Guy Windsor – Solo Historical Martial Arts Training Course

Description of Solo Historical Martial Arts Training Course

Get strong, fast, and accurate, even without a partner

Solo training is the secret behind all truly excellent martial artists’ accomplishments. All world class sword people and martial artists spend much of their training time on solo training.

If you live miles away from the nearest fellow martial artist, don’t worry, this course does not require training partners. Instead we cover everything you can reasonably do alone to improve your swordsmanship skills.

If you have regular access to a school or training partners, you can still dramatically up your game by incorporating intelligent solo training into your schedule. This course will teach you how.

On this course you will learn ways of developing your mind, your body, and your technical skills, no matter what your starting point is. From absolute beginner to senior martial artist, we have you covered.

The Solo Training course includes these standalone courses:

• Meditation for Martial Artists This course covers four different kinds of meditation, aimed at improving your state of mind and making you a better martial artist.
• Fundamentals: Breathing This course will teach you how to breathe properly, and how to develop anaerobic and aerobic fitness without injuring yourself.
• Fundamentals: Footwork This course will teach you how to move like a martial artist, whatever style you wish to practice.
• Recreating Historical Swordsmanship from Historical Sources This course will teach you how to study the sources and create useful training syllabi from them. Most of such work can indeed be done alone.

What You’ll Learn In Solo Historical Martial Arts Training Course?

Solo Training

• Welcome. Please
• Creating a Daily Practice
• Planning your training: days, weeks, months, years
• Creating solo forms
• Handling Drills introduction
• Striking drills introduction
• The Pell
• Point control basics
• Conditioning: Stick drills
• Improvised training tools
• Training with clubs

Longsword Handling Drills and Forms

• Longsword Handling Drills
• The Longsword Syllabus Form
• Longsword: the pell

Rapier Handling Drills and Forms

• Rapier Form
• Rapier: the pell

The Spear

• Spear class
• Spear Form

Sharp Swords and Cutting

• Resources
• How to sharpen a sword

I.33 Sword and Buckler

• I.33 Sword and Buckler Solo class

Smallsword

• Smallsword solo training class

Wrestling- with Jessica Finley

• Welcome and Warm-Up
• Falling
• Mat Exercises
• Footwork
• Training with the Dummy

Bolognese Swordsmanship, with Gindi Wauchope

• 1.1 Spada: introduction and basic blows
• 1.2 Spada: Guards and Blows
• 1.3 Spada: Additional Guards
• 1.4 Spada: Footwork
• 1.5 Spada: Moving through the Guards
• 2.1 Spada e Brocchiero: Introduction
• 2.2 Spada e Brocchiero: Blows
• 2.3 Spada e Brocchiero: Cutting Drill
• 2.4 Spada e Brocchiero: The Embellishment
• 3.1 Spada da due mani: Introduction
• 3.2 Spada da due mani: the key guards
• 3.3 Spada da due mani: first assault, parts 1-4

Cross-training: Pilates!

• Pilates Basic Mat demonstration
• Guy failing to do the Pilates Basic Mat routine
• Pilates Basic Mat Class

Train Along video

• Morning Warm-up sessions

About Guy Windsor

I have been training martial arts for 30 years, and teaching swordsmanship professionally since I founded The School of European Swordsmanship in 2001. The School has branches and study groups all over the world, so I have taught thousands of students, from all sorts of backgrounds and cultures. My books include The Swordsman’s Companion, The Duellist’s Companion, The Medieval Dagger, The Medieval Longsword, The Theory and Practice of Historical Martial Arts, and The Swordsman’s Quick Guide series of ebooks along with many others. It’s my job to help you achieve your goals. I do this by teaching in person, through my books, and through these online courses.

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