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Swordplay ’11 From Around The Interwebz

Friday, September 16, 2011

There’s been some questions about how Swordplay ’11 went, so I’ll dump some quick links here to things that other folk have already said. To begin with, Chris Slee has done a great write up saying pretty well everything I’ve either already said, or was going to say. Which saves me saying it. Scott MacDonald [...]

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Cass Vs Rob

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

You can see in these two bits of video from the Glenn Lachlan boys what I meant about me not being patient and letting Cassian come to me – you can see the points where in my head I decide that I need to force the issue because it’s getting boring. Which is very silly [...]

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Swordplay ’11

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

So. Last weekend was the Swordplay ’11 event, over three days. A quick summary of the weekend: Friday – catching up with folk I’d not seen for a while, and having some fun play bouts – sword and targe versus sword and buckler with Tim was particularly amusing as I found it nigh impossible to [...]

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Review – Teaching and Interpreting Historical Swordsmanship

Monday, June 6, 2011

Brian R. Price, ed. ISBN 1-891448-46-3 This slim volume is very much a mixed batch. Reading it I could not quite decide if that was intentional, or the result of somewhat imprecise invitations to contribute, and I’m unlikely to ever know which it was. Brian Price put together this collection of essays from a very [...]

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