The Living History podcast has a nice interview up, "Translating History through the Sword," featuring Christian Tobler (one of the Big Names in the study of German Longsword techniques); interesting and informative, for anyone interested in Western Martial Arts and their current revival.

(Princess Bride references, FTW!)

The good folks at the Veritas Swordplay Academy have been talking about producing longsword training viedos for a while now, and as of today the first is available for downloading here. (There *is* a fee, note, but it's a reasonable one IMO and far, far cheaper than a comparable "hardcopy" DVD would be ( Read more... )

I'm gonna post this on the general list (rather than locked on the history list), because I think it's pretty cool. :) For the interested, some footage to two genuine masters of western martial arts (Tobler declines the title of "Master/Maestro," but he's one of the top WMA authorities in the world all the same) sparring against one another for ( Read more... )

Much as I'm looking forward to RadCon, I'm still grumpy over missing out on the 4W (aka the Western Washington Western Martial Arts Workshop) being held the same weekend.  Christian Tobler on Liechtenauer (Tobler's an amazing martial artist + a great guy -- I've been to one of his seminars) AND a seminar on Fiore's longsword techniques.   All ( Read more... )