This summarised chapter 10 from the 1570 'Art of combat'. Chapter 10 is where we get the Meyer's square, often used as a warm-up...

This is my current approach to using 15th-century German fencing theory. You may have a different interpretation—and indeed, the...

This post is heavily inspired (stolen?) from Jeff Tsay of Forte Swordplay. Check out his videos on his YouTube channel (which I've...

See part 1 here: Meyer's longsword 101 - Chapters 1-4. As before, yellow text is my own, the rest is a rewrite of Meyer's 1570 book...

See part 1 here: Meyer's longsword 101 - Chapters 1-4. As before, yellow text is my own, the rest is a rewrite of Meyer's 1570 book...

Editor's note: this is a much abridged and edited/reworded version of Joachim Meyer's 1570 book. Its purpose was to a) force me to...

This is a summary of my 'bottom up' approach to i.33. I call it bottom up* because it makes a reasonable assumption about what the...

Using paper-dolls, I have created my own variations of the plays of i33. These have been formed by following the principles laid out in...

In preparation for part 9 in the i33 102 series, I went through i33 and wrote out what I thought were the key lessons on each folio. ...

This post covers the pink area of the diagram I've used the term handworks to designate actions taken from the bind, to echo a similar...

This post covers the pink part of the diagram A bind is where your sword touches (or very nearly touches) the sword of your opponent's. ...

I considered leaving this arrow out of the diagram in case it over-complicates matters. However, I want to write a post about it as I...

This post covers the pink circled arrow on the diagram Many have come to believe that the 'siege' (Obsesseo) in i33 is either some...

This post covers the pink parts of the diagram We've seen that a ward is a position from which you can launch one or two attacks from. ...

This post covers the pink parts of the diagram When your opponent attacks you, you need to defend against it. You can do this in several...

This post covers the pink part of the diagram From the wards, we generate attacks. The wards influence the attacks we can make, but it...

This post covers the pink part of the diagram Wards ('custodia') are 'resting' positions. They generally keep the sword held back close...

Caveat: This is meant to be a practical guide on fighting with the sword and buckler 'inspired' by i33. It is my own interpretation and...

It has been a year since I wrote my in depth interpretation of i33. It wasn't really my interpretation, it was an exploration of the...

I suppose I better say something about Tempo. (Since I began writing this, I have written a separate post on tempo: Using tempo/timing to...