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Christopher_Love
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Postby Christopher_Love » Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:22 pm

Hello everyone. I did not see a place for new people to post an introduction, so I hope this is alright.

I am new to the forum and am waiting for my application for the ARMA to be processed. I feel like an idiot because I am a history major, wanting to specialize in medieval history, and I spelled medieval wrong on the application. I hope they don't hold it against me.

Anyway, I am have been studying aikido and kenjutsu (at home by dvd)for a little while now.

I just found this site and I am going to switch from kenjutsu to medieval sword training. This site is exactly what I have been looking for. I just purchased a book "Medieval swordsmanship" by John Clements and plan to start training as soon as it comes in and hopefully my application will be approved.

Well I will stop now. I just wanted to say hi.

Chris
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Postby Randall Pleasant » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:56 pm

Hello Chris

Welcome to the ARMA forum.
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Postby Sal Bertucci » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:09 pm

Welcome Chris,

I'm sure you'll find this forum a valuable resource.

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Postby Christopher_Love » Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:22 pm

Thank both of you for the welcome. I have already found the site to be a huge source of information. Not only have I found information on swordsmanship, I have also found leads to a book by Keith P. Myers on unarmed combat, that I was able to download from the internet. I have not read the entire thing yet so does anyone have any comments or information on this book or the author?
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Postby Sal Bertucci » Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:40 pm

It's a good reference book, but many of the ideas pulled from it were done before there were translations of such manuals, so some of them are actually wrong. Still a useful book in my opinion.
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Postby John Farthing » Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:58 pm

Welcome to the forum!

You can read a review of Myers' book here: http://www.thearma.org/bookreviews.htm

Hope this helps, enjoy!
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Postby Christopher_Love » Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:39 pm

Thank you for the link to the review. I am also going to check out some of the other titles that were reviewed.
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