What Every Swordsman Should Know About Breathing
What Every Swordsman Should Know About Breathing by Dr. Jaana Wessman. This excellent, short and amusingly written illustrated guide takes you through how breathing actually works.
De Arte Gladiatoria, translation
My translation of De Arte Gladiatoria (extracted from The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest) is here.
One Play, One Drill, Many Questions
This article takes one play from Il Fior di Battaglia, and explains in detail why I think it should be done the way we do it in drill. You can find it here.
FREE NEW TRANSLATION OF VADI!
My book on Vadi’s manuscript De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi is available now as The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest. As with my first attempt at translating this manuscript I have released the translation for free, under a creative commons attribution 4.0 licence. This means you can do whatever you want with it, provided you give […]