Category: Tradition

  • 2024 – Compagno’s Celebrations

    2024 – Compagno’s Celebrations

    Be it known to all who profess the Art of arms – That on Monday, 26th of August and Monday, the 2nd of September, two thousand twenty-four, Ian Carnes, Morgan Otte, Nick Royal, and Jordan Scribner; all novices of the Nebraska Swordfighters Guild did present themselves for testing in the Armizare of Fiore Dei Liberi…

  • Fact-checking fight-books: comparing historic injury patterns to strikes in modern European sword arts

    Fact-checking fight-books: comparing historic injury patterns to strikes in modern European sword arts

    Joe: Very interesting summary of a research paper I want to read fully. [Editors Note: Page is no longer available, using Wayback machine Archive, which may be removed anytime]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191222014850/http://www.tameshigiri.ca/2014/06/12/fact-checking-fight-books-comparing-historic-injury-patterns-to-strikes-in-modern-european-sword-arts/ Original PDF referenced in that page: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/3729/MatzkeJ.pdf?sequence=2

  • The Playing of the Prize: Free Scholar

    The Playing of the Prize: Free Scholar

    *snipped from the Chicago Swordplay Guild facebook page* Be It Known To All that Profess the Art of Arms: Through intensive study & performance Erin Fitzgerald & Davis Vader Have successfully completed all Promotional Requirements & Examinations in Abrazare, Two-Handed Sword, Arming Sword, Spear & Dagger for the Grade of Laureato d’Armizare or Free-Scholar of…