As we posted, we were in Phoenix Az for USA Fencing Nationals. NPR was on the scene and did a little piece on us. Check it out! Thanks to Jill Ryan for a great piece! https://youtu.be/iLy6KJVvGYY USA Fencing brought a new blade to Phoenix: The 'Star Wars' lightsaber By Jill Ryan https://kjzz.org/content/1851984/usa-fencing-brought-new-blade-phoenix-star-wars-lightsaber?fbclid=IwAR2IDtE3NEGX9fiGWgIWQi03XxunGhtznByc-YAy5tk5Nk8yV42wMstkEio
https://youtu.be/RztDLTjQm4s When LK Chen released his reproduction of an T shaped Han Ji (漢卜字鋼戟) blade and it’s hardware, my friend Ben Judkins was very happy. He had been reading about the weapons rediscovery and was keen to get a set of blades. I was not familiar with this style of Ji. My idea of the… Continue reading Recreating the Han Ji pole arm 漢卜字鋼戟
Hapy holidays everyone! Today is Festivus, and as such I decided to take one portion of the event and make it a post. The Airing of Grievances! For my part, I will take on some very popular and well loved sword fights from movies and talk about how I think they are awful. No doubt… Continue reading A Festivus airing of grievances: 3 popular sword fights in Western media that I hate
No touch knockouts. Pressure points fighting and Dim Mak. Sending a foe flying several feet back in the air with not so much as a flinch. In the peeling back of he mysteries of Qi, let’s start with the low hanging fruit. The extraordinary claims of Qigong. Qigong (also spelled Chi Kung pronounced “Chee gong”)… Continue reading Frauds, Fools, and Fighting-the dark side of Qi in martial arts.
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