The Principles and Practices of Solo Training: A Guide for Historical Martial Artists, Sword People, and Everyone Else (Hardback)

The Principles and Practices of Solo Training

The hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook versions of The Principles and Practices of Solo Training: A Guide for Historical Martial Artists, Sword People, and Everyone Else are out now!

To celebrate the creation of the audiobook, we have corrected a few minor errors in The Windsor Method, and given the book a new cover and title. Readers who bought The Windsor Method will be sent a copy of the new ebook.

The Principles and Practices of Solo Training

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  • Do you like the theory?

    Want to know how to research, how to train, or how to write about historical martial arts?

    Theory and Practice 

  • Do you want step-by-step instructions?

    Choose to learn rapier or longsword from a workbook with video links. Make notes as you learn with these specially designed books.

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  • Interested in the original treatises?

    See facsimiles of original sources, translations and Guy's interpretations.

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  • Medieval Longsword

    Are you madly medieval? Check out the medieval combat collection!

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    Do you rave about the rapier? Learn Renaissance Italian martial arts, including the rapier fencing of Ridolfo Capoferro.

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Learn Armizare or Rapier in these practical ring-bound workbooks, available in left-handed and right-handed versions, to make note-taking easy.

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Ebooks

All e-books are delivered instantly by email from BookFunnel for you to read on whichever device you like.
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T-Shirts

From medieval sword and buckler to the elegant smallsword, and most weapons in between: showcasing famous women in the historical martial arts. Walpurgis? Lady Agnes? La Maupin? absolutely. And now including La Chevalière d'Eon.

And The Sword Guy podcast and Sword People community shirts too!

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