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Building Drills

Building Drills

Reviewing tournament footage, and I can see a student has a repeat problem: they start to execute an attack, and for whatever reason it fails. The problem isn't the failure so much as they kinda tend to hang out for a beat or two while they think of
Randy Packer 13 Nov 2026
Final Encylopedias

Final Encylopedias

Randy Packer 12 Nov 2026
Ruminations

Ruminations

Randy Packer 10 Nov 2026
Back in the saddle

Back in the saddle

Randy Packer 12 May 2025
Old Bones and New Growth

Old Bones and New Growth

Randy Packer 27 Apr 2025
AI and the Writer

AI and the Writer

Randy Packer 22 Jun 2024
Training To Failure

Training To Failure

Randy Packer 14 Jun 2024
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Fitting everyone into tournaments

Stripping Down To The Real Basics

Devil On Your Back

Modern Ancient: Moving Forward with Historical Martial Arts

Protection and Pain: Finding the Balance

HEMA

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Fitting everyone into tournaments

Stripping Down To The Real Basics

Modern Ancient: Moving Forward with Historical Martial Arts

Protection and Pain: Finding the Balance

April 9 Tournament Wrap-up

swordplay

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Back in the saddle

Fitting everyone into tournaments

Hard Starts

Stripping Down To The Real Basics

Change and Mutation

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