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09/22/2025

They are very lucky this bison was very docile.

02/15/2023

Saving for later study.

In this video, we present Marozzo's section on the unaccompanied dagger against another dagger in a dueling context, an unusual topic for HEMA treatises. In ...

01/02/2023

An interesting look at the basics of using a staff.

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12/24/2022

A great example of German style fencing.

Enjoy a new Adorea swordfighting video.A reluctant swordsman is summoned by a brutal duke to participate in a high-stakes duel.To purchase the weapons used i...

12/18/2022

A look at the life of the first Italian master of arms.

"Fiore" è un cortometraggio storico micro-budget che introduce la figura del maestro d'armi medievale italiano Fiore dei Liberi, uno dei padri della scherma ...

12/10/2021

A look at historical primary sources describing the use of the tomahawk.

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11/26/2021

An interesting discussion of “ninja” history.

Antony Cummins and Matt Easton take a look at who the ninja (AKA shinobi) actually were. Did they exist, what historical sources do we have, and what do we k...

10/23/2021

A look at the history and development of dumbbells for exercise

New video on the history of the dumbbell and how both its form and use has significantly changed during the last several centuries. Early exercises involved swinging, similar to the Indian club exercise. Monstery himself kept dumbbells in his academy, and many pugilists of the era such as Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons, and Billy Edwards used them to train.
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06/24/2021

An interesting article on the history of Irish stick fighting.

By Maxime Chouinard In my last article, I explained how we can find shillelaghs all over history, such as in Medieval Europe, and the few links we can find in Medieval Irish historical sources and …