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Traditional versus Modern Steel Katanas

Is the traditional method of making katanas better than using modern steel? Here’s the answer from modern expert sword maker Walter Sorrels. To summarize, katana blades made from modern steel have superior performance. They are harder and keep a sharper

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Ben Saturday, 2 March 2013Monday, 4 March 2013 medieval combat No Comments Read more

Speed Archery Techniques, Part 4

My posts on speed archery have been very popular and continue to get a lot of traffic. So I’ve been digging into it more and trying to find more resources for those of you who are interested in the topic.

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Ben Thursday, 21 February 2013Friday, 8 March 2013 medieval combat 3 Comments Read more

Mobility in Medieval Plate Armor

Does medieval plate armor slow you down and make you easier to hit in melee combat? On the face of it, you’d definitely think so. But the truth of it is that plate armor was designed to allow freedom of

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Ben Saturday, 2 February 2013Saturday, 2 February 2013 gaming, medieval combat 17 Comments Read more

Fast Archery Techniques, Part 3: The Crossbow

In my past posts on archery speed shooting techniques, I’ve talked about some methods for shooting bows much faster than many people think possible. If you haven’t seen them, there are links at the bottom of this post. But for

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Ben Monday, 19 November 2012Friday, 8 March 2013 medieval combat 13 Comments Read more

Can Arrows Penetrate Medieval Armor?

Can Arrows Penetrate Medieval Armor? I find this question fascinating. As both a gamer and a fantasy writer, I like to get as close to reality as possible, if only to make the fantastic elements of my games and stories

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Ben Wednesday, 29 August 2012Friday, 3 May 2013 medieval combat 35 Comments Read more

Studying the German Longsword Techniques at True Edge Academy

The past two weeks, I attended a class on the medieval art of the German longsword. The past decade or so has seen an explosion in the area of Western Martial Arts called Historical European Martial Arts, or HEMA. These

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Ben Wednesday, 18 July 2012Friday, 3 May 2013 medieval combat 6 Comments Read more

Archery: Speed Shooting Techniques, Part 2

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a couple of archery speed shooting techniques and posted some YouTube videos. Since then, I’ve come across a few more videos of archers shooting incredibly fast. These videos debunk decades of

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Ben Tuesday, 19 June 2012Thursday, 23 August 2018 gaming, medieval combat, movies & TV 28 Comments Read more

Speed Archery: Fast and Deadly

This is one of the cooler things I’ve seen. If you like archery at all, you’ll like this, but if you’ve ever played an archer in a role playing game and been frustrated at how long you have to wait

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Ben Thursday, 26 May 2011Friday, 8 March 2013 gaming, medieval combat 13 Comments Read more

Weapons That Made Britain

Ing over at Blog Ing just wrote a post about Deadliest Warrior, and it reminded me of another similar show I’ve run into recently. It’s called Weapons That Made Britain, and it’s cool because it mixes historical fact with modern

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Ben Monday, 21 June 2010Saturday, 30 June 2012 medieval combat, movies & TV 3 Comments Read more

Deadliest Backyard Warrior

For those of you who followed Ing’s Deadliest Warrior posts and some of the discussions we had about it, and especially for Ing, here’s a hilarious spoof. “Inhuman!”

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Ben Thursday, 15 October 2009Thursday, 29 November 2012 medieval combat, movies & TV 3 Comments Read more
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