Started with our normal boxing program From there we leapt into sambo, starting with some of the same warm ups and drills from last time. We finished the...
... Do you often do any work on "Using Jacket Wrestling Techniques Without a Jacket"? ... No thrusts, I assume? ;-) Didn't it feel like they were too long? ...
It's definitely a nicer and more viewer-friendly page than the first one. You note that you're working with longsword & spear in two separate places, so I'd...
Gonna have two training reports this week so this one will be short. Additionally, we're probably gonna do an article on this and I'm still sorting through my...
Hello, I recently acquired a copy of a paper from Archeologia volume XXIX pp. 348-361 dated 20 February 1840 entitled "Some Observations on Judicial Duels as...
I haven't seen it and neither of my libraries has it. Any chance I could get a copy? Bucklers, plausible but rather unlikely. As for "sewn in costumes," this...
... Jacket wrestling as something we do heavily is still pretty new to us but we have been trying to mix up jacket with no jacket grappling...definitely a huge...
... Looking forward to reading this. ... I think we are shooting for the second weekend in June. Same place, Pymatuning State park in Andover Ohio. I want to...
... could get a copy? ... I am looking into having it scanned. ... unlikely. JD combatants in Vaneciennes were given the same equipment regardless of rank....
Hi Hugh. The burghers of Valenciennes had the right to conduct their own judicial duels without applying to the court of the count. For all combatants the...
... judicial duels without applying to the court of the count. For all combatants the equipment was a heater shield and club, and a leather outfit much like...
Hi Hugh "That's very enlightening. In short, then, you're saying there exists no evidence to support the idea that commons generally fought in the sewn-up...
Wikipedia, Verbruggen and several Osprey titles amongst many other works all give a similar pattern for the early part of the life of a knight. At 5 -7 he goes...
I can't seem to log onto Sword forum where you also posted this, but the (maternal) uncle part is mentioned in the biographical poem of William Marshal written...
Hello I'm looking for any students of Mr George B. Wallace who put out a number of martial arts related books (on knife and stick, with a Western feel) in the...
Hello, i have the knifefighting book from 1977 , wallace learned from a italian. ... Von: James <jimmy_fatwing@...> An: western-arts@yahoogroups.com ...
http://lacannevigny.wordpress.com/ Only just gone public and has some great material, and there's some good stuff to come from Craig still I'm sure! James UK...
Today it was just one other student and myself, since no one else could get their punk-asses out of bed. We started with just a little heavy bag work. Alex,...
... Sounds like a good session....what no Germen stuff? Are you guys slipping? The style shown in Price feels so much different to me than Dempsey that it is...
... slipping? ... We've gotten into a good vibe with the boxing stuff lately. We've done some work in the last few weeks with some of the late German wrestling...
I started off the day by possibly seperating a rib while moving a piano earlier in the day so that sort of set the tone for the session for me anyway. We had...
... The evolution of boxing is one of the oddest things to work with. Certain "styles" just don't seem right to me but, on the other hand, when you look at it...
I am back from beautiful Banff, Alberta Canada after teaching at the Paddy Crean Art of the Sword workshop. I was one of the handful of historic martial arts...
Just came across an interesting question over on RMA. Anyone know of any official documents (or ref. thereto) laying out specifications for swords in the...
... I'd have loved to go. I'm sure that Tony has a different take on some of the material than I do and I'd love to see how we differ and why. Ah well. Glad...
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