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Atlantian University Classes – June 14, 2025

Posted on June 8, 2025 by LearnFiore

Llwyd is teaching two classes at the June 14, 2025, in person, Atlantian University session. Creating SCA Classes for YouTube – 1:30pm Medieval Dagger Plays: Fiore’s Guide to Getting Close to Your Friends – 3:30pm The dagger class will be … Continue reading →

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Spring & Summer 2025 Activities

Posted on May 13, 2025 by LearnFiore

Llwyd will be doing some Fiore related stuff over the next few months: See https://atlantia.sca.org/calendar/ for event details. Please join me if you can.

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February 2025 University

Posted on January 18, 2025 by LearnFiore

Atlantia’s February University session will be held online on Feb 1 and 2, 2025. Llwyd will be teaching a class on part 2 of Fiore’s dagger plays covering the 2nd-4th remedy masters, their students, and counters. Preregistration on the University … Continue reading →

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New videos: What is the Chess Drill? and Feints and Multi-Intention Attacks!

Posted on September 13, 2024 by LearnFiore

Llwyd just posted a two new videos to YouTube. Both are Fiore-adjacent. By this I mean they describe non-Fiore ideas but they can be applied to a study of Fiore. Also, both videos use a Fiore play as an example … Continue reading →

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Class at Emerald Hastilude III, Aug 31, 2024

Posted on August 29, 2024 by LearnFiore

I am teaching a class on Fiore’s system at Emerald Hastilude III, an equestrian focused event, on Aug 31, 2024. The class will give a sampling of plays from across Fiore’s manual including a dagger play, a variety of sword … Continue reading →

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Classes at Pennsic August, 2024

Posted on May 27, 2024 by LearnFiore

Llwyd will be teaching two sessions of Introduction to Fiore’s Italian Longsword at Pennsic 2024. The two identical sessions will be on Thursday, August 1 and Friday, August 2 both at 10am on Rapier List 3. The class surveys the … Continue reading →

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New Video Release!

Posted on March 27, 2024 by LearnFiore

We just posted a new video describing a sword combat visualization technique called “the wall”. It is intended to help a fencer build a mental model of how swords can move in three-dimensional space and how to move their sword … Continue reading →

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Retro Class Recordings

Posted on February 18, 2024 by LearnFiore

Three new recordings of older online classes. Continue reading →

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February 2024 University

Posted on February 1, 2024 by LearnFiore

Atlantia’s February University session will be held online on Feb 3 and 4, 2024. Llwyd will be teaching a class on Fiore’s dagger plays. The full PowerPoint slides with video file is too large to share, so linked below are … Continue reading →

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New Dagger Videos, February 2024 University, and March KASF

Posted on December 13, 2023 by LearnFiore

Llwyd has spent the last year doing ad hoc classes at practices and events around Atlantia. He recently shot some video with his son covering the first quarter of Fiore’s dagger plays. This video will be used for a class … Continue reading →