Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Guy Windsor, a world-renowned instructor and researcher of medieval and renaissance martial arts. I asked him a ton of questions about writing and worldbuilding swordfighting and other martial activities. I learned a ton of really helpful information, so I am very excited to share this with you all! This is part 2, so if you haven't seen part 1 please go back and watch that now:

Part 1: youtu.be/1NiuBcmuw9g

Trigger Warning: We will be discussing historical swordfighting, to include injuries, some discussions of which are a little bit graphic. It's not very gory but if anyone is particularly sensitive to that sort of thing, not the video for you.

In appreciate, please checkout Guy Windsor's books, podcast, blog, etc. and support him if you can!

---- Guy Windsor's Links ----
Swordfighting For Writers, Game Designers and Martial Artists: https://swordschool.shop/collections/swordfighting-for-writers-game-designers-and-martial-artists
All His Books: https://swordschool.shop/collections/read
Blog: guywindsor.net/blog
The Sword Guy Podcast: https://swordschool.shop/blogs/podcast
Patreon: patreon.com/theswordguy
Sword School Shop: https://swordschool.shop/

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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:11 Trigger Warning
00:00:28 Swordfighting Injuries
00:13:21 Maintenance/Storage
00:23:07 Transporting Weapons
00:32:15 Travel
00:34:18 Time to Learn Sword fighting
00:43:12 Training Scenarios
01:00:29 Teaching Style
01:09:25 Outro

------ LINKS ------
Website: madelinejameswrites.com
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/madelinejameswrites
Instagram: instagram.com/author_mjames