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The Sword Guy Podcast — 221 episodes

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Your own personal necromancer, with Josh Wiest

2

Coaching Coaches, with Nathan Weston

3

Forging Swords in the Steel City, with Katie McCats

4

Physics, Rainbows and 3D Printing, with Dr Stephan Eickelmann

5

Capoferro, AI, and the missing zero, with Dr Marc Heimann

6

Making seated longsword work, with Ella Rose

7

The pen and the sword of justice, with Ariel Anderssen

8

Swords in your Seventies, with Deborah Fisher

9

Armoured Martial Arts, with Jenny Häbry

10

Physio for Ninjas, with Erick Ellison

11

Embodying martial arts in an aging body, with Jess Finley

12

From Homeschool to Author, with Amos Wilson

13

Medieval European Body Culture, with Dr Maciej Talaga

14

Swords are where I can be me, with Vera Martocchia

15

The perfectly rational fencer? With Martin Höppner

16

You’re a Fechtmeister too, with Liam Clark

17

Salute before you cross swords with Damon Young

18

Staying Fit for Fencing, with Dr. Elizabeth Scott

19

Writing Great Sword Fights, with Sebastien de Castell

20

The Schielhau in detail, with Alexander Fürgut

21

The Notebook and a Zibaldone Salad with Roland Allen

22

Episode 200 with Michael Chidester: sharing hidden treasures

23

Why Guy needs a pie in the face, with Sydney Schwindt

24

Safety Testing Swords, with Jamie MacIver

25

Russian Dissidence with Romana Shemayev

26

Theory and Practice and Pole Dancing

27

Pirates! With Dr Jamie Goodall

28

Drawing A Dream of Swords with Chris Schweizer

29

Kinesiology and Concussions with Jane Strange

30

Solo Training and an interview with Guy

31

Clubs, Wands and Gladiators: Historical Physical Culture with Ben Miller

32

Crystal and Silver in a Shakespearean accent, with Ben Crystal

33

Federations, forests and body awareness, with Marine Beaumel

34

Vadi and The Four Virtues of Sword Making, with Eleonora Rebecchi

35

Could HEMA ever be big in China? With Zeng Yang

36

HEMA and heresy, with Xian Niles

37

Historical dancing, historical fencing… and a bear, with Sarina Wagner

38

Swords for all humanity, with Janna Datahan

39

Want to write a training manual? How to write training manuals for historical martial artists, with Guy Windsor

40

Messers and More, with Bob Brooks

41

Writing Historical Novels: the Facts and the Fiction, with Elizabeth Chadwick

42

What is a volta? A very detailed examination of Fiore, with Dario Magnani

43

Horse Armour at the Royal Armouries, with Eleanor Wilkinson-Keys

44

Bronze Age Britons Were Weird, with Dr James Dilley

45

Community and the Club with Samantha West

46

The Politics of Eastern and Western Martial Arts, with Jonathan Bluestein

47

Medieval Music and the Troubadours, with Alix Evans

48

Swords in South Africa, with David Wagenfeld

49

Life in the Stone Age and Bothering Hedges with Sally Pointer

50

Business, Chivalry, and Life-or-Death Training, with Jason Kingsley

51

Washing paper and restoring books with Aurelia Sedlmair

52

How to fight like Sir Gawain, with Dr Przemysław Grabowski-Górniak

53

Seven Frenchmen vs. Seven Englishmen: who will win? With Dr. Rachael Whitbread

54

Force of Virtue with Jack Gassman

55

Medieval wrestling and making sense of the Liechtenauer swamp, with Jessica Finley

56

Big Blue Flags with Marli Vlok

57

Sword Geekery and Stunts, with Jared Kirby

58

Cutting and Calligrams, with Brittany Reeves

59

THC, tournaments and training, with David Ito

60

Brains, Biology, and Better Teaching, with Sara Lewis

61

WMA, HEMA, the SCA, and other abbreviations, with David Biggs

62

HEMA for Life, with Dr Marie Meservy

63

Dressing up with Zack Pinsent

64

ADHD, speedboats, and wrestling in kindergarten, with Katriina Malkki

65

Sword People are Book People, with Diniz Cabreira

66

Bringing Italo-Hungarian Sabre to Taiwan, with Huang Chun-Yi

67

You can’t learn swordfighting from a book, with Dr. Antti Ijäs

68

Sword Events Should be More Like IKEA, with Jana Howson

69

Behind the Scenes at The Sword Guy, with Katie Mackenzie

70

Bringing Fiore to a Knife Fight, with Ian Davis

71

Babies, horses, and a secret knife, with Gretchen Settle

72

Boldly Going with Stephen Hand

73

HEMA in Mexico and Inspirational Women

74

Swordbeards and Violence, with Dr. Mark Geldof

75

Patience and Perspective, with Ginny Beatty

76

Fiore: The Movie, with Alberto Mattea

77

The Whack Don’t Die Method, with Kari Holman

78

Becoming Your Best Swordsman with Robert Childs

79

The importance of mixer taps, with Eleanor Janega

80

Outnumbered combat and catching imaginary balls, with Luis Preto

81

Medieval Shoulders, Trees and Swords, with Jessica Finley (Episode 1 Repeat)

82

Fear is the Mind Killer, with Kajetan Sadowski (Episode 5 Repeat)

83

The Yeti of Chest Protection, with Veronica Young

84

What Makes a Warrior? With Cain Maxwell

85

Furries, Bar Fights, and Cryotherapy, with Lisa Losito

86

Ask Me Anything! With Guy Windsor

87

Medieval Banana Hammocks with Tasha Dandelion Kelly

88

Broadsword for Kids, with Andrew Newton

89

How to build a space rocket, with Leigh Shocki

90

Podcasting with the Sword Whisperers (Schwertgeflüster)

91

The episode in which Guy gets challenged to a duel, with Auri Poso

92

Poofy pants and Murderhobos with Adam Franti

93

The Four Virtues of Sword Making, with Eleonora Rebecchi

94

How to Teach Historical Martial Arts, with Guy Windsor

95

From Katanas to Creating the Metaverse, with Neal Stephenson

96

Elementary, my dear Windsor, with Dr. Ashley Polasek

97

Teaching horses martial arts with the Horsemen of Eire

98

Support Vector Machines are Cool, with Kari Baker

99

Movement Matters with Katy Bowman (Episode 54 repeat)

100

Fiore and the Dinosaurs with Erin Fitzgerald

101

Fire and Cauldrons with Ruth Goodman (Episode 44 repeat)

102

Finding your niche, with Mila Jędrzejewska

103

Tameshigiri Training with Asante Lawla

104

Combat Theory and the Incas, with John Lennox

105

Sword Business, with Jo York

106

Yoghurt Pot Armour with Kin Chan

107

Stretto and Surgery, with Elizabeth Scott

108

You’ve been holding your lightsaber all wrong, with Kyle Rowling

109

Training Nerds in the Desert, with Skye Hilton

110

Pain is the best teacher, ideally somebody else’s. With Steaphen Fick

111

What is a Round Table? With Elizabeth Champion

112

Synthetic Armour and Smithing in France, with Anthony Rischard

113

Smacking People in the Head… Gracefully. With Riri Nitihardjo

114

Is there anything Daniel Jaquet can’t do in armour?

115

Judging and Jeopardy, with Rebecca Glass

116

Fabris vs. Capoferro, with Reinier van Noort

117

Rocket Science and Cosmic Washing Machines, with Naziyah Mahmood

118

Living the Nobler Dream, with Christian Tobler

119

Episode 100: Duelling and a Day in the Life of Guy Windsor

120

A Two-Handed Sword to Fight a Griffin, with Marie Powell

121

Mastering Movement with Dan Edwardes

122

The Last Duel, or was it? With Ariella Elema

123

Frog DNA and Indonesia with Pradana

124

Laser Focus, Thought Control, and Jousting with Sarah Hay

125

Harps and Sharps with Andrew Lawrence-King

126

Startling Burglars with Ariel Anderssen

127

Monte with Mike

128

Forged in fire, quenched in oil. With Stephanie Aiuto

129

Swords in the Movies with Peter Lyon

130

Wooden Weapons and Wing Chun with Carina Cirrincione

131

A Whole Lot of Tasty Bolognese with Joshua Wiest

132

Ballet for Swordfighters with Anna Beard

133

The Two-Handed Sword with Neil Melville, and a Review of the Year

134

The Mathematics of Fencing with Pamela Muir

135

Katanas and Koryu with Jaredd Wilson

136

Swordsmanship is Woodwork, with Shanee Nishry

137

Your Challenge for December

138

Orcs in Space and Swords in a Suitcase with Edoardo Albert

139

Asian and African Arms and Armour with Natasha Bennett

140

Medieval Myths, the Mindsword, and Mounted Combat with Jason Kingsley

141

Improve your striking in November

142

Strategy and War with Lynette Nusbacher

143

Armour of the English Knight, with Tobias Capwell

144

YouTube by Lauren Danger Adventure Ranger

145

Hope and Black Powder with Dr. Milo Thurston

146

Your October Challenge: Improve Your Footwork!

147

Viruses and Bats with Emilia Skirmuntt

148

Talking Tempo with Guy and Cornelius

149

Guns, blood and swords with RC-Annie

150

September Challenge: Range of Motion

151

Love poems to Welsh bucklers, with Paul Wagner

152

Classical Fencing and Digital Pedagogy with Dori Coblentz

153

Swashbuckling with Sebastien de Castell

154

The Armoured Knight, with Dr Amanda Taylor

155

Tales from the National Fencing Museum, with Malcolm Fare

156

Drawing swords with Yael Nathan

157

Your Challenge for August: Get Stronger!

158

Steven Pressfield on Spartans, Romans and Hollywood

159

Pirates and Batons with Julie Olson

160

Who whacked Talhoffer? With Dierk Hagedorn

161

Lightsaber Twirling with Jill Bearup

162

Monthly Challenge: breathe better in July

163

Persian Martial Arts with Manouchehr Khorasani

164

Shakespeare and Silver with Ben Crystal

165

Movement Matters with Katy Bowman

166

Turning the tables, with Guy and Jess

167

Challenge of the Month: meditate in June

168

The Sparkle School, with Claire Wemyss

169

Mines and Mimeographs, with Steven Muhlberger

170

Silver’s Paradoxes- in glorious audio!

171

Revolution, Cooking and Knitting with Monica Gaudio

172

The Progression of Teacher Training in Swordschool

173

History is my playground, with Mike Loades

174

Challenge of the Month: Learn a new skill in May

175

People like us: the Middle Ages with Danièle Cybulskie

176

Swords and Historical Handcrafts, with Bill Grandy

177

Fire and Cauldrons, with Ruth Goodman

178

What is a Sword?

179

Teaching Us to Sit Still with Tim Parks

180

Writing and Walking, with Joanna Penn

181

Your challenge for April

182

Jousting with Callum Forbes

183

An unconventional approach to HEMA, with Lauren Ings

184

Portuguese Party Weapons with Jessica Gomes

185

Medieval swords and research, with James Hester

186

Historical Medieval Battle in New Zealand, with Dayna Berghan-Whyman

187

Analysing sword science and technology with Myles Cupp

188

Battle of Nations with Beth Hammer

189

How to Make Swords, with Craig Johnson

190

Pole Dancing with Swords, with Kelley Costigan

191

Why Swords are Cool, with Damon Young

192

Fencing in Russia, with Elena Muzurina

193

Violence and Self Defence, with Rory Miller

194

Art and Fencing, with Nora Cannaday

195

Irish Stick Fighting, with Maxime Chouinard

196

Straight White Men with Swords, with Claire Mead

197

Fire Eating and Fencing, with David Ito

198

Designing Knives and Random Flow training, with Maija Soderholm

199

African Martial Arts, with Da’Mon Stith

200

Tournament Mindset, with Brittany Reeves

201

Wiktenauer, with Michael Chidester

202

Translating Spanish Rapier Texts, with Lois Spangler

203

Founding Longpoint and Fencing in Armour, with Jake Norwood

204

Women in Armour, and Translating Latin Fiore, with Kendra Brown

205

Maori Martial Arts, Bartitsu, and can an Uruk bench-press a motorcycle? With Tony Wolf

206

Dr Eleanor Janega on medieval history, the Dark Ages, and who gets to have a sword?

207

Anyone can do HEMA! With Robyn Alman

208

Making videogame swordfights real, with Kirk, Knight of Green

209

Indian weapons, aerial combat, and German longsword, with Alina Boyden

210

Mindset, military service, and why we train, with Rigel Ng

211

Setting fire to nunneries, Fiore’s wrestling, and more. With Kimberleigh Roseblade

212

Armour, building gauntlets, travelling in Europe, and the perfect sword for Marozzo, with Tomas Suazo

213

Acting, fighting, training, cloaks, shoes, and more! With Siobhan Richardson

214

Getting started in HMA, sword design, and more. With Roland Warzecha

215

Mounted combat, and writing books, with Jennifer Landels

216

Running a club in New York City, with Tan Smith

217

How to train, with Kaja Sadowski

218

Lightsabers and Rapiers, with Airrion Scott

219

Sam Swords on travel, film, and *that* longsword tournament

220

Women in HEMA, with Fran Lacuata

221

Medieval shoulders, trees, and swords, with Jess Finley