The Sword Guy Podcast

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 44 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/fire-and-cauldrons-episode44/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Ruth Goodman is a social and domestic historian working with museums, theatre, television and educational establishments. She has presented and consulted on...

Episode 43 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/what-is-a-sword-episode43/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy What is a sword? When does a dagger become a sword? When does a sword become a spear? Can a boomerang even be a sword? In a follow-up to my conversation with Australian martial artist...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 42 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/sitting-still-episode42/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Tim Parks is a prolific novelist, non-fiction writer and translator and perhaps most importantly from my perspective, he wrote a fantastic memoir on getting into...

Episode 41 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/writing-and-walking-episode41/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Joanna Penn is a writer (both fiction and non-fiction), podcaster and ultramarathon walker. She doesn’t do swords, or even a lot of history, but she has been a huge influence on m...

Eat Well. Last month’s challenge was very simple: prioritise sleep. While sleep quality varies hugely, it’s still basically the same thing for everyone: there’s good sleep, there’s bad sleep, and there’s enough sleep or not. We all know what we mean by ‘sleep well’. But what do we mean by ‘eat well’? ‘Eat well’ is incredibly varied. Eat well for what? The challenge this month is simply this: pay a...

Episode 40 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/jousting-episode40/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Callum Forbes is an extremely experienced martial artist, having got into sports fencing in the late ‘70s, and Hapkido from 1982. But then HEMA drew him in, both from a love of Dungeons and...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 39 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/unconventional-approach-to-hema-episode39/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Lauren Juliette Ings is an assistant instructor with the Stoccata School of Defence in Sydney, Australia, and is also a circus performer, a burl...

The Sword Guy Podcast, episode 38 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/portuguese-party-weapons-episode38/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Jessica Gomes runs her own club, the Velha Guarda Marcial , in beautiful Sintra, Portugal. She focuses on Fiore’s system, Capoferro rapier, and Portugu...

Episode 37 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/medieval-swords-and-research-episode37/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy James Hester has been involved with HEMA since the age of 15, when he began performing fight shows throughout New England. He then set his course as an academic and educa...

Episode 36 Photo by Keane Chan .   For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/historical-medieval-battle-nz-episode36/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dayna Berghan-Whyman is the President of the New Zealand Federation for Historical Medieval Battle and Buhurt. In case you haven’t heard of it, H...

Episode 35 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/analysing-sword-science-episode35/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Myles Cupp is an instructor at South Coast Swords , in California. You might have seen him on the History Channel's Knife or Death show, and he's a contributor to swordstem.co...

Episode 34 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/battle-of-nations-episode34/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy In this episode I talk to Beth Hammer. One of Beth’s favourite pastimes is “This is Sparta” kicking people through fences as part of Battle of Nations competitions. Based in Seattle...

Episode 33 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/how-to-make-swords-episode33/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Craig Johnson is Manager of Arms and Armor , a sword lover's dream job, as they make a wide variety of items from the Medieval and Renaissance periods to faithfully recreate the lo...

Episode 32 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/pole-dancing-with-swords-episode32/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy In this week’s episode I interview Kelley Costigan. Kelley is an actor, director, pole dancer, fencer, performance combatant, adventurer and pirate, currently living in Strat...

Episode 31 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/why-swords-are-cool-episode31/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Damon Young is an Australian martial artist and philosopher, author of books like Philosophy in the Garden and the soon to be published in Europe, already out in Australia, On Get...

Episode 30 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/fencing-in-russia-episode30/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Elena Muzurina is a military sabre instructor, longsword champion and owner of a HEMA equipment company. Elena is a Russian champion – one of her proudest moments was winning at Swo...

Episode 29 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/violence-and-self-defence-episode29/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Rory Miller is a martial arts and self-defence expert and author of many books, ebooks and video courses, including “Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Tr...

Episode 28 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/art-and-fencing-episode28/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Nora is an artist and a fencer from sunny Southern California. She works primarily in watercolours and in illumination, though we cover a lot in this episode, including calligraphy, t...

Episode 27 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/irish-stick-fighting-episode27/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Maxime doesn’t do longsword. But he does practise Irish Stick Fighting, 19th century sabre, and has a background in karate and kenjutsu.   In this episode Maxime describes Irish...

Episode 26 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/straight-white-men-with-swords-episode26/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Claire Mead is an English/French freelance curator with museums and heritage sites specialising in making collections and programming more inclusive, specifically in te...

Episode 25 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/fire-eating-and-fencing-episode25/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy David Ito is a sport épée fencer, Kendoka, longsword practitioner, and a fire eater. He also does 100 burpees first thing every morning. In this episode David tells us how he...

Episode 24 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/designing-knives-random-flow-episode24/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Maija Soderholm lives in the United States, but grew up in England with Finnish parents. She trained with the late Filipino master Sonny Umpad, and she has taken this mul...

Episode 23 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/african-martial-arts-episode23/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Da’Mon Stith is the Chief Instructor and Founder of the Guild of the Silent Sword , teaching a range of African martial arts. In this conversation we discuss how he began his mar...

Episode 22 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/tournament-mindet-episode22/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Brittany Reeves is the co-founder of Mordhau Historical Combat in Mesa, Arizona, and has taught internationally. She has medalled at tournaments in longsword, cutting, glima, and ri...

Episode 21 For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/wiktenauer-episode21/   To support the show, come join the Patrons at   https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Michael Chidester is the a long-time researcher and practitioner of historical martial arts, and the Director of Wiktenauer. There were some unfortunate technical problems with the recordi...