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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 →

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Fiore in February

Posted on January 29, 2023 by LearnFiore

Atlantia’s Winter University is February 4-6, 2023. It is entirely online. Since it is online, Llwyd’s Fiore class will be on sections of the manual that it would be difficult to do if we were in person, the non-sword portions … Continue reading →

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Now Easier to find on YouTube!

Posted on October 27, 2022 by LearnFiore

Thanks to YouTube’s new “handle” feature, our YouTube channel is now accessible at the much easier to remember URL: https://www.youtube.com/@learnfiore !

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Fiore at June University

Posted on April 27, 2022 by LearnFiore

Due to several requests, Llwyd will be teaching a class called “Introduction to Italian Longsword” at Atlantia’s University on June 11. The event and the class are free. Here are PDF slides showing plate and translation for the plays taught. … Continue reading →

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Italian Longsword Plays at Atlantian University

Posted on February 2, 2022 by LearnFiore

Llwyd will be teaching a class on fun plays from Fiore’s Longsword that can (mostly) be used in SCA combat. It will take place online at Atlantia’s February University on Saturday, February 5, 2022. Pre-registration by midnight, Feb 2, is … Continue reading →

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