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The Lost Posta

April 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Articles, News

Hello, This is an auspicious moment for HEMA, and particularly for practitioners of Fiore dei Liberi’s arte dell’armizare. We’ve come a long way since the first grasping attempts at translation and interpretation, and now have a solid grounding upon which to build our interpretations and martial work. That said, all is not said and done, [...]

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Systemic Footwork Article

July 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Articles

span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;”I have written a short article on the practice of systemic footwork patterns and their identification. This article comes from my observations of students in class and the attendant footwork of Fiore’s system. Students have no trouble putting two or three steps together in different combinations, but [...]

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Reading list

April 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Articles

This post is going to be somewhat offbeat, having nothing whatsoever to do with WMA or the school, at least on the surface. It is tangentially related, since in my research for the Jeu de la Hache book, I came across a wealth of period sources that I read only to extract the essentials of [...]

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