Solo Training (version for Mastering the Art of Arms students)

Solo training is the secret behind all truly excellent martial artists' accomplishments. Yes, pair practice and competitive freeplay are also essential components, but all world class swordspeople and martial artists spend most of their training time on either solo training, or training with their coach.

If you have regular access to a school or training partners, you can still dramatically up your game by incorporating intelligent solo training into your schedule. This course will teach you how.

If you live miles away from the nearest fellow martial artist, don't worry, this course does not require training partners. Instead we cover everything you can reasonably do alone to improve your swordsmanship skills.

This course includes the following standalone courses:

• Fundamentals: Breathing This course will teach you how to breath properly, and how to develop anaerobic and aerobic fitness without injuring yourself. (Value $140 +sales tax if in Europe)
• Fundamentals: Footwork This course will teach you how to move like a martial artist, whatever style you wish to practice. (Value $200 +sales tax if in Europe)
• Recreating Historical Swordsmanship from Historical Sources This course will teach you how to study the sources and create useful training syllabi from them. Most such work can indeed be done alone. (Value $250 +sales tax if in Europe)

And adds to them with specific instruction on:

• How to build a pell and a wall target
• How to create handling drills for any weapon
• Solo training drills for a range of weapons (with more being added over time)
• Stick handling drills to improve strength and weapons control
• Instruction on how to create a daily practice, and to train for longer term goals.

The course is ready now, and will be added to depending on what the enrolled students ask for. The most recent additions have included how to sharpen a sword, and how to use a pell.

As with all my courses, you are always welcome to email me with questions, post videos for me to comment on, and so on. Despite the name of this course, you are NOT ALONE.