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Post Categories Alex's Musings
Post dateDecember 3, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Curriculum & Lesson Planning – Part 1

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Goals & Backwards Planning One of the often forgotten (and maligned) parts of the...
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Post dateNovember 1, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

My Process

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“So a kung Fu master, a Jewish boxer, an Italian noble, and a middle...
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Post dateOctober 23, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Logic of the Sharp Point

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Friend of the school and one of my mentors, Jim Emmons, has written two...
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...
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Post dateSeptember 6, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Xing Yi

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About 5 years ago I was browsing around Powell’s bookstore in Portland, OR (a...
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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...
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Post dateAugust 15, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Splitting Hairs with a Microscope

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Jim Emmons, friend of the school, wrote up this great analysis of an argument...
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...
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Post dateJuly 31, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

What Sources We Use

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What source(s) to use are almost always the first question someone setting up their...
Post Categories Practice Report
Post dateJuly 18, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

BucklerFest 2: Boss Moves!

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This past weekend, July 14-16, in Seattle, WA was an amazing event – BucklerFest...

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