Since we’re mostly stuck at home and cannot practice or study in-person, we’ve decided to start an online book club to read and discuss Fiore. Our initial focus will be on the longsword sections (sword in one hand, sword in two hands, sword vs armor) with primary interest on the art itself and secondary interest in application to SCA combat forms. For more information see our Facebook page for the book club at https://www.facebook.com/Virtual-Book-Club-Fiore-105687057975899
For people unable to get a book in time for the club, I have made slides for the meetings. The sword in one hand slides are reused from my recent University class on the topic. The other sets are just close crops of the plates from the Getty museum’s own scans plus Hatcher’s translation for the text, my highlighting of the move instructions in the text, and a few pictures of our group doing a particular play or two.
Meetings are at 7pm Eastern US Time
- Meeting 1 – Oct 11: Intro to Fiore and Longsword Postas (Getty pg. 23v-24v)
- Meeting 2 – Oct 25: Sword in One Hand (without videos) Part 1, Part 2 (with videos) (Getty pg. 20r-21v)
- Meeting 3 – Nov 8: Sword in Two Hands pt 1 (Getty pg. 25r-26v)
- Meeting 4 – Nov 22: Sword in Two Hands pt 2 (Getty pg. 26v-30v)
- Meeting 5 – Dec 6: Armored Sword (Getty pg. 32v-35r)
- (Holiday Break)
- Meeting 6 – Jan 10: Sword in Two Hands – Largo (Getty pg. 25r-26v) repeat, Meeting Link
- Meeting 7 – Jan 24: Grappling (Getty pg 6r-8r), Meeting Link