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Category: Alex’s Musings

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 Cerri General
Post dateJuly 6, 2024Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Options are Good

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Recently during class my student, Jason, described Spreier Dirty Boxing as – “The art...
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
Post dateApril 1, 2024Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

“Soft” Self-Defense Skills

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TW: discussion on physical violence and brief mention of SA When we practice martial...
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Post Categories Alex's Musings General
Post dateFebruary 29, 2024Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

The Fist, The Mother of All Weapons

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The fist1 is the very first “weapon” humanity ever used. Before we picked up...
Post Categories Alex's Musings
Post dateDecember 30, 2023Post last updated dateUpdated July 12, 2024

Curriculum & Lesson Planning – Part 2

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For Part 1 – Go Here So last time we talked about how to...
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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 Categories Alex's Musings
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 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 Alex's Musings
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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