Tools for Deliberate Practice

Learning the "art of learning" is critical to one's growth as a student of martial arts. Peter Haas offers some tools for improving your deliberate practice skills.

My experience shopping for a training messer

After some time practicing langes messer with the class loaners, I set out to find a training messer of my own to better suit my practice needs. This post describes my experience finding, comparing, and evaluating the messer models available on the market, and presents some data I compiled to help me make a decision.

Mindfulness in Partnered Drilling

OR - How Not to be a Sword-Wielding Zombie

Drilling, specifically paired drilling, is a big part of our classes in NYC, and likely almost everywhere in HEMA. It’s a way of learning a technique by executing it over and over to build up "muscle memory" and refine the movement until it works in a predictable setting.