Don Mateo Montero de Madrid teaches his class on why blindly charging a person with a sword is a bad idea, and how to defeat fencers who do. Taught at KWAR 2008, now in higher resolution.

An excellent class, covering a multitude of different topics, and useful to fencers at every level of experience.

I think Don Michael St. Christian put it best:

"It's a great feeling when something you believe in recognizes you."

At The Festival of Maidens on Saturday:

I won 1st place in the melee tournament, along with Xavier, who took 1st place in the novice fencers category.

I defeated Warder Kai Tseng in honorable single combat and took possession of the Midrealm Iron Ring.

I was elevated to the Order of the Bronze Ring.

Every member of the Wednesday Company who was ( Read more... )

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I have just received word from our event autocrat that our pre-registration numbers are dangerously low for Odyssey. Now, I PERSONALLY KNOW several DOZEN of you who are absolutely planning on going and simply haven't pre-registered ( Read more... )

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you find yourself agonizing over using that corner space for a chest of drawers or an armor stand...

So let me get this straight. The East concedes all war-points at the onset of Pennsic due to being overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Middle and her allies ( Read more... )

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