Dear Readers,
. . .with much thought and deliberation on this matter, I have convinced my sister Karima (a woman of many names) to share with me (thence with you, dear Reader), her love of exotic places.  For she, like certain other young damsels, was captured by brigands and taken to the Eastern lands.  In [...]

Greetings all. Have you ever walked through an actors camp and saw something and thought, ‘OOO that would make things so much easier, or wow I wish I would have thought of that.’ We have all made little discoveries that make our lives easier at Faire. It may be the 1500′s down on the Faire [...]

We just finished the first run of our own version of a German gambling game called Gluckshaus which dates at least to the 1500′s. It uses dice and a betting board and is a quick, easy game to learn that could be played by participants in a Renfair pub, or even something that could include [...]

The webisode series "All’s Faire" is filming its full first season this week at the site of the Midsummer Renaissance Faire in Lehighton.  It is a comedic tale of a small Renaissance Faire that is threatened to be bulldozed and turned into a Mall Mart (The Mall with Marts in it), and the cast of [...]

Ramona Bowl Renaissance Faire is holding its first annual ‘Boothie Hiring Day’ on the site of the faire this coming Saturday and Sunday 8/29 and 30th. The faire site is located at 27400 Ramona Bowl Road in Hemet, CA. Take the Columbia Street entrance from Stetson or Florida in town to the lower field. There [...]

Clockwork Salon Society, Ltd. presents a Steampunk fundraiser: The Indescribable Delights of the Clockwork Caliphate ~ An Arabian Night. The Salon promises to be a decadent evening of sumptuous Moroccan feasting and delightful entertainments in a Steampunked grand Ottoman Empire style. Berkeley, CA, August 25, 2009 –(PR.com)– This first ever Clockwork Salon will take place [...]

(6/1/2009)

For better or worse, here is a partial video of a class I taught at Known World Academy of the Rapier in 2007.  Watching  the video today, there are things I would change. I have added a description of the Italian techniques as described by the Spanish and the counters …

(6/3/2009)

This article is a fencing tip for amateur rapier fencers.  In Italian rapier and classical fencing the arm is held straight from elbow to tip.  Fabris favors an extended and straight arm, but he discusses the sword held at an angle as well.

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Those who hold the sword at an angle (with …

(7/2/2009)

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Mary and I are currently in the Archivo de la Real Chancilleria in Granada in the South of Spain. 
 
Yesterday we toured the Alhambra and I have good pictures of the fortifications and plenty of pictures of the amazing architecture and carving as well.  As we …

(8/20/2009)

In the Italian fencing system, fighting is broken up into pieces of time called “tempi” or “fencing times” in English.  For example, a fencing action might take place in a single tempo (one unit of fencing time), mezzo tempo (a half tempo), or due tempi (two times).  It is a useful …