Hi!

Every martial art is a way of moving and a set of tactical preferences. A martial artist fails under pressure when the pressure prevents them from moving correctly, or applying the correct tactic. There's a huge gap between knowing the choreography of a movement, or the basic position represented by one of Vadi's guard illustrations, and actually being able to apply the technique or concept.

In the new Vadi course we establish the way of moving (as I see it), and go through all of Vadi's tactical choices and applications. By itself, that's quite a lot of material, but it's by no means sufficient for training martial artists.

So we also go over my approach to instilling the correct mechanics into your core way of being, and applying the tactics under increasing levels of pressure.

​

To take a mechanical example. In section 4 there's a short video on each of the 12 guards of the longsword. Such as Fenestra. Or to give it its full name, "the True Window".

​

That's a very short video, under a minute. Not least because by this point in the course you've seen fenestra before (in Section 3: The Blows of the Sword). It's a reference to the external choreography of the guard.

But in Section 8: Skill Development, there's a 26 minute video, Fixing Fenestra, in which I work with my assistant on the course, Jo York, on improving her fenestra, so she can strike from it with more power, structure, and control. That 26 minute video is cut down from about 40 minutes of us working together on that one guard. This provides you with an example and a method that you can then apply to all the guards.

If this kind of thing is your jam, then you’ll probably love the rest of the new Vadi course. You can get it now for 40% off the regular price of £400. The launch period ends on May 5th, at which point the 40% discount code will stop working. As with all my courses, there is a 30 day no-questions-asked money back guarantee. So you can buy it, try it, and if it isn’t for you I’ll happily refund your money.

If Vadi isn’t your thing, you can click this link, which will send you to one of my blog posts, about forging a Viking knife, and also tell my very clever email system not to send you any more launch emails.

You can find the course here: https://swordschool.teachable.com/p/the-longsword-of-philippo-vadi?coupon_code=VADITASTICLAUNCH&product_id=6204895​

If that discount code link isn’t working, go to courses.swordschool.com and use the code VADITASTICLAUNCH at checkout.

Please do share the link far and wide, with anyone you think may be interested in the course.

yours,

Guy