Cross-Discipline Training

Period

Fabris' Advice on a More Athletic Opponent

Based on Period Examples

Guy Windsor - The Ever Fixed Mark

The science behind effective teaching of fighting skills:

Perin de la Serena (Dr. Sara Lewis) is a neuroscientist and SCA/HEMA participant and instructor with the Kingdom of Atenveldt/Phoenix Society for Historical Swordsmanship. This video series brings science-based approaches to teaching and learning to a general historical combat audience. 

Neuroscience of learning physcial skills

Overview of how our brains change to learn and retain information about how to move and respond and what this means for effective teaching.

Using different sensory modalities to teach

The way information is presented influences understanding and retention, and this varies person-to-person. Learn ways to present information using different senses (visual, auditory, reading, kinesthetic) in your lessons. 

 Giving effective feedback

Find out why giving and receiving feedback is stressful and how you can improve your feedback using science-based approaches. 

Using the Scientific Method to interpret historical sources

How to start from a source material (i.e. a rapier manual) and experiment with different interpretations to learn a new technique.