Viking Swordfighting Techniques

As I mentioned in an earlier post, while I was at the Haffenreffer Museum for Viking Weekend, I shot a video with my digital camera of two of the guides demonstrating Viking swordfighting techniques.  It’s got sound and everything, so you’ll be able to hear them explaining the techniques as they demonstrate.  Probably good for you all out there who are writing epic fantasy or swords-n-sorcery stuff. 

Well, I’ve finally managed to get the video split up and posted to YouTube.  For some reason, I’m having trouble getting the playlist to work properly, so here (behind the cut) are direct links to all seven parts.  Enjoy!

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Help Save Apex Digest

Apex Digest editor Jason Sizemore got laid off recently and has been publishing the  magazine despite this for several months now.  But now he needs your help.  If you like the magazine, and would like to see it continue, subscribe or encourage your friends to do so (or both!).

 

 

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Camera Obscura: Heroes

Intergalactic Medicine Show just published the latest installment of Camera Obscura, in which I review the new NBC superhero drama Heroes.

[Excerpt:] The dream sequence opener was the first clue that Heroes wasn’t exactly going to be full of original thought. The pilot is your standard comic book superhero origin story, given the Unbreakable treatment–which is to say, treated in a more realistic light: no spandex, just people with freaky powers. But its most grievous sin is the characters’ rather uncanny resemblance to the X-Men. Not only because they appear to be mutants, or the next step in human evolution, but also because some of the characters have direct X-Men analogues. For instance, Hiro has the same abilities as Nightcrawler; Claire, Wolverine; Peter, Storm (or any of the other flying X-Men). Stan Lee should consider suing somebody.

Go read the whole review and tell me what you think!

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Note on Comments

Those of you who have commented recently may have noticed that I removed the URL box from the comments field. I did this to help combat spam; by making all comments that come with the URL field be held for moderator approval, I’m able to keep those spam comments from appearing on the site, while allowing everything else to appear. For some reason, even when the URL field is not present, spammers somehow *do* post a URL in that field. So, since regular commenters can no longer include their URL, the only stuff that should be held for moderation is spam.

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