladiatoria group in Bradford, comes Mike Rassmussen’s translation of the anonymous fechtbuch from 1510ish. You can download it here. Kudos to Paul and Mike.

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Some Coolness

June 17th, 2008

I’ve come across some corkers this past week. In no order: Star Wars Imperial March: Cryptae et Dracones Dr G’s HEMA and XKCD Mashup

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Upcoming Events

May 26th, 2008

I’ve been invited to teach at a few events this summer, two in the UK and one in Sweden. I’ll be doing a few different things at each one so hopefully anyone who comes to more than one won’t get bored. Fightcamp (11-13th July) – I’ll be doing classes in Cunningham’s Walking Stick Method, Bartitsu [...]

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Oz on Silver’s Principle Grounds

May 1st, 2008

“through Judgment yo kepe yor dyftance, through Diftance yo take yor Tyme, through Tyme yo fafly wyne or gayne the Place of yor adurfarie, the Place beinge woon or gayned yo haue tyme fafly eyther to frtyke, thruft, ward, cloze, grype, flyp or go back, in the wch tyme yor enemye is dyapoynted to hurt [...]

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More Master-At-Arms Info

April 30th, 2008

Robert Reinberger of the Bartitsu mailing list has sent me this fascinating document. It’s an instruction book, from 1925, on how to achieve the Boy Scout Master At Arms badge.  Many thanks Robert!

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Congratulations Pete

April 28th, 2008

  Pete Maydon, of the Boars Tooth Fight School, won the annual longsword tourney in Dijon this weekend. Having competed before, and watched the last one I know the standard is very high. Well done Pete!

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More HEMA Club News

April 21st, 2008

The brothers Thomas have recently opened a new club in Bristol. Their local rag did a short piece on them which can be found here. As is to be expected from journos it is a little on the sensational side, and it looks like Nick and Michael have been misquoted a couple of times but [...]

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