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I have written often on how Medieval and Renaissance weapon use was devoid of affectation and artificiality in favor of martial lethality. The authentic sources of combat teachings are only concerned with the pragmatic application of principle and technique whatever the self-defense situation. This is in contrast to the focus on aesthetic performance art and theatricality found in pop culture depictions of historical armed combat as well as so ma...

As professional swordsmanship teacher, there is a simple question that I'm often asked: why the sword? The meaning of the question is more or less asking how a long-bladed weapon came to exist in so many different forms to become so widespread and valued by fighting men throughout history? It's not an easy question to answer in brief. It's a matter that involves many inter-connected elements of warfare, close combat tactics, metallurgy, physics,...

Museum Replicas is happy to announce our working with internationally recognized sword expert and director of the ARMA, John Clements! If you're unfamiliar you can read more about John here. But I want to get to the good stuff! John is sharing some of his wisdom with us through the MRL blog! First entry below!Something About the Sword...I'm fascinated by the sword. The sword represents so many things in our civilization, despite it being a weapon...