Nutrition

Most of us have had food poisoning, or the stomach flu, yes? We have all experienced the fatigue of not being able to eat. Now, think about how amazing it feels when you can eat a good nutritious meal again! And I’m not talking about junk food, but nutritious...

Injury Prevention: wrist alignment

An alignment error I see a lot is over-extension of the wrist.   Your wrist alignment should be in a biomechanically-sound position.   Remember that when you’re using a sword, you are hoping to make contact with your adversary and therefore meet some resistance....

Warm-ups

We all have different bodies and so we have different needs (you’ll hear me say this ad nauseum).  You’ll find that your body reacts to physical work differently than the people around you. There is a group warm-up scheduled every day of the workshop, but...