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Syllabus Design: Creating and Using Forms with the Rapier

Syllabus Design: Creating and Using Forms with ...

Creating a working syllabus is hard. Where do you start? What comes next? How do you know when you’re ready to move on to the next thing? I find it...

Syllabus Design: Creating and Using Forms with ...

Creating a working syllabus is hard. Where do you start? What comes next? How do you know when you’re ready to move on to the next thing? I find it...

Creating a Physical Practice

Creating a Physical Practice

We have to move. If a shark stops swimming it dies- and if we stop moving it doesn’t take long before the problems mount up. We can get away with...

Creating a Physical Practice

We have to move. If a shark stops swimming it dies- and if we stop moving it doesn’t take long before the problems mount up. We can get away with...

Why do you do Swordsmanship?

Why do you do Swordsmanship?

For many of us, there is no need to even think about why we would train in the Art of Swordsmanship. It is simply an irreducible desire, like the way...

Why do you do Swordsmanship?

For many of us, there is no need to even think about why we would train in the Art of Swordsmanship. It is simply an irreducible desire, like the way...

How to Spot the Bullshit in Any Martial Arts Drill: and what to do about it.

How to Spot the Bullshit in Any Martial Arts Dr...

The real thing is the only bullshit-free scenario in martial arts. If you’re an MMA fighter, that’s the ring on fight night. If you’re a soldier, that’s being in the...

How to Spot the Bullshit in Any Martial Arts Dr...

The real thing is the only bullshit-free scenario in martial arts. If you’re an MMA fighter, that’s the ring on fight night. If you’re a soldier, that’s being in the...