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jrbutler
Jun 2, 2024
Comrades in Arms: Gathering of the Blades 2024
One of the great things about going to a HEMA workshop event is getting new perspectives on things that you kinda know. Someone else’s...
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jrbutler
May 6, 2024
Fencing Fast and Slow
In the mid 16th century Kamiizumi Nobutsuna had an idea. Rather than have his students injure each other in class when practicing at full...
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jrbutler
Feb 23, 2024
The Scale of Prowess and Deeds of Arms – the Conflict between Sport and Historical Fencing
by Andriy Holuk Sport vs Tradition. Martial Artists love this debate. For HEMA, this discussion is even more nuanced given our primary...
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jrbutler
Feb 16, 2024
Editorial: Trial by Combat
It is a given that Signum Corvus School of Arms is a martial arts school. I mean, it’s right in the name, isn’t it? But the question...
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iliadospsi
Sep 21, 2023
DiGrassi's Style of Fencing
Giacomo DiGrassi wrote an influential fencing treatise and published it on March 6th 1570. It is one of very few fencing treatises...
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Ian
Feb 26, 2023
Fencing with Frame Data: strengthening insight by drawing parallels with existing skills
How do you learn a new skill? How do you transform information into insight?Can you draw on outside experience to supercharge your learning?
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iliadospsi
Jan 22, 2023
Fencing Thoughts
Fencing Thoughts I have been doing fencing now for over a year and a half. I think I have trained solidly for 12 months during that time,...
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