Introduction Getting gifts for anyone can be quite the challenge. Sometimes you have so many choices you can’t possibly pick out just one. Yet other times, you just can’t possibly think of a gift that would be juuuust right. Now, in case that your chosen giftee is a sword enthusiast, I might have a few […]
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Introduction: After our last photo of Rearguard, showing how a GoPro mount can be attached to the rear mesh, we received a post expressing safety concerns (here is the link to the post). Here is the quote: “That is really dangerous idea. The world champion F1 driver Michael Schumacher got fucked up in a skiing […]
Introduction We recently posted a photo of one of our Rearguard 2.0 masks. You can find the post here. Leigh Corn has posted some concerns here, to which we respond in this post. Here’s the photo he marked up for us, for your reference. We’ll quote his words and then reply to them. The […]
We’re moving somewhere! We know some of the basics and how to step. Now it’s time to bring the sword into this equation. However, before we move on, I would like to make something clear: these are all guidelines, especially for the guards. The entire point of guards is that they put you in a […]
Granted, me being primarily a longsword fencer, I am not all that aware of later masters of the sword, but damn do they have some interesting stories! This time around in inspirational historical swordspeople: Jean-Louis Michel Born in present-day Haiti in 1785, his earliest years have a bit of a conflict in the sources. Some […]