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From Reading to Doing: Learning how to fence from old books

admin January 30, 2016 0

These are notes from a class that I taught a few years ago on how to go about reading source material and translating it to practical knowledge. Learning how to fence from a book is difficult. The class was meant to give an overview of the process of reconstructing a fencing system from a historical text. […]

Teaching tempo for historical fencers

admin March 10, 2013 2

Time, distance, and speed are all intricately interconnected in fencing. It is impossible to work on one of these elements in complete isolation. For the purposes of this article, though, I will be focusing on time (tempo). Tempo can be understood in a number of ways in fencing. It is often described as being analogous […]