THE MOTORCITY RETROSPECTIVE RELEASES TODAY!
This video releases today at 8PM ET (or 8AM PHT for those in Asia) as a YouTube premiere. If there are little to no major copyright strikes then all will go to plan.
Spanning 56 Minutes of non-stop Motorcity goodness, buckle your seatbelts cuz this is gonna be one bumpy ride.
Premiere page is up!
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I carefully researched, reconstructed, and analyzed a 1970 theater opera adaptation of Carmilla by two gay men. I was able to piece together what a performance would have looked like based on the cast recording, notes from the music director, and numerous photographs posted on the theater website, among other things.
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Video review by 'The Historical Fencing Channel' of a tournament bout by David Miller of Sellsword Arts
Various exchanges are used to discuss the concepts of strong and weak, indes, the bind generally, winding, thrusting(ort,schissen,absetzen,ansetzen etc.), and so on.
You may or may not also know about these older and recent KDF-related posts on this blog that may be useful as reading material alongside the video.
Here’s a masterpost of sorts of Meyer content on this blog, one of the later masters in the KDF tradition that covers all the mentioned aspects in the video.
For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:
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Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts
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Remember to check out A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.
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Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by Kajetan Sadowski may be relevant as well.
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“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills” by Rob Gray as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.
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Another useful book to check out is The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).
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Trauma informed coaching and why it matters
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Look at the previous posts in relation to running and cardio to learn how that relates to historical fencing.
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Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial
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Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.
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How consent and opting in function and why it matters.
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More on tactics in fencing
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Open vs closed skills
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The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing
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Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.
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And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.
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Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.
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For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.
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Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.
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Another year, another amazing amount of entertainment to watch and appreciate. These are my Top 12 Favorite Pieces of Entertainment from 2023. Enjoy!
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New Video: Ginger AF Share Furious Protest Anthem "Femininity"
New Video: Ginger AF Share Furious Protest Anthem "Femininity" @heygroover @romainpalmieri @DorianPerron
Formed back in 2018, Florida-based duo Ginger AF — multi-instrumentalist Kristen Cannell and Jerry Black — specialize in guitar-driven indie rock paired with an undercurrent of dystopian and existential themes, seemingly inspired by the dystopian hellscape we’re currently living in.
Their latest single “Femininity” is a hook-driven, mosh pit friendly ripper that sonically — to my ears, at least…
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Star Wars: Ahsoka Premiere REVIEW
Star Wars: Ahsoka has premiered and its now time to talk about it. This video will my review of the two episodes that premiered Tuesday evening. Part One: Master and Apprentice written and directed by Dave Filoni in which "A valuable prisoner escapes New Republic custody; a search for answers reunites two old friends." and Part Two: Toil and Trouble"written by Dave Filoni and directed by Steph Green in which "Ahsoka and General Hera Syndulla travel to New Republic shipyards and make an unexpected discovery."
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Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii - The Literary Lair (11th Anniversary Video)
Eleven years ago, I made my first video discussing Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion. And I’m still making videos about Doctor Who novelizations!
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