The Sword Guy Podcast

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 92 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/monte-with-mike-episode92/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Mike Prendergast is the founder and head instructor of the Historical Combat Academy in Dublin and translator of Pietro Monte’s Exercitiorum Atque Artis Militari...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 91 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/forged-in-fire-quenched-in-oil-episode91/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Stephanie Aiuto lives in New York and began her career with blades as a sport fencer, competing at a national level in sabre, until she had to sto...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 90 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/swords_in_the_movies_episode90/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Peter Lyon is a swordsmith and weapons maker from New Zealand. He originally started out making swords to use in medieval re-enactment in the 1980s, and was...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 89 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/wooden-weapons-and-wing-chun-episode89/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy This week’s episode is with Carina Cirrincione of Raven Studios, based in Oracle, Arizona. Carina makes wooden training weapons such as longsword wa...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 88 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/bolognese-episode88/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Joshua Wiest is an instructor at the Triangle Sword Guild , North Carolina, USA. He focuses on the fighting systems of masters Achilles Marozzo, Giovanni dall’Agocchie...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 87 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/ballet-for-swordfighters-episode87/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Anna Beard is a historical dancing and ballet and historical fencing instructor at Austin Historical Weapons Guild . She has been dancing since she was...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 86 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/two-handed-swords-episode86/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Hello Sword People! Welcome to the Sword Guy podcast. This is your host, Dr Guy Windsor, consulting swordsman, teacher, and writer. Join me for interviews with...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 85 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/the-mathematics-of-fencing-episode85/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Pamela Muir is the founder of the Academy of Chivalric Martial Arts in Arlington, Virginia. She's been doing historical martial arts since about 2003,...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 84 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/katanas-and-koryu-episode84/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy This week’s episode is with Jaredd Wilson. Jaredd is the host of the Martial Thoughts podcast, which I appeared on back in January. You can find a link to our...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 83 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/swordsmanship-is-woodwork-episode83/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Shanee Nishry is a historical martial arts instructor and founder of Stratford Swords, which is in Stratford-upon-Avon in the West Midlands of England....

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 82 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/your-challenge-for-december-episode82/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Hello Sword People, and welcome to the final monthly challenge of the year. This one is a little different. Before I introduce it, let me just refres...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 81 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/orcs_in_space_episode81/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Content warning: Within this podcast are descriptions of the horrific neglect of very elderly swords. Edoardo Albert is a London-based writer who writes about Brit...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 80 Photo credit: The Royal Armouries For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/asian-and-african-arms-and-armour-episode80/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Natasha Bennett is the Curator of Oriental Collections at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, working with the Asia...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 79 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/medieval-myths-mindsword-mounted-combat-episode79/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy This episode is with Jason Kingsley OBE, co-founder and CEO of the games company Rebellion Developments , which also owns 2000 AD. And he...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 78 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/improve-your-striking-in-november/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Your challenge for November is to improve your striking. Really, what we are looking at more than anything else is your precision and accuracy, which you...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 77 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/strategy-and-war-episode77/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dr. Lynette Nusbacher is a Strategist and Devil’s Advocate. Her work has included being a logistics officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, a writer of books such...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 76 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/armour-of-the-english-knight-episode76/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dr Tobias Capwell has a lifelong love of arms and armour, since being taken to the Met Museum in New York as a small child. He has made this passio...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 75 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/youtube-lauren-danger-episode75/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Lauren Shaw is from Calgary, Canada and is a founder of the Calgary Fellowship of the Sword , where they practice 14th – 19th century martial arts, includi...

The Sword Guy Podcast Episode 74 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/hope-and-black-powder-episode74/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Milo Thurston is the founder of the Linacre School of Defence in Oxford, UK. He’s an absolute bastard with a single stick and a leading expert in the work...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/october-challenge-episode73/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Today’s episode is your October Challenge. This year I have been setting a different challenge every month, as I really don't like New Year's resolutions, and it struck me that there was an op...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 72 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/viruses-and-bats-episode72/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Emilia Skirmuntt runs the Oxford branch of The School of the Sword , and in this episode we talk about running a school with different branches and specialisat...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 71 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/talking-tempo-episode71/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Today’s episode is a bit different to the usual format. Dr Cornelius Berthold, who is a well-known historical fencing instructor in Hamburg, Germany, contacted me...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 70                                                                 Rachel Bown-Williams Ruth Cooper-Brown For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/guns-blood-and-swords-episode70/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Ruth Cooper-Brown and Rachel Bown-Williams are the f...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/monthly-challenge-get-more-flexible-in-september/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Your challenge this month is to engage with your ranges of motion. Much of this episode is adapted from my new book The Windsor Method: The Principles of Solo Training . Y...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 69 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/love-poems-to-welsh-bucklers-episode69/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Paul Wagner has been involved in historical swordsmanship since the 1990s, and was present at the first night of the Stoccata School of Defence in...