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Category: Wylde

Post Categories Alex's Musings Wylde
Post dateOctober 2, 2024Post last updated dateUpdated October 2, 2024

Curious Case of Wylde’s Coopee

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Avatar raspreier raspreier
(Title shamelessly riffed off of from Jim Emmon’s paper linked here) So one of...
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Post Categories Alex's Musings Wylde
Post dateJune 2, 2024Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Zachary Wylde & French Contre-pointe fencing

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A few weeks ago Jim Emmons1 gave me a challenge – to research French...
Post Categories Alex's Musings Wylde
Post dateOctober 1, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Wylde’s Broadsword Guards

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In Zach Wylde’s “English Master of Defence; or The Gentleman’s al-a-mode Accomplish” the author...
Post Categories Wylde
Post dateAugust 24, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Great Resource for Folk Wrestling

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Ruadhán MacFadden, who runs the Hero with a Thousand Holds podcast, researches historic folk...
Post Categories General Wylde
Post dateAugust 3, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Smallsword Trainer

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Jim Emmons, of Salle de Tre Spade and Capitale Escrime, has written up a...
Post Categories General Wylde
Post dateJune 28, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

New Material From Jim

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Friend of the school Jim Emmons has had two very good blog posts recently...
Post Categories Alex's Musings Wylde
Post dateApril 5, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Questioning the Masters

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“All right young sir, I meant no offence. ‘Tis my job to ask question...
Post Categories Wylde
Post dateSeptember 2, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Wylde’s Throwing the Guards for Quarterstaff

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The third section of Zachary Wylde’s “English Master of Defence or The Gentleman’s Al-a-mode...
Post Categories Wylde
Post dateAugust 22, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Wylde’s Flancanade

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Wylde is a quintessential Early Modern Englishman in that he overthinks and over-defines EVERYTHING....
Post Categories Wylde
Post dateJuly 21, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Wylde Simple Lesson 1 – 11

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Zach Wylde’s book, “English Master of Defence or The Gentleman’s Al-a-mode Accomplish”(link) was published...

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