I can see no reason why a government increasingly intolerant of protest and criticism, would wish to end the right to trial by jury.

“What is this dagger I see before me?”
The Friday Verdadera Destreza class, Chan and Annie putting in some excellent form working with Don Luis Diáz de Viedma

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The Friday longsword class performing so excellently.
a bit of Joachim Meyer, a lot of from the Von Bauman fechtbuch. All in all, ace.

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It’s my day off, so it’s time for a private lesson followed by my talk “Frighteningly Queer, the misconception of Straightness in Martial Arts”.
Also, if you do well in the private lesson you get to do it with sharps.☠️⚔️☠️

Brilliant work on Don Simon de Frias.

This wondrous crew!

A truly delightful fundamentals class, which grows more and more special!

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The Thibault Project — HEMA Bookshelf This project has two goals! 1) To publish Girard Thibault’s spectacular illustrations in as close to their original size as possible — to do this, we need at least 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. 2) To fund the purch...

In other Girard Thibault news!

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I made a mistake in an interpretation. Which is fucking great, because I got to go back to the research, collate and correct all the information and come back with new and better information. So we improve!☺️❤️⚔️❤️☺️

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I swear she’s saying “I don’t know”

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Ain’t life great./☺️⚔️☺️

This wonderful moment, training Verdadera Destreza (of course with a little Girard Thibault thrown in) with Ossian, marks the mid point.

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Impressed by all the students in the fundamentals classes this week. I really pushed to see how much they could process, carefully to be sure they could apply the prior principle, but truly superb work, lovely dialogue and questions,

HEMA beginner classes A+

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So much goodness in the mixed weapons class in Crystal Palace. All freeplay, all fencing. Beautiful.

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They are back! The Chaos Quartet!
Made clean by their maker Balefire Blades, who kindly gave blades a reworking and even reblacked the fittings!

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I had a parcel addressed to another street in the same town, delivered to me on the basis of
“Don’t worry, it felt like it was full of swords, I knew where to bring it”

Remember, candy at Halloween is often laced with Trebuchets and other items harmful to the untrained. Give them to me.

www.justgiving.com/page/david-r... in case you want to donate to healthier matters:)

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Getting the Halloween excites!

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This is utterly terrifying.

We get to play with Swords, that’s pretty fucking awesome ain’t it.☺️⚔️☺️

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YouTube video by London Longsword Academy Verdadera Destreza cuphilt rapier from Timeblade Guild

When you accidentally @joeabercrombie.com
Also what the hell thumbnail choices!

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Nice start to the day, spadone and montante from Alfieri and Figuerido with Doctor Robert Atkinson of Swiss HEMA
Hopefully get to meet him again soon. Might even wax that moustache properly.☺️

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I am Flufficus!

Vote Achilles!

Mondays mean loads of sword and buckler from the Anonimo Bolognese, Achille Marozzo and of course I.33. And after that the sword in one hand, and Longsword beginner classes!

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Brilliant work deserves its reward.

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The Girard Thibault, Verdadera Destreza class. Yup that f*ing awesome!

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Rolling all evening in the longsword class at Crystal Palace. Progressive challenges to change the way we freeplay. An utter joy.

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A beautiful time in the sabre class on Sword Saturday at St Peter’s Bethnal Green.

Fantastic work☺️⚔️☺️

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While everyone else performed the exercise, me and Brendon slip off to constant roll. All about the footwork and quite excellent.

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The fundamentals class went entirely single handed this week. Working through everything from Talhoffer to Joachim Meyer and Achille Marozzo, then as a treat bringing everyone into some freeplay.
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I did not choose the glorious kitten kilt life, the glorious kitten kilt life chose me.

Rapier and dagger by Destrezania

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Please check your cat’s settings.

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The most important part of the lesson is the flamboyant removal of the cape and wrapping it around the arm with such style that your opponent realises the fight is already lost.

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