What Is A Normal HEMA Rating?
This is an article about populations and distributions, but to be honest you’re going to read to see if you’re above or below the average rating.
Standards For HEMA Testing – Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Blade Flex
A pretty thorough investigation into what is important when measuring blade flex, and what the best practice should be going forward.
Turns Out Lichty Glosses Are Oddly Specific About Edges
You won’t bat an eye when a source tells you to hit but doesn’t mention the specific edge. Turns out in RDL that’s less common than I thought.
Bigger Tournaments Don’t Mean More Fights!
People get excited about big tournaments and all the people they get to fight. But is that really true?
Combat Con 2022: Why Sample Size Matters
Combat Con 2022 had a hot take on how to run a longsword tournament: eliminate self-selection of skill level and, instead, have people fight in preliminary pools to get placed into different tiers based on their performance. Let’s see if that worked out the way it was intended.
Geometry Hacks – Shielhau and Quarte Are The Same Thing
There are a finite number of ways to move your body, and similar patterns will likely emerge when trying to solve similar problems.
Is There Even A Statistical Difference Between KdF Guards?
Everyone who fences has an understanding about how ‘good’ each guard is. Bucks now puts that to a quantitative test.
Doing A Double-Take At Predicting Doubles
It didn’t work before, but I tried some new things to predict doubles. Could this be the success I have been looking for?
Double, Double Toil and Trouble with Predictive Modeling
Time to take a stab at predicting doubles. How successful will this be?
The Truth of the Blood Groove
Thought you had the whole scoop on the blood groove? You thought wrong!