Renaissance Longsword demo warm-up at the World Martial Arts Fest 2019, Chungju, South Korea.

Hard to to tell here but, the sun was so bright it was putting an incredible glare on our blades, the humid heat was in the 90s F, our feet were swollen from days of stomping on stone in historical shoes, and the jet lag had finally really hit us. But, we had to go on. The Indonesian masters nearby watching were great sports. They told us after that thought at first we were sparing in anger because they couldn’t believe we were making such contact with “heavy“ steel weapons (!). None of the observers from t