Startling Burglars with Ariel Anderssen

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02/18/22 • 82 min

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 93

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Ariel Anderssen is a model, actor, author, property investor and is perhaps best known for her career as a BDSM model and performer. She is also mad about swords, both for using in stage fight and for collecting.

We cover a lot in this conversation, including talking about whether stage combat or martial arts training would be any use in a “real life” fight, and how Ariel sees BDSM and sword fighting as virtually indistinguishable from one another. After all, they both often involve black leather and giving someone a good thrashing...

Photos:

Guy’s 1796 pattern cavalry sabre:

Guy’s smallsword:

Here is the link to the Zorro movie with the superb fight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8tiSMCwRE

To find out more about Ariel, you can find her on her website, YouTube and Twitter.

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 93

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/startling-burglars-with-ariel-anderssen/

To support the show, come join the Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy

Photos:

Guy’s 1796 pattern cavalry sabre:

Guy’s smallsword:

Here is the link to the Zorro movie with the superb fight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8tiSMCwRE

To find out more about Ariel, you can find her on her website, YouTube and Twitter.

Previous Episode

Monte with Mike

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 92

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/monte-with-mike-episode92/

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Mike Prendergast is the founder and head instructor of the Historical Combat Academy in Dublin and translator of Pietro Monte’s Exercitiorum Atque Artis Militaris Collectanea, which is otherwise known as the Collection of Renaissance, Military Arts and Exercises. He also teaches in an SCA group called Dun in Mara.

In our conversation we talk about how you don’t have to be an expert or a professional teacher to set up your own club, which is something many of you may be interested to hear about.

We then get into talking about Pietro Monte – who he was, what he taught and how he died. Mike has been working on translating the Exercitiorum and his 2018 draft of the translation can be found at www.mikeprendergast.ie/monte. The complete version will be available soon, so watch this space.

Temperantia

Mike's sword Temperantia is pictured above, and below next to a longsword:

On a slight tangent, towards the end of the episode, there’s also a discussion about using NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in strategic coaching and martial arts training.

Useful links

For more on the SCA and Buhurt, have a listen to the episodes with Stephen Muhlberger, Dayna Berghan-Whyman and Beth Hammer.

Mike’s website: http://mikeprendergast.ie/

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Harps and Sharps with Andrew Lawrence-King

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 94

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to https://swordschool.com/podcast/harps-and-sharps-episode94/

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Dr. Andrew Lawrence-King is a historical musician, harpist, continuo player, baroque opera director, winner of a Grammy in the category of best small ensemble performance. He is also a rapier fencer and Tai Chi practitioner. And I should mention his crowning professional achievement is, of course, providing the harp music for my George Silver Paradoxes of Defence audiobook.

In our conversation we talk about the similarities between researching historical music and historical martial arts. We discuss the search for the one, perfect instrument and the challenges of recreating historically accurate music or swordplay using instruments/swords made with modern techniques.

We also talk about the benefits of getting involved in music or martial arts for those of us who didn’t fit in at school, giving us confidence and a way to move our bodies that doesn’t involve traditional sports, whatever shape we are in.

Andrew’s blog is https://andrewlawrenceking.com and he is on Twitter @Il_Corago.