The Sword Guy Podcast

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 67 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/classical-fencing-digital-pedagogy-episode67/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy This week’s episode is with Dr Dori Coblenz, lecturer in Communications at Georgia Tech, specialising in early modern English drama, digital...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 66 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/swashbuckling-episode66/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Sebastien de Castell lives a life of music, adventure and swordplay. He is the author of the Greatcoats series, which is full of sword action, and the Spellslinger...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 65 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/the-armoured-knight-episode65/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dr. Amanda Taylor is a Research Fellow at the Oakeshott Institute and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota. S...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 64 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to  To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy My interview today is with Malcolm Fare, who is a collector of historical fencing books, a fencer himself and proprietor of the National Fencing Museum in the UK. The museum houses a library of over 300 books, 250 paintin...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 62 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/drawing-swords-episode62/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Yael Nathan is a comic artist who draws swords as part of her Warriors series. She has also worked with IDW on several Star Wars comics. Find her work at https:/...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/your-challenge-for-august-get-stronger/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Your challenge for August is to get stronger, following the principles of conditioning as described in Guy Windsor's new book, The Windsor Method. In this episode Guy reads the chap...

The Sword Guy Podcast Episode 61 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/steven-pressfield-episode-61/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Steven Pressfield is the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Gates of Fire, The War of Art, and many other novels and non-fiction titles about writing....

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/pirates-and-batons-episode60/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy This week’s guest is Julie Olson, senior instructor at the Athena School of Arms in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a director of the Iron Gate Exhibition, the largest New England historical mar...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 59 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/who-whacked-talhoffer-epsiode59/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy This episode is with Dierk Hagedorn, who is something of a legend in our community. He is a translator and author of very many books. Last summer he had se...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 58 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/lightsaber-twirling-episode58/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Jill Bearup is a stage combatant, YouTuber and a lightsaber twirler. I first came across her work through her YouTube channel critiquing swordfights in TV an...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/monthly-challenge-breathe-better-in-july-the-sword-guy-episode-57/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Your monthly challenge for July 2021: breathe better. For more on this subject, please see The Theory and Practice of Historical Martial Arts, also availa...

Episode 56 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/persian-martial-arts-episode56/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani is a Frankfurt-based museum analyst, university professor, author of many books and over one hundred and eighty articles on the historical martial a...

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 55 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/shakespeare-and-silver-epsiode55/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Ben Crystal is an actor, author, producer, and explorer of original practices in Shakespeare rehearsal and production. In this episode we talk about Ben’s...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 54 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/movement-matters-with-katy-bowman/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman has been changing the way we move and think about our need...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 53 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/turning-the-tables-episode53/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy To celebrate a whole year of The Sword Guy Podcast, we are going right back to where it all began, with Jess Finley. Except this time the tables are turned a...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/challenge-of-the-month-meditate-in-june/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy For a free meditation class, see: https://swordschool.teachable.com/p/free-courses-human-maintenance-longsword-rapier And check out the Paradoxes of Defence audiobook here: guywind...

Episode 52 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/the-sparkle-school-episode52/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Claire Wemyss lives in Vancouver and is a coach, educator, and co-founder of Kunst des Funkelns, which focusses on the martial arts of medieval Germany and runs from Valkyrie Weste...

Episode 51 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/mines-and-mimeographs-episode51/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Professor Steven Muhlberger is an absolute legend in the historical martial arts community and is a 50 year veteran of the SCA. In this episode we talk about the very early days...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/paradoxes-of-defence-in-audio/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy guywindsor.net/silver In 1599 George Silver, gentleman, published his Paradoxes of Defence, which lambastes the outlandish (i.e. foreign) Italian rapier fencing that was becoming popular in...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 50 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/revolution-cooking-knitting-episode50/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy It’s the 50th episode! This week I’m in conversation with Monica Gaudio, known in the SCA as Illadore de Bedegrayne, and she is a cook, fencer, Marsha...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/the-progression-of-teacher-training-in-swordschool/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Teaching well is a skill that can be learned. In this in-between-isode, I give you the key to teaching teachers. If you have a student who has expressed an interest in t...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 48 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/mike-loades-episode48/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Best known as a television presenter and for his appearances as a historical weapons specialist and military historian in over one hundred tv documentaries, Mike al...

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/may-challenge-skill/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Last month’s challenge ( Eat Well in April ) was difficult for many people, mostly because food is such an emotional subject. Personally, I spent the month avoiding starch and sugar, which has helped...

Episode 46 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/people-like-us-daniele-cybulskie-episode46/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy As a writer, professor, TEDx speaker , and podcaster , Danièle has been making the Middle Ages fun, entertaining, and accessible for over a decade. She is the author...

Episode 45 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/swords-and-historical-handcrafts-episode45/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Bill Grandy is a long time professional historical martial arts instructor at the Virginia Academy of Fencing (VAF) in the United States, and also a historical handcr...