I have two blogs. One I post to and no one reads and one I haven’t posted to since August 22, 2013 and gets about twenty views a week. Guess which one this is. Yep. I’m not dead. But in May 2013 my son was born and my life got Read more…
Update April 2018: I went back and reworked the entirety of this entry for Kingdom A&S. You can see the documentation here:Stew on Ship and photos here.
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At Lionsdale’s Winters Tourney this year I entered the Arts and Sciences competition and won. The theme of
the competition was the chorus of “The Ship Called Lionsdale” which is a filk some of our local members wrote a few years ago. In that theme I decided to make a meal that could have been eaten on that ship. For this I used naval regulations, food preservation, and other, journals, information on the recovered Mary Rose and cookbooks from the 16th century to work out a potential meal.
This is both an update on the first practice of 2013 for me and a test of the WordPress app for my phone. Sebastian was back in town this week, so we decided to head out to practice. He hadn’t fenced since May, and I hadn’t fenced since the beginning Read more…
This post was about to be titled:
But I figured that wouldn’t work well for a link. If you’re wondering how the A&S portion was it was great. I had a lot of fun judging a food entry and got to judge a bardic entry for the first time. Now back to the Rapier.
So this is going to be my reactions as I watch my fighting on Don Godfrey’s videos. His YouTube account is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/godvonrav.
It’s been about 18 months since my back injury. In late March 2011 I had a bulging disk. For those who don’t know what it is, a bulging disk is where the cartilage that sits between your vertebrae moves out of position. The symptoms are pain, more pain, and some Read more…
This is part of an ongoing project to summarize and provide SCA focused commentary on The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence by Joseph Swetnam, published in 1617.
For links to the other sections of the Swetnam Project please go here.
I am using this facsimile: http://tysonwright.com/sword/SwetnamSchooleOfDefence.pdf for the project.
Here is the third part of this section in Chapter 12.
When making a passing lunge (Swetnam calls this a passage) you must be fast, nimble, and focused. It is a dangerous attack as it brings you very close to your opponents weapon, and is more dangerous the more skilled 
your opponent is. To counteract the innate danger in this lunge you must be skillful, have practiced, and have good judgement, especially in knowing where your opponents weapon is. You must make your passing lunge as fast as possible, as soon as you see an opening with your opponents sword high you need to step forward with your left foot quickly, and parry your opponents weapon with your dagger, pushing it up and out of the way at the same time that you attack with your rapier. Your parry and attack must happen at the same time rather than as two actions or it will be too slow. The passing lunge is most effective if your opponent likes to stay in the same guard, but is more dangerous if he moves from guard to guard frequently.
Randy over at Box Wrestle Fence had a great post today – granted they’re all great, and what are you doing reading my blog, his is much better go read it – but within today’s was a brief reminder about the same thing Swetnam and every other period master talked Read more…
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