As we recently announced, next month the CSG will be vastly expanding its programs in a new home: Forteza Fitness & Martial Arts. Located in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood, Forteza is a 5000 sf facility, whose brick and timber construction, wooden floors and turn-of-the-century (20th c, that is) appointments and gym equipment makes it a perfect [...]
New CSG Home: Forteza Fitness & Martial Arts!
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CSG will soon move to Forteza Fitness, Physical Culture & Martial Arts in Chicago’s Ravenswood area. Our new home will be a unique 5000 sq. ft., c.1900 facility, with classes offered in historical swordplay and ‘old school’ fitness training. Contact us for updates on classes, seminars and special events! Beginning in late January 2012, Forteza [...]
CSG Demo at Chicago’s Italian Fall Festival Oct. 15-16!
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The Chicago Swordplay Guild will be featured presenters at the annual Italian American Fall Festival on Saturday, October 15 (10:00am-6:00pm) and Sunday, October 16 (noon-6:00pm) at the Casa Italia-Italian Cultural Center at 37th and Soffel in Stone Park, IL. There will be live combat demonstrations using the spear, longsword, arming sword and rapier throughout both [...]
New Intro to Longsword Class at CoD 9/12-11/28
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Historical European Swordfighting Classes Start Monday September 12, 2011 at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn On Monday nights, from September 12 to November 28, the Chicago Swordplay Guild will run introductory classes at the College of DuPage (CoD) in the two-handed longsword, as used by knights in medieval Europe. Classes run from 7pm-8:30pm. [...]
CSG Demo at 2011 Scottish Highland Games
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Crowds at the Chicago’s annual Scottish Highland Games were educated and entertained once again by the intrepid CSG Demo Team. The Games is always a terrific event here in Chicago and this year they moved to a new venue in Itasca. The set-up team of Christina, Nathan and Terry got there at 7:00am and lugged [...]
Bartitsu Seminar at Gallowglass Academy July 9th
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Gallowglass Academy will be holding a one day Bartitsu seminar on Saturday July 9, 2011 from 10 AM to 5 PM at their facility in Leaf River, IL (25 miles south-west of Rockford, IL). Cost is $50 until July 1 and $75 thereafter. For more information, visit Gallowglass Academy.org.
WMAW 2011 Registration Now Open!
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Register now! Running Thursday, September 15 through Sunday, September 18, 2011, at the scenic DeKoven Center in Wisconsin USA, the Western Martial Arts Workshop (WMAW) is the premier North American event for hands-on study of Historical European and American Martial Arts. Limited openings – register now. CSG is proud to once again offer 4 days [...]
“Ground fighting? I got your ground fighting right here…”
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(c) 2011 Ben Fisher-Bruns Rocky Mountain Swordplay Guild There’s a discussion on Facebook right now that was prompted by an excellent blog post from Alex Putnam-Spreier of the Northwest Academy of Arms, and I thought I should put in my two cents. I don’t consider Facebook the best format for a lengthy discussion about these [...]
The Role of Filippo Vadi in the dei Liberi Tradition, Prt II
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(c) 2010 Gregory Mele While Filippo Vadi’s De arte gladiatoria dimicandi differs in the main very little from the work of Fiore dei Liberi in terms of technique, the assertion that Vadi’s work does not differ in method of communication is simply incorrect. The true originality of the De arte gladiatoria dimicandi stands in the [...]
The Role of Filippo Vadi in the dei Liberi Tradition, Prt I
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(c) 2010 Gregory Mele When I teach at workshops and seminars, I am often told something along the lines of this: I’m surprised that the man who co-authored the reproduction on De arte gladiatoria dimicandi doesn’t work more with the hallmarks of Vadi. It’s a fair question, and suggests that in 2001, when I was [...]
