Tri-Kingdom University, February 6 and 7, 2026

Posted on February 1, 2026 by LearnFiore

I’m looking forward to Tri-Kingdom University on February 6 and 7, 2026. The Kingdoms of Lochac, Drachenwald, and Atlantia will join forces to provide 27 hours of SCA related classes all free and online. The classes were recorded and have been posted to YouTube.

The classes that I will be teaching are:

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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 repeated at Pennsic with identical sessions on July 31 (10am) and August 1 (1pm). The location is “University Battlefield”. Please join me there.

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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:

  • LEAFS, April 26, Fiore basics and equestrian
  • Return to Sherwood, May 10, Laurel elevation
  • University, June 14, Fiore dagger @ 3:30pm & SCA YouTube @ 1:30pm classes
  • Pennsic, Fiore dagger, July 31 at 10am, Aug 1 at 1pm. University Battlefield

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 site is required. Links to the class materials and the class recording will be updated as files are available.

Medieval Dagger Play II: Fiore’s Guide to Getting Close to Your Friends

Llwyd is also teaching a class on Creating SCA content for YouTube.

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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 of the concepts.

The first is about a fencing drill called the Chess Drill. A pair of unarmored fighters take turns moving. The moving fighter takes a single tempo action to make themselves safe and put the opponent at risk. In other words they take themselves out of check and put the other fighter in check. Then they switch roles and the other fighter gets a turn. The passive fighter should watch the moving fighter’s actions, make suggestions if asked, and provide feedback if the movement would have been foolish in a real fight. The video shows examples of good and foolish moves. 

The second video is about the topic of feints and creating multi-intention combination attacks. It can be found here:

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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 plays, and then some work trying to figure out some of his horseback plays. Because Fiore’s manual describes a consistent system, many of the non-horse plays can be directly adapted for use on horseback when at appropriate range. So, understanding the system is a much better approach than just understanding the 36 horse plates from the manual. The techniques will apply to the SCA’s Rossfechten ruleset which is about mounted sword play. We will probably make a video recording of the class that I will link here once it is ready.

Here are links to various slide sets, videos, and web pages related to the class:

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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 basics of Fiore’s longsword techniques with some sample plays from the longsword, sword in one hand, and sword in armor sections of his 1409 manual. Focus will be on plays that are legal for SCA rulesets including rapier, cut and thrust, rebated steel, and armored. A limited number of longsword wasters will be available for use or bring your own. All plays will be performed in a slow, controlled fashion. No armor required. Links to source material, translations, and videos for this class and other Fiore topics will be provided (see list below.)

If you would like to take either class, there is no need to sign up, just put the class on your schedule and join me on the field! The class will cover the plays in the video and documentation slides below but will be interactive instead of a lecture.

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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 and body to be safe and to put your opponent at risk. It can be used to understand how a system works and why some plays work the way that they do. And it can be used to prune your decision tree during a full speed fight. But, the wall is a tool not a system. In particular, the wall only implicitly addresses tempo and measure. For a longer prose and photo discussion of the wall see my article at https://baronllwyd.org/the-wall .

This video has a whole lot of NEW in it. It’s a new topic, uses 90% new hardware, 100% new software, has composited special effects, and adds a couple of YouTube features for the first time. A list of all of the gear used for this video is available at https://lloydtech.org/my-vlogging-gear .

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Retro Class Recordings

Posted on February 18, 2024 by LearnFiore

I was pretty happy with the recording of my online Fiore Dagger part 1 class recently. So, I decided to go back and record several other classes that I previously taught online, but did not record at the original time. Here are the links to the videos and slides for the new recordings.

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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 the slides and links to the included videos.

Medieval Dagger Play I: Fiore’s Guide to Getting Close to Your Friends

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