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New Meyer Translation
This is a full English translation of Meyer’s 1570 treatise by Dr. Rebecca L. R. Garber, with an extensive introduction by Roger Norling. It
Since I was just complaining yesterday about the readability of current Meyer translations. It'll be interesting to see how much can be blamed on translators Vs Meyer himself.
This one comes with a foreword by Roger Norling, which is probably going to be worth the price on its own
Ringeck.net
A momentary resurrection of this dead channel: If you haven’t already seen www.ringeck.net and have any interest in medieval longsword or martial arts coaching, then do yourself a favour and go check out Tea’s work.
Silver mounted Burmese dha, 19th - 20th century
from Sofe Design Auctions
Courtesy of @longswordsinlondon, I now possess a shield.
And once the world isn't on fire and I can actually accumulate loot from adventures proper income again, I'm getting a freaking hauberk and sugarloaf helmet at frigging last.
I do need to fix up the shield a bit as the leather is a bit frayed, and I might have to repaint it in time, but I'm actually pretty delighted to have something that I can use as a proper part of my knightly kit.
If I'd known that you'd wanted a hauberk, I'd have brought that down too.
A Reminder to Be Good
Be good to your trans women and men, non-binary, LGBQ+, people of color, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent fighter people. That doesn’t mean “you shouldn’t be good to your other fighter people.” It means that you should do the extra work and go the extra distance to be inclusive and accepting of people who are different from you, and treat every person with respect and empathy.
Dismantling a selection of old broken Regenyei federschwert training longswords. Interesting to get a look inside the handle, but it takes some effort to do so! https://www.instagram.com/p/CEW4gXnn1Rs/?igshid=1mf0bbzuo71mz
Weird Questions
If I’m somewhere where there are Educational Personell (Museum Docents, Q&A zookeepers, Park Rangers, Public School Teachers, Professors etc.) I have a question I like to ask them:
“What’s the weirdest question someone’s ever asked you?”
I say weird and not Dumb becuase even buckwild questions can have important answers, but whoever I ask it too usually has to think about it for a bit, then comes out with something different every time. And I love every single answer becuase it just warms my heart out there to know people are trying to understand the world a bit better, no matter how limited thier starting point. A collection of favorites so far:
Art Museum Host: “A man once asked me “Can you help me find someone and if you can’t can you find someone who can?” Which I always thought would be a great title for an Artwork.”
Park Ranger: “I’m so glad the Japanese couple asked me “Is bear spray like mosquito spray and it goes on the jacket, or on the bear?” instead of just trying it.”
Zookeeper: “A man once pointed at the live red-tailed hawk I had out for a demo and asked me “Aren’t those extinct?” We eventually figured out he meant “Endangered” but I hear that question every time I see a redtail now.”
Primary School Teacher: “About every other year a student asks me what part of the school I sleep in at night, because clearly I live here. I tell them I sleep under the bleachers in the gym but it’s actually the Nurse’s office.”
Professor: “A student asked me “So how do I use this in a conversation when my aunt is wine-drunk at thanksgiving and being a jerk again?” Which honestly is a fair question about philosophy and really changed how I teach rhetoric.”
Natural History Docent: “A woman once asked me what the difference between a Million and a Billion was. Kinda pieced together that she’d just left her church for her safety, and was learning about Earth’s Natural History for the first time. Nobody else was there because it had been snowing, so I walked her through the Hall Of Time and answered as many questions as I could. She was bewildered, but really trying. It always struck me as a really brave thing, to try to understand all of that while fresh out of a dangerous situation. I hope it helped.”
Forensic Scientist: “People ask me how to commit murder all the time, but if you really hate someone, stealing thier identity causes much more suffering and is a lot harder to get caught at. A guy did ask me if working at a body farm was creepy and did not like that it was ok until you learned that decayed human fingers are a deer’s favorite midwinter snack.”
Zookeeper: “People call us becuase they think they’ve found an escaped animal all the time, or they think they’re neighbor’s husky is a wolf. One guy asked me if his dog was part hyena because it had spots. But that one guy really did have a Tiger in his toolshed that one time so we try to take them seriously.”
Meteorologist: “A guy once emailed me about how hard you’d have to fan a tornado to make it start spinning in the other direction and included a picture of him holding up a box fan at an approaching tornado. We printed it out for the work fridge.”
Park Ranger: “I was giving a talk on the Yellowstone Supervolcano and a guy asked if, after it errupted, the earth would be ‘hollowed out’. I suppose I was just relieved that he understand that the earth isn’t flat.”
Primarcy Shcool teacher: “A student once asked me where she could sell her bones online so she could by a dog. Which? Same.”
Natural History Docent: “A guy asked us ‘If I had a time machine, and managed to kill and cook a T-Rex, what would it have tasted like?’ and every paleontologist on staff deciced to take him seriously. They did research to learn about fat distribution, and read up on culinary science to learn what flavors meat, even did chemical analysis on the bones. They concluded that it’d be Tough (no evidence of juicy fat pockets), bitter (carnivores tend to taste foul) and would probably kill him, because heavy metals travel up the food chain and T-Rex accumulated a lot of the cadmium that was in the dirt in the late cretaceous. Wrote him a letter with our findings and he sent us back a drawing of him and his buddies cooking a T-Rex over a fire and all of them throwing up and dying, and it’s my favorite drawing in the whole world.”
It’s always this sort of thing that makes me love humanity just that tiny bit more…
Long time no post. Here I am with my lockdown bulk on display, cutting a water bottle for the cooling mist.
Nostalgia time
Here’s some old new content! This was taken over 5 years ago at SwordFish. Working on the 12th play of wrestling from Lignitzer, with Ingulf, under supervision of Gregor M. Taken from Gregor’s compilation video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gcC04LoSo
Groundwork in HEMA
Somebody said there was no ground fighting in HEMA. The following is the result of a quick and dirty wiktenauer binge. Links and pics below…
Keep reading
If the above isn’t enough for you(and do read it,it’s a fun post with various interesting tidbits) then here’s some more general info:
Ringen discussiongroup! is a good place to check out if you’re interested in historical wrestling variants, as are HEMA Grapplers and Scholars of Fiore dei Liberi.
The first group focuses on ringen, the second is about more general historical wrestling types,the third on armizare, the wrestling portion of which is called abrazare.
If you’re interested in learning about historical forms of boxing or as it was often called pugilism check out HEMA pugilists
If you are interested in more modern forms of unarmed combat do check out Southpaw’s Mixed Marxist Arts Club
happy christmas to my favourite story of all time
To clarify, they are bisexual, not lesbians:
https://twitter.com/fancy_foxtrot/status/1205747696813756416
Still iconic
WHEN DO WE GET THE COMIC SERIES AND/OR MOVIE?
This is what my wedding pics will be like
New prints in the store now.
Welcome to Sin-Eater
Here's the 9000th attempt at writing about HEMA goals.
One persistent issue in working out how best to train HEMA is defining improvement. It's like "getting fitter" - you can't train effectively without defining the objective.
Now for sports, it's easy. Fitness is what leads to success at the sport. Fitness for powerlifting is almost diametrically opposed to fitness in marathon running. If you have a defined and specific ruleset for HEMA competition, and define success in HEMA as success in such tournaments, then you're sorted. I know people who do so, and am happy for them, but it's not my ultimate goal.
Others define HEMA success more in terms of a relationship with the sources. This can mean scholarship like research, translation or publishing academic papers, or just study of the sources. Thus you can make progress by understanding and interpreting a source.
How deep, coherent and practically applied your understanding and interpretation need to be? Many prominent HEMA practitioners will admit that there are techniques or areas of their system that they struggle to make work under sparring conditions. Is there a threshold of application for a "good" interpretation?
One risk is becoming what is perjoratively called a "technique collector" - Bruce Lee's "man who has practiced 1,000 kicks once." If you claim knowledge of eight different HEMA systems but can't make any of them against resistance, is this good HEMA?
On the other hand, some practitioners are big believers in focusing on specific narrow areas. There are specialist longsword cutters, or people who can spend all day working on their rapier lunge(s). Frequently they focus on body mechanics and pursue an unattainable perfection as their goal, often citing Zen archery and similar esoteric disciplines as inspiration.
By now I'm sure you're tiring of me presenting and dismissing alternative options, so I'll do my best to give mine.
I've set my goals as "being able to win a hypothetical fight with longswords, specifically unarmoured and with at least a substantial risk/intent of death". This is a weird and anachronistic goal, and that's part of its appeal. While success in HEMA tournament bouts is a strong indicator of success in this goal, it's not the same. I accept that there are large divergences and artefacts distinguishing the two things. I also believe that studying Liechtenauer's longsword is a good route to achieving this goal, but if I was to discover a significant flaw in Liechtenauer, I would rather diverge my own art from his than follow his error. I know other excellent HEMA practitioners who state the reverse, and that's fine, just different to me.
It's less important to defend your goals in HEMA as the best than it is to accept that not everyone is pursuing the same goals. This is critical if you're running a club and trying to decide how to tailor training, curriculum etc.
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