The Pedestal: What We Expect From Our Teachers

Devon Boorman May 22, 2017

Elevating our teachers to a realm beyond what is humanly achievable can be a strategy for minimizing our own expectations, and thus our disappointments. It can also be a way of giving away our own responsibility for being our own teacher.

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Greg Reimer April 25, 2017

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Hi all,

Devon here. The first weapon I started with in HEMA, 23 years ago, was the rapier. The speed, precision, and chess-game of it—along with a bit of musketeer fantasy—really captured me. It is a discipline I feel is highly under-represented and often misunderstood in the HEMA community of today, even though it was arguably the seed of our modern resurgence. It is also one of the best teachers of combative efficiency, timing, and distance.

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Greg Reimer November 2, 2016

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