Overview

You may have heard Guy on another podcast because he is pretty popular and the authority on fighing with swords. He is The Sword Guy - pun intended. He studies historical books on how people use their swords and he translates them for modern audiences. Plus he recreates and teaches their style of fighting.

He discusses his newest book - The Windsor Method - and tells us about how things were done different. There's a bit of a discussion on how movies get it right and wrong.

If you like swords, we have a good discussion on several and in the YouTube video he shows us a couple.

His Book

https://www.amazon.com/Windsor-Method-Principles-Solo-Training-ebook/dp/B098TRXPB9?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mindarchitect-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=804345a973a88d6127a41b38ed3e39b1&camp=1789&creative=9325

Website

https://swordschool.com

YouTube

https://youtu.be/wtorg-r9tcA

Transcript

[00:00:43] Stephen: Hello, welcome to episode 1 0 5 at discovered word Smith. This is going to be a great episode. If you are a regular listener to author podcasts, I'm sure you've heard this, uh, person it's guy Windsor. He's the sword guy. [00:01:00] Aha. Um, it's really a fun talk. I like hearing all about the swords and what he does.

It's super interesting. So I think, uh, those of you that are interested in swords, those you, that like the sword fighting, he has a lot to say in his book, looks like it'd be something you should have. Uh, and possibly some of his other ones also. And as a reminder, if you do enjoy the author, if you enjoy this podcast and you're interested in his book, go to the sh the website, the show notes and click on the link there.

Yes. It's an affiliate link. It gives. Me a couple cents, uh, when you click it and buy the book so I can help support the podcast. The time I put into it, the cost of the software, the cost of the hosting, uh, et cetera, et cetera, but also it doesn't hurt guy. Uh, and he still gets his commission on the book.

So you're helping lots of people and getting a wonderful book. And that goes for every interview. Every author that's on here, uh, clicking the [00:02:00] link, helps out multiple people, including yourself for getting a great. And there are a few other links I've added to the show notes. That is the services that I use.

If you are an author or thinking of doing a podcast, go ahead and click these, check it out. It doesn't cost you anything extra and it will help support the show. The more people that do that. So, um, before we go too far, let's get into the interview with guy. Here you go, guy. Let me welcome you to today's podcast.

Discovered wordsmiths, how are you doing this?

[00:02:33] Guy: I'm fine.

[00:02:34] Stephen: How are you? I'm great. So usually when we get started, I asked people to tell us a little bit about you and what you like to do outside of writing. It's all

[00:02:45] Guy: part of one package. Basically my day job is I find theoretical sort of fighting sources. So books written a long time ago about how to fight with swords, by people who actually did it, or their students actually did it for real.

And I recreate systems of [00:03:00] fencing that those. Represent. And I organized those systems into still, uh, by the, uh, modern people can train safely. And then I teach that as a kind of living martial arts by students. And that takes out quite a lot of my time. You can imagine there's lots of parts of that physical training and practicing with weapons and teaching in person and teaching online and all that sort of stuff.

And the research and finding the sources and working with the sources and figuring out the language. It's quite a lot. So when I'm not doing that, my three current hobbies before I do woodworking, the reason I love, I used to be a professional cabinet maker. Now just as a hobby, I do a bit of indoor climbing and I have recently taken up both watch repair.

So fixing like old watches,