Dr. Guy Windsor is a world-renowned instructor and a pioneering researcher of medieval and renaissance martial arts. He has been teaching the Art of Arms full-time since founding The School of European Swordsmanship in Helsinki, Finland, in 2001. His day job is finding and analysing historical swordsmanship treatises, figuring out the systems they represent, creating a syllabus from the treatises for his students to train with, and teaching the system to his students all over the world. Guy is the author of numerous classic books about the art of swordsmanship and has consulted on swordfighting game design and stage combat. He developed the card game, Audatia, based on Fiore dei Liberi's Art of Arms, his primary field of study. In 2018 Edinburgh University awarded him a PhD by Research Publications for his work recreating historical combat systems. When not studying medieval and renaissance swordsmanship or writing books Guy can be found in his shed woodworking or spending time with his family.
Vadi Is Taking Over My Brain (in the Best Way)
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Hi! Thanks to everyone who bought the new Vadi Longsword Course. It was great fun to make it, but even more satisfying when people actually want it. I’m happy to report that Jo York and I are recording the rest of my interpretation this very week! Which leads to a good day at the office: Followed by an even better day at the office! There will be some bonus material added to the Longsword course in due course, and probably an entire separate course with Vadi's dagger plays. We're also thinking about creating a From Medieval Manuscript style book with the translation and interpretation, and a link to a video of each play. I’m renting the hall space by the day, so we’re putting in some long hours cracking elbows and banging spines, and I’m a bit short on emailing energy at the moment :) I’ll be back with a more thorough newsletter in a couple of weeks, including some cool updates on the next round of podcast interviews, and some interesting health and performance related stuff I’ve been working on. But for now, Signor Vadi is taking up all my brain space. At least there's no poison dust to worry about! cheers, Guy |
Guy Windsor's Swordschool
Dr. Guy Windsor is a world-renowned instructor and a pioneering researcher of medieval and renaissance martial arts. He has been teaching the Art of Arms full-time since founding The School of European Swordsmanship in Helsinki, Finland, in 2001. His day job is finding and analysing historical swordsmanship treatises, figuring out the systems they represent, creating a syllabus from the treatises for his students to train with, and teaching the system to his students all over the world. Guy is the author of numerous classic books about the art of swordsmanship and has consulted on swordfighting game design and stage combat. He developed the card game, Audatia, based on Fiore dei Liberi's Art of Arms, his primary field of study. In 2018 Edinburgh University awarded him a PhD by Research Publications for his work recreating historical combat systems. When not studying medieval and renaissance swordsmanship or writing books Guy can be found in his shed woodworking or spending time with his family.
Hi! Yesterday I emailed to let you know that guywindsor dot net and swordschool dot com were temporarily taken offline while we recover from a serious security incident. In the short term both those urls now redirect to swordschool.shop, where there’s a blog post explaining the situation. Thank you for all the kind messages, they’ve been much appreciated. I’ve put together a temporary solution for one of the biggest problems: the redirect links used throughout my books. Many of my books and...
Hi You may have noticed that my websites guywindsor.net and swordschool.com are currently down. This is thanks to a malicious code attack on my wife’s website that is hosted on the same servers, which we are working to fix. This means that those sites will be down for a while, I don’t know how long. During that time all the redirect links (especially to videos) you'll find in my books won’t work. Fortunately they are only redirects: the video hosting platform I use (Vimeo) is unaffected. If...
BOOKS PODCAST COURSES COMMUNITY BLOG Hi! I’ve been in a bit of a zine-making frenzy this week. It started innocently enough. I’ve been updating the Swordschool Wiki, and we’ve now reached a major milestone: every one of Fiore’s 70+ dagger plays now has its own page, with the image from the Getty manuscript, my translation, and my interpretation on video. You can explore the whole lot here, along with a goodly chunk of the longsword plays, and all of the abrazare. Fiore on the Wiki Working...