I got kind of a setback when I was recently told I would never be as strong as any of the guys and I needed to keep that in mind as I moved forward with my fighting. It won't lie. It made me take pause as to whether I wanted to continue. But I figured if I can't be strong then I'll have to figure o...

Properly made gambesons work very well. I had a Jupon (pretty much the same thing but for 14th c) that I had to stop wearing beause I could not feel shots and was simply walking through shots. The padding in that moster was 1 in thick before the quilting. I sewed multiple layers of wool and linen t...

err...no. Guilty as charged, I try to get my oponent to hit me first--for whatever reason, it makes me fight better. I'll hit first if the wait gets silly, but I try pretty hard not to. I think pauses before and during fights can be fun for the observer and the fighters, they add a couple of extra e...