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The Sword Guy Podcast

Guy Windsor and friends discuss sword training, historical swordsmanship, research, and other topics. Guests include well-known instructors and experts in the field. You can support the show at https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy.

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01:07:34

Hope and Black Powder with Dr. Milo Thurston

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/10/08

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 of Sir William Hope. In our conversation we talk about the essence of Hope’s New Method of Fencing and

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24:24

Your October Challenge: Improve Your Footwork!

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/10/01

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 opportunity for self-development and self-improvement that we were missing by making these nebulous

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01:20:14

Viruses and Bats with Emilia Skirmuntt

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/09/24

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 specialisations, and improving diversity and inclusivity within historical martial arts schools. Emilia is also a

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01:13:06

Talking Tempo with Guy and Cornelius

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/09/17

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 because he is doing a series of YouTube videos on the topic of tempo and had some questions for me. We

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01:19:07

Guns, blood and swords with RC-Annie

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/09/10

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 founders of RC-Annie, the UK’s leading dramatic violence company, specialising in training, fight

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06:21

September Challenge: Range of Motion

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/09/06

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. You can follow along with a pre-recorded flexibility-based training session

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01:30:33

Love poems to Welsh bucklers, with Paul Wagner

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/09/03

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 1998, a HEMA school which now has several branches in Australia. Paul is a Provost at Stoccata, teaching

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01:15:43

Classical Fencing and Digital Pedagogy with Dori...

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/08/27

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 pedagogy and the history of fencing. She's the author of many papers and the book Fundamentals of Italian

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01:40:40

Swashbuckling with Sebastien de Castell

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/08/20

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 series, which features magic finger guns! For all Sebastien’s books, see here:

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01:10:55

The Armoured Knight, with Dr Amanda Taylor

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/08/13

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. She is the author of several academic papers such as The Body of Law: Bodies, Combat and Rhetoric in Sir

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49:12

Tales from the National Fencing Museum, with Malcolm...

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/08/06

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 paintings and prints, 200 weapons, numerous masks, kit, trophies, posters, programmes, medals, stamps,

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01:00:03

Drawing swords with Yael Nathan

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/07/30

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://elcomics.gumroad.com/# and https://yaeln.com. Yael is also the author of the Serpent webcomic

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22:12

Your Challenge for August: Get Stronger!

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/07/28

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 chapter aloud for you (with minor changes).

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55:04

Steven Pressfield on Spartans, Romans and Hollywood

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/07/23

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. His latest book is A Man at Arms, and he has a YouTube channel in which he investigates the warrior

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01:03:28

Pirates and Batons with Julie Olson

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/07/16

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 martial arts event. She's also well-known on the longsword tournament circuit. Julie was placed 7th in the

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01:26:47

Who whacked Talhoffer? With Dierk Hagedorn

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/07/09

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 seven new books on the go at once. Dierk has translated and produced scholarly editions of Gladiatoria and

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53:49

Lightsaber Twirling with Jill Bearup

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/07/02

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 and movies, which is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRrvZqCL1YsqRA8IpXrhYQQ. Jill loves pretending

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08:32

Monthly Challenge: breathe better in July

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/06/30

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 available as an audiobook read by Kelley Costigan. Or the try my online course, Fundamentals: Breathing, which

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01:19:59

Persian Martial Arts with Manouchehr Khorasani

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/06/25

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 arts of Iran. He is a highly skilled martial artist and is currently waiting for the pandemic to be over

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56:45

Shakespeare and Silver with Ben Crystal

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/06/18

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 work in exploring how actors would have rehearsed, staged, and performed Shakespeare’s plays in the 16th

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