The Principles and Practices of Solo Training: A Guide for Historical Martial Artists, Sword People, and Everyone Else

Sports & Outdoors

Windsor, Dr Guy

Individual Sports

Spada Press

Take a beginners’ course with world-renowned swordsmanship instructor Dr. Guy Windsor, through this innovative workbook format. 
With this 70+ page workbook you can learn the basics of rapier fencing. The book is illustrated with extracts from historical sources, and supported by over twenty video clips, linked to in the text. All you need is a training partner, a smartphone, tablet, or computer, and a couple of practice rapiers and fencing masks. 
The book is organised in four sessions or classes, which covers all this and more:\nfootwork 
sword handling 
stringering 
attack by disengage 
parry riposte in one tempo 
feints 
parry riposte in two tempi 
thrusts 
cuts 
beat attack\nThe workbook is laid out for right-handers with the space for notes on the right hand page. All video clips show the techniques done right-handed and left-handed.

The Rapier Part One Beginners Workbook: Right Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks, Right Handed Layout)

The Rapier Part One Beginners Workbook: Left Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks: Left Handed Layout)

Complete your basic training! 
With this 80+ page workbook you can complete your knowledge of Capoferro’s rapier plays, building a strong foundation on which to construct your fencing skills. 
The book is organised through the Rapier Footwork Form, with each chapter adding steps to the Form, first as pair drills, and then practised solo. This ensures that you will have little difficulty remembering the new material. 
The book is illustrated with extracts from historical sources, and supported by video clips, linked to in the text. All you need is a training partner, a smartphone, tablet, or computer, and a couple of practice rapiers and fencing masks. 
This version is laid out for right-handers, with space for written notes on the right hand page. If you are left handed we recommend choosing the version laid out for you. All techniques are shown in the videos for both right handers and left handers.

The Rapier Part Two Completing The Basics Workbook: Right Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks, Right Handed Layout)

The Rapier Part Two Completing The Basics Workbook: Left Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks: Left Handed Layout)

With this workbook you can take your skills to the next level. We will cover how to train: how to take things you already know, and make them actually work under pressure. To become a swordsman/swordswoman/swordsperson, not just someone who knows some sword moves. This is the heart of swordsmanship, and its most sophisticated element. 
You will learn how to systematically add depth and complexity to the basic drills you already know, bridging the gap between choreographical drill practice, and free fencing. You will learn how to keep your practice in the optimum band between too-easy and too-hard, and you will learn the basics of coaching, which is all about creating that optimum level of difficulty for your partner. 
This version is laid out for right-handers, with space for written notes on the right-hand page. If you are left-handed we recommend choosing the version laid out for you. All technical exercises are shown in the videos for both right-handers and left-handers.

The Rapier Part Three Develop Your Skills: Right Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks, Right Handed Layout)

The Rapier Part Three Develop Your Skills: Left Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks: Left Handed Layout)

The Rapier Part Four Sword and Dagger and Sword and Cape Workbook: Right Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks, Right Handed Layout)

The Rapier Part Four Sword and Dagger and Sword and Cape Workbook: Left Handed Layout (The Rapier Workbooks: Left Handed Layout)

In From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Practice, renowned historical swordsman Guy Windsor demystifies one of the greatest martial arts books of all time, Fiore dei Liberi's Il Fior di Battaglia (The Flower of Battle).In the late 14th century dei Liberi, an Italian knightly combat master, wrote Il Fior di Battaglia (The Flower of Battle). This magnificent, illustrated manuscript described how to fight on foot and on horseback, in armour and without, with sword, spear, pollax, dagger, or with no weapon at all. Windsor spent the last twenty years studying Fiore's work and creating a modern practice of historical swordsmanship from it.In this book, Windsor takes you through all of Fiore's longsword techniques on foot without armour. Each technique (or “play”) is shown with the drawing from the treatise, Windsor's transcription and translation of the text, his commentary on how it fits into the system and works in practice, and a link to a video of the technique in action. The book also contains a detailed introduction describing Fiore's life and times, and extensive discussion of the contexts in which Fiore's art belongs.From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Practice is essential reading for all martial artists and historians of the medieval and early Renaissance.

From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Practice: The Longsword Techniques of Fiore dei Liberi

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