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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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01:10:55

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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01:44:59

Movement Matters with Katy Bowman

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/06/11

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 for movement. Her eight books, including the groundbreaking “Move Your DNA” and “Movement Matters” have

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01:49:25

Turning the tables, with Guy and Jess

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/06/04

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 and it’s Jess interviewing me! In our wide-ranging conversation we talk about my history of antiques

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10:10

Challenge of the Month: meditate in June

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/06/01

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: guywindsor.net/silver

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01:07:50

The Sparkle School, with Claire Wemyss

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/05/28

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 Western Martial Arts Assembly. In this episode, Claire describes how she and her training partner Jon Mills

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01:20:55

Mines and Mimeographs, with Steven Muhlberger

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/05/21

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 of the SCA, and how newsletters were vital in spreading the word. His books are foundationally important

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09:34

Silver’s Paradoxes- in glorious audio!

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/05/19

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 England, and offers an extraordinary window into the medieval martial arts that the rapier was

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01:18:01

Revolution, Cooking and Knitting with Monica Gaudio

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/05/14

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, Marshal, Seneschal, knitter, Laurel and Master of Defence. We get into what all those titles mean in the

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22:06

The Progression of Teacher Training in Swordschool

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/05/10

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 teaching, how can you empower them to become a good teacher? This episode covers essentials such

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01:38:55

History is my playground, with Mike Loades

The Sword Guy Podcast ·

2021/05/07

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 also works as a tv director, a writer and as a consultant and film-maker for the video games industry. If

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