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Announcing “The Music of His Sword: Martial Arts of the Pagan Celts” by Christopher Scott Thompson
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http://cateransociety.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/the-cateran-society-digest-summer-2013/

Featuring bouts with the Highland broadsword and many other weapons.

Thanks!

http://youtu.be/oGv-bOr7M4c
http://cateransociety.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/swordplay-bouting-ruleset/

Hi everyone,

Here at the Cateran Society, we were recently asked to design a new bouting...

Announcing the Cateran Society's new Word Press website:

http://cateransociety.wordpress.com/

This site is the new online home of the Cateran Society, replacing our old Google site. You can...

Scottish Sword and Buckler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQL8wMai_k0&feature=youtu.be
http://youtu.be/HhxW5o-pS0E
http://cateransociety.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/scottish-sword-and-buckler/
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http://cateransociety.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/the-cateran-society-digest-spring-2013/

The Cateran Society Digest Spring 2013, featuring:

Sword and Steel Gauntlet
New Mentors and Bards
Sword...

The Cateran Society Digest 2012
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https://www.youtube.com/user/gilbride100?feature=mhee

Those of you who follow our Youtube channel know that we've made a lot of...

Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPc7wG0vnVU&feature=youtu.be

We made this video more than a year ago, but couldn't upload it due to technical problems. So here it is at last, the practice of Slow...

Beppe Nadi's salle in Italy, where his sons Aldo and Nedo Nadi trained, was called "the forge".

You can always join our online program- just email me at gilbride100@hotmail.com.

The Cateran Society website has been updated. Almost all of our Youtube videos are now embedded, so you can see where they fit in the curriculum and then watch them without leaving the site:
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Very impressive. Some of the most technical bouting I've seen on video.

Some great bouts here, Heiko!

D.A. Kinsley, author of several books in which he has compiled multiple first-person anecdotes of sword combat in which British soldiers faced off with swordsmen of India, the Sudan, etc. Having read...

Kinsey does not just list exceptions. He lists multiple examples from actual hand to hand combat with swords, in which the victor was the British soldier. He also lists multiple examples of the...

In my observation, reputation in this community is largely based on:

1- the perceived quality of your research
2- your qualities as an instructor
3- a perception that you can do what you teach,...

Announcing “Broadsword Academy” by Christopher Scott Thompson:

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/broadsword-academy/18780493

The complete martial arts system of the Cateran Society,...

Broadsword League 2011 Season

Champion for 2011: T “Ricky” Rickert of the Cateran Society's Broadsword Academy Germany.

Congratulations to Ricky and the BAG!

Final Rankings For The Year,...

I think that different styles of swordsmanship have different theories and methods, and that's all there is to it. Angelo's Highland broadsword is linear, Page's is circular. Does either style win...

Just to play devil's advocate for a moment...

The modern world is full of examples of martial arts with theories about what "ought to" happen in a real fight, and they will hold on to their...

One of the major works of German medieval mysticism was written by a Teutonic Knight, but as far as I know it doesn't reference swordsmanship. I can't remember the title, but a modern swordsman...

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We work with the Highland two-hander in the Cateran Society, but with no manuals it is a speculative approach. We'd be happy to help anyone interested in our method.