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The Medieval Longsword

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Paperback
Hardcover

Reference : BK-GW-MED-LS

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Mastering the Art of Arms, Vol. 2: The Medieval Longsword

If you've ever leafed through a facsimile of Fiore de Liberi's works, you'll know how difficult it is to learn swordsmanship from a book that is 600 years old and written in Italian.

In this book, Guy Windsor has drawn on 15 years of teaching the Art, and broken everything down and explained it so that you really can learn the Art of Swordsmanship.

This book will teach you:

The theory and background of Fiore dei Liberi's medieval longsword system.
How to train safely, with and without a partner
Footwork
Blade handling skills
Guards
Defences
Attacks
Basic pair drills
How to develop your skills from basic pair drills all the way up to freeplay.

All supported by lots of free videos online.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the Mastering the Art of Arms Collection
Foreword by Christian Cameron Introduction
Chapter One: Tools of the Trade
Chapter Two: General Principles
Chapter Three: Footwork: Stepping and Turning
Chapter Four: One Strike, One Defence
Chapter Five: More Strikes, More DefencesChapter Six: More Strikes, and More Guards
Chapter Seven: Counter Remedies, Their Counters, and Improving the Guards
Chapter Eight: Counters to the Break, The Sword in One Hand and Exploiting Mistakes
Chapter Nine: Binds, Malice and Deceit
Chapter Ten: Preparing for Freeplay
Chapter Eleven: Freeplay!
Chapter Twelve: A Final Summary: The System by Numbers
Appendix A – Warming Up
Appendix B – Glossary
Acknowledgements
Indiegogo Campaign Contributors
Bibliography