In my previous article, “Do Fullers Make Feders Take a Set?”, I promised you that I would take some data on production swords and back up the theory with data. I still haven’t done it, but I do have some measurements of the sharps around my apartment.
We have many ways and senses to process information with. How do we put them all together to control our actions?
You can cut without proper grounding, or across your body. But it does have consequences.
A breakdown of video footage of Robert Childs delivering his trademark start-from-low thrust.
In a completely non-intuitive trick of physics, adding a fuller to a feder actually makes the sword more likely to take a permanent set. Let’s have a look!
A degree of freedom is the number of directions in which something is free to move. You may be thinking of the three directions, but in this case you would be thinking wrong. The maximum number of degrees of freedom of a rigid body is six.
Things get more brittle when they get cold. But why?
Does HEMA gear really wear out? You may be surprised to hear the answer isn’t necessarily yes…
A colloquialism associated with generating power is “it’s all in the hips”, but this is a little bit misleading, as the hips themselves aren’t really the source of the power.
That’s right, you heard me. Geometry forbids keeping your edge in line while the tip is below the hands.
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