⚔️ Andrew ⚔️

I need to buy a messer...

I too have a furry sparring partner

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Primary day here in Charlotte so doing the poll worker thing like usual.

This for sure! I had no idea #HEMA was a thing before I saw a post on our local FB group for a intro workshop @swordwind.bsky.social was doing and I was hooked. The hardest part is just where/how to advertise. "Come play with swords" sort of sells itself.

Kissed (1996) ⭐ 6.4 | Drama, Romance 1h 18m

Back in the mid 90s I worked at a 4 screen indie theater. We would get, usually older people, who would just come see any/everything and/or call to ask us what each movie was about. This was a fun one to explain: www.imdb.com/title/tt0116...

Our previous dog chewed open a bottle of Advil the cat had knocked off the shelf. Because we had no idea how many if any she had eaten it was off to the vet for overnight fluids and observation. She ended up being fine but still...fun times.

This is some hardcore cyberpunk bullshit. Even William Gibson didn't come up with something this dystopian.

That’s awesome.

Did some more Fairbairn cane stuff last night with the wife, she really likes wailing on the punching bag with it. We also started going though some of the other bits of the book, escaping from 1 and 2 handed wrist holds and such. Hopefully no one saw us since this one might be hard to explain #HEMA

We have this tucked in the back of our fridge so we are ready.....

Few years back a friend and I did back to back viewings of the original 1981 version and the 2009 remake. If you like classic horror at all be sure to check out the original!

We have a bottle of champaign set aside in our fridge in anticipation of the event.

For various reasons my wife was interested in learning some simple cane defense stuff so we started with some simple cane/umbrella drills from "Hands Off! Self-defense for Women" by William E. Fairbairn, which is just slightly modified stuff from his All-In fighting combat manual. #HEMA

Ohhh....now I am excited. I have a ice cream attachment for my stand mixer and love apricot in general. One of my yearly holiday bakes are these apricot squares my grandmother used to make and are one of the things people ask for each year.

Found this post because I just picked up this book last weekend. I am planning to do a project where I make each of the recipes and share photos of my results online. I hope to be able to do as many as possible so hopefully I will get to your grandmothers before too long :)

We do thumbs down because it's funnier.

One of our instructors likes to say the best place to be is "long, strong, and on top" 😀

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

It's a joke but my favorite "context matters" bit is "Forgive me father for I have sinned" and "Sorry daddy I've been naughty" basically mean the same thing and yet at the same time very much do not 😆

HEMA for sure. Most peoples starting kit is boring HEMA black but there are more and more places that you can get custom colors and styles of jacket from, and tons of people paint their masks.

My club has done some murder mystery party nights (vampire and valentines day themed so far) and I have ambitions to use those as a template to make a very niche #HEMA themed one 😀

YouTube video by The HEMA Vtuber singlestick 7 cut exercise #hema #singlestick #vtuber

The folks from my #hema class asked for a video of one of the exercises, so I'm putting it here as well: m.youtube.com/shorts/VFpjT...

I took us a while to find this new space which isn't ideal (bit smaller than where we are now) but we can make up for it by having more classes. Right now we rent a set # of hours a week from a cross fit gym but come April we can set our own hours.

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

"After you hit try and go into a guard...any guard...." is advice I have herd more then once and is something I am trying to remember to do in sparring.

Yeah it's my main bad fencing habit. I can attack fine and defend...okayish....but getting a clean hit and protecting myself vs. doing something that just ends up as a double is what I am currently working on in my comp. prep class.

Ugh yeah...I keep telling myself I need to improve that as well...im not as bad off as I used to be but need to try and keep it up more than I tend to do.

Howdy neighbor! 😂